Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters

Following tributes to Tim Burton and Stanley Kubrick, the creator of Pan’s Labyrith, Hellboy and Crimson Peak receives his “first museum retrospective” in LACMA’s latest exhibit, “Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters” (Aug. 1-Nov. 27). The display draws on both the museum’s archive and the director’s personal collection, including items taken from his home in Los Angeles in Westlake Village known as Bleak House. Among the approximately 500 objects are sculpture, paintings, prints, photographs, costumes, ancient artifacts, notebooks, maquettes and film, which are organized into eight themed sections: “Childhood and Innocence”; “Victoriana”; “Rain Room”; “Magic, Alchemy, and the Occult”; “Movies, Comics, Pop Culture”; “Frankenstein and Horror”; “Freaks and Monsters”; and “Death and the Afterlife.”