The motion picture academy will have local competition. The Los Angeles County Museum has its own film program and has hosted popular movie-related exhibitions like one on the filmmaker Tim Burton. Well-established local organizations like American Cinematheque already coordinate public screenings of significant art films. And construction has begun near downtown Los Angeles on the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which will house items collected by George Lucas, including 20th-century American illustrations, comic books, costumes, storyboards, stage sets and other archival material from “Star Wars” and other movies. The Lucas Museum, shaped (without question) like a “Star Wars” vessel, and its surrounding campus will cost an estimated $1 billion.
But the motion picture academy — with a collection that includes 190,000 film and video assets and 61,000 posters — has wanted its own museum for decades. The organization, steered by its determined chief executive, Dawn Hudson, has pushed through recent setbacks that have included sparring architects, a ballooning budget (the museum was originally expected to cost around $250 million) and an opening date delayed by two years because of construction difficulties.
For four years now, Brougher has been the director of a museum that does not exist. The museum announced in April that its doors would open in the middle of next year. But Brougher said that a few more months were needed to install exhibitions and test interactive features.
Unveiling his programming plans nonetheless represents a step forward. “It’s a thrill to finally be able to talk about all the various things this museum can be,” he said. “I’ve been holding it in for so long.”
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/movies/academy-museum-of-motion-pictures.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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