Wanted in Rome
10 Mar, 2021
The Life Ahead.
Oscar-winning Italian actress Sophia Loren is to be honoured by the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the long-awaited Los Angeles venue set to open later this year.
Loren will receive the inaugural Visionary Award from the Academy s new museum, alongside Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima who will be presented with the Vantage Award.
The news comes days before the
nominations for the Oscars are revealed, with Italy hopeful that Loren will get the nod for her lead role as Madame Rosa in
La Vita Davanti a Sé (
The Life Ahead) directed by her son Edoardo Ponti.
“How could there be no film center in the global center of film?”
That was a question Netflix CEO
Ted Sarandos had when he first moved to Los Angeles in the late 1990s and discovered that the entertainment capital of the world was sorely lacking, in his words, “a place to dive deeper, to learn more, to fully immerse myself in the stories behind the movies.” After more than 15 years of development, the
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is finally poised to open this fall and become the world’s premier museum dedicated to the art and science of movies.
Los Angeles' long-awaited Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will tackle the Oscars' "problematic history," from racism over "Gone With The Wind" to the recent #OscarsSoWhite campaign and snubbing of female directors, officials said Wednesday.
Closed Nearly a Year, Empty Museums in Los Angeles Struggle
While many museums around the country have resumed operations, those in Los Angeles remain an exception. They have been shut since March.
Los Angeles museum-goers have to make do with the great outdoors, with indoor installations closed since last March. “Levitated Mass” at Resnick North Lawn at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is by Michael Heizer.Credit.Philip Cheung for The New York Times
Feb. 10, 2021
LOS ANGELES Fulton Leroy Washington (known as Mr. Wash), who began to paint while serving time for a nonviolent drug offense, was looking forward to being part of the Hammer Museum’s biennial his first museum show before the pandemic forced the doors closed a few months before the exhibition was to open. “I started having excitement build up,” Washington said. “Then disappointment set in.”
Playwrights Realm Announces Winners of International Theatermakers Award
Recipients include lighting designer Alexandra Vásquez Dheming, director Danilo Gambini, lighting designer Omar Madkour and more.by BWW News Desk
Applying for an O-1 visa can cost thousands of dollars-and be a draining and uncertain experience. In a moment where most theatermakers are struggling to maintain their livelihoods, immigrant artists are having to work under the added pressures of these costly applications, international travel restrictions, and the maintenance of status requirements to prove extraordinary ability -even as the projects they would cite as proof have largely been canceled. Recognizing the critical contribution of theatermakers from around the world to American theater and the barriers they face to work in our country, The Playwrights Realm (Founding Artistic Director Katherine Kovner and Producing Director Roberta Pereira) first launched the International Theatermakers Award program