For the third consecutive year, The Hollywood Reporter has handed Hollywood’s most coveted trophy to a group of West coast artists and asked them to do their worst with it. The results go on display this Thursday, March 12, when the third annual Art of Oscar exhibition opens at Megan Mulrooney gallery in West Hollywood, running through March 21.
The portfolio — a THR tradition launched in the 2023 Oscars issue — commissions L.A. artists to reimagine the gold statuette that Cedric Gibbons first sketched in 1928. Previous editions, exhibited at Jeffrey Deitch and AF Projects, gave us Kenny Scharf launching the little gold man into deep space, Karon Davis recasting him as an ancient Egyptian deity and Austyn Weiner turning him into a mischievous mail-art project.
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