The Art of Cinema 2024
Introducing TheWrapBook, a unique publication by TheWrap celebrating the art of making movies. We invited artists, illustrators, painters, photographers, writers and screenwriters to collaborate with the talent of Cinema 2023. This is the result. For a limited time, TheWrapBook is exclusively available for purchase here.
Stefano Tonchi, Editorial Director, TheWrapBook
Artists by Artists
Six artists put pen to paper and brush to canvas to depict and reinterpret cinema’s famous faces
Deception Perception
In May December, Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman’s characters are entwined in a cerebral game of cat-and-mouse. To pull it off, they found in each other simple honesty and trust
Faces of 2023
A major exhibition of L.A. artists and a portfolio of Hollywood’s finest actors of the year coalesce in a collaboration of creativity
The Lion in Winter
Directing great Martin Scorsese looks back on his career and ahead to his next act
Visionaries Envisioned
The year’s most thought-provoking filmmakers captured by one of our time’s most treasured photographers
Cinemascapes
Artist Marco Walker blends nostalgia for postmodern iconography and memories of Hollywood in a mash-up of the season’s best fashion
It’s Looking Up for Below The Line
2023 brought new diversity in the ranks of crafts that fall “below the line,” we were excited to have Kendall Bessent photograph the changing faces of the industry
Dressing The Part
Six celebrated costume designers weave their unique brand of enchantment into some of the year’s most fashion-forward films
Setting the Scene
A look at some of the most memorable cinematic tableaus of 2023 as interpreted by artist Konstantin Kakanias
Movie Couture
YSL creative director Anthony Vaccarello combines his love for cinema and his passion for fashion in collaborating with today’s great directors
How Hollywood Tried To Smash The Patriarchy in 2023
Salamishah Tillet sets off in search of pop culture’s state of feminism in Barbie, Poor Things and other films
All Dolled Up
Artist Laurie Simmons’ body of work uses dolls to explore themes of feminism, sexuality, body imagery and gender identity
Life, Death, Memory, Fate, Loss
Christian Boltanski explorations of emotion wrought by the Holocaust and the horrors of war profoundly resonate today more than ever
Be Careful What You Write, It Can Break Your Heart
Thirty-five years ago, Hollywood screenwriter Joe Eszterhas discovered that a film he wrote about a Hungarian war criminal, Music Box, was reflected in the real-life story about his own flesh and blood
Space Maker
Choctaw/Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson has spent decades fighting for Indigenous representation in the mainstream
Who Gets to Tell Indigenous Stories?
Recent films and a groundbreaking art exhibition illustrate how the Native American narrative is controlled by who holds the camera, who holds the pen. Tazbah Chavez investigates
The Agony and The Ecstasy of Mr. Chow
Jeffrey Deitch traces the extraordinary narrative arc of actor, restaurateur and artist Michael Chow
Found in Translation
Talent agent Thao Nguyen’s whole world is art, both at home with her personal collection and at CAA where she cultivates artists in pop culture
Diary of a Strike
Sharon Waxman chronicles the SAG-AFTRA and WGA labor disputes of 2023 that put tens of thousands of people out of work for more than half the year. The psychological impact was as great as the economic one
Where Art & Film Collide
LACMA’s Art+Film galas have melded the worlds of fine art and film in L.A.’s biggest annual cultural event. Creating that alchemy took the vision of museum director Michael Govan
Hammer’s Hometown Heros
The Hammer’s “Made In L.A. 2023: Acts of Living” celebrated the best of the city’s art scene
The Last Picture
Frieze takes a drive through Los Angeles with artist Sharif Farrag
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