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The film museum is slated to open in 2019. Last year Cheryl and Haim Saban gave the Academy Museum $50 million, bringing its $388-million capital campaign to $300 million. It plans to break ground this spring and complete the building in 2021. The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which last year chose Exposition Park as its home over San Francisco and Chicago, comes with a commitment of more than a billion dollars from filmmaker George Lucas. has infused the city with cultural gifts, largely from individuals. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)Ī relatively recent museum building spree in L.A. Hammer Museum board chairwoman Marcy Carsey, left, and museum Director Ann Philbin. “a boom town” for arts and said that within it, the Hammer was special. organization to date because “if you really believe in a place, you gotta start the ball rolling and urge other people to do the same.”Ĭarsey called L.A. Television producer Carsey said she gave the Hammer her largest donation to any L.A.
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And when you see great art and are moved, that changes your DNA, it just does.” People will have the ability to go and see great art and be moved. “And the fact that it’s so accessible on foot - it’s going to be next to the Metro and it’s part of the UCLA campus. “They do brilliant shows, they’re fresh and different and unique. The Hammer, Resnick said, is “a unique jewel in the city.” It’s up to the private sector to give back.”
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The gift to the Hammer, Lynda Resnick said in a phone interview, comes at a time when the economy may be good but “we can depend less and less on the government and what they can do. The couple also gave an estimated $10 million worth of art. The Resnicks - founders of the Wonderful Co., whose brands include Pom pomegranate juice, Fiji Water and Halos mandarins - gave $45 million for naming rights to LACMA’s Resnick Pavilion, which opened in 2010. Lynda and Stewart Resnick (Steven Gomillion)