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Mad about 60s nostalgia

N
ostalgia its
delicate but
potent, Don
Draper intoned
in his famous pitch for the
Kodak account on Mad
Men, the 60s-set show that
is the subject of Matthew
Weiners Mad Men, a new
exhibition (March 14-June 14)
at Astorias Museum of the
Moving Image. An advertising genius, Draper knew the
power of memory individual and collective to evoke
emotional connections. Yet
show creator Matthew
Weiner knows nostalgia
alone isnt enough and for
all the period costumes, sets,
music and everyday items on
display, Mad Men, which
begins its final run of seven
episodes April 5 on AMC, is
about more than its decades
trappings.
Indeed, says exhibition
curator Barbara Miller, the
show is less about the
turbulently transitional 60s
than it is of universal
ideas about desire [and]
self-invention. To that
end, the exhibition offers
both period artifacts and
what Miller calls insight
into the formulation of the
ideas that are behind this
show about a poor man
who took a dead mans
identity and remade himself in an image both timeless and of the times.
Included are sets from the
Drapers Ossining kitchen of
Seasons 1-4 and Dons
Manhattan office of Seasons
4-6; a re-creation of the series
real-life writers room; 33
costumes, including Megan
Drapers Zou Bisou Bisou

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The Drapers kitchen is one of the original sets in Matthew

Weiners Mad Men at Museum of the Moving Image, where
a dress worn by Jessica Par, left, also is on display.

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dress; and a collection of

Weiners notes, plus pages of
his screenplay The Horseshoe, where the character

that would become Don

Draper originated.
The two sets, says Miller,
already were pieces of nostalgia when the exhibition
came together: No longer on
the shows soundstages, they
had been disassembled for
storage in a warehouse in
northern Los Angeles. But
with the aid of studio
Lionsgate and others, they
were trucked cross-country
and rebuilt at the museum.
While a talk on March 20
by Weiner is sold out, the
museum hopes to have him

quotable

do another, says chief curator David Schwartz. In the

meantime, attendees can
view 10 films Weiner selected including The Apartment, Patterns and Blue
Velvet, screening through
April 26 that influenced
the conception of Mad
Men so much, says
Schwartz, The main people
who worked on the show
had to see those movies.
Likewise, those of us
already nostalgic for Mad
Men have to see this
exhibition.
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