Two By Two By Tinsletown
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Noah's ark is landing in Los Angeles. These pics from a new exhibition at the Skirball Center.
Some view a strip of tire tread as trash. Brooklyn-based artist and puppeteer Chris Green envisions a crocodile. Wind turbines are zebra haunches. Pink flamingos arise from an amalgam of wood and bamboo, combs, spools of thread, flea market purses and plastic fly swatters.
Shaped by Green's fertile imagination, the oddly lifelike critters are among the many inhabitants of "Noah's Ark," a new play-oriented, hands-on, animal-centric realization of the flood story opening June 26 at the Skirball Cultural Center.Five years in the making, the 8,000-square-foot, $5-million, non-religious permanent installation is a deliberate redefinition of the Jewish heritage institution as a destination attraction for families of all backgrounds, expanding the center's big-tent philosophy, says Uri D. Herscher, founding president and chief executive.
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