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| Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, cover of Captain America #1, 1941 |
Where would Hollywood be without comic book artist Jack Kirby (1917-1994)? Known as the King of Comics, Kirby was both a prolific creator of superhero franchises and "a proud family man whose Jewish faith remained important throughout his life." Kirby gets a retrospective at the Skirball Cultural Center this summer. "Jack Kirby: Heroes and Humanity" (May 1, 2025-TBA), organized by Patrick A. Reed and Ben Saunders, will show original superhero illustrations alongside rarely seen semi-abstractions that have lately garnered critical buzz.
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| Jack Kirby, Dream Machine, 1970-75. Collection of David Gold |
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As for the AMPAS museum next to LACMA, the Oscar people originally wanted to downplay the role of certain titans in early Hollywood because of their Jewish origins. Or an example of how contradictory today's politics have become.
Casual or unintentional prejudices, if not outright bigotries, manifest across political boundaries. Example: LACMA installing exhibits of contemporary artists not with other contemporary artists but instead next to artworks from people of the same racial-genetic-national origins is a patronizing form of segregation.
In almost every major museum, there are galleries devoted to Dutch painting of the 16th century, Italian painting from the 15th century, or French painting from the NeoClassical period.
Museums have always segregated works by national origin and de facto by racial origin.
It only becomes a problem for you when they put all the black artists in one place. Nothing unintentional about your bigotry.
> when they put all the black artists in
> one place.
LOL. Your severe paucity of sensible, rational and ethical thinking makes you the epitome of a racist-bigot.