New York

I strongly suspect that many of the people who have lately been showing up at the Museum of Modern Art are somewhat surprised to find themselves there. The occasion of their visit is the drawings, paintings and sundry paraphernalia of the filmmaker Tim Burton, not to mention props that others have created for inclusion in his films. In a recent visit to MoMA, on a sleepy Wednesday afternoon, I found the magisterial Bauhaus exhibition (now closed) to be nearly empty; but in the far more modest...