LABC Presents: John Waters: Pope of Trash - The New Academy Museum Exhibit
Wed, Jan 10
|The Los Angeles Breakfast Club
Enjoy a catered breakfast, silly songs, club traditions, and special presentation each week at the historic Los Angeles Breakfast Club.
Time & Location
Jan 10, 2024, 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM
The Los Angeles Breakfast Club, 3201 Riverside Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA
Guests
About the event
ABOUT THE PRESENTATION: Jenny He and Dara Jaffe, co-curators of John Waters: Pope of Trash, will discuss the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the artist’s contributions to cinema. On view at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures through August 4, 2024, the exhibition explores Waters’s process, themes, and unmatched moviemaking style. Works on view include costumes, props, set decoration, handwritten scripts, correspondence, scrapbooks, posters, photographs, moving-image material, and more.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS: Jenny He is Exhibitions Curator at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and the co-curator of John Waters: Pope of Trash, alongside Dara Jaffe. In addition to John Waters, she has curated exhibitions on Pedro Almodóvar, Hildur Guðnadóttir, animation filmmakers, special and visual effects artists, and numerous other subjects for the museum. Previously, she independently curated and toured The World of Tim Burton to multiple worldwide institutions, including the Museum of Image and Sound, in São Paulo, the…