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The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures advances the understanding, celebration, and preservation of cinema through inclusive and accessible exhibitions, screenings, programs, initiatives, and collections. Welcoming visitors from Los Angeles and around the world, the museum works in active partnership with motion picture artists and specialists, scholars, staff, and diverse communities to contextualize and challenge dominant narratives around cinema, inspiring discourse, connection, joy, and discovery.
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CHARLIZE THERON
2026 Academy Museum
Gala Honorees
Among the distinguished honorees of the 2026 Academy Museum Gala, Charlize Theron stands out as one of the most celebrated actresses and producers of her generation. The South African-born, Oscar-winning actress has built an extraordinary career through powerful and transformative performances, from her Academy Award-winning role in Monster to acclaimed films including Mad Max: Fury Road, Bombshell, Tully, North Country and Atomic Blonde.
Beyond acting, Theron is a successful producer through her company Secret Menu, developing acclaimed films and television projects including The Old Guard, A Private War and Atomic Blonde. In 2026, she starred in and produced Netflix’s APEX, which reached 38.2 million views in its first week.
Her upcoming projects include Atomic Blonde 2, Jane, Dance Partners, Six Clean Kills and Tyrant, further confirming her influence both in front of and behind the camera.
Theron’s impact extends far beyond cinema. As a United Nations Messenger of Peace and founder of the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project (CTAOP), she is deeply committed to improving the health, education and safety of young people in Southern Africa, with initiatives addressing HIV prevention, sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence.
The 2026 Gala also honors John Carpenter, the legendary filmmaker behind Halloween, The Thing and Escape from New York, and Colman Domingo, the Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated actor celebrated for Rustin, Euphoria and Sing Sing.
Supported by Rolex, the exclusive presenting partner and founding supporter of the Academy Museum, the Gala is co-chaired by Robert Rodriguez, Steven Spielberg, and Kate Capshaw.
The Icon Award, presented to Charlize Theron, celebrates an artist whose career has had a significant global impact.
In addition to Theron’s acting success and principal involvement with her production company, Theron serves as a United Nations Messenger of Peace and the founder of the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project (CTAOP) through which she is committed to advancing the health, education, and safety of youth in Southern Africa. CTAOP partners with community-based organizations to support sexual and reproductive health, HIV prevention, and the fight against gender-based violence. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Theron and CTAOP launched the Together for Her campaign with CARE and the Entertainment Industry Foundation to combat gender-based violence and later partnered with the Ford Foundation to advocate for global vaccine equity. Learn more at charlizeafricaoutreach.org
credit photos : Rolex / Charlize Theron, photo by Marc Piasecki
"Hollywood Inside the Oscars"
There is the ceremony, and then there is everything that happens in between.
Beyond the precision of speeches and the choreography of applause, the true texture of the Oscars lives in quieter, more fleeting exchanges. In the soft blur of a crowded room, under warm, diffused light, the world’s most recognizable faces momentarily step out of performance and into something more disarmingly real. Leonardo DiCaprio & Teyana Taylor Credit A.M.P.A.S
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
James Cameron
Rolex / Mark Seliger
Rolex supports cinema, from the earliest stages of creation to the final crowning moment. Cinema is an adventure. A journey marked by challenges, each one to be overcome with passion and perseverance. Each film inspires the world. And while its watches play their own role on the wrists of legendary characters, Rolex partners with renowned institutions and celebrated figures. Together, they promote technical and artistic achievement, writing the grand history of filmmaking.
Rolex encourages the preservation and transmission of the cinematic arts, promotes excellence and celebrates progress by accompanying living legends as well as young talents through its Testimonees (James Cameron, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Zendaya and Jia Zhang-Ke), its partnership with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the institution, the awards and the Academy Museum in Los Angeles), Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation and the National Film and Television School in London.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
Uma Thurman & Quentin Tarantino
during production of Pulp Fiction (1994), Miramax
Courtesy Margaret Herrick Library
A screenplay is a written document that establishes the foundation of a film, providing its dialogue, setting, and action, and dictating its structure and story. But it is more than a blueprint; it is an art form.
Screenwriting: Takes on LA Noir presents scenes from three screenplays spanning 50 years: Double Indemnity (1944), written by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler; The Long Goodbye (1973), written by Leigh Brackett; and Pulp Fiction (1994), written by Quentin Tarantino. By examining three takes on similar subjects, themes, and settings, this gallery explores different approaches to storytelling and the art of screenwriting. Set against the backdrop of LA, these screenplays established, updated, and subverted the conventions of film noir.
Screenwriting: Takes on LA Noir is curated by Nicholas Barlow, assistant curator, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
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Saudi Arabia
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Ithra Announces the Open Call for the 7th Edition of the Ithra Art Prize - The Kingdom’s Premier Platform for Contemporary Artists, Now Accepting Submissions
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Prize value of USD 100,000 makes it one of the world’s most generous art grants
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Alongside the winner, five finalists will receive production grants to showcase their work
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The final exhibition of the winner and finalists will take place at Ithra in spring 2026
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Open call runs from 24 July to 16 October, 2025
The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra) announces the open call for the 7th edition of the biennial Ithra Art Prize, an art grant supporting contemporary art across the Arab world. Founded in 2017, the Prize offers a valuable platform for artists from the region. With a grand prize of USD 100,000, the winning artwork will find a lasting home within Ithra’s permanent art collection. In a significant expansion from previous years, the Ithra Art Prize, through its appointed jury, will recognize five finalists with production grants to showcase their work in an exhibition at Ithra in the spring of 2026. The exhibition will be a new highlight of the prize, returning the award to its home in the Eastern Province, contributing to the artists’ evolving legacies, and aiming to amplify discourse on contemporary art in the region. The final winner will be selected during the exhibition.
Submissions are now officially open and will be accepted until 16th October 2025. As part of its evolving approach, both new commissions and recontextualized existing works are eligible to apply. The Prize recognizes artists whose practices are intellectually engaged, contextually grounded, and developed through sustained inquiry over time. Submitted works must reflect artists’ ongoing practice and research. The Prize is open to individual artists and collectives aged 18 and older, of Arab heritage or currently residing in one of the 22 Arab countries. Through its 7th edition, the Prize continues its founding mission of supporting artistic excellence, connecting Arab creatives to global audiences, and nurturing a thriving cultural ecosystem across the region and beyond.
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Singapore
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Blockbuster exhibition Mars: The Red Mirror touches down at ArtScience Museum Explore 12,000 years of stories and discoveries about Mars at Singapore’s most comprehensive exhibition on the Red Planet-
Docking at ArtScience Museum from 25 November, Mars: The Red Mirror will launch visitors on an out-of-this-world expedition through 12,000 years of culture, art, history, and science about Mars from ancient times to the present day. It is the most comprehensive historical and cultural exhibition on the Red Planet to land in Singapore, featuring over 300 objects, including significant historical artefacts, rare scientific manuscripts, films, contemporary works of art, and even an authentic Martian meteorite.
Marsonauts (2023) by Nero Cosmos
This is NewYork
Relais Signature World | NYC , USA
In honor of the centennial anniversary of the founding of the Museum of the City of New York as the city’s storyteller, This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture explores the many ways that the city has inspired storytelling across art forms. It features both famous and lesser-known depictions of New York in film and television, visual and performing arts, music, poetry and literature, and even fashion, painting a collective, moving, and sometimes funny version of a city that has captured the imagination of the world.
The full-floor exhibition is organized around the types of urban spaces where the stories of New York are told.
100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture
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FRANK BOWLING WINS
2022 WOLFGANG HAHN PRIZE
Guyanese-born, London-based artist Frank Bowling has been announced as the winner of the 2022 Wolfgang Hahn prize. He will receive the award at a ceremony taking place November 15 of next year, the evening before Art Cologne 2022 opens. The Museum Ludwig will acquire his 2020 acrylic-on-canvas work Flogging the Dead Donkey, which comments on monochrome painting through intense red and dirty brown hues splotched with vibrant blots of color and marred with sneaker prints. The painting will be the first work by Bowling to be acquired by a German public collection.
Portrait of Sir Frank Bowling, 2020. © the artist. All Rights Reserved, VG Bild-Kunst Bonn 2021. Photo: Sacha Bowling. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth - ARTREVIEW.com
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Italy
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The Last Supper of Leonardo da Vinci (Cenacolo Vinciano) is one of the most famous paintings in the world. This artwork was painted between 1494 and 1498 under the government of Ludovico il Moro and represents the last "dinner" between Jesus and his disciples.
In order to create this unique work, Leonardo carried out an exhaustive research creating an infinity of preparatory sketches. Leonardo abandons the traditional method of fresco painting, painting the scene "dry" on the wall of the refectory. Traces of gold and silver foils have been found which testify to the artist's willingness to make the figures in a much more realistic manner, including precious details. After completion, his technique and environmental factor had contributed to the eventual deterioration of the fresco, which had undergone numerous restorations.
The most recent restoration was completed in 1999 where several scientific methods were used to restore the original colors as close as possible, and to eliminate traces of paint applied in previous attempts to restore the fresco.
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Media Majlis Museum at Northwestern University in Qatar, in partnership with ACMI, will present All That Is Unseen, the first Middle East exhibition by the internationally acclaimed artist collective Marshmallow Laser Feast, from October 5, 2026, to January 21, 2027, at the NU-Q campus in Education City, Doha. Combining art, science, and technology, the immersive exhibition explores the invisible systems that connect all living things through large-scale installations, interactive experiences, and multimedia storytelling.
A free preview will take place on October 4, 2026.
Doha, QATAR
Credit photo Eugene Hyland
"All That Is Unseen"
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the acclaimed artist collective's first major exhibition in Qatar and the wider region.
EXHIBITION . UK
KOEN VANMECHELEN
WE THOUGHT WE WERE ALONE
9 May - 22 November 2026
Will we ever exist, Carrara White marble, patinated bronze, 220 x 200 x 100 cm
Renowned Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen presents his first solo sculptural exhibition in Venice, We Thought We Were Alone, at Palazzo Rota Ivancich, coinciding with the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, running from the 9 May - 22 November 2026. The exhibition, curated by the UK independent curator and writer James Putnam, will feature 40 new sculptures and installations, created specifically for the exhibition. Moving beyond human-centred perspectives, it will explore the dynamic relationship between living organisms and the inorganic environment. Spanning the three floors of the Palazzo’s history-marked, transient structure, the exhibition is a space of sanctuary located in Venice’s Castello district near San Marco. Visitors are immersed in the key themes that define Koen Vanmechelen’s practice - crossbreeding, hybridity, and identity - shaped by his vision of a Cosmopolitan Renaissance. Moving beyond traditional sculpture, the exhibition positions art as a positive force capable of inspiring social and biological transformation. Palazzo Rota Ivancich not only functions as a backdrop but as a structural part of the exhibition: a layered interior where rooms become thresholds, with the building’s own history of repair and reinvention echoing the show’s central theme, reflecting further the interconnectedness of human beings and nature. Moving across three floors, the visitor experiences the palazzo as a ‘cocoon’ - a space where forms loosen, reconfigure, and return changed.
Materials including bronze, marble, glass, photography, and video are brought together to create a dialogue between past and future, a tension between the individual and the collective, matter and form, inheritance and transformation. Classical statuary is reinterpreted amid a diverse menagerie of animal forms, while the works interconnect biology and culture, the local and the global, solitude and solidarity.
credit photos : KoenVanmechelen
Koen Vanmechelen - Think Twice
David Hockney
Presented at Serpentine North, the exhibition will showcase seminal works, shown in the UK for the first time. Admission will be free to the exhibition which is the artist’s first at Serpentine.
From painting, drawing, printmaking, set design, and photography to media ranging from fax machines to iPads, Hockney demonstrates his deep understanding of art history coupled with his interest in modern technology to create new ways of seeing and presenting. David Hockney's rich and enduring body of work reveals his passion for contemporary life and curiosity about the world, epitomized by his signature phrase, “Love Life.”
A major exhibition of more than 400 of the artist’s works from 1955 to 2025 was recently presented at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris featuring international, institutional, and private collections’ works, as well as paintings from the artist’s own studio. The exhibition – curated at David Hockney’s request by Sir Norman Rosenthal, the former Exhibitions Secretary of London’s Royal Academy of Arts, in close collaboration with Suzanne Pagé, Artistic Director of Fondation Louis Vuitton, and her team brought together works in a variety of media including oil and acrylic painting, ink, pencil and charcoal drawing, digital art (iPhone, iPad, and computer drawings), immersive video installation and photographic drawing. Spanning seven decades of ground-breaking creativity, David Hockney 25 highlighted not only Hockney’s iconic early works but also places a special focus on the past 25 years, the early part of the 21st century, which has inspired the event's title.
While the world came in the Spring of 2020, Hockney produced over a hundred images on his iPad within just a few weeks. Working digitally lets him capture the essence of each scene quickly and precisely. Much like the Impressionists, Hockney skilfully records changes in light and weather, but uses a vivid, radiant palette. His compositions combine flat areas of bold colour with playful pop-like touches. As the days pass, lockdown lifts, and spring transitions into summer, then autumn and winter. Hockney didn’t stop at painting spring, he captured the whole cycle of the year.
The exhibition will include Hockney’s recent works: the celebrated Moon Room which reflects his lifelong interest in the cycle of light and time passing. It will also feature digital paintings from his Sunrise body of work.
A Year in Normandy, a ninety-metre-long frieze, inspired by the Bayeaux Tapestry, showing the change of seasons at the artist’s former studio in Normandy, will also feature in the show.
David Hockney is interested in how art and technology can come together in new ways. Recommending that people slow down and notice the beauty of the world around them, he believes that simple, everyday beauty, like a sunrise, is worth celebrating.
David Hockney (b. 1937 in Bradford, Yorkshire) has been at the forefront of the international art world for more than six decades. He emerged as one of the exceptional talents in the new generation of British artists in the early 1960s. Throughout his extraordinarily prolific career, he remains endlessly inventive and committed to celebrating the world around him.
Hockney is fascinated by the language of representation in a variety of forms. He explores the conventions of Chinese and Japanese painting as well as the traditions of European art. He experimented with abstraction; however, he steadfastly remains a figurative artist. Constantly questioning the world around him, he draws and paints from life, from memory, and from imagination.
Across his career he has created many bodies of works and numerous individual paintings which are now viewed as iconic. His experimental paintings in the early sixties announced the arrival of a new artistic voice. These were followed by a celebrated series of Hollywood swimming pools where the young Hockney arrived in 1964, documenting the city’s seductive charm and ambience from the position of an outsider. Often poetically titled, works such as A Bigger Splash and Beverly Hills Housewife have become celebrated paintings and part of the modern vernacular.
credit photos :A Year in Normandie (detail), 2020-2021, composite iPad painting © David Hockney /David Hockney, London, 2023 © David Hockney Photo Credit: Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima
Can a photographic portrait ignite political imagination? NY - USA, The Museum of Modern Art
Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination explores how photographers and their sitters helped shape and spread Pan-African solidarity in the mid-20th century. Reflecting the international spirit of the era, the exhibition brings together striking images from photographers working in Central and West African cities. Their portraits capture everyday citizens, vibrant music scenes, and powerful expressions of youth culture, all of which mirrored the political transformations of the time.
The works of Jean Depara, Seydou Keïta, Malick Sidibé, and Sanlé Sory depict life in Bamako, Bobo-Dioulasso, and Kinshasa during an era when decolonization swept the African continent alongside the rise of the US Civil Rights movement. The exhibition also highlights James Barnor and Kwame Brathwaite—photographers based in Europe and North America—whose images contributed to the global construction of Africa as both a political idea and cultural force. Contemporary contributions from artists such as Samuel Fosso, Silvia Rosi, and Njideka Akunyili Crosby demonstrate the enduring relevance of these themes today.
Brimming with possibility, Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination celebrates the photographic portrait as a powerful vehicle of creativity and a lasting catalyst for political thought across the world.
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Penn&Fashion
In Paris, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) celebrates its 30th anniversary season with this retrospective of one of the greatest fashion photographers. The exhibition unfolds chronologically, retracing Irving Penn’s career from 1947 to 2008. For over sixty years the photographer embodied an aesthetic of timeless modernity in which the restraint of his compositions (always taking place in his modest studio), the precision of his gaze, and his respect for his subjects, attest to his artistic vision. Penn was steeped in modernistic painting and European surrealism. Irving Penn (1917 – 2009) was an American of Russian origin. He studied at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Arts. It was thanks to Vogue’s art director, Alexander Liberman, that he started to investigate photography. Liberman had recognized in Penn “a mind, and an eye that knew what it wanted to see”. Thus, one of the greatest fashion photographers of our time was born out of “luck”, without having studied the craft. Penn’s first assignment for Vogue was in Lima. There he photographed the model as a young tourist visiting the Peruvian capital. Then, he continued on his own to Cuzco where he photographed the Quechua people in their traditional clothes – making an intersection of ethnographic and fashion photography. In the summer of 1950, he had his first assignment to Paris. There he met his muse and wife to be in the beautiful Swedish model and former dancer, Lisa Fonssagrives. From that meeting emerged a series of photographs that would become icons in the history of fashion photography. However, true to his passion, Penn, moved from Haute Couture (Christian Dior, Balenciaga, Rochas…), to taking pictures of street vendors, artisans, and laborers, some of which are exhibited at the MEP.
Liberman also commissioned him to make a series of portraits from the world of fashion and artists that had settled in New York in the aftermath of the Second World War. Among those were Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Christian Dior, Elsa Schiaparelli, the Duchess of Windsor, and the dancers of New York’s Ballet Society. The 1960s and -70s marked a change in the fashion industry with the introduction of ready-to-wear. Irving Penn photographed, among others, André Courrèges’ futuristic designs, and Emanuel Ungaro’s metal dresses. Then, he continued his travels around the world and photographed indigenous peoples from Nepal, New Guinea, and Morocco in their traditional dress. These pictures are also interesting in an anthropological sense, as those clothes are increasingly giving way to a more standardized and global way of dressing. With the arrival of Anna Wintour as the creative director of Vogue, in 1983, Penn was assigned to Paris again. During this period, he created striking images of Yves St Laurent’s designs, as well as Karl Lagerfeld’s creations for Chanel as well as those of Christian Lacroix.
However, the collaboration that truly defined this period was his long relationship with Issey Miyake. It resulted in some of the most iconic fashion photographs of the later part of his career. At the end of his life, having attained a distinguished position at Vogue, Irving Penn became highly selective in choosing the designers whose creations he photographed. He liked to heighten the neo-Gothic character of these designs. Fashion became a meditation on time, vanity, and mortality. Before his death in New York in 2009, at the age of 92, he donated his professional archives to the Art Institute of Chicago and established The Irving Penn Foundation in 2005. Anyone with a creative mind, a sense of beauty and an interest in art, will be thrilled by this fabulous retrospective of one of our times most fascinating fashion photographer.
credit photos : PEM
EXHIBITION . PARIS
PENN & FASHION
by Anne Edelstam
30.09.2026 – 17.01.2027
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris.
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Los Angeles, CA
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The Significant Movies and Moviemakers gallery reopens with a three-gallery experience showcasing the classic drama Casablanca (1942), the groundbreaking film Boyz N the Hood (1991), and acclaimed documentarian Lourdes Portillo. The Casablanca gallery features original production objects that highlight beloved characters, settings, music, and the cinematic virtuosity that made this film one of Hollywood’s most enduring classics. While timeless in its romance and artistry, Casablanca is also inextricably tied to its production environment during WWII. The gallery explores this historical context, including the influx of European émigrés who contributed their talents both in front of and behind the camera, echoing the narrative themes of the film itself. This gallery is curated by Associate Curator Dara Jaffe.
Academy Museum of Motion Picture /6067 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90036 United States
