LACMA Art + Film Gala Raises More Than $4.4 Million

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More than 600 guests came out to honor artist Mark Bradford and filmmaker George Lucas at the LACMA‘s Seventh annual Art + Film Gala. The event raised more than $4.4 million for the museum’s film initiatives, exhibitions, acquisitions and education. Donations increased greatly from last year’s gala, which raised more than $3.4 million.

Co-chaired by Eva Chow and Leonardo DiCaprio, the gala was made possible with the support of Gucci. The Italian fashion house decked out a number of guests in its latest runway creations.

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Dakota Johnson wore a pink pleated gown with jeweled epaulettes while her mother Melanie Griffith chose a skintight long-sleeved black number. Jared Leto donned an elaborately embroidered floral silk smoking jacket. Amy Adams brought out the glamour with an aquamarine silk dress covered in red print bows.

Kerry Washington wowed in a flowing green dress with a laced shirt top. Salma Hayek Pinault was a sparkly vision in a shimmering purple one-shoulder gown. And Zoe Saldana was a picture of elegance in a white and black tiered dress with oversized silk flowers on her shoulders.

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Brad Pitt was spotted chatting it up with artists Thomas Houseago and Paul McCarthy. Kim Kardashian arrived in a draped tuxedo minus the shirt. Director friends Alfonso Cuaron and Guillermo del Toro posed for photographs. Other guests who came out to raise money for the arts included Usher, Jane Fonda, Mark Hamill, Barbra Streisand and James Brolin. And Annie Lennox performed a special set of songs at the piano.

Additional support for the evening was provided by Rolls-Royce and Laurent-Perrier.

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LACMA, founded in 1965, is the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection of more than 135,000 objects spanning 6,000 years of art history. The museum often showcases the rich film history of the city, as seen in a recent Guillermo del Toro exhibition full of movie relics.