The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures isn’t slated to open in Los Angeles until 2017, but it may already be planning one of its first shows. Though Academy Museum spokeswoman Morgan Kroll says it’s not confirmed yet, the Los Angeles Times reported this morning that the museum is a strong candidate to be one of the future stops for the traveling exhibition “What’s Up Doc? The Animation Art of Chuck Jones,” which will launch a five-year, 13-city tour at the Museum of the Moving Image in Long Island City on July 19.
The exhibition will feature all of Jones’s iconic characters, including Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote, Roadrunner, and many others from the Warner Brothers gang. The exhibition plans to screen 23 of his animated films in “wall-size projections” and display over 125 drawings, storyboards, photographs, and other ephemera, which show the animator’s creative and collaborative process. Jones’s short films were nominated for Academy Awards a total of nine times and in 1996 Jones was given an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement. He was also a winner for best animated short in 1966 for the work, “The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics” and in 1950 for For “Scent-imental Reasons” and “So Much, So Little.”
Robert Patrick, marketing director for the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity in Costa Mesa, told the paper that the exhibition is tentatively schedule to run at the Academy Museum June 16 to September 23, 2018. The Academy Museum, the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity, and the Museum of the Moving Image are the organizers of the exhibition’s tour, alongside the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. As of Friday morning, tours on the Smithsonian’s website only continued through January 2016 and included the Forth Worth Museum of Science and History and the EMP Museum in Seattle.
— Alanna Martinez (@lanna_martinez)
(Photo: Chuck Jones with Alan Light in Jones’s office, 1978, via Wikimedia Commons.)
