In a first-time collaboration, the McNay Art Museum and Texas Performing Arts join together to debut six rare hand-painted, sound-stage backdrops from Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) Studios alongside ...

Lighting technician Greg Nadal moves equipment in between backdrops from "Someone to Watch Over Me" and "The House With a Clock in Its Walls" inside the Scenic Arts building at Sony Pictures Studios. ...

BOCA RATON, Fla. — Hollywood's iconic larger-than-life scenic backdrops are going to be on display at an exhibit opening at the Boca Raton Museum of Art on Wednesday. "The 22 backdrops we have... all ...

Hand-painted backdrops from 'The Sound of Music,' 'Singin’ in the Rain' and other classics enjoy the spotlight in a just-opened show at South Florida’s Boca Raton Museum of Art. By Laurie Brookins ...

A new exhibition in Florida is bringing together 22 mammoth backdrops used in classic studio films and celebrating the overlooked artists who created them Casual movie-goers and cinema obsessives ...

The painted movie backdrop is a dying art, obviated by the rise of the green screen. But there’s still something enchanting about those old Hollywood matte paintings; they lent a theatrical tone and ...

It’s a celebration of cinematic fakery. 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 ...

The Theatre Museum of Repertoire Americana in Mount Pleasant has been open for more than 50 years. Its collection of memorabilia and scenic pieces span the late 1800s to early 1900s, and it’s believed ...

Scenic artist Don Hanson working on recreating a landscape by Albert Bierstadt for the 2003 film The Last Samurai (courtesy Jonathan Williams Collection, via Regan Arts) When backdrop painters were ...

Remember the evening panorama over Central Park in the original “Ghostbusters” from 1984? And the dramatic Manhattan skyline from the 1949 film of “The Fountainhead”? In both movies, painted backings ...