In L.A., Art + Film + Fashion

"Jennifer and Justin! Ahead!" Exclaimed the paparazzi outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Saturday evening full. " Drew! Drew! Here! " Louis Vuitton Damier Azur Canvas bags It was the second annual Art Museum + Film Gala, as the version of the West Coast of Bal Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art presents. In fact, the event attracted Anna Wintour and a devastating celebrities, with a museum in August as a backdrop for the red carpet. There was even a sponsor of fashion. "Gucci," said Michael Govan, the museum's director, when asked about his black tuxedo. He was standing in the yard, which Chris Burden of popular outdoor sculpture "Urban Light". "LA has always been known for the movies," he said, explaining the origin of the gala. "Idea is to get to the world of art and the world of the films together was." This year's benefit, Eva Chow and Leonardo DiCaprio (no-show, thanks to Hurricane sand stranding him on the East Coast) honored as co-organizer, the Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha and the end of the year Stanley Kubrick. Participants were in the cocktail tent, where the actress Evan Rachel Wood drowned screaming fans outside hummed collected some jazz standards. For most were the worlds of art and independent cinema tracks, like a Third World country, represented by Ms. Wintour and fashion vintage retailer Cameron Silver. Hot cannibis floating in the tent as Robert Iger, president of Walt Disney and his wife, journalist Willow Bay, spoke with Brian Grazer, producer and museum trustee, whose finger-in-the-socket hair seemed especially electricity (the Santa Ana winds , maybe). Diane Keaton, in a black tuxedo and bowler hat, vamped for Matthew Modine. Jane Fonda black Gucci gently kissed Salma Hayek, also in black Gucci. Scanning the audience with his blue eyes water was Dr. Ruscha, who recalled how the film influenced him. "I went to all the series of 10 cents Saturday morning west as a child," he said. Among his favorites was "Paths of Glory", Mr. Kubrick's film about the First World War 'C' was a blast. " After cocktails, guests headed to the pavilion dinner. Take your sweet time Jack Nicholson, Mr. Ruscha was praised as an "old friend, a handsome boy, a true artist." He paused to look back over the installation of Mr. Burden, now under fire a nearly full moon. "I guarantee you, no photographers caught this photo with the Variety building in the background," he said. "This is a beautiful LA museum, right?" Huge images deadpan Mr. Ruscha paintings projected on a wall of the tent dinner. The amount schmoozy ignored repeated requests to take their places, and was also released after the Beef Wellington, sat the jump table. The most coveted table in the room, perhaps, that the "scandal" actress Kerry Washington, who introduced his parents to visit the Bronx, a steady stream of lights, including Sean Penn, Cameron Diaz, Warren Beatty and Annette Bening. After dinner, Mr. Govan has paid tribute to Mr. Ruscha, citing the writer JG Ballard: "Ed Ruscha has the coolest look of American art." Tom Hanks honored Steven Spielberg, who in turn honored Mr. Kubrick. "Kubrick was the Beatles," said Spielberg. "Kubrick had all four Beatles." The English indie rock band Florence and the Machine performed a few songs before the guests were invited to head down for dessert and an overview of the museum's exhibition Kubrick. But while Los Angeles may be a city a city of art and film, this is definitely not a city dessert. It is not a city late at night. Brandies and pastries has remained largely intact and galleries in which stills and costumes were Mr. Kubrick films shown was empty.