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Guillermo del Toro’s Special “Frankenstein: Crafting a Tale Eternal” Exhibit Heading to Los Angeles

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Guillermo del Toro’s eternal tale is heading to Hollywood.

The 61-year-old Mexican Oscar-winning filmmaker’s stunning exhibition Frankenstein: Crafting a Tale Eternal, based on his acclaimed film, will be heading directly to Los Angeles after its run in London.

Guillermo del Toro

The exhibit will run from January 5-11 at the NYA Studios West in Hollywood, and just in time for Oscar nomination voting.

del Toro’s Netflix film has been on a roll and just this week was shortlisted in six Oscar crafts categories, every single one for which it was eligible.

It also has been nominated for 11 Critics Choice Awards including Best Picture and Best Director, as well as for five Golden Globes including Motion Picture – Drama and Director.

Guillermo del Toro, Frankenstein Exhibit

David Fincher, George Lucas and Mellody Hobson are scheduled to host and moderate a screening with the filmmaking team on opening night of the L.A. exhibit, with additional programming to come.

The immersive exhibition will celebrate del Toro’s visionary storytelling and the craftsmanship of the Frankenstein team.

Diving into his elaborate filmmaking process, it will showcase a collection of props, artwork, costumes and Tiffany & Co. jewelry featured in the film and rare books curated by the firm Peter Harrington to honor author Mary Shelley’s legacy.

“We have been anticipating bringing this exhibition from London to Los Angeles. I believe it to be revelatory,” del Toro tells Deadline. “With Frankenstein, we wanted to test the limits of every craft in movie-making — handmade sets, miniatures, wardrobe and cinematography, just to name a few — and this exhibit is a celebration of those traditions. It is an honor to invite everyone to take a closer look at how our crafts team and I have meticulously and exhaustively labored to bring Mary Shelley’s world to life in what we hope is an eloquent, operatic way.”

Free tickets to tour the exhibit will be available for select dates.

Prada Foundation Mounting “Amores Perros” 25th Anniversary Film Installation by Alejandro G. Iñárritu

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One of Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s iconic films is getting a special anniversary celebration.

Italy’s Prada Foundation is mounting a film installation by the 61-year-old Mexican Oscar-winning to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his first feature Amores Perros.

Alejandro G. InarrituThe Mexico City-set triptych starred Gael García Bernal in his breakout role and won the Critics’ Week Award at Cannes Film Festival.

Titled “Sueño Perro: A Film Installation by Alejandro G. Iñárritu,” the piece will unveil plenty of previously unseen footage from the visceral film, which weaves together three stories connected by a car crash. It delves into Mexico City’s underbelly through the tales of a teenager who gets involved in dogfighting, a model who loses a leg in the car crash and a troubled hitman.

The installation will be unveiled on September 18 at the Prada Foundation’s Milan headquarters. It will then travel to the LagoAlgo cultural center in Mexico City — where it will be on display from October 5 to January 4 — and subsequently to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in spring 2026.

“Sueño Perro” marks Prada Foundation’s third collaboration with Iñárritu, who conceived the institution’s “Flesh, Mind and Spirit” screening series that he co-curated with U.S. critic and film scholar Elvis Mitchell.

In 2017, he created a groundbreaking experimental VR installation titled “CARNE y ARENA” in Milan, which was part of the Cannes Film Festival’s official selection and was awarded a special Oscar.

“With this project, we aim to open new perspectives on Iñárritu’s work and on a film that, from its very start, combined the force of realism with the density of symbolism,” said fashion designer Miuccia Prada, who is head of the Prada Foundation, in a statement. “Twenty-five years after it was released, ‘Amores Perros’ continues to speak to the present and to capture, with visual and emotional power, the full complexity of the world we live in.”

Described as a multisensory exhibition rooted in the intersection of cinema and visual art, the “Sueño Perro” installation will feature unused “Amores Perros” footage preserved in the film archives at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

“Over a million feet of film were left on the cutting room floor during the editing of ‘Amores Perros,’ said Iñárritu in the statement. “These intensely charged images, 16 million still frames, were buried in the UNAM film archives for 25 years.”

“On the occasion of the film’s anniversary, I felt compelled to revisit and re-explore these abandoned fragments, with the grain and the ghosts of celluloid which they hold,” he added. “Stripped of all narrative, this installation is not a tribute, but a resurrection —an invitation to feel what never was. Like meeting an old friend we have never seen before.”

After “Amores Perros,” Iñárritu went on to make the 2003 film 21 Grams that landed Sean Penn a best actor award in Venice, while 2006’s Babel won him Cannes’ best director award and seven Oscar nominations. Iñárritu’s 2014 feature Birdman won four Oscars, including best picture and director, while The Revenant earned him a second consecutive directing Oscar.

Iñárritu’s next film, which is working-titled Judy, stars Tom Cruise alongside Jesse Plemons, Sandra Hüller, Sophie Wilde, Riz Ahmed, Michael Stuhlbarg and John Goodman. It’s due for release via Warner Bros. in 2026.

Christopher Carrera Named to President Joe Biden’s President’s Advisory Committee on The Arts

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Christopher Carrera has joined the Committee…

U.S. President Joe Biden has appointed 14 members to the President’s Advisory Committee on The Arts, in which they will serve as representatives for the Kennedy Center, including the Latino businessman.

The White HouseCarrera, who serves as president of Carrera-Willowbridge, LLC, was previously a Partner in the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities Division at Goldman, Sachs & Co. where he began his career as a summer intern in high school. Carrera serves on the board of the FDNY Foundation and is Treasurer of his co-op building. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and was a former member of the Board of Overseers of the College of Arts and Sciences. Carrera also served as a Trustee of Riverdale Country School.

He joins a roster of committee members that includes Andi Bernstein, partner at venture capital firm The 98;  arts advocates Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel and Barbara Gamson; philanthropist Melissa Hedden; Lorna Johnson, chair and CEO of LMJ Global Enterprises;  busineswoman and author Bonnie Lautenberg; P.R. and public affairs strategist Allison Putala; Sunil Puri, CEO and founder of First Midwest Group; Charles Pohlad, director at Pohlad Investment Management, LLC; Diane Robertson, documentary producer and proprietor of a horticultural design firm; residential and commercial developer Thomas Safran; and Andrew Tavakoli, principal and CEO of Tavaco Properties.

Eugene William Stetson III, senior fellow at The Atlantic Council and a film producer, will serve as chair.

The President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts was established in 1958 by President Dwight Eisenhower. According to the Kennedy Center, its members are considered a “national network” for the arts center.

The Kennedy Center also has a board of trustees, chaired by David Rubenstein, and its members also are appointed by the president.

Another arts board, the National Council on the Arts, advises the National Endowment for the Arts. Another group, the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, was an advisory committee to the president’s administration, but President Donald Trump did not renew its authority in 2017 after all of its members resigned.

J Balvin to Emcee This Year’s Beyond the Streets Virtual Art Fair

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J Balvin is taking things beyond the streets… 

The 36-year-old Colombian singer/rapper will serve as the emcee for this year’s Beyond the Streets art fair, a celebration of graffiti and street art.

J Balvin

During the two-day virtual art fair, taking place on December 1 and December 2 on the NTWRK app, J Balvin will emcee different artwork drops and host various discussions with top artists.

“Balvin is a known art collector and has a clear vision for aesthetics. His home is a sanctuary where art is the protagonist, making him the perfect emcee for this year’s Beyond the Streets,” notes an official press statement.

Further expanding his partnership with the livestream shopping platform, Balvin’s integrated role will include daily episodes where he’ll be joined by Cleon Peterson, Beyond the Streets’ artistic director and L.A.-based photographer Estevan Oriol; in-depth art conversations with Peterson, Oriol, DABSMYLA, and Gustavo Zermeño Jr., that will dive deeper into today’s art landscape and the creative process behind their work; and exclusive limited-edition product releases by Balvin in collaboration with DABSMYLA.

This year’s Beyond the Streets, curated by graffiti historian Roger Gastman, will feature a lineup of artists, designers, and brands, including Bert Krak, CB Hoyo, DABSMYLA with Late Lunch, MADSAKI, Mike GIANT, Mister Cartoon, Takashi Murakami, POSE, Spacebrat and Wild Style with Vic Mensa, to name a few.

The virtual art festival, which is “mainstay for art fans and continues Gastman’s vision as a longtime champion of graffiti as a contemporary art form,” will also launch exclusive products across fine art, collectibles, apparel, and home goods.

Miguel Taking Part in Undercurrent’s Inaugural Climate Crisis-Themed Exhibition

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Miguel is caught in the undercurrent…

The 35-year-old half-Mexican American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor, whose full name is Miguel Jontel Pimentel, is taking part in new cause-oriented experiential platform Undercurrent’s first-ever event on September 9, 2021.

Miguel

Undercurrent, which merges the worlds of music, technology and the visual arts, will house the event in a two-story, 60,000-square-foot space in Brooklyn.

In addition to Miguel, the inaugural climate crisis-themed exhibition will feature a series of immersive, interactive exhibits developed by musical artists including Bon Iver, Jorja Smith, Actress, Khruangbin, Aluna, Jayda G, Mount Kimbie and Nosaj Thing, with more to be announced.

Established by music industry veterans Steve Milton and Brett Volker, Undercurrent was designed to offer a new way for audiences to experience music while also inspiring them to get involved with social causes.

“We see it as a new medium for which artists and musicians can create, and hopefully new ways that they can engage with their audiences and their fans,” says Volker. He adds that the event will raise awareness and funds for three main environmental non-profits — Kiss the Ground, Ocean Conservancy, and/or Global Forest Generation — all of which created their own installations to spread awareness of their specific causes while offering ways for attendees to donate.

Attendees shouldn’t expect actual live performances; though all of the artists involved will likely make an appearance at some point during the exhibition’s six-week run.

Aside from showcasing Undercurrent’s work, the goal of the fall event is to inspire attendees to think more deeply about the climate crisis while donating money to its non-profit partners (Undercurrent is making direct donations to the organizations, while guests will be given multiple opportunities to donate on-site). Long-term, Milton and Volker hope to use it as a launching pad for future exhibitions with a focus on other important causes. “There are so many different ways that we could evolve this,” Milton says.

Tickets for Undercurrent start at $45 and go on sale today.

For more information, click here.

J Balvin Discusses Artist Fernando Botero’s ’20 de Julio’ as Part of Google Arts & Culture’s Art Zoom Series

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J Balvin is offering up a virtual art lesson…

The 35-year-old Colombian singer is lending his voice as a narrator for the second installation of Google Arts & Culture‘s Art Zoom series.

Balvin joins a roster of participating artists that includes

J Balvin

Grimes, FKA twigs, TWICE‘s Chaeyoung, Ellie Goulding and The 1975‘s Matty Healy.

Fans can embark on a different kind of tour with their favorite artists telling the stories behind the world’s most famous masterpieces. And by using Google’s giga-pixel Art Camera, they can zoom in on any artwork with brushstroke-level detail.you can check here art related information

The new Art Zoom series features the Renaissance works coming out of Europe, with Grimes’ lively exploration of Pieter Bruegel the Elder‘s apocalyptic The Fall of Rebel Angels. Meanwhile, MAGDALENEsinger FKA twigs appropriately presents Artemisia Gentileschi’s Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy.

Balvin reminisces on the chaos and hope inColombian figurative artist and sculptor Fernando Botero’s 20 de Julio. His signature style, also known as “Boterismo“, depicts people and figures in large, exaggerated volume, which can represent political criticism or humor, depending on the piece.