'Fake Plastic Trees' Those reflections inspired Velkova's latest exhibit — which includes photographs of her in various poses set against the backdrop of quintessential Canadian landscapes.

Like many objects from classic films, most of the backdrops in the exhibition were rescued years ago from forgotten corners and basements in studio buildings, many by J.C. Backings, a Culver City ...

The exhibit is also a reminder of the dramatic backstory to these backdrops, drawn from more than 2,000 paintings that sat folded up in storage at MGM for decades, before being rescued in the ...

A new exhibition of vintage movie backdrops in Florida lets cinephiles clamber on Mount Rushmore with Cary Grant and gaze out at ancient Rome with Charlton Heston — all in a single afternoon.

So with the support of Texas Performing Arts and UT's College of Fine Arts, Maness was able to create "Behind the Scenes: The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop," an exhibit of 12 MGM backdrops painted ...

The exhibition is the brainchild of museum executive director Irvin Lippman, who was watching CBS Sunday Morning in February 2020 and caught a story that explored a renewed appreciation for the ...