Denver Art Museum Extends Wild Things Exhibit

The Denver Art Museum is hosting a retrospective on Maurice Sendak through February 23. ©The Maurice Sendak Foundation, courtesy Denver Art Museum

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The Denver Art Museum's Wild Things: The Art of Maurice Sendak exhibit could be the last time that all the original pages of the iconic Where the Wild Things Are illustrations are seen together, but they'll be hanging around just a little longer.

The exhibit, originally slated to close on Monday, February 17, will now be open through Sunday, February 23, due to popular demand, the Denver Art Museum just announced.

Tickets are $5 on top of general admission to the museum, which anticipates that time slots will sell out and recommends buying tickets online now.

The 1963 book Where the Wild Things Are has been translated into more than forty languages and printed tens of millions of times, with more to come once the pages return to the Maurice Sendak Foundation and HarperCollins.

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Sendak called Max his "truest creation."

Denver Art Museum

When the show opened last fall, Lynn Caponera, executive director of the Maurice Sendak Foundation, told Westword that the original pages, which currently line one of the galleries in the enormous show at the museum, are still used for reprints.

"We used to never allow them to be shown together because we were always worried that something would happen," she said.

But Wild Things isn't just about the book. The exhibit highlights the entirety of Sendak's artistic career, with more than 450 artworks made for opera and theater sets, film animations and more.

Wild Things: The Art of Maurice Sendak, through February 23 at the Denver Art Museum, 100 West 14th Parkway; learn more at denverartmuseum.org.