In the event you ever stroll down the Santa Cruz boardwalk with its saltwater-taffy paint scheme and nostalgic carnival rides and suppose, “This is like a Wes Anderson movie” – you’re not alone. The idyllic metropolis by the ocean strikes so many Andersonesque notes it’s celebrated in a brand new native pictures present, “Accidentally Wes Anderson.”
Operating January 24-Might 18 on the Santa Cruz Museum of Artwork & Historical past, the exhibit crowdsources photographs of places from around the globe that, whereas not at all times showing in Wes Anderson movies, share the identical quirky structure and colour palettes. It’s a bodily embodiment of the web phenomenon By accident Wes Anderson, began by Wally and Amanda Koval and embraced by vacationers who share social-media photographs in themes like “pink,” “turquoise,” “classic facades,” “gardens and greenhouses” and “on the rails.” (There’s since been a New York Instances best-selling ebook with the identical identify.)
“Each of the locations highlighted in the exhibition boasts the recognizable singular aesthetic that is oh-so typical of film master Wes Anderson,” write the organizers of the present, which is endorsed by the filmmaker himself. “Bright, vivid and often slightly jarring to reality, AWA collects the world’s most Anderson-like sites in all their faded grandeur and pop-pastel colors, telling the story behind each stranger-than-fiction location.”
The exhibit is supposed to pay tribute to the centennial celebration of the very Anderson-like Big Dipper curler coaster out on the seashore, so after you’re executed perhaps head on over for an exhilarating journey.
Particulars: Open noon-6 p.m. Thursday-Sunday at 705 Entrance St., Santa Cruz; $10 urged admission, santacruzmah.org
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