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1 news 3 1 exhibitions 4 CURATED BY STEVE MARTIN BY STEVE CURATED THE PAINTINGS LAWREN OF HARRIS NORTH: OF THE IDEA (152.4 ×177.8CM).COLLECTION OFIMPERIALOILLIMITED.©FAMILY OFLAWREN HARRIS. LAWREN HARRIS, from Manuela and Herzer the Foundation. gift Herzer agenerous by possible made is presentation Museum’s Hammer The Ontario. of Gallery Art Art, Canadian Curator, Eaton S. Fredrik Hunter, Andrew and Museum, Hammer affairs, curatorial director, deputy Burlingham, Cynthia with collaboration in Martin Steve by curated and Museum Hammer the and Ontario of Gallery Art the by Harris Lawren of Paintings The North: of Idea The painter. modernist aleading as Harris show that canvases major the as well as panels small 1920s 1930s, and including the of scapes land northern idealized his of 30 than more present will exhibition The career. artist’s the in period defining the Harris of Paintings Lawren The IdeaThe of North: reality. profound amore to surface the beyond go to striving individual an of statements clear and haunting remain Arctic eastern the and Mountains, Rocky the Superior, Lake of depictions striking Harris’s vision, spiritual refined and universal amore to scape land the of interpretation nationalistic adefiantly from Progressing identity. national in Canadian rooted deeply become has that Gould) Glenn broadcaster and writer, composer, pianist, the from aphrase borrow (to north” abold “idea of offer landscapes iconic His century. 20th the art in Canadian defining in figure aleading was Harris Seven, of Group the of member afounding and O’Keeffe Georgia and Hartley Marsden contemporaries his with par artist Canadian the to devoted exhibition US major first the on partnering are Ontario of Gallery Art the and Museum Hammer The 2016 24, 11, 2015–January October MOUNTAIN FORMS Lawren Harris Lawren , CA.1926(DETAIL). OILONCANVAS. 60×70IN. (1885–1970). An innovator on on (1885–1970). innovator An is co-organized co-organized is examines examines

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RELATED PROGRAMS RELATED (see 23) page Leap Jorja Dr. Belinda Tucker 10, 7:30PM Thursday, December FATHERHOOD PROJECT Forum Hammer of exhibition. the Curator Sunday, &2:45PM 15, 2PM November Tours Exhibition (see 24) page 7:30PM 4, Wednesday, November F.IAN SVENONIUS Lectures Hammer (see 21) page 27,Tuesday, 7:30PM October VAGINA POWER STARK: FRANCES AND TYLOR K. ALEXYSS conversations Hammer (2015, DIR.M.LEVIN,103MIN.) with aQ&A by Followed 7:30PM 1, Tuesday, December SYSTEM THE IN FREEWAY: CRACK (2011, DIR.FRANCESSTARK, 100MIN.) screening. the follows Stark with A Q&A program. animation atext-to-speech using produced Stark Biennale, Venice 54th the at exhibited First 7:30PM 28, Wednesday, October THING BEST MY conversation. apost-screening for Steele Actor Actor 25, 2PM Sunday, October PADRE MI DE CASA Hammer Screenings ’s ’s Will Ferrell , and producer producer , and My Best Thing My Best Ali Subotnick and and Big Mike Cummings. Mike Big , director , director moderates a conversation with with aconversation moderates (see 28 details) page for (2011) is a feature-length video video (2011) isafeature-length Jessica Elbaum Jessica leads two walkthroughs walkthroughs two leads

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Additional support is provided by Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley and the Decade Fund. Decade the and Donnelley Laura and Foundation Works Good by provided is support Additional Nimoy. Leonard and Nimoy Bay Susan and Foundation W. Goldsmith Horace the by provided also Hammer Projects , 2013.ACRYLIC, CHARCOAL,PASTEL, is organized by Hammer Hammer by organized is Njideka Akunyili Crosby Akunyili Njideka is made possible by a gift from Hope Warschaw and John Law. Generous support is is support Generous Law. John and Warschaw Hope from agift by possible made is

Arnall, curatorial assistant, Public Engagement. assistant, curatorial Arnall, and Parkos January MacKenzie Stevens, assistant, with curatorial Singer Avery Projects: Hammer States. United in the exhibition JOERG LOHSE. ON CANVAS, 87X77 AVERY SINGER, Singer Avery Projects: Hammer prephotographic the of to postdigital. from the visuality, technologies the span that traditions visual of amix together brings Singer naturalism,” portraying for possibilities “new called has she what Pursuing art. of history the from inherited trends and in genres based searches image Internet from culled complex, iconographically are that pictures creates Singer tools. digital other and Up software Sketch of style signature the through translated bodies by inhabited and scale, gray in rendered flat, predominantly are that in images explored commonly themes are and institutions curators, producers, between interaction “made,” are the and artists how made, are artworks How art. of works of dissemination and production the to Singer Avery 17, 2016 6, 2015–January October AVERY SINGER SAD WOMANPROJECTING LIBIDINALTHOUGHTS 1 ’s (b. 1987, speak York) New paintings ⁄ 8 (221X196CM).COLLECTION OFANDRESAKHAI.PHOTOBY is organized by curator Aram Moshayedi Moshayedi Aram curator by organized is marks the artist’s first solo solo first artist’s the marks , 2014,ACRYLIC

- COURTESY THEARTIST ANDPS1,NEW YORK.PHOTOBYPABLO ENRIQUEZ. SIMON DENNY, Public Engagement. assistant, Parkos curatorial January Arnall, with Denny Simon Projects: Hammer Silicon Beach. branded been recently has what surrounding culture material the and California in Southern industry tech the into inquiry site-specific anew offers Denny Angeles, presentationsolo first his For in culture. Los media and Internet to integral are that forms and style, language, visual the approximate often installations sculptural Denny’s objects, tangible and visible into information of flow immaterial the renders that aprocess Through world. digital in the knowledge of production the and exchange of conditions the into insight critical offer exhibitions and projects research-based Denny’s technologies, information of recent implications and social economic the Considering culture. of media landscape contemporary Denny Simon artist Berlin-based Zealand–born, New the of work The 15, 2016 2015–May 12, December SIMON DENNY THE INNOVATOR’S DILEMMA (b. 1982, Auckland, NZ) is driven by the the by isdriven NZ) (b. 1982, Auckland, is organized by curator Aram Moshayedi Moshayedi Aram curator by organized is , 2015.INSTALLATION VIEW, PS1,NEWYORK, 2015.

MARIANNE BOESKYGALLERY, NEWYORK.PHOTOBYNICKASH. ©JESSICAJACKSONHUTCHINS ANDREW MEIGSANDLINDA ANDJERRY JANGER.IMAGE COURTESY OFTHEARTIST AND UM, LOSANGELES.PURCHASEDWITHPARTIAL FUNDSPROVIDEDBYSARAHAND CERAMICS ONLEATHER COUCH. 39X32 JESSICA JACKSONHUTCHINS, associate. curatorial Butler Emily with Gonzalez-Jarrett, Connie curator chief by exhibition for selected were works These painting Biennale, Carpaccio present will Hammer The objects. contemplative to elevated are items ordinary in which paintings, still-life evoke works her sculptural, Though other. the for apedestal as one using oftentimes ceramics, own her with objects found combine works sculptural Hutchins’s work. her into narratives these weaves and inspiration for experiences personal and literature, history, from draws continually She clay. and mâché papier- with working began and history fraught its and medium the with disenchanted (b. 1971, became Chicago) painting, studying After 2016 24, 3, 2015–January October JACKSONJESSICA HUTCHINS Collection Contemporary Hammer (2013), created for the 55th Venice the for created (2013), Two Ties Two The Encyclopedic Palace Encyclopedic The (2014). (2014). CARPACCIO Jessica Jackson Hutchins Hutchins Jackson Jessica 11 , 2013.PAINT, FABRIC, COLLAGEAND GLAZED ⁄ 16 X81 1 ⁄ 2 IN.(99.1X83207CM).HAMMERMUSE , alongside the the , alongside

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the drought and other supply constrictors as a backdrop, next

a dynamic panel of experts illuminates who owns this necessity, why, and the ramifications. Buzz Thompson, September 2 September 9 September 16 September 23 September 30

1 founding director of Stanford Law School’s Environmental Barbara Probst Vik Muniz Chris Burden Hieronymus Wierix Wangechi Mutu 1 Exposure #87: N.Y.C., 401 16,000 Yards (Le Songeur), Coyote Stories, 2006 Seven Penitential Psalms, Eve, 2015 and Natural Resources Program; Linda Sheehan, executive Broadway, 03.15.11, 4:22 After a 1854 Cliché-Verre by *Cynthia Burlingham 1608 *January Parkos Arnall director of the Earth Law Center; and Eric L. Garner, the p.m., 2011 J.B.C. Corot, 1996 *Leslie Cozzi THE NEXT WAVE: first American to chair the International Bar Association’s *Emily Gonzalez-Jarrett *Marcela Guerrero Water Law Committee, will discuss potential solutions to QUALITY, QUANTITY, this Gordian knot of legal constraints. Mark Gold, UCLA associate vice chancellor for environment and sustainability, AND ACCESSIBILITY moderates. OF WATER IN THE LA SOURCE 21ST CENTURY TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 7:30PM As Los Angeles dips into a time of water scarcity, the COPRESENTED WITH THE UCLA INSTITUTE OF Hammer screens this documentary about a village in Haiti THE ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY where obtaining safe drinking water has never been easy. Josue Lajeunesse, the Princeton University custodian who Throughout 2015 the Hammer and the UCLA Institute October 7 October 14 October 21 October 28 November 4 is the compelling narrative’s core, returns to Haiti to Mark Bradford Frances Stark Jean Dubuffet Edouard Vuillard Frances Stark of the Environment and Sustainability explore the most channel a consistent, clean water source to his village. Finding Barry, 2015 My Best Thing, 2011 Faits Memorable II, 1978 Madame Hessel at the Bobby Jesus’s Alma Mater pressing issues surrounding the current and future state *Connie Butler *Ali Subotnick *Anne Ellegood Seashore, ca. 1904 b/w Reading the Book of Determination drives what the Washington Post dubs an of water. *David Rodes David and/or Paying atten- “artfully shot documentary.” Narrated by Don Cheadle. tion is Free, 2013 (2012, Dir. Patrick Shen, 71 min.) *Emily Gonzalez-Jarrett DOWN TO DROPS OR STILL AT GALLONS? THRIVING IN A HOTTER LOS ANGELES Lunchtime Art Talks take THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA’S WATER SUPPLY WEDNESDAY, December 2, 7:30pm place every Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. The Hammer’s THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 7:30PM Achieving 100 percent water sustainability by 2050 is curatorial department Is it sci-fi-film–style panic, or are we truly running out of one of the goals of the UCLA Grand Challenge Team. Join leads free and insightful water? Jay Famiglietti and Peter H. Gleick, two scientists some of the world’s top experts in climate change, water 15-minute discussions about works of art currently who have done more to bring attention to the consequences quality and supply, public policy, law, and more to discuss on view or from museum of our mismanagement of water than anyone, divulge the the feasibility of the goal, potential ways to get there, collections. *Speaker data. Wired magazine designated Gleick “one of 15 people and the importance of local water self-sufficiency for L.A. the next President should listen to” in 2008, while businesses and families. Panelists: UCLA faculty members November 18 December 2 December 9 December 16 Famiglietti’s innovative use of satellites to assess ground- Mark Gold, Eric Hoek, Alex Hall, and Liz Crosson of LA Avery Singer Njideka Akunyili Crosby Stanley William Hayter Kiki Smith water supplies was recently highlighted on 60 Minutes. Waterkeeper. Hammer Project, 2015 5 Umezebi Street, New Five Figures (Cinq Personnages) Free Fall, 1994 *Aram Moshayedi Haven, Enugu, 2012 1946 *January Parkos Arnall Mark Gold, UCLA associate vice chancellor for environment *Jamillah James *MacKenzie Stevens and sustainability, moderates.

ABOVE: KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI. FEMININE WAVE (MENAMI) (DETAIL). CALENDAR 18 HAMMER MUSEUM PROGRAMS ARE FREE TO THE PUBLIC SEPTEMBER 15 Thu 7:30PM Hammer Screenings (p. 28) 7 Sat 10AM Public Engagement (p. 14) 19 Flux ENGAGE MORE NOW! (continues) All Hammer public programs are free and made possible by a major 4 Fri 1PM Public Engagement (p. 14) gift from the Dream Fund at UCLA. Contemplative Art Viewing 18 Sun 11AM Hammer Kids | Family Flicks (p. 29) 8 Sun 11AM Hammer Kids | 826LA@Hammer (p. 31) The Hammer’s digital presentation of its public programs is made The Witches Fairy Tailoring, Favorite Characters Meet possible by the Billy and Audrey L. Wilder Foundation. 10 Thu 7:30PM Hammer Forum (p. 22) 9/11, the Saudi Connection 20 Tue 7:30PM Hammer Screenings (p. 28) 12 Thu 7:30PM Hammer Lectures (p. 25) calendar calendar

Generous support is also provided by Susan Bay Nimoy and Leonard

Open Projector Night Jennifer Pastor Nimoy, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, an anonymous 12 Sat 11AM Hammer Kids (p. 31) donor, and all Hammer members. Family Day: Community Studio 21 Wed 7:30PM Hammer Screenings | I Am Armenian (p. 27) 15 Sun 11AM Hammer Kids | Family Flicks (p. 29) Here The Little Prince Hammer Public Programs are organized by Claudia Bestor, 1 13 Sun 11AM Hammer Kids | 826LA@Hammer (p. 31) 1 director, Public Programs. The Desert Island Workshop 24 Sat 10AM UCLA Art History 50th Anniversary 1PM Public Engagement (p. 14) Graduate Student Symposium (p. 26) Libros Schmibros Book Club EXHIBITION TOURS 20 Sun 11AM Hammer Kids | Family Flicks (p. 29) SATURDAYS AT 1PM Journey to the Center of the Earth 25 Sun 11AM Hammer Kids | 826LA@Hammer (p. 31) 2PM & 2:45PM Tour: UH-OH: Frances Stark 1991–2015 (p. 7) Witches’ Cookbook (and TV Show) for 45-minute tours of selected works in special exhibitions 22 Tue 7:30PM Hammer Screenings | I Am Armenian (p. 27) the Tragically Non-Magic 17 Tue 7:30PM Hammer Readings | Some Favorite Writers (p. 24) are facilitated by Hammer student educators. A Story of People in War and Peace Thomas McGuane 2PM Hammer Screenings (p. 28) ART IN CONVERSATION 24 Thu 7:30PM The Next Wave (p. 17) Casa de Mi Padre 18 Wed 7PM UCLA Game Arts Festival (p. 26) Sundays AT 3:30PM Down to Drops or Still at Gallons? The State of California’s Water Supply 2PM & 2:45PM Tour: The Idea of North: 19 Thu 7:30PM Hammer Screenings | I Am Armenian (p. 27) 30-minute talks about connections and comparisons The Paintings of Lawren Harris (p. 5) Vodka Lemon between two works of art are led by Hammer student educators. 25 Fri 7:30PM Hammer Conversations (p. 20) Genesis Breyer P-Orridge & Simon Reynolds 27 Tue 7:30PM Hammer Conversations (p. 21) 24 Tue 7:30PM The Next Wave (p. 17) GROUP TOURS Alexyss K. Tylor & Frances Stark: La Source The Hammer offers private tours for groups and a variety 26 Sat 12PM ALL THE INSTRUMENTS AGREE: Vagina Power an exhibition or a concert (p. 12) DECEMBER of options for K–12th grade classes. Guided and self- 28 Wed 7:30PM Hammer Screenings (p. 28) guided groups of 10 or more require a reservation. For more 27 Sun 12PM ALL THE INSTRUMENTS AGREE: My Best Thing 1 Tue 7:30PM Hammer Screenings (p. 28) information or to make a reservation, please call 310-443- an exhibition or a concert (p. 12) Freeway: Crack in the System 7041 or visit hammer.ucla.edu. 29 Thu 7:30PM The Next Wave (p. 17) OCTOBER Who Owns Water? 2 Wed 7:30PM The Next Wave (p. 17) Thriving in a Hotter Los Angeles MINDFUL AWARENESS 1 Thu 7:30PM Hammer Forum (p. 22) 7:30PM Hammer Readings | Poetry (p. 25) THURSDAYS, 12:30–1PM What Is Sharia Law, Actually? Sharon Olds 3 Thu 7:30PM Hammer Conversations (p. 21) Mindful awareness is the moment-by-moment process of Sandow Birk & Reza Aslan: American Qur’an 4 Sun 11AM Hammer Kids | Look Together (p. 30) NOVEMBER actively and openly observing one’s physical, mental, and How to Design Clothing About Art 6 Sun 11AM Hammer Kids | 826LA@Hammer (p. 31) emotional experiences. The free weekly drop-in sessions 1 Sun 11AM Hammer Kids | Look Together (p. 30) The DIY Holiday Home Shopping take place in the comfortable seats of the Billy Wilder 5 Mon 7:30PM Hammer Conversations (p. 20) How to Make Ofrendas About Art Sale-a-bration Steve Martin & Adam Gopnik Theater and are open to all who are interested in learning 3 Tue 7:30PM Hammer Forum (p. 23) 8 Tue 7:30PM Hammer Readings | Some Favorite Writers (p. 24) how to live more presently in life. No special clothing 11 Sun 11AM Hammer Kids | Close Encounters (p. 30) Barney Frank: The Elections One Year Out Akhil Sharma is required, and participants are welcome to stay for Picturing Nature: Our Environment, Our Actions 4 Wed 7:30PM Hammer Lectures (p. 24) 10 Thu 7:30PM Hammer Forum (p. 23) 5 minutes or enjoy the entire 30-minute session. Ian F. Svenonius Project Fatherhood 13 Tue 7:30PM Hammer Conversations (p. 20) Sessions are led by instructors from the UCLA Mindful Liz Goldwyn & Susan Orlean: 5 Thu 7:30PM Hammer Readings | Poetry (p. 25) 13 Sun 11AM Hammer Kids | Family Flicks (p. 29) Awareness Research Center. Visit marc.ucla.edu to learn more. L.A.’s Red Light Era Joseph Harrison The Sound of Music

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I AM ARMENIAN A YEAR OF ARMENIAN CULTURE AND HISTORY IN FILM

In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, we present a yearalong series of films exploring multiple facets of Armenian culture, history, and landscape. UCLA ART HISTORY 50TH ANNIVERSARY GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM A STORY OF PEOPLE IN WAR AND PEACE VODKA LEMON Saturday, October 24, 9AM-5PM TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 7:30PM Thursday, November 19, 7:30PM Half-life denotes the amount of time required for a Over the course of five days in 1994, the filmmaker Vardan The central character in this comedy set amid a snowy substance to diminish to half of its original amount. Hovhannisyan documented a close-range battle of the Yazidi Kurdish village in post-Soviet Armenia is Hamo, a With respect to art, the concept of half-life provides a Karabakh War, in which half the soldiers were wounded widower with three worthless sons. Hamo is so poor that framework for considering processes of transition— and a full third killed. Twelve years later he finds survivors, he’s about to sell off his treasured military uniform when instability, loss, and retention—and exploring questions men with whom he shared a terrifying trench. His intimate he meets Nina, a lovely widow who works at the village’s of time, material, value, and agency. For this year’s conversations with these veterans demonstrate the cost of sparsely attended bar, Vodka Lemon, which is about to symposium, emerging scholars will address the relationship war and what it is to survive the peace. close. Selected to play at the Toronto Film Festival and in of half-life to art history and its objects of inquiry. (2007, Dir. Vardan Hovhannisyan, 69 min.) MoMA’s New Directors / New Films Festival. (2003, Dir. Hiner Saleem, 88 min.) UCLA GAME ARTS FESTIVAL HERE Wednesday, November 18, 7-10PM WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 7:30PM THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES The UCLA Game Lab in collaboration with the Hammer Will Shepard is an American satellite-mapping engineer Tuesday, DECEMBER 15, 7:30PM Student Association presents an evening of innovative contracted to render a survey of Armenia. He’s been doing Restored by Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation, gaming. With games ranging from the bombastic and it on his own, all over the world, but on this trip his this masterpiece is a can’t-miss for students of film. performative to the intimate and personal, these measurements are not adding up. Then he meets Gadarine Its director graduated from the Soviet Russian All-Union ambitious and participatory projects use a variety of Najarian, an intriguing expatriate Armenian art photographer State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow in 1951 media and modes of expression. Browse the games or returning home after making her name abroad. In this but during the film’s original release was jailed courtesy participate in a tournament while enjoying live music, beautifully shot film, their relationship enters dimensions of Soviet authorities. A chronicle of the life of Sayat Nova, refreshments, and game-inspired artwork. Visit and tensions deeper than a flat visual. the revered Armenian troubadour, it is no standard biopic (2011, Dir. Braden King, 126 min.) festival.games.ucla.edu for more information on the but instead a cinematic poem. (1968, Dir. Sergei Parajanov, 88 min.)

UCLA Game Lab. STILL FROM THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES. IMAGE COURTESY OF ARKEION FILMS.

SCREENINGS 28 29 FLUX OPEN PROJECTOR NIGHT THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 7:30PM TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 7:30PM

Never mind Slamdance, Sundance, or SXSW—screen your kids

The Flux screening series at the Hammer presents innovative short films, music videos, filmmaker own short film or video and vie for a Hammer Open Projector retrospectives, and interesting visual work from Night Prize at Los Angeles’s most raucous independent film fest. Cinematic storytelling of all genres incurs praise and screenings

around the globe. Learn more at flux.net. 1 wrath alike as the Sklar Brothers—who have hosted shows on Comedy Central, MTV, and ESPN—emcee. Works under 10 minutes only. Sign-ups are first come, first served,

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CASA DE MI PADRE Sunday, October 25, 2pm Frances Stark recognized the political subtext and artistry in this Spanish- language comedy about Mexican brothers (Will Ferrell and Diego Luna) caught in a telenovela-style plot that includes a nefarious drug kingpin (Gael García Bernal). Humor ensues. The actor Will Ferrell, director Matt Piedmont, writer Andrew Steele, and producer Jessica Elbaum join Stark for a post-screening conversation about the distinctly unfunny consequences of America’s appetite for drugs, including drug-related violence in Mexico. (2012, Dir. Matt Piedmont, 84 min.) FAMILY FLICKS In conjunction with UH-OH: Frances Stark 1991–2015. Copresented by UCLA Film & Television Archive JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH THE LITTLE PRINCE MY BEST THING SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 11AM, RECOMMENDED FOR AGES 9+ SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 11AM, RECOMMENDED FOR AGES 9+ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 7:30pm Few films provide the multigenerational appeal delivered “All grown-ups were once children ... but only few of them First exhibited at the 54th Venice Biennale, Frances Stark’s My Best Thing by this 1959 landmark. Its in-camera special effects are remember it.” Is it parents who take offspring to The Little (2011) is a feature-length video produced using a text-to-speech animation a lesson for film students today. For those who were Prince or children who know to bring their parents? This program. It is based on online sex chats that Stark conducted with two mesmerized by the original story, the film is a perfect way astounding piece of storytelling, a musical adaptation of Italian suitors. The conversations rapidly devolve—or should we say, to share it with children. Catalyzed by a mysterious message Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s novella, epitomizes the wonder evolve—into larger discussions on a variety of topics, leading to intimate from a missing explorer, a geologist and his motley team of childlike wisdom. Gene Wilder takes a turn as the Fox, ephemeral and intellectual engagement. A Q&A with Stark follows the embark on a scientific expedition into the depths of the while Bob Fosse slips in as the Snake. (1974, Dir. Stanley Donen, screening. (Frances Stark, My Best Thing, 2011. Digital video, color, sound. 100 min. Hammer 35mm, color, 88 min.) Museum, Los Angeles. Purchase. Image courtesy of Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York.) earth. Expect giant lizards, underground oceans, and lost In conjunction with UH-OH: Frances Stark 1991–2015. cities. (1959, Dir. Henry Levin, DCP, color, 132 min.) THE SOUND OF MUSIC FREEWAY: CRACK IN THE SYSTEM THE WITCHES SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 11AM, RECOMMENDED FOR AGES 6+ Tuesday, December 1, 7:30PM SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 11AM, RECOMMENDED FOR AGES 8+ In its 50th anniversary year, the classic musical (the The real story behind America’s drug war, complete with drug dealers, Can a nine-year-old boy stop the Grand High Witch of subject of a 2015 Vanity Fair story that features new dirty cops, and government complicity, this film was selected by the England’s sinister scheme to turn all the children of his behind-the-scenes revelations) screens at the Hammer, artist Frances Stark. At the center of it all is the rise, fall, and redemption of country into mice? The Witches is an empowering tale and where its famed sound track will be enhanced by the Billy “Freeway” Rick Ross—a street hustler who became the king of crack. a visual feast. This adaptation of Roald Dahl’s ghoulish Wilder Theater’s pristine sound system. Julie Andrews stars Followed by a Q&A with “Freeway” Rick Ross and others. classic features the darkly imaginative puppetry of Jim as an Austrian governess who restores joy to seven young (2015, Dir. Mark Levin, 103 min.) Henson and Anjelica Huston at her delightfully nefarious charges—and to film audiences. (1965, Dir. Robert Wise, DCP, color, 174 min.) In conjunction with UH-OH: Frances Stark 1991–2015. best. Grown-ups can’t be blamed for being mesmerized too.

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1 kids 31 On May 17, the Hammer Museum celebrated its sixth annual 32 K.A.M.P. (Kids’ Art Museum Project), a one-of-a-kind fundraising 33 event imagined by artists that provides extraordinary experiences for kids and their families. Renowned L.A. artists led 20 inventive, kids kids hands-on workshops in the Hammer’s courtyard, bringing families together for a wonderful day of creativity.

1 Thanks to our 2015 K.A.M.P. Committee! 1 Brooke Kanter, Chair Nicole Maloney

Maya McLaughlin 4. Best Friend Supporters Sarah & Aaron Michaelson Shiri Appleby & Jon Shook Tracy O’Brien & Thaddeus Stauber The Brotman Foundation Randi & Jeffrey Pollack of California Anna Prada & Simon Horsman Rosette Delug Alisa & Kevin Ratner Sarah Hendler & Vinny Dotolo Sharon & Nelson Rising Lauren & Benedikt Taschen Lily Johnson White & Lena Wald & Jon Fries Alexander Sandy White

Ann Soh Woods Super Friend Supporters 7. Leah & Steven Yari Candace & Charles Nelson 1. Viveca Paulin-Ferrell & Will Ferrell Supporters Mark Siegel Rebecca Bloom & David Kurtz

Carol Cheng-Mayer & Brett Mayer Friend Supporters Wendy Dembo Allison & Larry Berg Andrea Feldman Falcione & Blum & Poe Greg Falcione Jodi Guber Brufsky & Seth Brufsky 5. Leslie Fram Robyn & Guymon Casady Jill Garland Cherry and Martin Jane Glassman Photos page 32 Suzanne Erickson Cynthia Greenwald 1. Kids doodle on Amanda Susanna Felleman & Erik Feig Deborah Kaplan Ross-Ho’s gargantuan t-shirt Ryan & Tucker Gates Suzanne Kraus 2. Story Time in the galleries Elizabeth Guber-Sugarman & Alex Kwit & Jenny Eisenpresser Kwit with Zoe Saldana Jason Sugarman 2. Karyn Lovegrove 3. Making headbands with Dana Garman Jacobsen & 8. Stanya Kahn Phil Mercado & Todd Quinn Jim Jacobsen 4. Beth Rudin DeWoody, Julie Miyoshi Linda Janger Ann Philbin, Brooke Kanter, Amber Noland Brooke & Adam Kanter Marcy Carsey Candice & Darren Romanelli 5. Plymouth Jones and kids Kayne Foundation - Suzanne & Stacy & John Rubeli put on a dance finale Ric and Jenni, Maggie, & Saree Robyn & Michael Siegel 6. Friends with Brian Bress Mali Kinberg Maria Sussman masks Samantha Kurtzman-Counter & Alex Kurtzman Photos page 33 The Lindelof Family 7. Kids paint on Kenny Scharf’s project 8. Liza Lou helping kids contribute to Claytopia! 9. Plymouth Jones and his 6. dance troupe

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