On 4 November 2023, the 12th annual Art+Film gala was held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in the presence of more than 650 personalities from the worlds of art, film, entertainment and fashion.
Last Saturday, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in the United States, the Art+Film gala created in 2011 welcomed its prestigious guests. The main purpose of this philanthropic and festive evening is to raise funds for LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art). This is to support its efforts to place cinema at the heart of the museum’s programming and its wider ambitions to promote the 7th art. Five million dollars were raised during the 2023 edition of the gala.
Leonardo di Caprio and Eva Cbow at the before-scene, Judy Baca celebrated
As every year, the event was hosted by two renowned personalities. Eva Chow, LACMA trustee who oversaw her ex-husband’s Mr. Chow restaurants for many years and founder of his Khee soju brand of spirits, co-chaired the evening alongside iconic actor Leonardo DiCaprio. This last is the head of the head of the film currently in the room “Killers of the Flower Moon” Martin Scorsese.
Punctuated by a musical performance by Lenny Kravitz, the Art+Film event paid tribute to American artist Judy Baca. The artist, who has captivated Los Angeles for decades, is known for her impressive murals in which history, communities and place interact.
Judy Baca is notably responsible for the “Great Wall of Los Angeles”, a community mural several hundred metres long created in 1978 with the help of over 400 young people and artists. This truly humanist work, which highlights the vision and talent of women and minorities, was conceived under the aegis of the Social and Public Art Resource Center, founded by Judy Baca in 1974. A professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, the artist and activist “defends art in the service of equity for all”, as stated on her website.
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