Program Series: Gallery Spotlights

Gallery Spotlight – Director’s Inspiration: Spike Lee

Pop-up poetry performances by Roger Guenveur Smith in the Director’s Inspiration: Spike Lee gallery. 

Sun, Sep 25, 2022

Spike Lee Gallery in Stories of Cinema

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Gallery Spotlight: Shaping Hollywoodland

In-Gallery

Gallery Spotlight: Shaping Hollywoodland

Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital explores the impact of the predominantly Jewish filmmakers who played a key role in establishing the American film studio system, transforming Los Angeles into a global epicenter of cinema.

Beth Kean, CEO of Holocaust Museum LA, and Warren Sherk, director of special collections of the Margaret Herrick Library, discuss the museum’s first permanent exhibition, highlighting new objects that showcase notable Oscar wins and the origins of motion picture history.

Moderated by Rachel Rosenfeld, associate director, Academy Collections Acquisitions.

About Gallery Spotlights

Gallery Spotlights feature special guests who bring fresh insights to our exhibitions. Join us for revealing monthly conversations connecting the objects in our galleries to the art and history of moviemaking.

If you have any questions or need assistance planning your visit, please email museumeducation@oscars.org.