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The Skirball Cultural Center presents this look at the historical and cultural roots of the Jewish picture book. Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books features a colorful array of more than 100 original illustrations and texts from picture book classics and popular favorites. The exhibition guides audiences through the history of Jewish [...]

OCTOBER SHADOWS – an exhibition of Halloween-themed artwork – returns for another round of tricks and treats from some of today’s most talented artists. Gallery Nucleus owner Ben Zhu and his crew have conjured a great group of artists, including several from previous shows, such as Rick Baker, William Stout, Gris Grimly, Adam Rex, William [...]

David Del Valle takes you on a guided tour of this exhibition of posters, stills, and lobby cards from films produced and directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price, and based on the tales and poems of Edgar Allan Poe. Fans of the Corman-Price-Poe films should get a kick out of the visuals and commentary, and non-fans will get a glimpse at what makes these films interesting.This is the fourth in a series of videos I shot at drkrm, a gallery in Los Angeles. The previous exhibitions were Haunted Hacienda (Mexican horror movies), Beefcake Babylon (gladiators and sword-&-sorcery), and Performance (director Nicolas Roeg’s movies starring Mick Jagger and David Bowie).

The Nevermore exhibit took place back in October of 2006; unfortunately, I was busy covering the Screamfest festival in Hollywood at that time, so I was not able to get the video edited and posted while the exhibition was still running. Since then it’s sat on limbo, but there is now talk of a similar gallery showing in San Francisco, and David has a book coming out in the U.K. on the subject of the Poe films, so the timing seems right again to post this now.

October Shadows returns! Presented by Creature Features, this year’s annual celebration of Halloween art will be held at the Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, California beginning October 10th. Every Halloween season, October Shadows showcases the work of artists from the fields of fine art, illustration, comics, film, TV and animation- all to celebrate the spirit spirit of All Hallow’s Eve.

This exhibition of the Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, presented in partnership with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, offers stills, posters and other artwork from Japanese animated films and television shows – everything from POKEMON  to DRAGONBALL Z, from SAILOR MOON to Katsuhiro Otomo’s groundbreaking 1988 science-fiction feature AKIRA.
From the official website:
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The Hammer Museum presents an exhibition of artwork related to witchcraft and sorcery. Concurrent with the exhibtion is a series of three screenings, entitled “The Witching Hour,” which includes DAY OF WRATH, HAXEN, and a set of short subjects titled DANSE MACABRE. This is the second exhibition in Houseguest, a new series in which artist [...]

Location: Skirball Cultural Center 2701 North Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049 Tel: (310) 440-4500
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Description: Skirball offers this event in conjunction with their Golden Age of Comic Book exhibition. Join staff educator Michael Fritzen for an exploration of ZAP! POW! BAM! The Superhero: The Golden Age of Comic Books, 1938-1950. After drawing inspiration from [...]

Location: Skirball Cultural Center 2701 North Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049 Tel: (310) 440-4500
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Description: Calling all Superheroes! Grab your capes, masks, and sleeping bags, and join up for the Skirball’s first-ever overnight family getaway at the Skirball, offering kids and grown-ups an exclusive, up-close-and-personal look at the exhibition ZAP! POW! BAM! [...]

Batcycle (Collection of Margie and Robert E. Petersen)
The Skirball Center presents “Lights, Camera, Action: Comic Book Heroes of Film and Television.” From their website:
“The Skirball has organized an exclusive companion exhibition to ZAP! POW! BAM! that explores the long connection between comic book heroes and the moving image. These characters have been a vital part [...]

Superman #14. © DC Comics. All rights reserved.
The Skirball Cultural Center presents “ZAP! POW! BAM! The Golden Age of Comic Books, 1938-1950.” From their website:
“Through never-before exhibited art and objects culled from private and institutional collections, ZAP! POW! BAM! The Superhero: The Golden Age of Comic Books, 1938-1950 explores the genesis of cultural icons [...]

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences is hosting an exhibition of material from the films of Alfred Hitchcock this month. The basic premise seems to be to “prove” that Hitchock was not an auteur but a collaborative artist; of course, the two terms are not mutually exclusive, but the exhibition sounds interesting anyway. [...]

October Shadows is a fantastic exhibition of Halloween-themed art, on display at Oscar-winning makeup artist Rick Baker’s Cinovation studio in Glendale. We attended the opening night reception on Friday, October 13. Check out our video report below.

The exhibit last through Halloween, but you better hurry – several of the works on display in the video [...]

Our old friends at Drkrm, the gallery that hosted horror-themed showings such as Haunted Hacienda and Nevermore, are at it again, with an exhibition scheduled for this month that will feature allegedly authentic photographs from a haunted house. There will be an opening night reception from 7:00pm to midnight on Saturday, October 27, with the [...]