The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MOCCA) is hosting “Saturday Morning: Art and Artifacts from a Golden Age of Television” from 18 November 2006 to 19 March 2007. “In the fall of 1966, a revolution began that would affect the way an entire generation of children and their parents would watch TV—there were only three networks, and all three began to air original animated programming on Saturday mornings, a time slot normally reserved for test patterns and live-action kiddie shows.” At this exhibit, MOCCA is exhibiting and celebrating art from some of these shows and a number of others that aired over the 24 years of Saturday morning’s “Golden Age,” while also looking at the roots of television animation in the 1940s and 1950s, and how the medium has changed since 1990.
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art is located at 594 Broadway, Suite 401, New York, New York 10012. It is open Friday through Monday from 12N to 5PM, and by appointment Tuesday through Thursday. Admission to the museum is $5 (children under 12 free). The Museum’s web site is at www.moccany.org.