The Academy Museum Finally Arrives: Inside the New $484M Temple of All Things Movies

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Originally slated to open in 2017, the Renzo Piano-designed Academy Museum is set to open Sept. 30 with a retooled, more inclusive vision: 'Every delay has led to a better product,' says board chair Ted Sarandos Get a look at the museum before it opens:

Barbra Streisand, Ted Sarandos, Nicole Avant and the Katzenbergs on Helping Fund the $484M Academy Museum

“Opening our museum right now will remind people of the artistry and the power of moviemaking and why it means something to us,” says Bill Kramer, the Academy Museum’s director and president. “Perhaps that’s been slightly lost during the pandemic because people haven’t been going to movie theaters as much. Our galleries and programming and theaters will recapture that and remind people of the importance of this art form.

architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne eviscerated Piano’s original design, calling the glass sphere to be added behind the May Company building, which would house the David Geffen Theater, a “giant albino Pac-Man.

Sarandos and his wife, Nicole Avant, have been key fundraisers, bringing donors together to back what is now the Sidney Poitier Grand Lobby. Pre-pandemic, their fundraising events were elegant dinners at the couple’s Hancock Park home; by last October, they had convened an A-list Zoom, with Oprah Winfrey, Barbra Streisand, Tyler Perry and about 40 others sharing stories about Poitier.

 

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