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1 Anne Ellegood as Senior Curator. Previously, but in having new eyes” —m a r c e l p r o u s t Fogle was the curator of contemporary art at the Carnegie Museum of Art in New We love summer here at the Hammer. As the days get longer In the permanent collection galleries, the exhibition Pittsburgh and Ellegood was curator and warmer our courtyard comes alive with our new cafe and Second Nature: The Valentine-Adelson Collection at the of contemporary art at the Hirshhorn Acquisition an amazing slate of free public programs. This summer will Hammer highlights works of sculpture generously donated Museum and Sculpture Garden in We are very pleased about our purchase of Dali and Me (2006) by Llyn Foulkes, see the return of the ever-popular Also I Like to Rock and by Dean Valentine and Amy Adelson. Focused on work by Washington, D.C. Fogle will oversee which was featured in the recent exhibition Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from L.A. JazzPop series. The Billy Wilder Theatre will host readings of emerging artists in Los Angeles from 1995 to the present, the Hammer’s curatorial and education Foulkes (b. 1934) has been a major figure in the Los Angeles art scene since his new fiction and poetry, screenings of documentaries, dance this collection meaningfully expands and enhances the departments—developing and organizing first solo exhibition in 1961 at the Ferus Gallery and a solo show at the Pasadena on film, shorts and sci-fi. Our Gallery Six space will become a Hammer’s Contemporary Collection. exhibitions, supervising the educational Art Museum in 1962. Since then he has been influential to several generations workshop for teenagers with Tabletop Moviemaking and we’ll and public programs, building the of artists working in L.A. This painting demonstrates his affinity for taking found bring back, by popular demand an amazingly fun evening, Summer is a time when not only the programs spill out into Hammer Contemporary Collection, and objects such as upholstery, hair, teeth, and fragments of real clothing, and working Open Projector Night, a cross between the Gong Show and the courtyard but we will also be exhibiting art from our overseeing the Hammer’s artist residency them into the painted surface. The work incorporates a self portrait, as most of his open-mic night for aspiring short filmmakers. permanent collection there too—watch for works by Jennifer program and artist council. Ellegood will pieces do, and merges his image with that of one of his heroes, Salvador Dalí. Steinkamp, Sam Durant, and Nathan Mabry. We look forward organize large-scale exhibitions as well In the galleries you will find work ranging from old master to seeing all of you here throughout the summer—bring a as oversee Hammer Projects, a series of prints and masterpieces, to photography and sculpture friend and stay tuned through our amazing new website. installations and exhibitions by emerging from some of LA’s finest contemporary artists as well www.hammer.ucla.edu artists from Los Angeles, the United States, The Hammer Museum is deeply grateful to the following individuals, foundations, as installations that transport you to the streets and and abroad. Previously overseen by curator and corporations for their gifts/promised gifts/pending gifts of art as well as Annie Philbin countryside of China. Our main attraction this summer James Elaine, Hammer Projects will be acquisition funds since January 1, 2009, for the Hammer Contemporary Collection Director however will be the first full-scale survey exhibition of celebrating its 10-year anniversary in and the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts. the work of LA-based artist Larry Johnson. While Johnson’s the fall of 2009. work is relatively unknown outside of art world circles, he is Catherine Glynn Benkaim / Members of CARTA / Tony Ganz / Larry Johnson / Above: Left–Right: Douglas Fogle (Photo courtesy Edward and Agnes Lee / Brenda R. Potter / Michael Shapiro / Jean Stein considered to be an “artist’s artist”— extremely influential the Carnegie Museum of Art); Anne Ellegood (Photo to his peers and many young artists working today. His courtesy the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden); Llyn Foulkes. Dali and Me (detail), 2006. The Museum also thanks the members of the Hammer Board of Overseers, who have photographic work with its cutting cultural commentary is Mixed media. 33 x 26 in. (83.8 x 66 cm). Hammer quintessentially of and about Los Angeles and we very much Museum, Los Angeles. Purchase. supported the Hammer Contemporary Collection since its inception, and the Friends of the Graphic Arts, whose dues support Grunwald Center acquisitions. look forward to giving it the attention that is long overdue. right: Director Ann Philbin. 1 exhibitions 4 before getting bustedbythe cops. Artistic ambition, Theater onWesternCinema Avenuethe at shown have might that works William E.Jones,features This filmseries and devised by LarryJohnson Larry johnsonfilmseries: Elective Affinities screenings RUSSELL FERGUSON SUNDAY, JUNE21,3PM CURATOR walkthrough Related programs The catalogispublishedwiththeassistanceof TheGettyFoundation. to hismost recent worksfeaturing cartoonanimals. works through hiswell-known winter landscapes, and on his entire career ispresented, from hisearlytext-based advertising. Arange of Johnson’s workfrom throughout as animation, graphic design, commercial illustration, and and draws onstylistic elements taken from sources such generation. He makes useof asometimes bitterhumor always beenamong the most respected artistsof his his masters of fine arts from CalArtsin1984,and he has and fantasies bumpupagainst reality. Johnson received celebrity, especially the edges of thatworld, where aspirations Much of hisworkexplores the themes of Hollywood and culture, animation, gay subcultures, andsurface withwittyand attimes cuttingmoderne references topopular architecture. culture more broadly. He combines animmaculate glossy same time forms apenetrating commentary onAmerican work is quintessentially of and about Los Angeles but at the Johnson’s entire career, from 1983tothe present. Johnson’s Art at UCLA and features 60 color photographs, spanning Hammer adjunct curator and chairof the Department of Johnson. The exhibition iscurated byRussellFerguson, exhibition of workbythe LosAngeles–based artistLarry The Hammer Museum presents the firstfull-scalesurvey JUNE 21–SEPTember6,2009 johnson larry
Joe Sola’sRidingwithAdult VideoPerformers. Most, adocumentary aboutHugh Hefner; and is GoodNudes;Pat Rocco’s Nude GroovyGuy;The screened include ThePaul LyndeShow:NoNudes On the final night, the short films and videos really canbeamusing. builds apleasure dome; amusement parks an exhibitionist finds hisaudience; atycoon The puritanhasatastefor rough trade; Tuesday, August25,7pm Nudes DescendingaStaircase short video, FilmMontages(for Peter Roehr). Imitation of Christ,preceded byWilliam E.Jones’s Warhol’s rarely seen “sexploitation” feature This evening features ascreening of Andy us all,tothe sound of ananalog synthesizer. run-amok children. High techsalvation awaits Brigid Polk shoot speed and bemoan their preppy, Nico reads Thomas à Kempis while Ondine and Tuesday, August18,7pm My OwnPrivateCrucifixion Untitled (Paul Rand’s Women , 1948). Sitting AroundTalking, and LarryJohnson’s Michel Auder’s video ACouplaWhiteFaggots Christopher Munch’s film TheHoursandTimes, two featurettes and averyrare short video: The firstscreening of the series presents rants and raves fillempty hours; words fail. A seduction does not go quiteasplanned; Tuesday, August11,7pm Chat Room colliding rather thanharmonizing. intermingle, with“art films” and “nudies” opportunism, and (of course)sexual desire Color photograph.46 Above: Larry Johnson.Untitled(AdmitNothing) , 1994. Edition of3.CollectionEdward Israel. x 58¾in.(116.8 x 147.3 147.3 c m). m).
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The Darker Second Nature Side of Light The Valentine-Adelson Collection at the Hammer Arts of Privacy, 1850–1900 July 19 – October 4, 2009
exhibitions April 5 – June 28, 2009 exhibitions this exhibition is Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington
1 THE THREE MUSEUM 1 For much of today’s public, the art of the late 19th century means impressionism, an art of the open air and the (3M) PROJECT café-concert, evoking the pleasure of the landscape and The Three M Project, conceived in 2004, is a series developed the city with its many entertainments. There is another by the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary side to the story, a discreet world of individual collecting Art, Chicago; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, in which prints, drawings, and small sculptures were to commission, organize, and co-present new works of art. kept aside in portfolios or stored away in cabinets. Here the experience of art was a private affair, and prints in The Three M Project is sponsored by particular were valued for their aesthetic spontaneity, probing social observation, and intimate psychological Urban China: Informal Cities suggestion. The exhibition includes small cabinet piece Through July 19, 2009 sculptures, illustrated books, and portfolios in addition to prints, Urban China: Informal Cities is the first U.S. exhibition of and is accompanied by a catalog with four illustrated essays. Urban China, the only magazine devoted to issues of urbanism The exhibition is curated by Peter Parshall, Curator of Old published in China. This installation includes a built environment Master Prints at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. of reclaimed construction materials; a massive wall graphic combining photographs, found images, numerical data, and maps; a Flash-based, user-navigable database of photographs; and a related programs selected collection of past issues of Urban China. The exhibition HAMMER READINGS is curated by Benjamin Godsill, Curatorial Associate, New Museum. Richard Howard Tuesday, June 2, 7PM related program (see pg 13) HAMMER LECTURE JIANG JUN & BENJAMIN GODSILl hammer lectures WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 7PM stephen berkman Jiang Jun, editor of Urban China magazine, and curator Since the early to mid-1990s, sculpture has developed as a particularly vital tuesday, june 16, 7pm Benjamin Godsill of the New Museum introduce a dynamic and inventive area of artistic practice in Los Angeles. This is the first public (see pg 16) multimedia presentation on the history of Urban China and presentation of a selection from the extraordinary gift by Dean Valentine and opposite: Left–Right: KATHE KOLLWITZ, AT THE CHURCH Hammer Presents the exhibition Urban China: Informal Cities. Godsill and Jiang Amy Adelson to the Hammer. The Valentine-Adelson Collection comprises more WALL (detail), 1893. Etching with drypoint. Plate will discuss the rapidly changing nature of Chinese cities and 52.2 x 13 cm, sheet 39 x 26 cm. National Gallery of american Magic-Lantern theater than 50 sculptures by 29 Los Angeles artists, made from 1995 to the present. Art, Washington, Rosenwald Collection; © Urban monday, june 22, 7pm what these alterations of space mean for forms of social control This collection includes many of the key works by this new generation of artists China / Underline Office / Jiang Jun; above: Won Ju Lim. and organization in contemporary China. The talk will be Schliemann’s Troy, 2001. Foamcore, plexiglas, still (see pg 24) and captures a significant moment in L.A. art-making that stands out for the projection and lamps. Overall: 204 x 144 x 60 in. accompanied by photographs, maps, and diagrams from abundance of handmade sculpture and the return of the consideration of the (518.2 x 365.8 x 152.4 cm). Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Gift of Dean Valentine and Amy Adelson. Courtesy Urban China’s extensive collection. Co-presented with the tangible object. The exhibition is curated by Douglas Fogle, Chief Curator and Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica. Urban Future Initiative, MAK Center for Art and Architecture Deputy Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at the Hammer. at the Schindler House. Special thanks to Sotheby’s. 1 p r o j e c t s 8 W Meet theEye,2009.V ideo, color,sound.Approx.7min.Courtesy thartist andSalon94,NewYork;opposit e: CharlesBurchfield.AnprilMoo d, 1946–1955. So longol,2007.Mix ed mdia(charoalandadhsivs).90½ Above: Left–Right: Wang Qingsong.Stillfromkyscraper,2008.DVD from35mmfilm.5:00 min.Courtesy ofthartist, andChinablu e Gallry, Beijing.NicHess. specially designed for the site. For the Hammer’s LobbyWall, Hess presents anew work a loosenarrative of worldscolliding and visions exploding. elaborate compositions he draws new connections and weaves understanding of familiar signs inconsumer culture. In his logos from avariety of sources, Hess makes usreevaluate our and icons and colors, bright drawings, own his Combining often borrowing logos from corporations and popularculture. graffiti artist, he turns everyday imagery into boldgraphics, composed almost entirely of masking tape. Like amaster Swiss artistNic Hess isknown for hisinventive wallworks Through November5,2009 Hess Nic visible. workers the without but process entire scaffolding. Using stop-action 35mmfilm, he captures the to builda35-meter high “skyscraper” outof gold-painted iron the countryside near Beijing during amonthlong production In Skyscraper, Qingsong employed30scaffolding workers from presents hisnewest work and firstfilm,Skyscraper(2008). and cultural issuesof a rapidly changing China. The Hammer his large-scale photographs thatexplore the political, social, Wang Qingsong isacontemporary Chinese artistknown for Through June14,2009 Wang Qingsong the Cityof LosAngeles, Departmentof Cultural Affairs, theDavidTeiger Curatorial Travel Fund,andFox EntertainmentGroup’s ArtsDevelopment Fee. Additional generous supportisprovided by theLosAngelesCountyArtsCommission,GoodWorks Foundation andLaura Donnelley, LAArtHouseFoundation, Hammer Projects ismadepossiblewithmajorgiftsfrom SusanBay-Nimoy andLeonard Nimoy andTheHorace W. GoldsmithFoundation. Hammer Projects isaseries of exhibitions focusing primarily onthe workof emerging artists. Hammer Pro atercolor and charoal. Whitney Museum ofAmric an Art, NewYork.Purchas e, withpartial funds fromMr.andrs.L awrence A.Flischman. jects x
118 in.(230 x 300cm).Courtesy thartist andTheProject, New York.AïdaRuilova. Stillfrom (SEE PAGE19) 7pm 9, June tuesday, AÏDA RUILOVA&rogercorman HAMMER CONVERSATION WEDNESDAY, JULY15,7PM NIC HESS Artist Talk Related programs through asignificantgrant from theJamesIrvine Foundation. initiated withfundingfrom theNimoy Foundation andissupported Hammer Museum.TheMuseum’s ArtistResidency Program was Hammer Projects: AïdaRuilova ispresented through aresidency atthe Residency Program, andthevideomakes itsdebut inthisexhibition. Meet theEye was produced aspartof theHammerMuseumsArtist Residency, featuring Karen Blackand Raymond Pettibon. a new video shot inLosAngeles aspartof her Hammer us wanting more. Thisexhibition debuts MeettheEye(2009), short narratives thatare never fullyresolved and alwaysleave recent longer workstake her gothic B-movie stylefurther, with with horror movies alwayshovers near the surface. Her more deftly manipulates sound and expression sothather fascination In her expressive and rhythmic films and videos, Aïda Ruilova June 16–September27,2009 Ruilova Aïda
Penney ArtCenter, Buffalo StateCollege This echibitionisorganized by the HammerMuseum,UCLA,incollaboration withtheBurchfield The catalogispublished withtheassistanceof theWyeth Foundation for American Art. Foundation. Lehman Robert the by provided is support Additional W. GoldsmithFoundation andGeorge Freeman, andTheFran andRayStarkFoundation.. Lynda andStewart Resnick.Itisalsomade possiblethrough thegenerosity of TheHorace Major supportfor HeatWaves inaSwamp isprovided by theLLWW Foundation and and the Burchfield Penney Center inBuffalo, New York. is scheduled totravel tothe Whitney Museum of American ArtinNew York City at other times one that is wholly unique, mystical, and visionary. This exhibition expressionistic light, attimes creating aclear-eyeddepiction of the worldand from hisbackyard, vistasnear hishome captured and imbuedwithhighly subject washisexperience of nature inhisimmediate surroundings—scenes Burchfield worked almost exclusively inwatercolor onpaper, and hisprimary ephemeral objects, including doodles, journals, scrapbooks,myriad and letters. together weaves also exhibition this paintings, oil and drawings, curated byartistRobertGober. Featuring more than eighty major watercolors, with HeatWaves inaSwamp:The Paintings of CharlesBurchfield,anexhibition Center, reexamines the workof American artistCharlesBurchfield (1893–1967) This fall the Hammer Museum, in conjunction with the Burchfield Penney Art October 4,2009–January3,2010 Gober Robert by Curated The Paintings ofCharlesBurchfield Hea Upcoming Exhibitions t Wa ves inaS w amp
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Eskimo Hunter fuzz of My Bloody Valentine and Spiritualized. the symphonic electronics of ELO, and the shoegazer combining the stacked harmonies of the Beach Boys, Eskimo Hunter crafts auniquebrand of music by Weaving layered melodies withrhythm and sounds, Eskimo Hunter add uptoaninfectiouseuphoria. —Buzzbands tambourines, myriad other percussion and big harmonies by Alex Ebert(ImaRobot).Horns, accordions, strings, Magnetic Zeros, a10-strong (or more)collectivefronted of Nowcollideinthemusicof EdwardSharpe&the The tribal psych-folk of Then andEdward Sharpe&TheMagneticZeros the dance-worthy pop The Ma Ed Thursday, July23,8pm interesting way.—Classical GeekTheatre post-punk, anddreampopclayinaverynon-blatant making amusicalsculpturewithpinchesof psychedelic, This issomehip,sultry, stimulatingstuff.Warpaint is Warpaint appealing—Los AngelesTimes make the likes of Modest Mouse and Arcade Fire so by complex arrangements and cathartic moments that “The band [hasa]feelfor anthemic ‘80srock shaded “favorite new band” in a recent Pitchfork feature. Grizzley Bear’sEdDroste calledForeign Bornhis Foreign Born F Thursday, July16,8pm oreign Born+Warp w ard ShrpeAND gnetic Zeros +
aint evocative melodies, offbeat harmonies, brilliant soloing, and dazzling group interplay. and adreamy country-blues twang. The music isinfused withHorvitz’ signature blend of acoustic piano-guitar-bass-drums quartet –bebopplayfulness tinged withabare popsensibility music inhis20yearsasa linchpin of Seattle’smusic scene. Sweeter ThantheDayishis Pianist, composerand bandleader Wayne hascreated Horvitz astaggeringly diversebody of which characterizehiscompositions, butconstantlyworking smallsurprises.—The Wire, UK On piano, Horvitz is economical yet lyrical, never venturing far Wafrom the strong melodic hooks Thursday August13,8pm critics’ “Bestof” listsfor 2008,including the NewYork Timesand TimeOutNewYork. and Anthony Braxton. Halvorson’s debut trio recording appeared prominently onmanyjazz stillness and visceral rock attitude, cites influences asdiverseEric Dolphy, Jimi Hendrix whose compositions combine intricate song forms withmagnetic group improvisation, chamber with intensity and density, yetalsosimmers withclarityand focus. The young bandleader, Brooklyn-based guitaristMaryHalvorson shreds, and alsosurprises.Her music bristles generation. Thefutureof jazzguitarstartshere.—Troy Collins, AllAboutJazz Light yearsaheadof herpeers, (Halvorson)isthemostimpressive guitaristof her Mary Halvorson Trio Thursday August6,8pm drummer JasonHarnell,and guitarist Jamie Rosenn. Anthony Wilson,saxophonist Walter Smith, pianist JoeBagg,trumpeterBrianSwartz, compositions and superb musicianship of some of its core members, including guitarist pianist GaryFukushimaand saxophonist Matt Otto,the LAJCshowcases the imaginative who represent some of the bestand brightest voices inmusic today. Co-founded by The LAJazzCollective boaststhe creative outputof more thanadozen area jazzartists this time, theLAJChasflippedonlights. Checkitout. —Brick Wahl, LAWeekly can behardtofind,playinglittlejointsonunder-publicizednights around downtown, but …L.A.’s newjazzondisplay, withsomefineveterancompanyinthemix.Theyoungcats L Thursday July30,8pm Organized by SanFrancisco musicianandcurator LisaMezzacappa. our contemporary moment. KJAZZ 88.1isthe official media sponsor for thisseries. electric jazz,moody country bluesand gutbucket soul,tore-imagine jazzasamusic of performances. JAZZPOP draws oninfluences as far-ranging asjagged noise rock, impressionistic of jazzwithout boundaries. Veteran artistsand boldnew voices present aseries of free JAZZPOP, now initsfourth year, returns tothe Hammer courtyard for three Thursdays J os AngelesJ z z a yne Horvitz’ SweeterThan theDay POP azz C ollective
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NEW AMERICAN WRITING Poetry Pen USA Emerging Voices This series of contemporary fiction and poetry readings is organized by Benjamin Weissman, author of two books of short A series of readings organized and hosted by Stephen Wednesday, July 22, 7pm fiction, most recentlyHeadless , and professor of creative writing at Art Center College of Design and Otis College of Art and Design. Yenser, poet and professor at UCLA and author of A Emerging Voices is a literary mentorship program designed Boundless Field: American Poetry at Large and Blue Guide. Each reading is followed by a book signing by the author in the Hammer Bookstore. to launch potential professional writers from underserved communities. Join us in a reading by this year’s crop of This series is made possible, in part, with support from Bronya and Andrew Galef. RICHARD HOWARD talented writers (three poets, three fiction writers, and two TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 7PM memoirists) as they celebrate the completion of a yearlong In conjunction with The Darker Side of Light, an exhibition mentorship, including Author Evenings, workshops, master Denis Johnson Francisco Goldman of late 19th-century prints that explores such themes as classes, courses at UCLA Extension, lectures, public readings, Sunday, June 28, 5pm Tuesday, July 28, 7pm abjection, obsession, privacy, and possession, Richard and informal sessions with mentors. The eight recipients Denis Johnson is the author of several novels, plays, Francisco Goldman’s first novel, The Long Night of White Howard reads from his poems, which have of the 2009 Emerging Voices Fellowship are Erika Ayon, short stories, and books of verse. His novel Tree of Smoke Chickens, won the 1993 Sun Kaufman Prize for First Fiction garnered honors including the Pulitzer Prize and a John Boucher, Rachelle Cruz, Thi Dao, Parnaz Foroutan, received the 2007 National Book Award for fiction. In 1999 and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. His second MacArthur Fellowship, and from his translation of Sylvia Sukop, Marissa Tinloy, and Mehnaz Turner. Since its his short story collection Jesus’ Son was adapted into a novel, The Ordinary Seaman (1997), was a finalist for the Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal, which won the American inception nintey-one writers have completed the Emerging Voices film of the same title and was named a top 10 film of the PEN/Faulkner Award and The Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Book Award. Howard’s version of E. M. Cioran’s A Short Program. For more information, please visit www.penusa.org. year by The New York Times. Goldman’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New History of Decay received the PEN Translation Prize, and York Review of Books, Harper’s, and The New York Times. his book of poems entitled Without Saying is a nominee WELLS TOWER for the 2009 National Book Award. Wednesday, July 1, 7pm Benjamin Kunkel The recipient of two Pushcart Prizes and the Plimpton wednesday, August 26, 7pm UCLA Student Poetry Discovery Prize from The Paris Review, Wells Tower is Benjamin Kunkel is a founding editor of n+1 magazine Thursday, June 4, 7pm the author of Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, a and author of the novel Indecision, which was published Join us for readings by UCLA student poets, 2008–2009 collection of short fiction. Tower’s fiction and nonfiction in 14 languages. He writes literary criticism for Dissent, recipients of the following honors: the Fred and Edith Herman have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, GQ, The Paris The New Yorker, and the London Review of Books and Memorial Prize from the Academy of American Poets, Review, McSweeney’s, and The Washington Post. journalism for GQ. He recently completed a play. nominations for the statewide Ina Coolbrith Award, and Above: Left–right: Denis Johnson; Wells Tower; Francisco Goldman; Benjamin Kunkel; the Shirle Dorothy Robbins Creative Writing Awards. Richard Howard; PEN USA Emerging Voices Fellowship recipients.
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2 Tue 7pm Hammer Readings: Poetry (p. 13) 1 Wed 7pm Hammer Lectures (p. 6) 4 Tue 7pm Hammer Screenings (p. 24) Richard Howard Jiang Jun & Benjamin Godsill Seaview 4 Thu 7pm Hammer Readings: Poetry (p. 13) Hammer Readings: New American Writing (p. 12) 6 Thu 8pm Hammer Music: JazzPOP (p. 11) UCLA Student Poetry Wells Tower Mary Halvorson Trio
7 Sun 11am Family Flicks Film Series (p. 21) 2 Thu 8pm Hammer Music: Also I Like to Rock (p. 10) 9 Sun 12pm Hammer Kids (p. 20) Bugsy Malone Amazing Baby & Dazzler Script Surgery
9 Tue 7pm Hammer Conversations (p. 19) 7 Tue 7pm Hammer Panel: Footnotes And Headlines (p. 16) 11 Tue 7pm Larry Johnson Film Series: Elective Affinities Aïda Ruilova & Roger Corman Sister Corita Panel Discussion Chat Room 10 Wed 7pm Zócalo at the Hammer (p. 17) 8 Wed 7pm Aperture Panel (p. 17) 13 Thu 8pm Hammer Music: JazzPOP (p. 11) UCLA Film & Bob Wright Abstraction in Photography Wayne Horvitz’ Sweeter Than the Day 11 Thu 7pm Hammer Forum (p. 18) 9 Thu 8pm Hammer Music: Also I Like to Rock (p. 10) 16 Sun 11am Family Flicks Film Series (p. 21) Television Archive Everest & Red Cortez The Great American Bank Robbery The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T Three nights a week the Billy Wilder Theater is also the home 13 Sat 7pm Hammer Screenings: Dance Camera West (p. 22) 12 Sun 12pm Hammer Kids (p. 20) 18 Tue 7pm Larry Johnson Film Series: Elective Affinities (p. 4) of the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s renowned cinematheque. Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About Film Festival in 90 Minutes My Own Private Crucifixion For a complete schedule and more information about the 14 Sun 2pm Hammer Screenings: Dance Camera West (p. 23) 15 Wed 7pm Artist Talk (p. 8) 19 Wed 7pm Hammer Forum (p. 19) Archive’s collection of new works and treasured classics, Dance Movies Commissioned by EMPAC Nic Hess Distant Neighbors: The US and Mexico please visit www.cinema.ucla.edu or call 310-206-3456. 6pm Hammer Screenings: Dance Camera West (p. 23) 16 Thu 8pm Hammer Music: Also I Like to Rock (p. 10) 25 Tue 7pm Larry Johnson Film Series: Elective Affinities (p. 4) Lettres Sur Le Pont & Imagined Hell Foreign Born & Warpaint Nudes Descending a Staircase ¡AZTEC MUMMIES & 16 Tue 7pm Hammer Lectures (p. 16) 19 Sun 11am Family Flicks Film Series (p. 21) 26 Wed 7pm Hammer Readings: New American Writing (p. 12) Stephen Berkman A Little Princess Benjamin Kunkel MARTIAN INVADERS! 18 Thu 7pm Hammer Presents (p. 24) 21 Thu 7pm Hammer Forum (p. 18) MEXICAN SCI-FI CLASSICS Open Projector Night Stop the Presses: What is the Future of Newspapers? August 2009 21 Sun 3pm Curator Walkthrough—Larry Johnson (p. 4) 22 Wed 7pm Hammer Readings (p. 13) Though inspired by European and classic Hollywood Russell Ferguson PEN USA Emerging Voices movies, these films are distinctly Mexican—often mixing 22 Mon 7pm Hammer Presents (p. 24) 23 Thu 8pm Hammer Music: Also I Like to Rock (p. 10) multiple genres (horror, comedy, sci-fi) and featuring American Magic-Lantern Theater Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeroes & The Hammer offers FREE tours of the Permanent Collection, several ubiquitous figures: comedians, voluptuous women, Eskimo Hunter special exhibitions, and the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden aliens, and Mexican wrestlers. This series will feature newly 28 Sun 5pm Hammer Readings: New American Writing (p. 12) on the UCLA Campus to student and non-profit groups every day Denis Johnson 28 Tue 7pm Hammer Readings: New American Writing (p. 12) except Monday from 11am until 7pm. All tours are led by UCLA restored and subtitled 35mm prints from the vaults of the Francisco Goldman student educators majoring in art and art history. Call 310-443-7041 Filmoteca at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 30 Tue 7pm Hammer Lectures (p. 16) or fill out our online request form (www.hammer.ucla.edu) to Hitoshi Abe 30 Thu 8pm Hammer Music: JazzPOP (p. 11) reserve your tour today! Please visit hammer.ucla.edu for dates and featured titles. Los Angeles Jazz Collective Funded by the UCLA Arts Initiative and co-presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum.
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Stephen Berkman FOOTNOTES AND HEADLINES Aperture Panel ZÓCALO AT THE HAMMER TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 7PM SISTER CORITA PANEL DISCUSSION wednesday, july 8, 7pm A vibrant series of programs, in collaboration with the Hammer, which features in conjunction with The Darker Side of Light tuesday, JULY 7, 7PM abstraction in photography thinkers and doers speaking on some of the most pressing topics of the day. For Stephen Berkman finds in the ambrotype an opportunity for MODERATED BY HAMMER CHIEF CURATOR DOUGLAS FOGLE moderated by lyle rexer more information and the Zócalo calendar, please visit www.zocalopublicsquare.org. theatrical fabrication, with history itself as a collaborator. JIM ISERMANN, PAE WHITE, AND DONALD MOFFETT From the beginning, abstraction has —Lyle Rexer, Photography’s Antiquarian Avant-Garde A continued conversation about Corita Kent, the co-subject been intrinsic to photography, and its BOB WRIGHT persistent popularity reveals much about Artist and photographer Stephen Berkman will present an of Julie Ault’s 2000 Hammer exhibition Power-Up: Sister Corita WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 7PM the medium. Artists Walead Beshty evening of his work, which employs antiquated photographic and Donald Mofett, Interlocking. Kent gained international The Evolution of God and Susan Rankaitis debate a host of and optical processes. Berkman will also discuss his quixotic fame during the 1960s and 1970s for her vibrant serigraphs, Is God good or bad? In both the Bible and the Koran, God’s mood seems to swing approaches to the abstract photographic art in the context of the early history of the photographic happenings, and gatherings put to the purpose of social randomly between belligerence and benevolence. But the scriptures, read carefully, experience in this panel discussion medium, including phenomenology, spirit photography, and awareness/activism. Contemporary artists Jim Isermann, reveal a subtle pattern in these moods, a pattern that is key to understanding the moderated by Lyle Rexer, the author of the technical processes used to achieve them. He presently Pae White, and Donald Moffett discuss her work, her legacy, evolution of the great monotheistic faiths. The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction resides on the faculty at Art Center College of Design. and her influence on the contemporary art scene. In an era when the perceived divisions between in Photography. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam spark violent Hitoshi Abe Formed in 1952, Aperture Foundation aims to conflict, understanding the deep parallels foster the development and appreciation of the Tuesday, june 30, 7pm between the faiths is crucial to building a photographic medium and its practitioners. peaceful world. Robert Wright, a senior fellow Dr. Hitoshi Abe, professor and chair of the UCLA Department For more information visit www.aperture.org. at the New America Foundation and the author of Architecture and Urban Design, discusses his distinguished of The Moral Animal, Nonzero, and the recently career as a practicing architect and a leader in education. Known published The Evolution of God, visits to discuss the for architecture that is spatially complex and structurally Above: Left–right: Stephen Berkman. Camera Obscura; Corita Kent. birth and growth of the Abrahamic God—and innovative, the work of Atelier Hitoshi Abe has been exhibited That Man Loves (detail), 1967. Screenprint. Collection UCLA Grunwald why his best years may lie ahead. internationally and has received numerous awards. Abe is the Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum. Corita Kent Bequest; Silvio Wolf. Chance 03 (Horizon 16) (detail), 2006; Naomi Pollock’s subject of a new monograph published by Phaidon. Hitoshi Abe (cover). Bottom right: Bob Wright (Photo by Barry Munger). 1 f o r u m 18 Bank IstoOwnOne. Kansas Cityand isthe author of TheBestWay toRoba teaches economics and lawatthe University of Missouri, bails outthe seemingly reckless, ifnot the criminal. Black government federal the as continues that class middle and poor the from wealth of transfer vast a also but fraud massive only not involves which disaster, economic crisis. He willexamine the political failure behind this money thanwaslostduring the entire Savings and Loan recent scandal inwhich asingle bank,IndyMac, lostmore Savings and Loandisasterof the 1980s, discussesthe Federal Home LoanBankBoard, who investigated the William K.Black,the former litigation director of the THURSDAY, JUNE11,7PM WILLIAM K.BLACK BANK ROBBERY THE Hammer Forum ismadepossibleinpartby Bronya andAndrew Galef. This ongoing series of timely, thought-provoking events addresses current social and political issues. Hammer foru m
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national newspaper Reforma. Meyer haspublished several booksand writesfor the analyst inMexico. Aprofessor atElColegio de México, is widely recognized asthe foremost historian and political senior fellowatthe Center onPublic Diplomacy. Dr. Meyer the University of Southern California, where she isalsoa lecturer inpublic diplomacy and international relations at specializing inMexico and U.S.-Mexico affairs and asenior that weshare. Dr. StarrisaPacific Council adjunct fellow to improve relations and find solutions tothe challenges Pamela Starrand Lorenzo Meyer joinustodiscussways are becoming increasingly strained. Distinguished scholars relations betweenthe U.S.and ourneighbor tothe south unrestrained flow of firepower from America’s gun shops, by ademand for drugs inthe U.S.and inflamed bythe As Mexico fights awaragainst criminal cartels, fueled 7PM 19, AUGUST WEDNESDAY, MEYER LORENZO & STARR PAMELA The U Dist radio program Background Briefing onKPFK90.7FM. screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, and the host of the Moderated byIanMasters—journalist, commentator, author, ant Neighbors .S andMexico Left toright: AïdaRuilova; RogerCorman. on culture, film,the horror genre and much more. Corman. Join these filmmakers inaprovocative conversation horror and vampire films of the 1970s, including the work of of the sublime. Her “gothic aesthetic” isinspired, inpart,by and actions conjoinwith horror movie aesthetics and elements creates dark, narrative video worksinwhich cryptic characters any student of film. Hammer Artist-in-Residence AïdaRuilova experiences inthe filmindustry and isessential reading for Movies inHollywoodandNeverLostaDime,documents his (1975). Hisautobiography, titledHowIMadeaHundred of Horrors(1960),TheRaven(1963),and Deathrace2000 films and the director of 50,including the original LittleShop Roger Cormanisthe legendary producer of more than300 7pm 9, June TUESDAY, Roger corman AÏDA convers H AMM RUILOV ER A & A
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1 al in90Minutes or call310-305-8418. Reservations are encouraged. Contact workshops@826LA 826LA, are designed for groups of upto20students. The Hammer’s collaborative workshops, presented with and tohelpingteachers inspire theirstudentstowrite. students with their creative and expository writing skills 826LA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting plot elements for well-lovedrecent movies. surgery: how towriteentirely new characters, settings, and Boots) willtake things further, teaching students script credits include ShrektheThirdand the upcoming Pussin has worked atMTVand Lionsgate) and JonZack (whose everything better. Screenwriters Lindsey Robinson (who on for dear life, the EPscallinascriptdoctor tomake When the scriptfor aHollywood blockbusterishanging Ages 8–13 SUNDAY, AUGUST9,12–2pm SCRIPT SURGERY co-presented withtheUCLAFilm&Televison Archive Funded by theUCLAArtsInitiative and by Seusshimself. comes tolifeinthislive-action musical fantasy co-written The wonderfully wildimagination of Dr. Seussvividly Sunday, August16,11AM THE 5,000 Finger won three Oscarnominations. classic talewasCuarón’s firstEnglish-language feature and Emmanuel Lubezkiand production design byBoWelch, this an evilheadmistress during WWI.Withcinematography by Sarah Crewe trapped inaboarding school under the care of Alfonso Cuarón’s lushvisual feasttellsthe storyof ayoung Sunday, July19,11AM A (1976, of gunbattles. Starring Jodie Fosterand ScottBaio. of AlCapone withanall-kid castand pie fights inplace Chicago, thistoe-tapping musical reimagines the exploits and Grating! Setinagauzy, nostalgic Prohibition-era With AlanParker’s BugsyMalone , “G”stands for Gangster Sunday, June7,11am Bugs
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1 s c r e e n i n g s 21 1 s c r e e n i n g s 22 Followed byaQ&AwithJudyKinberg and AmandaVaill. Courtesy ofDanceCamraWest. Still fromPropiedaHorizontal; (2008, 112 including MikhailBaryshnikov and Stephen Sondheim. footage and interviews many of hisesteemed colleagues, plagued hislife. Kinberg uncovers never-before-seen rehearsal creative process, perfectionism, and the controversies thatbiographer Amanda Vaill, thisdocumentary examines his filmmaker Judy Kinberg and writtenbybest-selling Robbins Directed and produced bysix-time Emmy Award-winning shows such asWest SideStory , Gypsy, and Fiddler on the Roof. of American musical theater. He transformed Broadway with disputes hisplaceasthe preeminent director/choreographer Jerome Robbins’s lifeinspired controversy, butno one Jerome Robbins:SomethingtoDanceAbout Masters American Saturday, June13,7pm director DanceCamera West. Organized by Lynette Kessler, dancer, choreographer, and artistic Saturday, June13&Sunday,14 D D Hammer SCREENINGS ance Iconocla ance CamerWest n i m ., r i d . y d u j
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( electrifying dance innovators. Contains nudity. eight dancers and hasemerged asone of Europe’s most movement tonew heights withhisvirtuosic company of movement and phenomenal unison work, Greco has taken Pieter Scholten dance company. Known for highly stylized HELL, the 2007 large-scale performance by the Emio Greco/ Imagined Hellisadocumentary based onthe making of be moved.—Dance Magazine emotion thateventhemostjadedcriticcouldnothelpbut A dance experience of such creative brilliance and overwhelming Imagined HelL ( and musician NitinSawhney. Wells inLondon. Features multi award-winning composer contemporary dance and isanAssociate ArtistatSadler’s globalized world. Akram Khanstudied bothkathak and grounds, reveals their sense of home and belonging ina dancers from diversecultures, traditions and dance back- of China. Bringing together classical and contemporary Bengal choreographer Akram Khanand the National Ballet stage performance of bahok,acollaboration withBritish This documentary follows the creation process of the exhilaration andthedesolationof aworldonthemove. Through this ultimately powerful piece, Khan captures both the Lettres surlepont(Lettersonthebridge),6PM SUNDAY, JUNE14(continued) s d n a l r e h t e n e c n a r f , 2008, 50 , 2008,45
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AMERICAN MAGIC-LANTERN THEATER OPEN PROJECTOR NIGHT monday, JUNE 22, 7PM thursday, JUNE 18, 7pm in conjunction with The Darker Side of Light mcs: the sklar brothers An incredible experience . . . If they come to your town, In a cross between open mic night and the Gong Show for don’t miss them. They’re a living national treasure. locally made film and video shorts, audience members are -National Public Radio invited to have their short films screened and then decide for themselves how much of the film to watch. Not for Inspired by the Hammer exhibition The Darker Side of Light, the thin-skinned! Amateurs and professionals are equally the American Magic-Lantern Theater performs a Victorian welcome—as long as the work is 10 minutes or less. Feel era Magic-Lantern show, replete with flying ghosts, macabre free to bring your favorite munchies and don’t forget to goblins, and a petrifying rendition of Edgar Allan Poe’s The grab a drink at the cash bar! Sign-ups are first come, first Raven. Using original glass slides and a spectacular antique served. Submissions accepted from 7 to 7:30pm. Please visit Magic-Lantern, the AMLT re-creates this popular 1890’s hammer.ucla.edu for accepted file formats. combination of projected color images, dramatic storytelling, live music, hilarious comedy, and frightening special effects. About the MCs: Comedian twins Jason and Randy Sklar have appeared in television shows such as Law & Order, Entourage, and Grey’s Anatomy. They currently write and appear on ESPN’s ABOVE, LEFT: A lantern slide for Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven, created by Joseph Boggs Beale in 1896. Courtesy of The American Magic-Lantern Theater. SportsCenter in a comedic segment called “The Bracket.”
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