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\n\tThe Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art has announced the honorees for its annual Art+Film Gala, chaired by returning hosts Leonardo DiCaprio and LACAMA trustee Eva Chow.<\/p>\n
\n\tThis year\u2019s star-studded event on Nov. 7 will honor artist Vija Celmins and filmmaker Denis Villeneuve. The Art + Film gala raises funds for LACMA\u2019s exhibition, acquisition, and education programming, with a special focus on projects at the intersection of visual art and film.<\/p>\n
\n\tLast year\u2019s gala honored Ryan Coogler and Mary Corse, and raised $6.5 million for the museum, a tick higher than the $6.4 million raised in 2024. Celebrity guests included Cindy Crawford, Cynthia Erivo, and Paris Hilton; Doja Cat, a \u201ca boundary-breaking creative force,\u201d according to Chow, performed.<\/p>\n
\n\tCelmins is perhaps best known for meticulous, photorealistic paintings and drawings of the ocean, the sky, the moon, and the desert. In a review of her retrospective at the Fondazione Beyeler last year, the writer noted that Celmins\u2019s subdued, desaturated artworks \u201cspeak quietly but insistently to fundamental human desires: to connect, to see, and to understand.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tIn a statement, LACMA director and CEO Michael Govan connected Celmins\u2019s blend of realism and imagination with Villeneuve\u2019s contemplative and cerebral films. Villeneuve directed and produced the Dune<\/em> trilogy (part three comes out in December), and is set to direct the next James Bond movie,<\/p>\n \n\tThe 2026 gala is the museum\u2019s first since the opening of the controversial and long-awaited David Geffen Galleries. The 110,000-square-foot one-story building, designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor,\u00a0came with a price tag of $724 million and opened to the public in May.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/vija-celmins-denis-villeneuve-honorees-lacma-art-film-gala-1234792263\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/gala-celmins-v-1-2.png?w=1000″] The Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art has announced the honorees for its annual Art+Film Gala, chaired by returning hosts Leonardo DiCaprio and LACAMA trustee Eva Chow. This year\u2019s star-studded event on Nov. 7 will honor artist Vija Celmins and filmmaker Denis Villeneuve. The Art + Film gala raises funds for LACMA\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2046170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2046170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2046170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2046170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2046170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}