WALT DISNEY - HISTORICAL DISNEY ART TO BE EXHIBITED IN MONTREAL

The Walt Disney Co. has agreed to loan the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts some 300 pieces from its archives -- most of which have never been publicly displayed -- for an exhibit that will attempt to show the influence of earlier art on Disney's animated features and the features' own influence on art of the 20th century. In an interview with today's (Thursday) Montreal Gazette, chief curator Bruno Girveau said, "Disney belongs alongside the most important figures of cinema and, more generally, 20th-century art." The "Once Upon a Time" exhibit, which opens on March 8 and runs through June 24, will also feature a screening of Destino, an animated project begun at Disney by Salvador Dali in the 1940s and completed under the supervision of Roy Disney in 2003.

01/03/2007