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The weather and leaves are starting to change, and so is the set of exhibitions at the Skirball Cultural Center! To celebrate the opening of three new exhibitions on October 17, visitors are invited to stop by throughout the day to explore the galleries and enjoy offerings for FREE. And yes… there’s A LOT to check out.
Headlining Skirball’s fall lineup is the U.S. debut of Diane von Furstenberg: Woman Before Fashion (on view through August 31, 2025). Woman Before Fashion offers an expansive, multidisciplinary experience featuring sixty pieces drawn from the DVF archives alongside interviews and scholarly essays that detail the iconic designer’s career from the 1970s to the present day. The Skirball’s presentation of this exhibition also adds new images and audio that shed light on von Furstenberg’s personal biography as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor and a war refugee, offering additional perspective on the factors that shaped her life and work.
Next, On the National Language: The Poetry of America’s Endangered Tongues (on view through March 2, 2025) spotlights languages at risk of disappearing and on those helping to keep them alive. Here you will find forty-six portraits of speakers and students of endangered languages living in the U.S.—from a Tongva speaker in Los Angeles to a Yiddish speaker in Montana.
Finally, Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time, and Technology (on view through March 2, 2025 as part of Getty’s PST ART initiative) examines the timeless power of trees and their importance in Jewish culture while utilizing Jewish texts and traditions to re-examine human narratives and their relationship to nature. Artists Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg have drawn inspiration from dendrochronology (the science of tree-ring dating) to create six tree-ring sculptures that reimagine past and collective futures in new ways. As part of the exhibition, a video portrait of Los Angeles built using open-source ecology datasets invites visitors to create personal tree tributes using AI software.
For the opening celebration, the museum will offer free admission all day long. Visitors can catch spotlight tours with artists and curators throughout the afternoon, experience the Jewish fall harvest festival of Sukkot, or share some sips and snacks. The celebration culminates with evening remarks from the Skirball team and a few special guests.
To reserve tickets, you can go here and grab slots for either the daytime opening hours (noon to 5 p.m.) or after hours (6 to 9 p.m.). Onsite parking is free on the celebration day, and if you want to get there by Metro, you can take line 761 to Sepulveda / Skirball Center Drive.
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