Saturday, sponsored in part by Rolls-Royce Motor Cars and Laurent-Perrier bubbly, was particularly star-and-mogul-studded. It’s always that kind of night at LACMA’s Art+Film, where stars mingle with the art and charitable elite. “I heard that Kim and Kris are also here,” said another, referring to daughter Kardashian and mom Jenner.

“Have you seen Brad Pitt?” asked one veteran and very well-dressed guest. It was really not so much “walking” as it was standing and peering across the crowd to spot the who’s who of the nearly 600 attendees. Instead, Saturday night guests were dropped off on 6th and spent more than an hour walking and toasting on the manicured lawn behind the museum among some of the trees from Robert Irwin’s “Primal Palm Garden.” In previous years, the cocktail party was held in the museum’s main courtyard off Wilshire Boulevard and behind Chris Burden’s “Urban Light” installation. as guests continued to filter in to the pre-dinner cocktail party. Times, the protest served as a means for UCLA service and hospital workers to show their dissatisfaction over the treatment of valet workers at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Protestors lined the sidewalk on the opposite side of 6th Street (a new entrance point this year) shouting “David Geffen make it right, support valet workers’ rights.” According to the L.A. However, even before one could get past the valet and move toward the check-in table, news presented itself. There’s much more to share about that.įrom the start, it was clear there would be plenty to report on Saturday night with Bradford set to share the stage with the film side of the invite - honoree and fledgling museum founder George Lucas. His speech, not the glamorous Gucci-sponsored evening. First Look at 'Gravity' VFX Supervisor's Virtual Production 'Flite'Īnd just like that, it was over.

The Crawling Wood by Casey Lucas