Bowers Museum President and CEO Dr. Peter C. Keller, who served the museum for three decades, was working on the debut of new exhibit when he died at the age of 75.
Virtual Events to Help Ring in the Lunar New Year
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Approximately 1.5 billion people across the globe are gearing up to celebrate one of the biggest holidays in East Asian cultures remotely, a far cry from the typical crowd-gathering festivities that usually accompany this day. Lunar New Year 2021 has arrived and the traditional forms of celebration are not as feasible with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
In Orange County, all three major Tet festivals have been canceled: the Little Saigon Westminster Tet Parade, the Little Saigon Tet Parade in Garden Grove, and the UVSA Tet Festival at the OC Fairgrounds. Organizers for all three events are hoping to bring back live festivities next year.
An Evening with Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
The Skirball presents an online discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and authors Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, whose book
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, inspired the Skirball s current online exhibition. The conversation and Q&A will be moderated by Eric Liu, co-founder and CEO of Citizen University. Signed books aare available for purchase at bronxriverbooks.com.
Artist Arshile Gorky, pictured here in childhood with his mother, inspired the collaborative film, They Will Take My Island. (Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Tuesday, Jan. 26; 4 p.m. PST
They Will Take My Island