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12 September 2011

Eiko & Koma’s “Water” @ Skirball Center

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Eiko & Koma’s special and intimate outdoor performance of “Water” Sunday night at the Skirball is captured in this series of haunting and true photographs by photographer Myra. [...]

28 April 2011

What a guy! Ehrich Weiss, a.k.a. Harry Houdini

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There is something for everyone in the saga of Harry Houdini, the Budapest-born, Appleton, Wisconsin-raised obsessed son of a Rabbi. [...]

3 March 2011

Harry Houdini, who he? See: Skirball Center

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Houdini: Art and Magic at the Skirball Center opening in April traces magician and escape artist Harry Houdini’s evolution from fledgling circus performer in the 1890s, to stage magician at the turn of the twentieth century, to star of stage and film. [...]

30 January 2011

Kalman show closing soon at Skirball

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The whimsical flotsam and jetsam of the graphic designer, magazine illustrator, children’s book writer and tchotchke collector Maira Kalman is on view at the Skirball Center through February 13. [...]

19 May 2010

George Segal @ Skirball Center

Now on view at the Skirball Center, where they run top-notch exhibitions, is “The Expulsion,” an amazing installed tableau of Adam and Eve driven from Garden of Eden created in 1986 by artist George Segal. The artist, a major player in early pop art, passed away in 2000.

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