When I was in Los Angeles last week, I spent a very enjoyable afternoon at the Skirball Center (located just a little north of the Getty Center in the Sepulveda Pass). The Center was built to celebrate Jewish contributions to American culture, and I was drawn there by an exhibit on early comic book creators, many of whom were Jewish (including Jerry Seigel & Joe Shuster who created Superman).
The comic book exhibit was quite good, with lots of original art (though they didn't allow pictures of that, so I don't have any examples to share) and samples of work from greats like Will Eisner, Lou Fine, Mort Meskin, Jerry Robinson, Mac Raboy, and many others.
But that wasn't all there was to the Skirball Center. They have a large exhibit devoted to Noah's Ark, which is a huge room with the frame of a large ship, filled with all kinds of animal sculptures, models, and toys. Above is one of a rather weird looking bird; below, a giraffe and others peeping out the portholes:
Here's one more of an elephant and his zebra friend (whose haunches can be spun for a rather dizzying effect:
There was also a nice historical exhibit on the various stages of the Jewish diaspora and how they spread both physically and culturally around the world. I was expecting to spend forty-five minutes or so looking at the comic related stuff, and ended up being there for over two hours in order to see everything else, and it was definitely worth it!
The comic book exhibit was quite good, with lots of original art (though they didn't allow pictures of that, so I don't have any examples to share) and samples of work from greats like Will Eisner, Lou Fine, Mort Meskin, Jerry Robinson, Mac Raboy, and many others.
But that wasn't all there was to the Skirball Center. They have a large exhibit devoted to Noah's Ark, which is a huge room with the frame of a large ship, filled with all kinds of animal sculptures, models, and toys. Above is one of a rather weird looking bird; below, a giraffe and others peeping out the portholes:
Here's one more of an elephant and his zebra friend (whose haunches can be spun for a rather dizzying effect:
There was also a nice historical exhibit on the various stages of the Jewish diaspora and how they spread both physically and culturally around the world. I was expecting to spend forty-five minutes or so looking at the comic related stuff, and ended up being there for over two hours in order to see everything else, and it was definitely worth it!
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