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Skirball Cultural Center Presents the Worldwide Debut of "Jack Kirby: Heroes and Humanity"

… RELEASE: April 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM Media Contacts: Laura B. Cohen, LC Media, lcmediapr@gmail.com , (310) 867-3897 Download the press release Skirball Cultural Center Presents the Worldwide … exhibition opens to the public on Thursday, May 1, 2025, and will be on view through March 1, 2026. Jack Kirby created some of the best-known characters in the history of American comics … the characters, stories, and universes he created,” said Skirball President and Chief Executive Officer, Jessie Kornberg . “Whether it’s Captain America fighting Nazis, the X-Men protecting a …
Program

An Evening with Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Now streaming on YouTube

… Public Programs Words and Ideas Tuesday, January 26, 2021, 6:00 pm Tuesday, January 26, 2021 Now streaming on YouTube Tightrope: Americans … moderated by Eric Liu , Co-Founder and CEO of Citizen University, Kristof and WuDunn provide a compassionate look at the many challenges facing the American public and offer ideas for how we might forge a new path forward. Signed books available for purchase …
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Monajat and The Nightingale of Iran

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

… Public Programs Music Tuesday, September 17, 2024, 7:30–9:30 pm Tuesday, September 17, 2024 Galeet and Danielle Dardashti share the story of their … Younes Dardashti. About the Program Monajat is Galeet Dardashti’s powerful album of original compositions featuring her singing with remixed samples of her grandfather, Younes Dardashti—one … Podcast of 2024. It was an official selection of the June 2024 Tribeca Festival Creators Market. Danielle & Galeet were also included by the New York Jewish Week as 2024 “36 to Watch” …
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Skirball Cultural Center unveils details for West Coast debut of This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers from the Civil Rights Movement

… FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 30, 2023 at 12:00 PM Media Contacts: Laura B. Cohen, LC Media, lcmediapr@gmail.com , (310) 867-3897 Download the press release Skirball Cultural Center unveils details for … the enduring fight for voting rights taking place in Los Angeles and across the country today, offering a way forward as our society continues to grapple with anti-Black violence and broad …
Exhibition

Together for Good: Caron Tabb and the Quilting Corner

November 17, 2022–March 12, 2023

… November 17, 2022–March 12, 2023 See Caron Tabb’s dramatic work Fabric of Humanity—Repairing My World alongside an all-ages community quilt-making activity. About the Exhibition See Caron Tabb’s dramatic work Fabric of … by modern-day interpretations of tikkun olam —a Jewish concept grounded in social justice and goodwill that translates to “repair of the world”—the work evokes the beauty and strength of …
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Skirball Cultural Center unveils two exhibitions opening May 4, 2023

… RELEASE: February 2, 2023 at 12:00 PM Media Contacts: Laura B. Cohen, LC Media, lcmediapr@gmail.com , (310) 867-3897 Emma Jacobson-Sive, EJS Media, emma@ejs-media.com , (323) 842-2064 Download … the Jewish Museum Milwaukee and expanded by the Skirball to include film costumes, posters, artwork, Oscar® statuettes, and more, this exhibition examines the history and impact of … General; $9 Seniors, Full-Time Students, and Children over 12; $7 Children 2–12. Together for Good: Caron Tabb and the Quilting Corner and Chloë Bass: Wayfinding are included with admission …
Diane von Furstenberg: Woman Before Fashion Exhibition Details

… tops she spotted ballerinas wearing in Paris. Her first wrap was in fact a top, which she would come to combine with a skirt after seeing one of her customers wear them together. To this … inspiration through three lenses: nature, art, and freedom. Nature is an important motif in her work and playful animal skins and plant life have been featured in her designs throughout her … her brand and achieved remarkable success: selling millions of dresses, expanding to new markets and products, and garnering international acclaim. A pivotal factor in her commercial …
Program

Recipes from the American South: A Conversation with Michael W. Twitty

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

… American South journeys from the Louisiana Bayou to the Chesapeake Bay, showcasing more than 260 of the region’s most beloved dishes. Discover both iconic dishes and lesser-known … in Oklahoma City, OK. Raised in Paris, Texas, Hancock earned his BFA from Texas A&M University, Commerce, and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia. For … a complex amalgamation of characters and plots possessing universal concepts of light and dark, good and evil, and all the grey in between. Hancock’s work is in the permanent collections of …
2024–25 Recipient of The Friedman Prize

… a Superman ghost artist’s master’s thesis, Jerry Siegel’s unpublished memoir, photographs, comic art, children’s costumes, stand-up comedy, and pseudoscientific discourse of the male body … signifying masculinity and heroism that movie stars and superheroes have portrayed since the 1930s is not “universal” but deeply rooted in ideas of white Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) … and “‘were trying to ‘pass’” with their fiction. Eisner admitted to the fanzine Comic Book Marketplace in 2004 that “the characters we made were Gentile.” Amending his initial description …
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Skirball Movie Group: Votes and Coats

Tuesdays, October 1–November 12, 2024 (ONLINE)

… Classes Tuesday, October 1, 2024, 7:30–9:00 pm|Tuesday, October 15, 2024, 7:30–9:00 pm|Tuesday, October 29, 2024, 7:30–9:00 … attire contributes to the creation of a powerful political statement. No (2012) : Uncover the marketing campaign that toppled a dictatorship. The Manchurian Candidate (1962) : Analyze Cold … military coup aesthetics in American democracy. Participants will have an opportunity to recommend and bring other films into our discussions. Facilitator: Theodore Rand has led previous …