On Saturday November 1, 2025, friends and supporters from the art, film, fashion, and entertainment industries will gather at LACMA for its fourteenth annual Art+Film Gala. LACMA will honor artist Mary Corse, whose work over her 60-year career reflects a groundbreaking approach to light, perception, and subjectivity, alongside trailblazing filmmaker Ryan Coogler, known for the epic Black Panther films and this year's blockbuster Sinners. LACMA trustee Eva Chow and actor Leonardo DiCaprio will co-chair the event for the fourteenth consecutive year.
Past honorees of the Art+Film Gala include artists Simone Leigh, Judy Baca, Helen Pashgian, Kehinde Wiley, Amy Sherald, Betye Saar, Catherine Opie, Mark Bradford, Robert Irwin, James Turrell, Barbara Kruger, David Hockney, Ed Ruscha, and John Baldessari, and filmmakers Baz Luhrmann, David Fincher, Park Chan-wook, Steven Spielberg, Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro, George Lucas, Kathryn Bigelow, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, and Clint Eastwood.
Proceeds from the annual Art+Film Gala go toward underwriting LACMA’s initiative to make film more central to the museum’s curatorial programming, while also funding LACMA’s broader mission. This includes exhibitions, acquisitions, and educational programming, in addition to screenings that explore the intersection of art and film.
The Art+Film Gala is once again made possible by Gucci’s longstanding and generous support.
For more information about tickets and table sales, contact artandfilm@lacma.org
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About Mary Corse
A key member of the Los Angeles artist community from the 1960s to the present, Mary Corse is often associated with the Light and Space movement but has always been committed to painting. She has continually investigated the ways in which light can be both subject and material as well as emphasizing the abstract nature of human perception. Corse graduated from Chouinard in Los Angeles in 1968 and since then has had many exhibitions of her work. Recent exhibitions include Mary Corse: A Survey in Light, presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art and LACMA in 2018 and 2019, respectively. The artist’s work can be found in the permanent collections of LACMA; Dia Art Foundation, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Long Museum, Shanghai; and Amorepacific Museum, Seoul; among other institutions.
About Ryan Coogler
Hailing from Oakland, California, Ryan Coogler is an award-winning writer, director, and producer best known for directing the Black Panther film series, as well as the Rocky spin-off Creed and his widely acclaimed debut Fruitvale Station. Black Panther won three Academy Awards® and became the most successful domestic release of 2018. Coogler also wrote and directed the Academy Award-winning hit sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, released in 2022. He is a co-founder of the production company Proximity Media, which has produced Space Jam: A New Legacy, the Academy Award-winning Judas and the Black Messiah, and the box office hit Creed III, among various other projects. Most recently Coogler wrote, directed, and co-produced (with Zinzi Coogler and Sev Ohanian) the supernatural period film Sinners, starring Michael B. Jordan.
Image credits: Mary Corse, photo by Indah Datou; Ryan Coogler, photo by Ricky Middlesworth.