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Hammer Patrons this fall and attend the annual Patrons Studio Visit on Saturday, September 10. This year contributed acquisition funds or made gifts of works we will visit the Highland Park studios of Matt Monahan, of art since July 1, 2010.

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1 Lara Schnitger, and My Barbarian. Enjoy the afternoon A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR visiting with our hosts and exploring their creative spaces. Matt Aberle Glenn Kaino Amy Adelson and Dean Valentine Margery and Maurice Katz Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945–1980 is finally here. performance by Bruno Mars. The Gala sells out every year, The Buddy Taub Foundation Patti and Frank Kolodny More than five years in the making, this citywide initiative so if you are interested in supporting the event, please UPGRADE! Seth Cohen Luisa Lambri Nan and Eugene Corman Kourosh Larizadeh and Luis Pardo spearheaded by the Getty will officially open the first weekend call 310-443-7026—but make haste! Upgrade now or join at the Supporter level ($350) or Cecilia Dan LA>

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7 6 3 1 1 SHEILA LEVRANT DE BRETTEVILLE 13 12 MARK DI SUVERO Sunday, October 2, 1PM Exhibition walkthrough MELVIN EDWARDS NOW DIG THIS! with curator Kellie Jones FRED EVERSLEY 14 Sunday, October 2, 2PM ART & BLACK CHARLES GAINES Hammer Presents See page 12 LOS ANGELES 1960–1980 DAVID HAMMONS Opening Day Performance: Kiss MAREN HASSINGER Wednesday, October 5, 7pm SUZANNE JACKSON 16 October 2, 2011 – January 8, 2012 Hammer Presents See page 12 15 This comprehensive exhibition examines the vital legacy of VIRGINIA JARAMILLO Twenty twenty the city’s African American visual artists, who—through their ULYSSES JENKINS work and their connections with other artists from a variety of Tuesday, November 1, 7pm DANIEL LARUE JOHNSON ethnic backgrounds—made up an important part of the creative Hammer Presents See page 12 community. Including 140 works by 35 artists, many of whom ELIZABETH LEIGH-TAYLOR CONSTANT ELEVATION:

are not well known to the public, Now Dig This! expands the art SAMELLA LEWIS THE L.A. BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT historical record, placing the work of these African American THROUGH SPOKEN WORD practitioners within the context of the movements, trends, and RON MIYASHIRO ideas that fueled the arts in Los Angeles during this period. SENGA NENGUDI Sunday, November 13, 3pm Many of these artists also responded to the civil rights and Black Hammer Lectures See page 19 JOHN OUTTERBRIDGE Power movements, and their work reflects the changing sense of High Voltage: The Watts Legacy what constituted African American identity and American culture. JOE OVERSTREET 20 1) ANNOUNCEMENT FOR SAMELLA LEWIS AND GEORGE CLACK EXHIBITION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 7PM Organized by Kellie Jones, associate professor of art history at WILLIAM PAJAUD AT BROCKMAN GALLERY, LA, 1969 2) CHARLES WHITE 3) VIRGINIA JARAMILLO 4) MAREN HASSINGER. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST Sunday, October 2 Columbia University. Hammer Lectures See page 19 5) JUDSON POWELL’S ART CLASS AT WATTS TOWERS ARTS CENTER Museum Free Day NOAH PURIFOY 6) WILLIAM PAJAUD 7) BETYE SAAR 8) FRED EVERSLEY. PHOTO © JERRY MCMILLAN, COURTESY OF CRAIG KRULL GALLERY, SANTA Taste and Style Just Aren’t Enough Through the generosity Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980 has been made possible by JOHN T. RIDDLE JR. MONICA 9) STAN SANDERS, JOHN RIDDLE, AND CLAUDE BOOKER OF of Bank of America, the major grants from the Getty Foundation. THE BLACK ARTS COUNCIL. PHOTO COURTESY OF ANN BOOKER 10) DALE DAVIS 11) DAVID HAMMONS 12) OPERATION TEACUP Hammer is pleased to offer BETYE SAAR (TOWER EASTER WEEK CLEAN-UP), ORGANIZED BY THE STUDENT Generous support has been provided by the Henry Luce Foundation; the National COMMITTEE FOR IMPROVEMENT IN WATTS, AT WATTS TOWERS ART complimentary museum Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, RAYMOND SAUNDERS CENTER AND 107TH STREET, LOS ANGELES, APRIL 1965 13) JOHN RIDDLE 14) MELVIN EDWARDS. COURTESY OF MELVIN EDWARDS AND ALEXANDER admission on Sunday, which funded a Curatorial Research Fellowship; and The Broad Art Foundation. Additional RUTH G. WADDY GRAY ASSOCIATES, NEW YORK. 15) NOAH PURIFOY (LEFT) AND support has been provided by Eileen Harris Norton Foundation, The Kenneth T. and JUDSON POWELL 16) ARTISTS IN THE YES ON 10 EXHIBITION AT October 2, to celebrate Eileen L. Norris Foundation, Ina Coleman and Alan Wilson, and V. Joy Simmons, M.D. LITTLE GALLERY, SAN BERNARDINO VALLEY COLLEGE, 1964, the opening day of Now GORDON WAGNER INCLUDING MELVIN EDWARDS (FAR LEFT), VIRGINIA JARAMILLO In-kind support has been provided by InterfaceFLOR. (STANDING, THIRD FROM LEFT), DANIEL LARUE JOHNSON (STANDING, Dig This! Art and Black CHARLES WHITE THIRD FROM RIGHT), AND RON MIYASHIRO (FAR RIGHT). 17) SENGA NENGUDI. PHOTO COURTESY OF SENGA NENGUDI AND THOMAS Los Angeles 1960–1980. ERBEN GALLERY, NEW YORK. 18) DANIEL LARUE JOHNSON 19) JOHN 19 TYRUS WONG OUTTERBRIDGE 20) RON MIYASHIRO. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST. PHOTOSEILE 2, 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, AND 19 COURTESY OF ROBERT ANDREW ZERMEÑO/MECHICANO ART CENTER NAKAMURA. PHOTOS 3, 16, AND 18 COURTESY OF VIRGINIA JARAMILLO. PHOTOS 5, 12, AND 15 COURTESY OF THE NOAH PURIFOY FOUNDATION.

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SARA VANDERBEEK September 10, 2011 – January 8, 2012 CARLOS BUNGA Sara VanDerBeek explores the relationship between November 25, 2011 – April 22, 2012 photographic imagery and sculptural forms. Invited by the Trained as a painter, Barcelona-based Portuguese artist Hammer to participate in our Artist Residency Program, Carlos Bunga has expanded his practice to encompass multiple PATRICIA ESQUIVIAS mediums and dimensions, including performance, sculpture, VanDerBeek spent several weeks in Los Angeles taking November 12, 2011 – February 12, 2012 photographs over the past year. Resisting the iconic or the and video. In his architecturally scaled installations, Bunga Venezuelan-born artist Patricia Esquivias creates videos HAMMER PROJECTS spectacular, the works in the exhibition distill VanDerBeek’s uses mass-produced materials like cardboard, packing tape, that weave found images, history, and personal anecdotes experiences of L.A. and operate on the boundary between and paint to build structures that recall temporary shelters Hammer Projects is a series of exhibitions focusing primarily into narratives that convey her insights about contemporary abstraction and representation. For the first time, VanDerBeek or life-size maquettes. For his contribution to the XIV on the work of emerging artists. culture. Esquivias acts as narrator in these vignettes, in will present sculptures in the gallery alongside her photographs. Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara this year, Bunga which she presents clips from videos and magazines, photos, She has also designed the installation in which the works will created models for monuments of his own imagining. Made of drawings, and other small objects. The camera is often be presented—part stage set, part studio, part imagined cardboard and sand, the small sculptures were set atop marble SHANNON EBNER trained on Esquivias’s laptop and the gallery visitor sees space. While touching upon various locations and attributes pedestals or on the floor, calling attention to the ephemeral Continues through October 9, 2011 only her hands scrolling through digital images, playing that define L.A.—from the region’s diverse landscape to its nature of both architectural materials and the people and videos, and inserting physical pictures as she speaks. Her Hammer Projects: Shannon Ebner has received support from Stacy and John Rubeli. indigenous people, from Hollywood to community theater—the ideas that monuments are built to commemorate. For his monotone voice and meandering style of storytelling belie sculptures and photographs are primarily concerned with Hammer Project, Bunga will create a new work on site for the the significant planning and intention that she puts into movement, materiality, and mark-making. Organized by Lobby Wall. Organized by Corrina Peipon, curatorial associate. presenting her paired subjects, which have included Julio LINN MEYERS Anne Ellegood, Hammer senior curator. Continues through November 3, 2011 Iglesias and King Philip II, Spanish raves and an associate related program of Francisco Franco, as well as herself and the artist Susan Sunday, November 20, 2pm Brown. The connections that Esquivias creates in her videos YOSHUA OKÓN stories told through dance, drums, rattles, and hoops are often idiosyncratic and difficult to locate, offering the viewer an opportunity for contemplation and discovery. Continues through November 6, 2011 Native American touring artists Sonya Flores, Taimana Moquoquish, Hammer Projects is made possible with major gifts from Susan Bay Nimoy Organized by Emily Gonzalez, curatorial assistant. and Leonard Nimoy and The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation. Hammer Projects: Yoshua Okón is presented through a residency at the Moontee Sinquah (world champion hoop dancer), and Scott and Hammer Museum. The Hammer Museum’s Artist Residency Program was Sampson Sinquah present a riveting exhibition of Native American ABOVE: LEFT–RIGHT: YOSHUA OKÓN. STILL FROM OCTOPUS (DETAIL), 2011. FOUR-CHANNEL Additional generous support is provided by the Los Angeles County initiated with funding from the Nimoy Foundation and is supported through dances accompanied by live music and singing. Dances will include VIDEO INSTALLATION, COLOR, SOUND. 18:30 MIN. COURTESY KAUFMANN REPETTO, MILAN; Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission; a significant grant from The James Irvine Foundation. SARA VANDERBEEK. WESTERN COSTUME, AURORA, 2011. DIGITAL C-PRINT. 20 x 16 IN. (50.8 x 40.6 CM). Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley; L A Art House Foundation; Fancy Shawl, Grass, Hoop, Jingle, as well as a Men’s Fancy War Dance. COURTESY THE ARTIST AND METRO PICTURES, NEW YORK. PATRICIA ESQUIVIAS. STILL FROM Kayne Foundation—Ric & Suzanne Kayne and Jenni, Maggie & Saree; the Yoshua Okón’s residency also received support from the Department of A rare performance of California bird songs and a discussion with the FOLKLORE I, 2006. SINGLE-CHANNEL VIDEO, COLOR, SOUND. 14:43 MIN. IMAGE COURTESY THE ARTIST AND MURRAY GUY, NEW YORK. CARLOS BUNGA. METAMORPHOSIS, 2010. SITE-SPECIFIC Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles; and the David Teiger Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles Cultural Exchange International Program. artists about dance, music, and storytelling will conclude the event. INSTALLATION. CARDBOARD, TAPE AND PAINT. INSTALLATION VIEW AT MIAMI ART MUSEUM. Curatorial Travel Fund. 8 9

ED RUSCHA ON THE ROAD Continues through October 2, 2011 exhibitions exhibitions

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HAMMER COLLECTIONS Jack Kerouac wrote On the Road in 1951 on his typewriter as a continuous 120-foot-long scroll, feverishly recording PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT October 15, 2011 – January 22, 2012 in 20 days his experiences during road trips in the

U.S. and Mexico in the late 1940s. When it was finally RECENT ACQUISITIONS FROM SELECTIONS FROM THE published in 1957, Kerouac was acknowledged as the TIBETAN BUDDHIST THE GRUNWALD CENTER FOR HAMMER CONTEMPORARY leading voice of the Beat generation. Over the past few HEALING CEREMONY years Ed Ruscha has continued to explore the shifting THE GRAPHIC ARTS COLLECTION emblems of American life by focusing his keen aesthetic WITH HIS HOLINESS In 1956 Los Angeles collector Fred Grunwald made an In 2005 the Hammer launched an exciting initiative to build sensibility on Kerouac’s On the Road. TAKLUNG TSETRUL RINPOCHE extraordinary gift of more than 5,000 works on paper a collection of contemporary art through both purchases and Sunday, October 16, 1–4pm to establish the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at gifts. Acknowledging the breadth of mediums engaged by In 2009 Ruscha published with Steidl a limited-edition UCLA. Today the center’s collection has grown to more contemporary artists, this growing collection encompasses artist’s book version of the classic novel, illustrated with than 45,000 prints, drawings, photographs, and artists’ works in drawing, film, painting, photography, sculpture, and photographs that he took, commissioned, or found. This The Hammer welcomes His Holiness Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche books, dating from the Renaissance to the present. This video. While the Hammer Contemporary Collection has focused exhibition includes Ruscha’s edition of Kerouac’s legendary to the museum to perform a traditional Tibetan Buddhist exhibition includes a selection of works acquired by the particular attention on artists from Southern California, it is novel, six large paintings on canvas, and 10 drawings on healing ceremony, open to the public. Tibetan healing Grunwald Center during the past five years. They range from also dedicated to the acquisition of works by artists working museum board, each taking its text from On the Road. ceremonies are known for their power to heal mental and a vibrant sixteenth-century engraving by Renaissance artist throughout the United States and internationally. In this Whether painted over snowcapped mountains in Ruscha’s physical sicknesses, remove obstacles to spiritual growth, Hieronymus Wierix to a large-scale aquatint from 2010 by installment of our series of exhibitions of works from the signature all-caps lettering or drawn atop delicately and address suffering. His Holiness, visiting at the invitation artist Julie Mehretu. Other artists represented in the collection, the Hammer is proud to present several significant spattered abstract backgrounds, Kerouac’s words provide of Ari Bhöd, the American Foundation for Tibetan Cultural exhibition include Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Enrico Castellani, recent acquisitions, including Glenn Kaino’s Untitled (Ricky Jay) the artist with a means to explore his own archetypal Preservation, is one of the few living Jang-Ter lineage Vija Celmins, Robert Gober, Robert Heinecken, Dave Muller, (2010), Siobhan Liddell’s Ordinary Magic (2010), and landscape. Organized by Douglas Fogle, deputy director, masters who were fully educated in Tibet before going and Kara Walker. Organized by Cynthia Burlingham, director; Nancy Rubins’s monumental Drawing (1975–2010). Organized exhibitions and programs, and chief curator, Hammer Museum. into exile in 1959. It is exceedingly rare for a master and Allegra Pesenti, curator, UCLA Grunwald Center for by Ann Philbin, director; and Corrina Peipon, curatorial associate. of his caliber to offer such ceremonies outside of the the Graphic Arts. This exhibition is made possible by a major gift from The Brotman Foundation monastic communities in Asia. of California. Generous support is provided by Lannan Foundation, Michael Rubel and Kristin Rey, The Fran and Ray Stark Foundation, and This program is made possible with support from k.d. lang. ABOVE, LEFT–RIGHT: KARA WALKER, NO WORLD, FROM AN UNPEOPLED LAND IN UNCHARTERED WATERS (DETAIL), 2010. ETCHING WITH AQUATINT, SUGAR-LIFT, SPIT-BITE, AND DRYPOINT, 1 1 Linda and Jerry Janger. 30 ⁄4 x 39 ⁄2 IN. (76.8 x 100.3 CM). COLLECTION UCLA GRUNWALD CENTER FOR THE GRAPHIC ARTS, HAMMER MUSEUM. PURCHASED WITH FUNDS PROVIDED BY THE HELGA K. AND WALTER OPPENHEIMER ACQUISITION FUND. PHOTO: ROBERT WEDEMEYER. NANCY RUBINS. DRAWING, 1975–2010. GRAPHITE ON RAG PAPER. 152 x 124 IN. (386.1 x 315 CM). HAMMER MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES. Presented in collaboration with Ari Bhöd. PURCHASE. © NANCY RUBINS. COURTESY GAGOSIAN GALLERY. PHOTOGRAPHY BY THE DOUGLAS M. PARKER STUDIO. OPPOSITE LEFT–RIGHT: ED RUSCHA: ON THE ROAD. INSTALLATION VIEW AT KCRW 89.9 FM is the official media sponsor of the exhibition. Visit www.aribhod.org for more information. THE HAMMER MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES. JUNE 3–OCTOBER 2, 2011. PHOTO: BRIAN FORREST. MEDICINE BUDDHA. © TSARAK ART / PEMANAMDOLTHAYE.COM.

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1 A.I.R., the Hammer’s artist-in-residence program, is supported through A.I.R.a major grant from The James Irvine Foundation. 1 LIBROS SCHMIBROS at the hammer August 27 – October 9 While away the last moments of summer with a good book courtesy of Libros Schmibros, a non-profit lending library and used-book shop. Founder David Kipen brings ARTIST PROJECT a version of the beloved Boyle Heights literary center to the Hammer for an artist residency in late August. Please KATE POCRASS: AVERAGE join us for the grand opening and book drive, August 27, Recently the Hammer invited artist Kate Pocrass 11am–7pm. Visitors will receive free admission with the to consider this issue of its calendar, the publication donation of books from the following categories: Spanish that you hold in your hands right now, as a space language, Farsi language, books about Los Angeles or by to explore the nuances of the museum and also as L.A. authors, high school or college syllabus novels, and a platform for her publication, Average magazine. We first editions or advance reading copies of all sorts. hope you enjoy the special Hammer limited-edition of Average inserted here, which reminds us that the Libros Schmibros at the Hammer will be open Wednesday Hammer is the sum of its many parts and that there AMERICA’S SECRET CAMPAIGN THE OBESITY EPIDEMIC: POLITICAL PERSUASION: through Saturday, 11am–7pm, with additional Sunday are still new places, including this publication, to AGAINST AL QAEDA NUTRITION SCIENCE VERSUS THE 2012 ELECTIONS hours on October 2 and October 9, 11am–5pm . be investigated in the production and display of art. Co-presented by PEN Center USA FOOD POLICY Thursday, November 17, 7pm Please check hammer.ucla.edu for information about And for those of you who have wondered what we Wednesday, September 21, 7pm Co-presented by The Center for Food Law and Policy Marking one year until the 2012 events, readings, and book signings with authors. at the museum do at home on Sunday mornings, Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker, Thursday, October 20, 7pm elections, we explore the multi-billion well, now you know. To learn more about Average veteran Pentagon correspondents The U.S. suffers from an obesity epidemic dollar election machinery. Two veteran Libros Schmibros is a fiscally sponsored project of the that produces massive health-care costs, campaign strategists join us for a Pasadena Arts Council’s EMERGE Program. visit www.averagemagazine.com. for the New York Times, join us to talk about their groundbreaking often at taxpayers’ expense. Why are discussion about the psychology and 89.3 KPCC FM is the official media sponsor of the residency. book Counterstrike: The Untold Story government food policies so slow to change technology behind political persuasion. of America’s Secret Campaign against in the face of this crisis? Dr. David Heber, Dan Schnur is the director of the YEARBOOK Al Qaeda. They have unearthed stories professor of medicine and public health Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics October 2 – summer 2012 revealing how a group of analysts and director of the UCLA Center for Human at the University of Southern California Harrell Fletcher and Adam Moser will document the within the military, at spy agencies, Nutrition, and Michael Roberts, director and worked on four presidential span of an academic year at the Hammer with a yearbook and in law enforcement have fashioned of The Center for Food Law and Policy and campaigns. Bill Zimmerman is a dedicated to the museum’s visitors, programs, and staff. an innovative and effective new strategy adjunct professor at the UCLA School of political consultant who has worked We invite you to come by on October 2 between 11am and to fight terrorism. Law, provide insights from a public health, on numerous election campaigns 5pm to meet Harrell and Adam and to have your portrait legal, and policy perspective. and ballot initiatives. taken for the book. A “class photo” of all visitors will also BACKGROUND: LIBROS SCHMIBROS IN BOYLE HEIGHTS. PHOTO BY MARIANNE WILLIAMS.

take place in the courtyard at 3pm. Hammer Forum is moderated by Ian Masters, journalist, author, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, and host of the radio programsBackground Briefing, Sundays at 11AM, and The Daily Briefing, Monday through Thursday at 5PM, on KPFK 90.7 FM. 1 presents 12 HAMMER PRESENTS SAND, ANDDRIEDROSE PETALS, 1976.COURTESY JUST ABOVEMIDTOWNGALLERY ARCHIVE. SENGA NENGUDI In conjunctionwith the exhibition See page 6. Sunday, November20,2pm DRUMS, RATTLES, AND HOOPS STORIES TOLD THROUGHDANCE, inaSpikeculminated samename. Lee-directed movie ofthe musical, comingofage rock inthe Stew co-created andperformed frontman ofL.A.-basedindie rock bandThe Negro Problem, known asthe Best atUCLA. hisartist-residency off kicking Experience Wednesday, November2,7PM STEW andBlack LosAngelesArt 1960–1980 The above programs are inconjunctionwith the exhibition Shihan Van Clief by spoken ofthe word. Hosted art the celebrating evening an emergingby L.A.poets Renowned poets Tuesday, November1,7PM WORD THE L.A.BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT THROUGHSPOKEN CONSTANT ELEVATION remix. andThompson’shas inspired genre-resistant Smith burn,” baby MagnificentMontague—“burn disc jockey the words ofKGFJ immortal the power ofpopularmusicto—in music inLosAngeles from 1960 1980. to Thetransformative play new their Roger Guenveur Smith Wednesday, October5,7pm TWENTY exhibitiongalleries. inthe works reimagine their projectcollaborative with Artists Sunday, October2,2PM NOW DIGTHIS! KISS Senga Nengudi Passing Strange SETTINGUPFORAPERFORMANCE WITHRSVPX,MADEUPOFNYLON MESH, Stew Twenty Twenty

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25 Tue 7pm Hammer Readings: Some Favorite Writers (p. 17) August October Norman Rush 27 Sat 11am Libros Schmibros (p. 10) 2 Sun 11am Museum Free Day (p. 5) Grand opening & book drive (11am–7pm) Free admission (11am–5pm) 26 Wed 7:30pm Hammer Screenings (p. 21) Open Projector Night 11am Public Engagement/A.I.R. (p. 10) September Yearbook: Class Photo (11am–5pm) 27 Thu 7pm Hammer Poetry (p. 16) 1 Thu 5:30pm Libros Schmibros: Poetry from the heart of Boyle Heights (p. 10) 1pm Exhibition Walkthrough: Now Dig This! (p. 5) Rhoda Janzen Kristy Lovich, Abel Salas and more Kellie Jones 30 Sun 11am Family Flicks Film Series (p. 23) 3 Sat 4pm Libros Schmibros: Trivia (p. 10) 2pm Hammer Presents: Now Dig This! (p. 12) Munster, Go Home! Jerome Vered’s Crosstown WPA-era L.A. History Pub Quiz Opening Day Performance: Kiss

8 Thu 7pm Zócalo at the Hammer (p. 17) 4 Tue 7pm Hammer Conversations (p. 13) November Randall Kennedy John Baldessari & Christopher Knight 1 Tue 7pm Hammer Presents (p. 12) Constant Elevation 9 Fri 7pm Hammer Readings: New American Writing (p. 16) 5 Wed 7pm Hammer Presents: Twenty Twenty (p. 12) EXHIBITION TOURS Leopoldine Core & Dinah Lenney Roger Guenveur Smith & Marc Anthony Thompson 2 Wed 7pm Hammer Presents (p. 12) Stew 10 Sat 5:30pm Libros Schmibros: Car Schmar (p. 10) 6 Thu 5:30pm Libros Schmibros: Oracles (p. 10) FREE STUDENT EDUCATOR-LED Non-drivers Marisela Norte, Richard Rayner & D.J. Mike the Poet Sonksen, Susana Chavez-Silverman 8 Tue 7pm Hammer Lectures (p. 19) Waldie & Sharon Sekhon Lawrence Weschler TOURS OF SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS 13 Tue 7pm Hammer Lectures (p. 18) 7pm UCLA Department of Art Lectures (p. 19) 9 Wed 7pm UCLA Department of Art Lectures (p. 19) Thursdays at 6:15pm Leonard Nimoy’s Secret Selves Mark Leckey Sue Williams Free half-hour tours of special exhibitions are led by trained 14 Wed 7pm Hammer Screenings (p. 20) 9 Sun 11am Libros Schmibros (p. 10) 10 Thu 7pm Hammer Poetry (p. 16) Hammer student educators who are UCLA students from Closing day festivities (11am–5pm) Miss Representation Jennifer Clarvoe varied disciplines. Tours convene in front of the Museum 15 Thu 5:30pm Libros Schmibros: L.A. Cartography (p. 10) 11 Tue 7pm Hammer Screenings (p. 20) 13 Sun 11am Family Flicks Film Series (p. 23) Store, and reservations are not required. Glen Creason & J. Michael Walker Brand X Popeye 8pm Hammer Screenings (p. 21) 13 Thu 2pm Hammer Conversations (p. 13) 12pm Sunday Afternoons for Kids (p. 23) Flux Screening Series Mona Eltahawy & Gloria Steinem Light Writers and Luchadors SPECIAL GROUP TOUR RESERVATIONS 3pm Hammer Lectures (p. 19) To schedule a tour, please visit: hammer.ucla.edu/visit to 17 Sat 5:30pm Libros Schmibros (p. 10) 14 Fri 7pm Hammer Readings (p. 16) High Voltage: The Watts Legacy Book Artist: Sandow Birk Festival of California Poets fill out an online tour request form, or call the Academic 15 Tue 7pm Hammer Lectures (p. 19 ) Programs department at 310-443-7041. Tour requests must 21 Wed 7pm Hammer Forum (p. 11) 16 Sun 12pm Sunday Afternoons for Kids (p. 23) Taste and Style Just Aren’t Enough America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda News Flash: Comic Books Save the World be received one month prior to the requested tour date. 1pm Public Engagement (p. 9) 16 Wed 7pm Hammer Readings: New American Writing (p. 16) 22 Thu 11am Libros Schmibros: Marathon Reading (p. 10) Rachel Kushner & Ariana Reines Jack Kerouac’s On The Road (11am–9pm) Tibetan Buddhist Healing Ceremony (1pm–4pm) SELF-GUIDED TOURS 17 Thu 7pm Hammer Forum (p. 11) 25 Sun 11am Family Flicks Film Series (p. 23) 18 Tue 7pm Zócalo at the Hammer (p. 17) Reservations are also required for self-guided groups Brad Cloepfil with Gus Van Sant Political Persuasion: The 2012 Elections Bringing Up Baby of 20 people or more. Please contact the Academic 20 Sun 2pm Hammer Presents (p. 6) 12pm Sunday Afternoons for Kids (p. 23) 19 Wed 7pm Hammer Lectures (p. 18) Programs department at least one week prior to your Observation Collection Rodarte, Catherine Opie, Alec Soth Stories told through Dance, Drums, Rattles, and Hoops visit at 310-443-7041. 28 Wed 7pm Hammer Screenings (p. 20) 20 Thu 7pm Hammer Forum (p. 11) 22 Tue 7pm Hammer Screenings (p. 20) Self Made The Obesity Epidemic This is Where We Take Our Stand Above: Kids participating in artist Jorge Pardo’s Table workshop at 29 Thu 7pm Hammer Lectures (p. 18) 22 Sat 10am UCLA Art History Graduate Student K.A.M.P. (Kids’ Art Museum Project), 2011. Jack Persekian Association Symposium (p. 19) 38 Standard Procedure (10am–6pm) 16 17

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NEW AMERICAN WRITING FESTIVAL OF CALIFORNIA POETS SOME FAVORITE This series of contemporary fiction and poetry readings is Co-presented by PEN Center USA WRITERS Friday, October 14, 7PM organized by Benjamin Weissman, author of two books This series of readings is The Poetry Society of America and PEN Center USA present the 5th of short fiction, most recently Headless, and professor of organized by Mona Simpson, annual Festival of California Poets, an event celebrating the poetic ZÓCALO AT THE HAMMER creative writing at Art Center College of Design and Otis author of My Hollywood, tradition of the Golden State. Three distinguished, contemporary A vibrant series of programs that features thinkers and doers speaking on some of the most College of Art and Design. Anywhere But Here, and Off Keck California poets will introduce and read poems by canonical California pressing topics of the day. For more information, please visit www.zocalopublicsquare.org. This series is made possible, in part, with support from Bronya Road. Readings are followed by poets, as well as their own poems. A Q&A will follow the readings. and Andrew Galef. discussions with Simpson. RANDALL KENNEDY BRAD CLOEPFIL LEOPOLDINE CORE & DINAH LENNEY Sponsored by the UCLA Department POETRY of English and Friends of English. IS OBAMA ERASING WITH GUS VAN SANT Friday, September 9, 7PM This series of readings is organized and hosted by THE COLOR LINE? How Does Architecture NORMAN RUSH Leopoldine Core was born and raised in Manhattan and Stephen Yenser, poet and professor at UCLA and author Thursday, September 8, 7PM Imitate Life? studied writing at Hunter College. Core’s truth-seeking, of A Boundless Field: American Poetry at Large and Blue Guide. Tuesday, October 25, 7PM For all the hopes of a post-racial Tuesday, October 18, 7pm dialogue-heavy stories center on mortality and Norman Rush’s collection of Sponsored by the UCLA Department of English and Friends of English. America under Barack Obama, Oregon-born architect Brad Cloepfil’s misunderstanding. Her work has appeared in Open City and stories, Whites (1986), was questions of race and identity work—which includes the Museum elsewhere. Dinah Lenney is the author of Bigger than Life: RHODA JANZEN nominated for the Pulitzer continue to enter into discussions of Arts and Design in New York, A Murder, a Memoir (excerpted in the New York Times), Thursday, October 27, 7PM Prize. His first novel,Mating of Obama’s presidency. Has Obama the Contemporary Art Museum St. and has written for the Los Angeles Times, Ploughshares, Rhoda Janzen is the author of the memoir Mennonite in a (1991), was the recipient of done enough for African Americans? Louis, and Wieden+Kennedy’s world and others. A working actor, Lenney co-authored Acting Little Black Dress, a New York Times bestseller, and Babel’s Stair, the National Book Award and Has the Tea Party movement been fueled headquarters—has been described as for Young Actors and has appeared on numerous TV shows. a collection of poems. Her poems have also appeared inPoetry , was followed by his novel by racial prejudice? Randall Kennedy, “by design anti-spectacular.” Cloepfil the Yale Review, the Gettysburg Review, and the Southern Mortals. His writing has been sits down with friend and filmmaker RACHEL KUSHNER & ARIANA REINES Harvard professor of law and author Review. Janzen holds a PhD from UCLA, where she was the published in the New Yorker, Gus Van Sant (Milk, Good Will Wednesday, November 16, 7pm of The Persistence of the Color Line: University of California poet laureate in 1994 and 1997. the New York Times Book Hunting) to discuss the inspiration Rachel Kushner’s debut novel, Telex From Cuba, was a Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency, Review, the New York Review of that drives them and their shared finalist for the National Book Award. A frequent contributor JENNIFER CLARVOE discusses Obama’s successes and failures Books, and other periodicals. beginnings in and continued love for to Artforum, she has published her work in the New York Thursday, November 10, 7PM in dealing with matters of race. the Pacific Northwest. Cloepfil’s new Times and several other periodicals. Ariana Reines is the Jennifer Clarvoe’s first book of poems,Invisible Tender, book is Allied Works Architecture. author of The Cow, Coeur de Lion, and Mercury. Telephone, won the Poets Out Loud Prize and the prestigious Kate ABOVE, LEFT–RIGHT: LEOPOLDINE CORE, her play commissioned by New York’s Foundry Theatre in Tufts Discovery Award. In 2002 Clarvoe was awarded the DINAH LENNEY, RACHEL KUSHNER,

Rome Prize in Literature by the American Academy of Arts ARIANA REINES (PHOTO: SUNDER GANGLANI), 2009, was named one of the year’s best by the New York RHODA JANZEN (PHOTO: SHELLEY LALONDE), Times and the New Yorker and won two Obies. and Letters, which allowed her to spend the year writing JENNIFER CLARVOE (PHOTO: TONY SIGEL), AND NORMAN RUSH. OPPOSITE, ABOVE: BRAD at the American Academy in Rome. Her new collection of CLOEPFIL. ALLIED WORKS ARCHITECTURE, poems is Counter-Amores. DUTCHESS COUNTY GUEST HOUSE, 2007; BELOW: RANDALL KENNEDY (PHOTO: MARTHA STEWART), BRAD CLOEPFIL, AND GUS VAN SANT. 19 18

HAMMER LECTURES UCLA DEPARTMENT OF ART LECTURES LEONARD NIMOY’S SECRET SELVES STANDARD PROCEDURE The UCLA Department of Art’s visiting lecture lectures lectures THE 46TH ANNUAL UCLA ART HISTORY GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION SYMPOSIUM

Tuesday, September 13, 7PM series is made possible through the generous Actor turned photographer/folk anthropologist Saturday, October 22, 10am-6pm support of the William D. Feldman Family Endowed Art Lecture Fund. Leonard Nimoy discusses his photographic project, Standard Procedure examines art historical scholarship that is produced in accordance with prevailing practices that have become standard.Beatriz Colomina, 1 1 Secret Selves. Inspired by the Greek mythological idea that MARK LECKEY professor of history and theory at the Princeton University School of Architecture, ever since Zeus split humans in two each person has been Thursday, October 6, 7pm will deliver the keynote address. The symposium will include papers by graduate searching for his or her other half to feel complete, Nimoy British artist Mark Leckey has students in various disciplines, from UCLA and other universities. asked subjects to reveal their hidden halves in front of his camera. exhibited widely, including solo The result is a collection of more than 100 portraits and The AHGSA Symposium is funded by UCLA Department of Art History, UCLA Council on Arts & shows at the Serpentine Gallery, interviews that explore humanity’s alternate self. Nimoy will discuss Architecture, UCLA Friends of Art History, and the UCLA Graduate Students Association. London; Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, what was revealed about his own secret self while capturing others’. New York; Kölnischer Kunstverein, LAWRENCE WESCHLER Cologne; and Le Consortium, Dijon. JACK PERSEKIAN Tuesday, November 8, 7PM He is a 2008 Turner Prize recipient. Thursday, September 29, 7PM “There’s no writer alive with more raw and contagious SUE WILLIAMS Jerusalem-based curator Jack Persekian is the enthusiasm for the world.” —Dave Eggers founder and director of the influential Anadiel Wednesday, November 9, 7pm Lawrence Weschler, the award-winning biographer of Sue Williams is a New York–based gallery and the Al-Ma’mal Foundation for Robert Irwin and David Hockney and former staff writer painter who has had solo exhibitions Contemporary Art in Jerusalem, and former for the New Yorker, will discuss Uncanny Valley, his latest at the Carpenter Center, Harvard director of the Sharjah Biennial. He recently collection of political tragedies and cultural comedies. University, Cambridge; IVAM, Valencia, curated Disorientation II: The Rise and Fall of Weschler is currently the director of the New York Spain; Secession, Vienna, Austria; and Arab Cities at Manarat Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi; Institute for the Humanities at New York University. Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva. Never-Part, Bozar, Brussels; Dubai Next, co-curated with Rem Koolhaas at Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany; and The HIGH VOLTAGE: THE WATTS LEGACY Jerusalem Show, Al-Ma’mal Foundation, Jerusalem. sunday, november 13, 3PM Dr. Darnell Hunt, director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA, moderates a discussion with artists John Outterbridge, Edgar Arceneaux, RODARTE, CATHERINE OPIE, and Andrew Zermeño, and collector Stan Sanders regarding the past and ALEC SOTH future of Watts as a creative hub. Wednesday, October 19, 7PM In conjunction with the exhibition Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980. Without any formal training in fashion, California-raised sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy, known as Rodarte, are among the most celebrated TASTE AND STYLE JUST AREN’T ENOUGH * American designers at work today. The Mulleavy TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 7PM sisters join Catherine Opie and Alec Soth in Gallerist Alonzo Davis, and collectors Vaughn Payne and Joy Simmons join a discussion about their recent book, Rodarte, curator Franklin Sirmans and art historian Karin Higa to talk about the Catherine Opie, Alec Soth. Created with two of the importance of galleries and collectors in creating an African American art art world’s most acclaimed photographers, this is the community in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s. first publication to examine the world of Rodarte. In conjunction with the exhibition Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980. ABOVE, TOP–BOTTOM, LEFT–RIGHT: LEONARD NIMOY, JACK PERSEKIAN, LAWRENCE WESCHLER, MARK LECKEY, AND SUE WILLIAMS. *Title of a work by artist Sheila Levrant de Bretteville featured in the exhibition. BACKGROUND: ALEC SOTH, FROM RODARTE, CATHERINE OPIE, ALEC SOTH.

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HAMMER SCREENINGS screenings

MISS REPRESENTATION screenings

Wednesday, September 14, 7PM As the most persuasive and pervasive force of communication in our culture, popular media is educating yet another generation that a woman’s primary value 1 1 lies in her youth, beauty, and sexuality—and not in her capacity as a leader. Writer/director Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s documentary filmMiss Representation interweaves stories from teenage girls with provocative interviews from Condoleezza Rice, Lisa Ling, Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Gloria Steinem, and others. (2011, Dir. Jennifer Seibel Newsom, color, 90 min.)

SELF MADE Wednesday, September 28, 7PM FLUX SCREENING SERIES If you were to play a part in a film, would you be yourself or a fictional Thursday, September 15, 8PM character? Hundreds of people responded to this advertisement when it was Flux and the Hammer present a distributed to media outlets and job centers around London and Newcastle, celebration of short films, music England. Seven applicants were selected to appear in Self Made, Turner videos, and the people who make Prize–winning artist Gillian Wearing’s debut feature. In the film, participants them. Detailed program information attend a Method acting workshop to explore their fantasy selves and ultimately available at hammer.ucla.edu. star in their own mini-film.(2011, Dir. Gillian Wearing, color & b/w, 84 min.) OPEN PROJECTOR NIGHT BRAND X With MCs The Sklar Bros. Tuesday, October 11, 7PM wednesday, october 26, 7:30pm Brand X is a scrappy, absurdist parody of a television show. Made in the early Who will come out on top at this 1970s, it touched on the Vietnam War, sex, drugs, and technology. Filmmaker rowdy, irreverent event? It’s a mad Wynn Chamberlain was a fixture in the 1960s New York pop art world and pile-up with multiple genres of short filmed his friends Abbie Hoffman, Sam Shepard, and Sally Kirkland.Brand X filmmaking represented in this BYO has recently resurfaced after its mysterious disappearance more than 40 film showcase. Wild debates ensue as years ago, and the Hammer is proud to offer one its first “rescreenings.” comedic, experimental, and dramatic (1970, Dir. Wynn Chamberlain, color & b/w, 87 min.) films alike are cheered or booed. Bring your films and your appetite THIS IS WHERE WE TAKE OUR STAND for fun. Work under 10 minutes only. tuesday, November 22, 7pm Submissions begin at 7pm, first In March of 2008, 250 veterans and active–duty soldiers from wars in Iraq and come, first served. Free popcorn and Afghanistan marked the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq by gathering cash bar. Visit hammer.ucla.edu for in Washington, D.C., to testify about their experiences. This Is Where We Take Our accepted media formats. Stand documents the inside story of the courageous men and women who testified. A Q&A with the filmmakers will follow the screening.(2011, Dirs. Bestor Cram, Mike Majoros, David Zeiger, color, 62 min.) BACKGROUND: STILL FROM THIS IS WHERE WE TAKE OUR STAND.

45 1 screenings 22 ABOVE: STILLFROM andSciencesthe Council for California of MotionPicture the Arts Humanities. the hasbeenprovided National by Endowment Additional TheAcademy support for the Arts. hasbeen provided Generous by TheAndyWarhol support and Foundation for Arts the Visual grant from the GettyFoundation. L.A. Rebellion: Creating ANew Black Cinema and CharlesBurnett’s Jamaa Fanaka’s Bless TheirLittleHearts features includeJulieDash’s filmmaker the present. with Notable prints,andoften orrestored in new many have ofwhich beenscreened never most theatrically, and videoworks, energy andcommitment.The Archive willpresent approximately 50 film extraordinary collective their work—and for their success andacclaimfor would beresponsive communities.Thegroup black a cinemathat to achieved the from to 1960s filmmakers whometatUCLA 1980s and worked to forge a historic movement of Los Angeles–based AfricanAmericanand celebrates Film & Archive Television the UCLA by This major filmexhibition Friday, October7–Saturday,December17 CREATING ANEWBLACK CINEMA L.A. REBELLION: &Television Film Archive’sUCLA renowned cinémathèque. of home isalsothe Theater The Billy Wilder the TELEVISION ARCHIVE UCLA FILM& ASHES ANDEMBERS Emma Mae Killer ofSheep (1984), HaileGerima’s . OPPOSITE:STILLFROM

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4 membership The Hammer Museum celebrated its second annual family membership 5 2 fundraiser K.A.M.P. (Kids’ Art Museum Project), an event 6 7 5 envisioned by artists for kids of all ages on Sunday, May 15, 2011. 1 With more than 750 guests in attendance, and chaired by 1 Brooke Kanter, the event was a sold-out success and raised Special thanks to our 2011 Committee nearly $100,000 in support of Hammer Kids programs, which are offered free to the public. K.A.M.P. provided extraordinary Brooke Kanter, Chair 9 Meredith Alexander access and experiences for children and their families with 8 Kayne Foundation * American Apparel** Suzanne & Ric Kayne and renowned contemporary artists, all of whom have been 10 Alisa Becket 12 Maggie, Saree Kayne & Jenni, Colleen & Bradley Bell Family *** the subject of exhibitions at the Hammer Museum or are Richard & Tanner Ehrlich Blick Art Materials ** 11 Suzanne & Michael Kraus * represented in the Hammer Contemporary Collection. Jackilin & Jason Bloom Diantha Lebenzon * 10 Rebecca Bloom & David Kurtz Loeb & Loeb LLP ** Seth Brufsky & Jodi Guber Brufsky * Participating artists: Karyn Lovegrove CAA * Deborah Kaplan-Meyer & Walead Beshty, Jedediah Caesar, Mari Eastman, Kirsten Everberg, Mary Leigh Cherry & Tony de los Reyes Breckin Meyer * Classic Party Rentals * Katie Grinnan, Karl Haendel, Julian Hoeber, Stanya Kahn, Julie Miyoshi 14 Color Images* Friedrich Kunath, Mimi Lauter, Charles Long, Dianna Molzan, Amber Busuttil Mullen & 16 Robin Cottle Christopher Mullen ** Kristen Morgin, Kori Newkirk, Jorge Pardo, Gregory Parkinson, Andrea Feldman Falcione & MVS Studio / The Digital Marmol Radziner, Analia Saban, Mindy Shapero, and Joel Tauber. Greg Falcione PhotoBooth ** 13 15 Susanna Felleman & Erik Feig * 15 Alisa & Kevin Ratner * Viveca Paulin-Ferrell & Will Ferrell ** Story time in the museum galleries Lindsay Berger Sacks & Lauri Firstenberg with children’s book readings by: Brian Sacks Leslie Fram Robyn & Michael Siegel Jason Bateman, Jack Black, Greg Kinnear, and Rainn Wilson. Ryan & Tucker Gates * Sprinkles Cupcakes ** Jane Glassman Candace Nelson Rachel Griffiths * Alison Swan & Bob Teitel * Stefanie & John Griswold * Carolyn & Gregory Trattner * hughesumbanhowar * UTA * John Umbanhowar 1 Sandra & Charles Winkler ** 17 Intelligentsia Coffee and Tea ** 17 1. WHEEL OF COLOR (LED BY ANALIA SABAN) 10. KALEIDOSCOPES (LED BY Zilber Family Foundation * Linda & Jerry Janger * 2. MAKEUP (LED BY JULIAN HOEBER) KATIE GRINNAN) Brooke & Adam Kanter * 3. THINK INSIDE THE BLOCKS 11. TREE BABY NECKLACE * Friend Supporter (LED BY MARMOL RADZINER) (LED BY JOEL TAUBER) 4. ROLLER STENCIL DERBY (LED BY 12. EVENT CHAIR BROOKE KANTER AND ** Best Friend Supporter KIRSTEN EVERBERG) JIMMY FREEMAN SPECIAL THANKS TO *** Best Friend Forever Supporter 5. CHARLES LONG 13. SPECIAL THANKS TO PUMA 6. GREG KINNEAR 14. ALLISON AGSTEN 7. TABLE (LED BY JORGE PARDO) 15. GREGORY PARKINSON 8. JASON BATEMAN 16. MAYHEM CLOAK AND ARMORY Hammer Kids and Family Flicks are made possible through the generosity 9. JACK BLACK & ANNIE PHILBIN (LED BY STANYA KAHN) of K.A.M.P. (Kids’ Art Museum Project) supporters and friends. K.A.M.P. 17. MURAL (LED BY MIMI LAUTER) is an annual family fundraiser. For more information please contact Jimmy Freeman at 310-443-7036 or email [email protected]. LEFT–RIGHT: CHARLES AND RAY EAMES. PHOTOS FROM K.A.M.P. 2010. 26 WWW.HAMMER.UCLA.EDU 27

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Free for Hammer members, Available under the museum; students with ID, UCLA $3 with validation. Enter on faculty and staff, active duty Westwood Boulevard or Glendon Avenue. Parking for August 31 September 7 September 14 September 21 military personnel, veterans, 1 people with disabilities is Canaletto Linn Meyers Fritz Eichenberg Honore Daumier and visitors 17 and under. provided on levels P1 and P3. th PARIS.—EXPOSITION DES Mestre, 18 Century Hammer Project, 2011 Illustration for Wuthering Free every Thursday for Bikes park free. *David Rodes *Anne Ellegood Heights, 20th Century BEAUX-ARTS.—Dans le salon all visitors. *Claudine Dixon carre.-Un Instant de Repos, 1869 *Allison Agsten To request a group tour, visit our website or call the group tours line at 310-443-7041. The Hammer Museum is operated and partially funded by the University of California, Los Angeles. Occidental Petroleum Corporation has partially endowed the Museum and constructed the Occidental Petroleum Cultural Center Building, which houses the Museum.

Board of Directors Board of Overseers Artist Council Founder Peter Benedek Edgar Arceneaux Dr. Armand Hammer Ruth Bloom Lisa Anne Auerbach Chairman Emeritus Lloyd E. Cotsen* Jennifer Bolande Michael A. Hammer Susie Crippen Andrea Bowers Rosette Varda Delug Teddy Cruz Honorary Directors George Freeman Malik Gaines September 28 October 5 October 12 October 19 Armie Hammer Jacques Bellange Jean Dubuffet Analia Saban David Hammons Bronya Galef Glenn Kaino Viktor Armand Hammer The Martyrdom of St. Lucy, Pavage de Peau, 1958 Newspaper Clipping: American Bag Lady in Flight, 1982 Bob Gersh Yoshua Okón Chairman Erika Glazer* Laura Owens 1612–17 *Allegra Pesenti Stock Exchange, The New York (re-created c. 1995) HOT OFF THE PRESS John V. Tunney Stanley Hollander Hirsch Perlman *Cynthia Burlingham Times, December 25th 2007, 2008 *Chelsea Beck Linda Janger Alexis Smith Gene D. Block *Ali Subotnick Barbara Kruger Marcy Carsey Larry Marx* Director NOW DIG THIS! Lloyd E. Cotsen Dori Peterman Mostov Ann Philbin Samuel P. Dominick ART & BLACK LOS ANGELES 1960–1980 Erik Murkoff Frank O. Gehry Susan Bay Nimoy The exhibition is accompanied by a 352-page, full-color Erika Glazer Lari Pittman catalogue co-published with DelMonico·Prestel. The publication Richard W. Hallock Michael Rubel* Larry Marx includes images of all works in the exhibition along with Ronnie Sassoon Steven A. Olsen seven scholarly essays, a comprehensive bibliography, and Chara Schreyer Anthony N. Pritzker Barry Smooke an illustrated chronology. Retail price is $60.00. Lee Ramer Susan Steinhauser Nelson C. Rising David Teiger Michael Rubel Dean Valentine Heather Skinazi October 26 November 2 November 9 November 16 Kevin Wall* Kevin Wall Stan VanDerBeek on the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Nancy Rubins Noah Purifoy Jeremy Zimmer Cafe Hammer monitors La Débauche, 1896 Drawing, 1975–2010 Zulu #4, no date John Walsh Christopher A. Waterman *Sits on Board of Directors Selected Works, 1960–1970 *Elizabeth Cline *Corrina Peipon *Brooke Hodge 51 *Elizabeth Cline