American film director Martin Scorsese and British artist David Hockney were honored at the Art + Film Gala, an annual gathering that aims to bring the art and movie industries of Los Angeles closer together.
In a Saturday night event heavy with Hollywood actors and studio executives at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, or LACMA, the Oscar-winning director Scorsese was praised for helping save the museum’s film program when it was nearly scrapped during the financial crisis, and for his work on film restoration.
Hockney, a multimedia artist who lived and painted for decades in Los Angeles, was recognized for the way he captured the city, from swimming pools to Mulholland Drive — images that came to define Southern California for many.
“I first arrived in Los Angeles, almost 50 years ago in January 1964, and they were just putting up this building,” said the 76-year-old Hockney, who moved back to England a few years ago. “It is getting bigger and bigger.”
