In Los Angeles, the historic May Company Building (1939) will be turned into a museum for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has owned the Art Deco building at Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue—home of the May Company department store from 1939 to 1993—for almost 20 years, but has never quite known what to do with it. And the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been trying to build a museum for decades. The two institutions have now formed an alliance to solve those problems.
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