It’s unbelievable that our opening is only a few days away. We learned a whole new love language for this collaboration. We hope it’s as meaningful to you as it was for us!
Robert Russell and Lisa Edelstein: A Palace in Time
The Skirball Museum
Opening May 20th until September 6th
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❤️Curated by @vickiphungsmith ❤️
#LongStoryShort creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg reflects on how his storytelling has evolved since his breakout success #BoJackHorseman, noting a greater confidence today in balancing humor with emotional depth in his latest Netflix animated project.
New episode of Search for Meaning out now! The incredible Lisa Edelstein and Robert Russell join me in conversation. Listen now and be inspired. Link in bio.
We’ve collaborated on children, on building a home, and now on our two person show @skirball_la opening next week!
Robert Russell and Lisa Edelstein:
A Palace in Time
Skirball Museum
May 20th through til September 6th.
(The above pics were taken just before all our works were loaded up and headed to the museum.)
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LISA LISA LISA @lisaedelstein what can I say? You’re more than a handful!
Thank you Robert @robertrussellworks for lending yourself to the cause.
This show has been successful in every sense of the word and most of all fun. Lisa you are a dream to work with. Ever since that fateful day when we met talking on the panel discussing Judaism in visual culture I have felt spiritually connected to you! THANK YOU FOR BEING YOU! Let’s do it again sometime but firstly good luck at the Skirball @skirball_la Robert Russell and Lisa Edelstein: A Place in Time opens May 20th.
If you have not seen DAVKA which is closing today April 25th at 6pm then look at the images in the slides.
2-3. Mother 2024 (that’s little Lisa on the right)
4-5. Monday was D-Day, 2026 (that’s little Robert)
6. Edelstein’s Fish Market
7. Ladies that Luncheon, 2025
8. The Hug, 2026
9. Public Display of Affection, 2025
10. Lorraine, 2025
11. Lizzie gets her Mitzvah, 2025
12. Smoke Break, 2025
13. Sally is Not A Morning Person, 2025
14-15. Lucky Strike, 2025
16-17. Dave, 2025
18. No Such Thing as Too Tan, 2026
19. A Difficult Day for a Picture, 2025
20. Family Secrets, 2025
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Had a screening and q&a for the awesome and hilarious LONG STORY SHORT on @netflix ! If you haven’t seen it, check it out! If you don’t like the way I look in real life you’ll be happy to meet my character Naomi! If you do like the way I generally look then a quick thank you to the wonderful beauty team of @justinmayfieldart and @jeanieduronslet for helping me bring out the best I got!!! 🩷🩷🩷🩷 @noelbright@bergraphaelf0db 🩷🩷🩷🩷
@lisaedelstein exhibition walkthrough ✨ On view through April 25
🎨 Lisa Edelstein: DAVKA
🗓 Mar 12–Apr 25, 2025
📍 A Hug From The Art World
Lisa Edelstein’s exhibition DAVKA at A Hug From The Art World in New York features fifteen new watercolor paintings based on archival family photographs. Edelstein transforms snapshots from her Jewish family history into cinematic, domestic scenes that explore memory, diaspora, multigenerational life, and cultural identity. The works combine humor, tension, and storytelling, using watercolor to evoke the softness and ambiguity of remembered moments.
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From screen to canvas, @lisaedelstein steps into a nostalgic medium.
On the heels of DAVKA, her new solo exhibition at A Hug From The Art World, Edelstein reflects on transforming family archives into intimate relics — where memory, diaspora, and a touch of humor collide.
We sat down with the beloved actress to talk storytelling across mediums, her favorite things about NYC, and what is next for her.
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Download Tape to stay in the know. Link in bio.
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Wonderful day last week with supporters of the Skirball Museum anticipating Lisa Edelstein and Robert Russell’s upcoming two person show opening May 20th at the Skirball here in Los Angeles!
About the Exhibition
Robert Russell and Lisa Edelstein: A Palace in Time invites visitors to reflect on how they spend their time–in the moments when they are celebrating, grieving, and all the small moments in between. Drawing inspiration from Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel’s description of the Sabbath as “a palace in time,” this exhibition brings together new paintings by Los Angeles-based artists and married partners Russell and Edelstein that hold up moments and memories of joy and loss–ever-present in Jewish family traditions and community gatherings.
Robert Russell’s luminous still lifes portray Jewish ritual objects—Kiddush cups and yahrzeit candles—removed from their context and histories. Painted in his signature soft-focus style, the works shimmer with beauty while resonating with absence. They prompt reflection on what is remembered, what is lost, and how cultural traditions endures.
In dialogue, Lisa Edelstein presents paintings inspired by her own family photographs, capturing scenes of Jewish domestic life in 1970s suburban New Jersey. Her portraits of multigenerational gatherings, richly patterned interiors, and fleeting moments of affection evoke a tender meditation on diaspora, belonging, and the small rituals that shape identity.
Together, Russell and Edelstein offer a moving portrait of Jewish life—private and communal, sacred and ordinary, past and present—that is transformed through the act of witness, reflection, and celebration. The exhibition becomes a contemporary “palace in time” where memory, ritual, and intimacy coexist.
Curatorial Acknowledgments
This exhibition is organized by the Skirball Cultural Center Curator Vicki Phung Smith.
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