The Academy Museum's new director explains how an institution funded by Hollywood will maintain a 'church-state divide' when it comes to including the industry’s unsavory moments
— Dec. 14 — and the massive construction project at the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax in L.A.’s Miracle Mile is coming to a close. New Academy Museum director Bill Kramer, who officially started in the job Jan. 1, is overseeing the installation of the institution’sand pounding the pavement to meet its fundraising goals.
We want this to be eventually a self-sustaining enterprise. Through a combination of earned income from ticket sales, from our restaurant, from our retail store, from rentals plus fundraising from individuals, corporations, foundations, a robust membership program. We already have 6,000 members. We haven't even opened yet. In the early days, The Academy may help us as we're growing our endowment.
Spike is an incredible collector. He's been collecting film memorabilia since he started his career. So his personal collection is spectacular and unexpected and a lot of that will be shown in the gallery. We have other film artists. We are going to announce the full exhibitions plan in a few weeks, but we're asking film artists to help us curate spaces around their area, their discipline, and everyone said yes.
How do you navigate the tension between the expectations of the museum world and the expectations of the movie industry, which can be quite different in terms of what they think ought to be in this space? Everything's open for business. The retail store, the cafe, the two theaters, the exhibition spaces. Our Ted Mann theater, the 280-seat theater, is what we see as our workhorse theater where we will have three to four screenings a day. The Geffen, the larger space, will be programmed a little differently. There will be big events in that space, but also daytime programming linked to our exhibitions. And they will also be rented for premieres.
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