The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures claimed the Oscars stage Sunday to tout its own forthcoming premiere: The long-delayed, much-anticipated Los Angeles museum devoted to filmmaking will open Dec. 14. AdvertisementRenzo Piano’s glass-topped concrete sphere, attached to the old May Co. building that holds the rest of the forthcoming Academy Museum. Most recently, the museum acquired Bela Lugosi’s cape from 1931’s “Dracula.”The lobby of the Academy Museum during a Friday media preview. Doris Berger of the Academy Museum and Rhea Combs of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture were announced as the curators. During the Oscars ceremony Sunday, Spike Lee said he was curating an inaugural exhibit for the Academy Museum.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 10, 2020 03:04 UTC