Director alfonsocuaron among honorees for LACMA's Art+Film Gala co-chaired by LeoDiCaprio
The Oscar winning filmmaking and the Los Angeles artist will be feted at the ninth annual Art+Film Gala, the museum's A-list fundraiser presented once again by Gucci and co-chaired by Eva Chow and Leonardo DiCaprio. For the second year, additional support for the gala is provided by Audi.
The event is always a high-profile stop not only for boldfaced names from the worlds of art and fashion but also Hollywood stars, executives and creatives as well as L.A. elite. Proceeds from Art+Film go toward "underwriting LACMA’s initiative to make film more central to the museum’s curatorial programming, while also funding LACMA’s broader mission," per the institution.
In breaking the news, LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg director Michael Govan praised Saar as one of the most significant artists working today while hailing Cuarón's storytelling expertise. “Born in Los Angeles and having sustained a career over seven decades here, Saar has only begun to receive the international acclaim her work deserves. LACMA has exhibited her work since 1972.
He continued, “Cuarón tells beautiful and stirring stories of humanity and how we relate to one another, from his early films
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