Guillermo del Toro


Gallery map of Del Toro exhibition:

Del Toro Gallery Map

Interview with del Toro, Death Is the Curator:

Interview with Del Toro Death is the Curator

Del Toro Panels:

All Del toro Panel Text

Del Toro Fact Sheet:

Del Toro Fact Sheet

Mia objects in Del Toro exhibition:

Mia objects in Guillermo del Toro

Link to a short video:

Pan’s Labyrinth: Disobedient Fairy Tale

Fact Sheet on exhibition, including thematic focus of each gallery (p. 5):

Visitor Exp Vol GDT Info

Mia stories, interview with Del Toro on the exhibition:

5 Quotes from Guillermo del Toro

Here is a link to the 2011 New Yorker story on Guillermo del Toro. This story inspired Kaywin Feldman to arrange our current exhibition, and it gives great biographical background, useful for a tour:

Show the Monster

Here is a video of a 2013 interview with Charlie Rose:

Cabinet of Curiosities

This is a video interview at LACMA:

Video interview LACMA

This is a 2015 NYT story on his collection at Bleak House:

Guillermo del Toro’s House of Horrors

This is a general Wikipedia article on Del Toro. At the end are links to articles on each of his films, and those articles give synopses of the film plots:

Wikipedia article

Star Tribune article on the opening of the exhibition:

Horror Master Guillermo del Toro

Check out this annotated bibliography on Del Toro, by Kate Pehrson, a former Mia employee who writes about films for Southern MN Scene:

GDT biblio Pehrson

From your colleague Terry Edam, two suggestions for photo props to use with grade school groups, “to help them understand his feelings for monsters that kids are more familiar with (because they haven’t seen the movies)”:

Photo prop Monsters Inc AND Photo prop Nightmare in the Closet

From your colleague Joy Yoshikawa, a photo prop that “can be used in conjunction with the deteriorating state of Jesus Gris in the movie Cronos.”

Francis Bacon

 

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