sign in sign up
<<
Home , Hammer Museum, Siege (comics)

Hammer Museum Spring 2012 Non Profit Org. US Postage 10899 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90024 USA Spring 2012 Calendar For additional program information: 310-443-7000 PAID Los Angeles, CA www.hammer.ucla.edu Permit no. 202

100% recycled paper

3 ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW. SOUVENIRS, 1967. POLYESTER RESIN AND PHOTOGRAPHS. BACK: 4½ x 1 ⁄8 x 2¾ IN. (11.5 x 3.5 x 7 CM); 13 5 9 FRONT: 11 ⁄16 x 8 ⁄8 x 3 ⁄16 IN. (30 x 22 x 9 CM). THE ESTATE OF ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW/PIOTR STANISLAWSKI. © THE ESTATE OF ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW/PIOTR STANISLAWSKI/ ARS, NEW YORK/ ADAGP, PARIS. COURTESY BROADWAY 1602, NEW YORK. 28 1

2 3

with a lisp. Thay it! A Satanist doomed to failure. Thay you “You bought that?” my father asked incredulously when he saw

JOHN WATERS’ TRIBUTE love Thatan. I’m a single man who occasionally gets to sleep “Child Substitute,” the pitiful collage Mike did that looks like a SPEECH FOR MIKE KELLEY with new people and I always make my partners say “Thay You five-year-old retarded boy began cutting out pictures of animals HAMMER GALA | OCTOBER 14, 2007 Love Thatan,” before hopping in the sack and I thank Mike from Sunday newspaper ads but lost his train of thought and Kelley for helping me get lucky through artistic humor. abandoned the project. “Yes,” I told my Dad proudly, “I sure director

did!” “They saw you coming boy,” he said shaking his head director

I live with Mike Kelley. Yes, the man who made pitiful seem In my New York apartment hangs Mike’s “Dirty Mirror” which as he focused in on the crudely cut out and lumpily glued-on the

is a painting of a mirror with disgusting leftover cocaine type pets, framed in the cheapest way possible. Here was the perfect the

sexy, the man who turned grimy thrift shop stuffed animals into heartbreaking, jaw-dropping beauty by placing them on stained leavings smeared uglily across it. What a terrible night it bait for those who have contempt before investigation about suggests, reckless misleading moments of chemical joy that contemporary art. I love how mad Mike’s work makes some people. from blankets on the floor of art museums. The man who may have

seem so sour an hour later. Sort of like the drawing of a Catholic from even inspired a whole new underground sexual fetish—that of Isn’t that the job of contemporary art? To infuriate? The nay-sayers the “plushie,” people who are sexually attracted to partners soul we had to study in grade school—all white but dotted with of contemporary art who can’t see Mike’s brilliance here should when they dress up as stuffed animals. Yes, I live with the venial sins like measles on a Robert Wyman painting. be outraged because, yes, they secretly know this contemporary man who much later and with just as much daring created a art DOES hate them and they deserve it! message But of course mortal sins were worse. The ultimate offense

depraved blue-collar Satanic Dollywood-type theme park movie message a against God when the soul became all black like Mike’s 1995 Somebody ELSE lives with the one Mike Kelley piece I desperately

extravaganza entitled “Day Is Done.” From “The Exploding a “Wedged Lump” which hangs in my dining room and suggests Plastic Inevitable” and Warhol’s 24-hour movie “Four Stars,” wanted and missed out on. Entitled “Storehouse,” it may be the a giant turd with comic strip “stink” marks. An art work where Mike’s “BerlinKelleyplatz” as I call it, was the perfect and logical most shocking and amazing of all Mike’s sculpture and I blinked if someone comments “kind of shitty” it’s a compliment. Where and somebody else beat me to it and bought it. It’s nothing but

1 continuation and fulfillment of this great thrill ride

my dinner guests are forced to confront the fate of their meal 1 multimedia artistic experience. a cat food shipping box filled with soiled, packed-up cat toys, no matter how gourmet the initial presentation appeared. with two unframed found Hallmark-type greeting cards hung Yes, I live with Mike Kelley, the ultimate bad boy who knows above from a vet showing sympathy for the death of your cat. I live with Mike Kelley in my work space, too. Right above sex will always be better if you were raised Catholic because it This mundane still life of sadness and private mortification my writing desk in New York is one of his “Garbage Drawings” will always be dirty and funny. A man who gave new meaning makes me feel like spontaneously combusting every time I see —isolated refuse with everything else but the garbage to “extracurricular activities” from high school yearbooks. A it reproduced and NOW somebody else owns it and I fantasize eliminated from the original Sad Sack cartoons. Fumes of man who may recognize the gleeful rage I felt when I asked breaking into the museum or collector’s home and stealing it! filth that I hope inspire my screenplays and fetid books. my high school teacher to sign my yearbook in the mid-sixties. Isn’t Mike really a magician? Isn’t someone who can make you see The yearbook with not one extracurricular activity listed next Even my library is defaced by Mike Kelley. Hanging there to my name. The teacher wrote, “to someone who can but doesn’t.” something supposedly shameful in a beautiful, hilarious, radical, is one of the hilarious 1989 “Reconstructed History” subversive way really a miracle worker? Even a good Catholic? Mike, a man who doesn’t but can, might find humor in my recent vandalisms—a real history text book that Mike defaced with A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR predicament when clergy at my Catholic high school were accused Art + Auction magazine called Mike an “Apocalyptic Vulgarian.” glee, the same thing all of us who were bored in high school I call him a terrorist and a healer. Thay it! Go ahead. Thay you of long ago sexual abuse. When the victims group called me for wanted to do in reaction to teachers who didn’t challenge their support 40 years later I had to give them the good but love Mike Kelly. I do! Yesterday, the day before this calendar was going to press, us or discouraged our rabid interests. Our boredom turned confusing news that these Christian brothers hadn’t touched we heard the news that Mike Kelley had taken his own life. to anger and then to rage and if we were lucky, then to art. me so I couldn’t help their cause. Was I having a recurring We are all utterly bereft and heartbroken. Mike is one of “Barf” adds Mike to the patriotic “Signing of the Declaration memory when I wondered later if I should feel bad because even the most influential and defining artists of his generation of Independence” illustration and now, on the 4th of July, I the child molester teachers had rejected me! and his impact on the practices of younger artists around can finally feel patriotic thanks to Mike Kelley’s troublemaking the globe is immeasurable. defiant reinvention of this school book. Mike Kelley is a man who recognizes true heroes. He’s a man

who knows John Sinclair’s name alone in a painting is the In 2007, the Hammer honored Mike at our annual Gala in Even my assistants live with Mike Kelley. In their office proper canonization of a saint of a different sort. Yes, I live the Garden. John Waters, who was a dear friend to Mike, hangs the “Auditions” street sign he created for Los Angeles with Mike Kelley, the man who gave repression a good name delivered the tribute to him. We asked John if we could Contemporary Exhibitions in 2004. Mocking the hastily done in many rooms of both my homes. reprint his remarkable speech as a remembrance. We will cardboard signs casting agents put up in the halls of hotels to lead actors to try-out for roles, Mike celebrates the sadness all miss Mike very much. Even in my Baltimore bedroom. Right across from the bed is of Hollywood, the despair of a failed career, the missed ABOVE: JOHN WATERS & MIKE KELLEY, 2007. PHOTO: REBECCA SAPP. a Kelley painting of Satanic-like graffiti with the words “Thay OPPOSITE: MIKE KELLEY, 2007. PHOTO: STEFANIE KEENAN. opportunities and the ever present cliché of the casting couch. Reproduced with the permission of John Waters. — Annie Philbin You Love Thatan” scrawled elegantly and scarily. A Satanist

4 5

ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW EXHIBITION-RELATED SCULPTURE UNDONE, 1955–1972 PROGRAMS exhibitions Monday, March 26, 7pm & exhibitions

Tuesday, March 27, 7pm HAMMER SCREENINGS Shoah 1 1 See page 16.

Thursday, April 12, 7pm Continues through April 29, 2012 POETRY OF WISŁAWA SZYMBORSKA Co-presented by the UCLA Department Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955–1972 is the first museum survey in the of Slavic Languages & Literatures and United States devoted to this Polish artist. The exhibition brings to light the extraordinary the Hammer Poetry Series Polish artist and Holocaust survivor oeuvre of Alina Szapocznikow (1926–1973), one of the most significant but little-known Alina Szapocznikow reflected on the sculptors of the 20th century. At the core of Szapocznikow’s art is the ephemeral condition ephemeral condition of human life in of life and the human body. Her work oscillates between permanence and impermanence, from her work. This program presents the carvings in Carrara marble to the precarious assemblages of lips and breasts cast in polyester work of the late Polish poet Wisława resin. The exhibition includes approximately 60 sculptures and 50 works on paper, as well as Szymborska to provide cultural context for a poignant group of photographic works, demonstrating the tremendous range and scope Szapocznikow’s experience. Szymborska, of Szapocznikow’s artistic practice. Szapocznikow’s work can be associated with that of born in Prowent, Poland, in 1923, won Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, and Paul Thek—artists working during the same period whose the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996 exploration of new sculptural methods and materials helped to reimagine the traditional “for poetry that with ironic expression concept of sculpture in the 20th century. allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments The exhibition opened at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels (September 10, 2011– of human reality.” Szymborska died January 8, 2012). After its showing at the Hammer, it will travel to the Wexner Center for earlier this year in Krakow. She was 88. the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (May 18–August 8, 2012) and The Museum of Modern Art, Actress Beata Pozniak and poet-scholars New York (October 7, 2012–January 28, 2013). Piotr Florczyk, Roman Koropeckyj, and Stephen Yenser read from her works, both in English and in their original Polish. Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955–1972 is organized by WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, and the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, in collaboration with the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Sunday, April 29, 2pm EXHIBITION WALKTHROUGH The exhibition is curated by Elena Filipovic and Joanna Mytkowska. The Hammer Museum’s presentation is organized by Allegra Pesenti, curator, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts. Closing day walkthrough with curator Allegra Pesenti. This exhibition and the accompanying catalogue are generously supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

OPPOSITE: ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW. UNTITLED FROM FOTORZEZBY (PHOTOSCULPTURES), 1971 (DETAIL). The Hammer Museum’s presentation is made possible through major gifts from Erika Glazer and Alice and Nahum Lainer. 7 13 (PRINTED 2007.) GELATIN SILVER PRINTS ON BARYTE PAPER. SHEET: 9 ⁄16 X 11 ⁄16 IN. (24 X 30 CM). Generous support is also provided by Herta and Paul Amir. The exhibition is made possible by additional support COLLECTION UCLA GRUNWALD CENTER FOR THE GRAPHIC ARTS, HAMMER MUSEUM. PURCHASED WITH from the National Endowment for the Arts, Rosette V. Delug, Alisa and Kevin Ratner, The Audrey & Sydney Irmas FUNDS PROVIDED BY THE HELGA K. AND WALTER OPPENHEIMER ACQUISITION FUND. © THE ESTATE OF ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW/PIOTR STANISLAWSKI/ ARS, NEW YORK/ ADAGP, PARIS; ABOVE: ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW Charitable Foundation, and the Consulate General of Poland, Los Angeles. IN CARRARA AT WORK ON GRANDES VENTRES (BIG BELLIES). PHOTO CREDIT: ROGER GAIN FOR ELLE, 1968, © THE ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW ARCHIVE—PIOTR STANISLAWSKI—NATIONAL MUSEUM KRAKOW. 6 7

HAMMER PROJECTS Hammer Projects is a series of exhibitions focusing primarily on the work of emerging artists.

Hammer Projects is made possible through a major gift from The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation. exhibitions exhibitions

Generous support is provided by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and Susan Bay Nimoy and . Additional support is provided by Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley; Kayne Foundation—Ric & Suzanne Kayne 1 and Jenni, Maggie & Saree; the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of 1 Los Angeles; and the David Teiger Curatorial Travel Fund. SPECIAL INSTALLATION T. KELLY MASON Continues through May 27, 2012

L.A.–based artist T. Kelly Mason’s practice includes sculpture, performance, video, and works on paper. For Nocturne (Pierce Brothers Westwood Village)(2011), a new work created for the Hammer’s courtyard light boxes, Mason visited Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park, a cemetery just around the corner from the Hammer. Resting place of the museum’s founder, , and director , namesake of our theater, the cemetery is also the final home to CARLOS BUNGA ANTONY ALEX HUBBARD many Hollywood luminaries. After photographing the Continues through April 22, 2012 Continues through May 13, 2012 Continues through May 20, 2012 cemetery, Mason collaged portions of his images to create composite views in which grave sites are Trained as a painter, Barcelona-based Portuguese artist Over the past 20 years, Antony has developed an esoteric Construction and art materials, urban detritus, domestic rearranged to poetic effect. Derived from traditional Carlos Bunga has expanded his practice to encompass and diverse body of work that includes not only his items, and even the occasional animal make their way into celluloid animation, Mason’s technique of layering multiple mediums, including collage, drawing, performance, critically acclaimed music and elaborate performances but New York–based artist Alex Hubbard’s dynamic videos. theatrical lighting gels and articulating imagistic sculpture, and video. In his architecturally scaled installations, also his work in collage, drawing, and sculpture. Antony’s Hubbard is also a painter, and his videos and paintings details with ink drawing is well suited to rendering Bunga uses mass-produced materials like cardboard, packing work emerges from a set of rituals such as washing and employ parallel strategies, exploring the construction, deep space and intense color. Mason offers a multivalent tape, and house paint to build structures that recall temporary burning paper or engaging in repetitive mark making composition, mass, color, and depth of images in meditation on themes of celebrity, death, and the search shelters or life-size maquettes. Built over a period of weeks, as well as cutting, tearing, and sewing found images. unexpected ways. In the videos, elaborate Foley sound for meaning. Organized by Corrina Peipon, Hammer his largely improvised, site-specific sculptures are made in His growing visual vocabulary reflects his ideas about tracks add a delightful and provocative dimension to curatorial associate. direct dialogue with the surrounding architecture. Bunga the power of human intuition, the sacredness of nature, Hubbard’s adventurous visual narratives. Hammer Projects: likens the process to making an abstract painting in three transgenderism, and the revolutionary potential of the Alex Hubbard marks the debut of his newest video, Eat Your T. Kelly Mason’s Nocturne (Pierce Brothers Westwood Village) has received support from Juliet McIver. dimensions. Hammer Projects: Carlos Bunga includes a new feminine. The exhibition features collages and drawings Friends (2012), which is presented alongside The Border, work made on-site for the Lobby Wall as well as a selection made from the late 1990s to 2011, some of which were The Ship (2011). The exhibition highlights Hubbard’s related program of Bunga’s drawings, paintings, sculptures, and videos dating recently published in Swanlights, a book accompanying increasingly complex videos, which engulf viewers in bold Hammer Lectures from 2002 to 2008 on view in the Lobby Gallery. Organized the 2010 Antony and the Johnsons album. Organized by colors, performative gestures, and evolving compositions. thursday, May 24, 7pm by Corrina Peipon, Hammer curatorial associate. guest curator James Elaine. Organized by Hammer curatorial associate Corrina Peipon, T. Kelly Mason, Tyler Cassity, and George Baker it is his first one-person museum exhibition. See page 12. PAGES 6–7: LEFT–RIGHT: HAMMER PROJECTS: CARLOS BUNGA. INSTALLATION VIEW AT THE HAMMER MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES. NOVEMBER 25, 2011–APRIL 22, 2012. PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRIAN FORREST. ANTONY. LOVE OF THE WORLD, 2003 (DETAIL). COLLAGE ON PRINTED PAGE. 10¼ x 14 IN. (26 x 35.6 CM). COURTESY OF THE ARTIST. ALEX HUBBARD. EAT YOUR FRIENDS, 2012 (DETAIL). DIGITAL VIDEO, COLOR, SOUND. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND MACCARONE, NEW YORK. T. KELLY MASON. CITY AT MOONRISE, 2011 (DETAIL). 4 DURATRANS FILMS. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST.

8 9

UPCOMING EXHIBITION exhibitions exhibitions

NEW. MADEART. IN L.A.NOW. 2012 1 June 2 – September 2, 2012 1

The first Los Angeles biennial,Made in L.A. 2012, organized by the Hammer Museum in collaboration with LA>

Made in L.A. 2012 will also include the Venice Beach Biennial, from July 13–15, 2012, made possible through the generous support of the Teiger Foundation. For this unconventional and slightly unpredictable project directed by Ali Subotnick, the Venice Beach boardwalk will become a readymade exhibition space inspired by the Arsenale at the “real” Venice Biennale. Over the course of the weekend, 40 to 50 artists will collaborate with boardwalk INTIMATE IMMENSITY artists, creating new bodies of work, displaying site-specific sculptures and/or THE SUSAN AND LARRY MARX COLLECTION installations, and presenting performances along the boardwalk.

Continues through May 6, 2012 Made in L.A. 2012 is organized by the Hammer Museum in collaboration with LA>

The Hammer Museum is proud to be the recipient of a substantial promised gift from our longtime supporters The exhibition is presented by Susan and Larry Marx. This is the first public presentation of a selection from the extraordinary gift that the Marxes Major support is also provided by the Annenberg Foundation, Fundación Jumex, A.C., have pledged to the Hammer. The Marx Collection, made up primarily of works on paper, also includes paintings and The Mohn Family Foundation, and the members of the Hammer Circle. sculpture. This collection of more than 150 works by 109 artists includes exemplary works by seminal artists such as , Eva Hesse, Joan Mitchell, , and Cy Twombly, alongside exciting works by Generous support is provided by the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, younger artists like , , and Mary Heilmann, and will complement the Hammer Contemporary Karyn Kohl, the Pasadena Art Alliance, Alumnos 47, the Bloom Family, and an anonymous donor. Additional support is provided by the LA>

3 ABOVE: CY TWOMBLY. UNTITLED (ROMAN NOTE), 1970. OIL PAINT, WAX CRAYON, AND PENCIL. 27½ x 34 ⁄8 IN. (69.9 x 87.3 CM). HAMMER MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES. PROMISED GIFT OF SUSAN AND LARRY MARX. © CY TWOMBLY FOUNDATION. PHOTOGRAPH BY JASON DEWEY. The Venice Beach Biennial is made possible by the Teiger Foundation. 10 11

engagement PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

The Hammer Museum’s Public Engagement Program is supported through a major grant from The James Irvine Foundation. conversations

Additional support is provided by The Shifting Foundation. public

LIBROS SCHMIBROS BOOK CLUB HAMMER 1 Libros Schmibros is back at the Hammer with a monthly book club led by YEARBOOK 1 co-directors David Kipen and Colleen Jaurretche. Convenings will focus Documentation of Hammer programs on books related to the museum’s exhibitions and programs. Here is Kipen’s and events for Yearbook continues take on their first selections: through the end of March. The images will be used in Harrell Fletcher Sunday, March 4, 1pm and Adam Moser’s Public Engagement The Ecstasy of Influence by , coinciding with the author’s project that captures a year at the visit on March 13 (see page 20). The terrific word on Lethem’s new, artfully museum in the vernacular of a high HAMMER CONVERSATIONS selected nonfiction collection,The Ecstasy of Influence, proves more than school yearbook. The project will justified. It reads like a library of his many obsessions, which makes it the culminate with a printed book and DAVID ADJAYE & MACK SCOGIN ATOM EGOYAN & SERJ TANKIAN perfect title to inaugurate a book club curated by another cockeyed library, a yearbook signing party. thursday, march 29, 7pm Sunday, April 22, 3pm Libros Schmibros. David Adjaye OBE is principal architect of Adjaye Two days before the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide Associates. This global practice has won several of 1915, we bring together two artists of Armenian descent Sunday, April 1, 1pm CONTEMPLATIVE prestigious commissions, including the Smithsonian’s to discuss its lasting impact. Atom Egoyan’s critically Already Dead by Denis Johnson, coinciding with the author’s visit ART VIEWING National Museum of African American History and Culture acclaimed films includeChloe , Speaking Parts, The Adjuster, on April 17 (see page 20). Any novel subtitled A California Gothic gets our in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Contemporary Art, Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter (nominated for two Academy blood racing, and Johnson’s noirish 1998 Already Dead keeps it racing all saturday, March 3, 1PM Mindfulness educator Mitra Manesh Denver, and the Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo. Adjaye also Awards), and the award-winning Ararat, a meditation the way through. It’s the story of Nelson Fairchild Jr., a pot grower who will lead a 75-minute mindful collaborates with artists and curators to create unique on the Armenian Genocide. His work has been featured double-crosses a cocaine and finds himself in a crossfire of hit art-viewing experience of the spaces, including Olafur Eliasson’s light installation Your in international retrospectives including at the Centre men, vengeful lovers, and one dangerous philosopher. Armand Hammer Collection. This black horizon at the 2005 Venice Biennale. Mack Scogin Pompidou in Paris and at the Venice Biennale. Serj Tankian is a principal in the firm of Mack Scogin Merrill Elam is a Lebanese-born Armenian American singer, songwriter, Sunday, May 6, 1pm contemplative session is designed to deepen the art exploration Architects in Atlanta. He is also the Kajima Professor in activist, and composer. Tankian has released five albums The Pat Hobby Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, selected as a prelude to the June experience by focusing on the the Practice of Architecture at the Harvard University with the rock band System of a Down, one with Arto opening of Made in L.A. 2012, the Hammer’s Los Angeles biennial (see page 9). suspension of judgment and creating Graduate School of Design. His most recent recognitions Tunçboyacıyan, and two solo albums. In 2002 Tankian and The stories focus on a hapless screenwriter who just can’t catch a break and an opportunity for art, artist, and include the 2011 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize Rage Against the Machine/Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello probably doesn’t deserve one. Fitzgerald wrote these stories on the side to pay self to be considered anew. in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts co-founded a nonprofit activist organization, Axis of Justice. his bills while working on the L.A. novel he’d never finish,The Last Tycoon. and Letters and a 2012 AIA Institute Honor Award In 2011 Tankian was awarded the Armenian Prime Minister’s for Architecture for the Gates and Hillman Centers for Medal for his contributions to the recognition of the All Libros Schmibros Book Club selections are available in the Hammer store for purchase. Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Armenian Genocide and the advancement of music.

See page 17 for related Hammer Screenings: Ararat and Screamers. Libros Schmibros is a project of the Pasadena Artist Council’s EMERGE fiscal sponsorship program. LEFT–RIGHT: DAVID ADJAYE, MACK SCOGIN, ATOM EGOYAN (PHOTO: SOPHIE GIRAUD, © ADORATION PRODUCTIONS INC.), AND SERJ TANKIAN, 12 13 lectures lectures UCLA DEPT. OF ART LECTURES The UCLA Department of Art’s visiting lecture series is made possible through the generous support of the 1 William D. Feldman Family Endowed Art Lecture Fund. 1

ALLEN RUPPERSBERG Thursday, April 26, 7pm Allen Ruppersberg is a conceptual artist whose work includes paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures, installations, and books. He is recognized as a seminal practitioner of installation HAMMER LECTURES art, having produced such influential works asAl’s Cafe (1969), Al’s Grand Hotel Hammer Lectures include artist talks, gallery walkthroughs, and discussions by Hammer Museum curators and outside experts. (1971), and The Novel That Writes Itself (1978). Since the late 1960s, his work has been the subject of more than 80 solo exhibitions and nearly 200 group exhibitions. He lives in L.A. and New York. NATO THOMPSON T. KELLY MASON, TYLER CASSITY, MARK SHIEL: HOLLYWOOD CINEMA Wednesday, March 21, 7pm AND GEORGE BAKER: MATERIALIZING AND THE REAL LOS ANGELES ADRIAN SAXE Nato Thompson, chief curator at Creative Time in New THE IMMATERIAL Wednesday, May 30, 7pm Thursday, May 17, 7pm York and author of the forthcoming Seeing Power: Art and thursday, May 24, 7pm First and foremost a city of cinema, L.A. exists both in Adrian Saxe is one of the most Activism in the Age of Cultural Production, discusses how Join us for a discussion between T. Kelly Mason, Tyler Cassity, the movies that are made here and in the image of the important artists working to find one’s voice and make change in a world flooded and George Baker on funerary objects and practices in place on film.Mark Shiel explores this alluring locale in in ceramics today. He has with information and images. From cooperative housing to early 21st-century Los Angeles and the relationship of his new book, Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles, participated in numerous anarchist infoshops to alternative art venues, Thompson these to private and collective ideas of memory, space, depicting the ever-changing cinematic image of the city exhibitions including those shows that many of today’s most innovative spaces and the expression of desire. L.A.-based artist Mason’s and revealing how its celluloid identity has been reflected at the Walker Art Center, operate as sites of dramatic personal transformation. current project, inspired by the Pierce Brothers Westwood and manipulated by its physical geography. Shiel traces Minneapolis; J. Paul Getty Village Memorial Park, was commissioned by the Hammer the history of L.A. from the invention of motion pictures Museum, Los Angeles; Taiwan as a special project for the museum’s courtyard. Cassity is in the 1890s to the decline of the studio system in the Museum of Art; and Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, a renowned cemetarian, redefining how Americans handle 1950s. Shiel teaches in the Department of Film Studies Japan. His work is in the permanent collections of death at his Hollywood Forever cemetery as well other final at King’s College London. He is the author of Italian the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Victoria resting places throughout California. Baker is an associate Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City and the editor and Albert Museum, London; and Musée National de professor of art history at UCLA, and his newest book, of Cinema and the City and Screening the City. Céramique, Sèvres, France. He is a professor in the UCLA Lateness and Longing: On the Afterlife of Photography, will Department of Art. be published in 2012. BACKGROUND: PHOTO BY ADAM GAULDING. BOTTOM LEFT: NATO THOMPSON. In conjunction with T. Kelly Mason’s light box installation project. OPPOSITE: ALLEN RUPPERSBERG AND ADRIAN SAXE.

15 14

CALENDAR Ticketing Free tickets are required for program entry and are available from the Public programs are made possible by Hammer Members and the generosity of Susan Bay Nimoy Billy Wilder Theater Box Office. One ticket per person. Hammer Members and Leonard Nimoy, Bronya and Andrew Galef, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, are entitled to priority seating for all public programs, subject to availability. and an anonymous donor. This does not guarantee seating, and we recommend that all attendees

calendar

arrive at least a half hour early for programs they wish to attend. calendar HAMMER MUSEUM HAMMER MEMBERS GROUP TOURS OF HAMMER EXHIBITIONS PROGRAMS ARE FREE RECEIVE PRIORITY WITH UCLA STUDENT EDUCATORS ARE TO THE PUBLIC. SEATING AT PROGRAMS. AVAILABLE THURSDAYS AT 6:15PM. UCLA FILM & 1 1 TELEVISION ARCHIVE March April May 3 Sat 1pm Public Engagement (p. 10) 1 Sun 1pm Public Engagement (p. 10) 1 Tue 7pm Hammer Readings: Some Favorite Writers (p. 20) The Billy Wilder Theater is also the home of the UCLA Contemplative Art Viewing Libros Schmibros Book Club Alain Mabanckou Film & Television Archive’s renowned cinémathèque.

4 Sun 1pm Public Engagement (p. 10) 5 Thu 7:30pm Hammer Screenings (p. 17) 6 Sun 11am Family Flicks Film Series (p. 18) Monkey Business Libros Schmibros Book Club Open Projector Night SPRING HIGHLIGHTS 12pm Sunday Afternoons for Kids (p. 18) 6 Tue 7pm Hammer Presents (p. 23) 12 Thu 7pm Hammer Readings: Poetry (p. 5) All That Can Live on a Page Super Tuesday Party Poetry of Wisława Szymborska UCLA CELEBRATION OF IRANIAN CINEMA 1pm Public Engagement (p. 10) April – May 2012 8 Thu 7pm Hammer Readings: Poetry (p. 21) 15 Sun 12pm Sunday Afternoons for Kids (p. 18) Libros Schmibros Book Club Louise Glück (Mini) Words, Spoken UCLA Film & Television Archive proudly presents the latest 9 Wed 7pm Hammer Student Association (p. 23) installment in its popular annual series surveying cutting-edge 13 Tue 7pm Hammer Readings: Some Favorite Writers (p. 20) 16 Mon 7pm Hammer Screenings (p. 17) UCLA Game Art Festival: Night at the Hammer filmmaking from Iran, along with historic offerings by established Jonathan Lethem Ararat 10 Thu 7pm Hammer Readings: Poetry (p. 21) masters of the national cinema. Iran’s contributions to global 14 Wed 7pm Hammer Readings (p. 22) 17 Tue 7pm Hammer Screenings (p. 17) Cathy Park Hong cinema have given voice to a complex society and formed a crucial Red, White, and Blue: Poets on Politics Screamers cultural bridge to other nations and cultures. The archive celebrates 7pm Hammer Readings: Some Favorite Writers (p. 20) 15 Tue 7pm Hammer Forum (p. 25) this cultural exchange, as well as the distinctive and diverse 15 Thu 7pm Hammer Forum (p. 24) Denis Johnson Fracking and Keystone Buying Votes expressions that characterize Iran’s rich cinematic tradition. 19 Thu 7pm Hammer Forum (p. 24) 16 Wed 7pm Hammer Screenings (p. 17) Cooked 21 Wed 7pm Hammer Lectures (p. 12) The Year of the Independents Sundance Works in Progress: Nato Thompson UNIVERSAL AT 100 22 Sun 11am Family Flicks Film Series (p. 18) 17 Thu 7pm UCLA Department of Art Lectures (p. 13) May – June 2012

22 Thu 7pm Hammer Readings: Poetry (p. 21) Oceans Adrian Saxe In 2012 Universal Pictures marks 100 years as an innovator Keorapetse Kgositsile 3pm Hammer Conversations (p. 11) 22 Tue 7pm Hammer Readings: Some Favorite Writers (p. 20) among American motion picture studios, and its evolution Atom Egoyan & Serj Tankian 25 Sun 11am Family Flicks Film Series (p. 18) An Evening with Sherlock Holmes and Friends into a formidable entertainment giant. UCLA Film & Television Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Archive honors this storied legacy by presenting a selection 24 Tue 7pm Hammer Readings: New American Writing (p. 22) 24 Thu 7pm Hammer Lectures (p. 12) 12pm Sunday Afternoons for Kids (p. 18) Aimee Bender & Etgar Keret T. Kelly Mason, George Baker, and Tyler Cassity of Universal classics and rarities, many presented in new and Heroes and Villains restored prints. The diverse lineup will include: Jaws (1976), 26 Thu 7pm UCLA Department of Art Lectures (p. 13) 30 Wed 7pm Hammer Lectures: Mark Shiel (p. 13) 26 Mon 7pm Hammer Screenings (p. 16) Dracula (1931), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Pillow Talk (1959), Allen Ruppersberg Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles Shoah (First Era) and The Birds (1963). 29 Sun 2pm Exhibition Walkthrough: Alina Szapocznikow (p. 5) 27 Tue 7pm Hammer Screenings (p. 16) Allegra Pesenti For admission information, a complete schedule, or to learn more Shoah (Second Era) about the Archive’s screenings of new works and treasured classics, please visit cinema.ucla.edu or call 310-206-3456. 28 Wed 7pm Hammer Readings: Poetry (p. 21) Glyn Maxwell

29 Thu 7pm Hammer Conversations (p. 11) *Exhibition walkthroughs are free with museum admission. STILL FROM DRACULA (1931). DIRECTED BY TOD BROWNING. SHOWN: (BELA LUGOSI AS David Adjaye & Mack Scogin COUNT DRACULA). PHOTO: UNIVERSAL PICTURES/PHOTOFEST. © UNIVERSAL PICTURES. PHOTOGRAPHER: ROMAN FREULICH.

14 17 16

screenings screenings

1 1

HAMMER SCREENINGS ARARAT SUNDANCE WORKS IN PROGRESS: monday, april 16, 7pm COOKED Ararat, is hands down the year’s [2002] most thought-provoking film. Wednesday, May 16, 7pm —New York Times Cooked tells the story of the most traumatic heat wave in Ararat is based loosely on the of Van during the U.S. history, in which 739 Chicago citizens died in a single Armenian Genocide. While exploring the human impact week of July 1995, most of them poor, elderly, and African of that specific historical event, the film also examines American. The film explores the intersection of poverty, the nature of truth and its representation through art. global warming, and the politics of crisis. Judith Helfand’s SHOAH Ararat stars Charles Aznavour, Christopher Plummer, and other films include the Sundance award-winning, Emmy First Era: Monday, March 26, 7pm David Alpay and won several awards, including Best Film on nominated Blue Vinyl, and its Peabody Award-winning Second Era: Tuesday, March 27, 7pm Human Rights by the Political Film Society of Hollywood prequel A Healthy Baby Girl (a five-year video diary about her experience with cancer). The screening will be followed An extraordinary film...One of the noblest ever made. and the Freedom of Expression Award from the National by a Q&A with Helfand. (Dir. Judith Helfand, approx. 60 mins.) It is not a documentary, not journalism, not propaganda, Board of Review in New York. (2002, Dir. Atom Egoyan, 115 min.) not political. It is an act of witness. —Roger Ebert

Shoah is one of the greatest documentaries in the history SCREAMERS of the cinema…you must see it. —New York Magazine tuesday, april 17, 7pm Shoah, Claude Lanzmann’s monumental epic on the Music with a message....a new documentary [makes] a stark point: OPEN PROJECTOR NIGHT All genocides of the last century were known by governments that could Thursday, April 5, 7:30pm Holocaust, features interviews with survivors, bystanders, have halted the killing but chose not to. — and perpetrators in 14 countries. The film does not contain With MCs the Sklar Brothers any historical footage but rather features interviews that The documentary Screamers chronicles Grammy Award-winning Who will come out on top at this rowdy, irreverent event? seek to remember the Jewish tragedy and revisits places rock band System of a Down’s efforts to persuade both It’s a mad pile up with multiple genres of short filmmaking where the crimes took place. Shoah grew out of Lanzmann’s the British and U.S. governments to recognize the represented in this BYO film showcase. Wild debates ensue concern that the genocide perpetrated only 40 years earlier Armenian Genocide. The film explores why genocides as comedic, experimental, and dramatic films alike are was already retreating into the mists of time and that repeat and features interviews with Pulitzer Prize–winning cheered or booed. Bring your films and your appetite for the atrocities of the Holocaust were becoming sanitized activist Samantha Power; survivors from Turkey, Rwanda, fun. Work under 10 minutes only. Free popcorn and cash as history. His massive achievement—at once epic and and Darfur; FBI whistleblowers, and Hrant Dink, who was bar. Submissions begin at 7pm, first come, first served. Visit intimate, immediate and definitive—is a triumph of form assassinated in Turkey after appearing in the film. hammer.ucla.edu for a list of accepted formats. (2006, Dir. Carla Garapedian, 91 min.) and content that reveals hidden truths while rewriting the rules of documentary filmmaking. (1985, Dir. Claude Lanzmann, Ararat and Screamers are presented in conjunction with Hammer First Era: 273 min. Second Era: 230 min. total: 503 min.) Conversations: Atom Egoyan & Serj Tankian. (see page 11)

In conjunction with the exhibition Alina Szapocznikow:

Sculpture Undone, 1955–1972. BACKGROUND: A SCENE FROM CLAUDE LANZMANN’S SHOAH (1985). PHOTO: LES FILMS ALEPH. AN IFC FILMS RELEASE. 17 19 18 1

UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum have teamed SUNDAY AFTERNOONS FOR KIDS up for a matinee screening series of new and classic family-friendly SAVE THE DATE ! films from around the world. The Hammer’s free collaborative workshops, presented with 826LA, are ,• 1 1 designed for groups of up to 20 students. Reservations are encouraged. Please visit workshops.826LA.org or call 310-305-8418. ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND Sunday, March 25, 11AM Recommended for ages 6+ This children’s classic comes to life in this rare live-action HEROES AND VILLAINS British film adaptation. Stellar performances by renowned Sunday, March 25, 12-2pm talents (including Peter Sellers and Dudley Moore), inventive Recommended for ages 8–13 SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2012 • 10AM–2PM production design and costumes, and original songs grace Inspired by classic comic books, participants will draw this production, which presents Alice’s adventures of from their personal experiences to create their own comic self-discovery in a strange and wonderful world. book characters. They will then produce personalized (1972, Dir. William Sterling, 35mm, color, 101 min.) comics, complete with origin story and action scenes. Led by Kuang Lee, a television writer for USA Network, hey kids! OCEANS and producer and director of EastSide, a documentary Make sure to paint Sunday, May 20, on your calendar and plan to bring your Sunday, April 22, 11AM about skateboarding culture in Asia. family to the coolest day ever at the Hammer! Artists, architects, photographers, Recommended for ages 8+ designers, and all kinds of creative pros will be leading inventive workshops In celebration of Earth Day, kids and families will love this (MINI) WORDS, SPOKEN for kids of all ages at the Hammer’s third annual family fundraiser K.A.M.P. thrilling documentary, which takes us under the sea for Sunday, April 15, 12-2pm (Kids’ Art Museum Project). extraordinary interactions with sharks, whales, and oceanic Recommended for ages 10–14 life of all kinds. Plunging through the ocean’s waters, the Students will examine what makes words perform and what Tell your parents, grandparents, and best friends that there will be food, fun, story-time, camera explores the delicate ecology that supports the we can do to harness our personal histories, identities, the Digital PhotoBooth, delicious cupcakes from Sprinkles, and lots of surprises! sea’s majestic creatures. Narrated by Pierce Brosnan. and voices. The workshop will culminate with a mini (2002, Dir. Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud. 35mm, color, 104 min.) spoken-word slam. Led by Mike Sonksen, aka Mike the Participating artists include: Lisa Anne Auerbach, Justin Beal, Meg Cranston, PoeT, a third-generation L.A. native who specializes in Mark Flores, Erik Frydenborg, Shana Lutker, Malerie Marder, Jason Meadows, MONKEY BUSINESS empowering youth to find and use their voice. Sunday, May 6, 11AM Matthew Monahan, Joel Morrison, Ruby Neri, , Lara Schnitger, Recommended for ages 5+ ALL THAT CAN LIVE ON A PAGE , Mateo Tannatt, Mungo Thomson, Kerry Tribe, and Holly Vesecky. The puns and gags fly fast and furious in this Marx Sunday, May 6, 12-2pm Brothers film—the perfect introduction to their Recommended for ages 8–13 Early bird tickets are only $100 per person if purchased by April 1 and $125 per inimitable brand of anarchic verbal and physical comedy. Comics, or something like them, have been around since person beginning April 2. All proceeds from this exciting event will benefit Hammer Monkey Business features the boys as stowaways on a people lived in caves and have been used to tell every kind Kids’ free public programs. Last year’s event sold out fast so shake some change out New York–bound ship who are pressed into the service of of story. Learn how to translate your favorite genre to comics of your piggy bank and bring your whole family for an amazing day of art making! gangsters on board. (1931, Norman McLeod, 35mm, b/w, 77 min.) with Lee-Roy Lahey, a writer/illustrator of books and a storyboard artist for films. For additional information and to purchase tickets, please contact Jimmy Freeman Family Flicks is co-presented with UCLA Film & Television Archive. at 310-443-7073 or [email protected].

Family Flicks is made possible, in part, through the generosity of Hammer Kids is made possible through the generosity of K.A.M.P. supporters and friends of the Hammer Museum’s Kids’ Art Museum (Kids’ Art Museum Project) supporters and friends. K.A.M.P. is an Project (K.A.M.P.). Additional support is provided by the Westwood annual family fundraiser. Neighborhood Council. LEFT–RIGHT: STILL FROM MONKEY BUSINESS (1931). DIRECTED BY NORMAN Z. MCLEOD. SHOWN FROM LEFT: HARPO MARX, ZEPPO MARX, CHICO MARX, GROUCHO MARX. PHOTO: PARAMOUNT PICTURES/PHOTOFEST. ©PARAMOUNT PICTURES; PHOTOS FROM K.A.M.P. 2011 BY STEFANIE KEENAN. 1 readings 20 Best Novels of 2011.He livesinNorthern Idaho. Economist was a many other honors for hiswork.Hisnovella a Lannan Fellowshipand aWhiting Writer’sAward, among of poetry, and one bookof reportage. He isthe recipient of Denis Johnson in thisbook Johnson’s deceptivelytoughrealismmakes beautifulappearances [A] severelylovelytale...The visionary, miraculouselementin Tuesday, April17,7pm DENIS JOHNSON Brando, aswellonhisliterary models and contemporaries. Bob Dylan,cyberculture, 9/11,booktouring, and Marlon on anarray of topics, from sex incinema todrugs, graffiti, previously published pieces and new essaysthatshed light The Ecstasyof Influence Solitude of eight novels, including Jonathan Lethem Did Isaylovethisbook?Well, OKthen,Ilovethisbook... Tuesday, March13,7pm JONATHAN LETHEM Sponsored by theUCLADepartmentof EnglishandFriendsof English. Readings are followed bydiscussions withSimpson. This series of readings isorganized by SOME FAVORITE WRITERS HAMMER READINGS New York Times , and ’s 2011Booksof the Year, and one of NPR’s10 [Train Dream] Motherless Brooklyn isthe author of nine novels, three collections isthe Notable Bookfor 2011,one of . —The New Yorker , isaconstellation of provocative New York Times Chronic City . Hisnewest volume, —Los Angeles Times best-selling author , Mona Simpson The Fortressof Train Dream

The

, author of

My Hollywood,AnywhereButHere Budding mystery writersespecially encouraged. enduring intrigue and devotion. Costumes welcome. why Conan Doyle’scharacter hasinspired such Sarah Alcorn novelist Nicholas Meyer film. Holmes scholar contemporary culture, from criminology tofiction to discussion onthe contribution of Sherlock Holmes to Join agroup of Baker Street Irregulars for anirreverent Tuesday, May22,7pm AND FRIENDS AN EVENINGWITHSHERLOCK HOLMES ELEMENTARY, MYDEARREADER: century. He currently teaches literature atUCLA. as one of the 50writerstowatchoutfor thiscoming a Porcupine Blue-White-Red He received the Subsaharan African Literature Prizefor the author of sixvolumes of poetryand sixnovels. Alain Mabanckou self-mocking atthesametime. of the Earth Grand Guignol,apulpfictionvision of FrantzFanon’s This is Tuesday, May1,7pm ALAIN MABANCKOU Taxi Driver Denise Hamilton thatsomehowmanagestobebothfrighteningand . He wasselectedbythe French journal contribute their expertise todeducing for Africa’s blankgeneration...adeftlyironic , and the PrixRenaudot for ( , one of Africa’s major writers, is The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

Leslie Klinger , and real-life privatedetective —Time OutNew York , and , writer/director Off Keck Road Memoirs of Wretched ), crime

Lire

.

Sculpture Undone, 1955–1972 In conjunctionwith theexhibition See page 5. Literatures andtheHammerPoetry Series Co-presented by theUCLADepartment Thursday, April12,7pm POETRY OFWISŁAWA SZYMBORSKA Here Sing Black ArtsTheater inHarlem. He isthe author of the Pan-African movement, he wasalsothe founder of the in the 1960sand 1970s. One of the most significant poetsin and wasaninfluential member of the African National Congress Keorapetse Kgositsile Thursday, March22,7pm KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE American Poets. She teaches atYale University. Award, and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of include the PulitzerPrize, the National BookCritics Circle A VillageLife Louise Glück —Los Glück isamaster, finelycalibratingtheshocks andtheirintervals. Thursday, March8,7pm Angeles LOUISE GLÜCK Sponsored by theUCLADepartmentof EnglishandFriendsof English. Times A BoundlessField:AmericanPoetry atLarge This series of readings isorganized and hosted by POETRY , . He wasSouthAfrica’s National Poet Laureate in2006. To theBitterEnd

, and acollection of essays. Her many awards isthe author of 11booksof poems, , isaSouthAfrican poetand activist, When theCloudsClear . Alina Szapocznikow: of Slavic Languages& , and and

If I Could If ICould

The Word Is The Word Is Blue Guide including Stephen Yenser

. GLYN MAXWELL LOUISE GLÜCK LEFT–RIGHT: Enjoy complimentarycoffee andteaatallHammerreadings. Review Fellowship. Her poems havebeenpublished in for the ArtsFellowship,and the New York Foundation for the Arts recipient of aFulbright Fellowship,aNational Endowment was chosen for the Barnard Women Poets Prize. Hong isthe Mo’um Cathy Park Hong individual andbroadersocialconcerns. [Dance Dance Revolution is] Thursday, May10,7pm CATHY PARK HONG T. S.Eliot and the Forward Poetry prizes. and for boththe Whitbread Poetry Award and the T. S.Eliot Prize; Maugham Award; including Glyn Maxwell rising presencehere;thisbookshouldwinhimnewfans. Maxwell isoneof thestarsof poetryacrossthepondanda Wednesday, March28,7pm GLYN MAXWELL , poetand professor atUCLAand author of —Publisher’s Weekly, The Breakage , (2002)and McSweeney’s JONATHAN LETHEM (PHOTO:©GASPERTRINGALE); Out of theRain ; CATHY PARK HONG is the author of several collections of poems, isthe author of twobooks: Rest for theWicked , which wasshort-listed for boththe Dance Revolution , Harvard Review (PHOTO:JOHNLUCAS); on

One Thousand Nights and Counting A polyglotexplosion of unique , for which he received aSomerset KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE —The Believer and other journals. , which wasshort-listed DENIS JOHNSON (2007),which (PHOTO: VICTOR DLAMINI); (PHOTO: VICTORDLAMINI); Translating

the

;

ALAIN MABANCKOU

Paris Paris

;

1 readings 21 1 readings 22 INK DRAWING ONPAPER. SHEET: 22 LEFT–RIGHT: poetrysociety.org between poetryand politics during the election year. Pleasevisit nationwide Red, White, and Blue America (PSA), willmoderate the discussion. Thisevent launches PSA’s landscape. discuss the role of politics intheir ownpoems and inthe larger literary Poets Co-presented withPENCenterUSA andPoetry Societyof America Wednesday, March14,7pm RED, WHITE,ANDBLUE: POETS ONPOLITICS and hiswifeShira Geffenwonthe 2007Palme d’Orfor BestDebutFeature ( This AmericanLife Flammable Skirt Aimee Bender [Keret is] the languageBenderusestodescribelove. The fabulist elementsof Tuesday, April24,7pm AIMEE BENDER&ETGAR KERET This seriesismadepossible, inpart,withsupportfrom Bronya andAndrew Galef. and OtisCollege of Artand Design. books of short fiction, most recently This series of contemporary fiction and poetry readings isorganized by NEW AMERICANWRITING HAMMER READINGS Prageeta Sharma Abrilliantwriter...completely unlike anywriterIknow. Thevoiceof thenext generation. AIMEE BENDER Darrel Alejandro Holnes isthe author of four books, including . She teaches creative writing atUSC. BothKeret’s and Bender’s stories havebeen featured onNPR’s and and (PHOTO:MAXS.GERBER); The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake penusa.org Selected Shorts 1 ⁄ , 2 x Matthew Zapruder 14 3 ⁄ 4 IN.(57.2 series, which willexplore the relationship for more information. —NPR,“WhatWe’re Reading” x 37.5 CM,) HAMMER MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES. PURCHASE. IMAGE COURTESY REGEN PROJECTS, LOS IMAGE ANGELES © . PURCHASE. ANGELES. LOS MUSEUM, HAMMER CM,) 37.5 ETGAR KERET Headless , program director atPoetry Society of . Etgar Keret , and , and professor of creative writing atArtCenter College of Design (PHOTO:©YANAI YECHIEL). OPPOSITE: are stunning, but what makes this novelakeeper isthesheerbeautyof Douglas Kearney was borninTel Aviv in1967.As screenwriters/directors, he The Particular Sadnessof LemonCake

will RAYMOND PETTIBON Benjamin Weissman

Jellyfish

—Salman Rushdie ) atthe Cannes Film Festival. . UNTITLED (OSOSAY! THE) and , author of two The Girlinthe , 2005(DETAIL). PENAND

NIGHT AT THEHAMMER ART FESTIVAL UCLA GAME FOR PRESIDENTIALNOMINATIONS PRIMARY ELECTIONSINTENSTATES SUPER TUESDAY PARTY gaming aspartof the annual Lab in collaboration withthe The Wednesday, May9,7pm NIGHT AT THEHAMMER ART FESTIVAL UCLA GAME those inred, white, and blueattire. junkies. Cashbar. Doorprizesfor alongside other political democracy giant screens, and raise aglassfor Tuesday Primary elections on roll in Americans. Watch the tenstateSuper presidential politics withyourfellow or giraffe; come celebrate 2012 or occupier; elephant, donkey, Be yered, blue, orpurple;teapartier of DrinkingLiberally Conservation Voters andtheL.A.Chapter of Design Media Arts Lab director and associate professor Game ArtFestival, Co-presented withtheNationalLeague Tuesday, March6,7pm FOR PRESIDENTIALNOMINATIONS PRIMARY ELECTIONSINTENSTATES SUPER TUESDAY PARTY games.ucla.edu Visit the UCLAGame Labonline at enjoying livemusic and refreshments. or participate inatournament while modes of expression. Seethe games projects useavariety of media and these ambitious and participatory performative tothe intimate and personal, games ranging from the bombastic and PRESENTS HAMMER presents anevening of innovative Hammer StudentAssociation . curated byGame Eddo Stern

UCLA Game UCLA . With . With of of

1 presents 23 24 25 forum

meditation

1 1

MINDFUL AWARENESS HAMMER FORUM thursdays at 12:30pm, Billy Wilder Theater This of timely, thought-provoking events addresses current social and political issues. Hammer Forum is made possible, in part, by Bronya and Andrew Galef. Mindful Awareness is the moment-by-moment process of actively and openly observing one’s physical, mental, and emotional experiences. Mindfulness has scientific BUYING VOTES THE YEAR OF THE INDEPENDENTS: CAN FRACKING AND KEYSTONE: ENERGY support as a means to reduce stress, improve attention, Thursday, March 15, 7pm A THIRD-PARTY PRESIDENT GET ELECTED? INDEPENDENCE VERSUS THE ENVIRONMENT boost the immune system, reduce emotional reactivity, As well-heeled candidates with Super PACs overwhelm Thursday, April 19, 7pm Tuesday, May 15, 7pm and promote a general sense of health and well-being. their rivals, we look for an alternative to money-driven With more Americans registering as independents than as Joining us is the environmentalist Bill McKibben, who elections and explore ways for candidates and issues to be Democrats or Republicans, can an outsider make it to the recently led demonstrations at the White House that delayed The free weekly drop-in sessions take place in the presented fairly and openly. Joining us is Lawrence Lessig, White House in 2012? Joining us to discuss the changing the approval of a pipeline from the tar sands of Alberta to comfortable seats of the Billy Wilder Theater and are the director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for electoral landscape are Elliot Ackerman, Rocky Anderson, Texas. The contentious Keystone XL pipeline has become a open to all who are interested in learning how to live Ethics at Harvard University and a professor of Law at Harvard and Buddy Roemer. Ackerman is the COO of AmericansElect.org, hot election year issue. He is the author of several books, more presently in life. No special clothing is required, Law School. Lessig clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia on the an online presidential nominating process aimed at providing including The End of Nature, and his latest, Eaarth: Making a and participants are welcome to stay for five minutes United States Supreme Court. He is the author of Republic, a competitive, nonpartisan ticket. Former Salt Lake City Life on a Tough New Planet. Also joining us is Josh Fox, writer or enjoy the entire thirty-minute session. Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It. Mayor Rocky Anderson is running for president with the newly and director of the acclaimed documentary Gasland, which first formed Justice Party; his citizen-financed campaign rejects revealed the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing, or special interest and corporate funding. Former Louisiana “fracking.” In the name of energy independence, natural gas Sessions are led by instructors from the UCLA Mindful governor Roemer is a conservative Democrat who served companies are using fracking with the promise to turn the Awareness Research Center. four terms as a U.S. congressman and never accepted U.S. into the Saudi Arabia of natural gas. Fox is the founder Visit www.marc.ucla.edu to learn more. Hammer Forum is moderated by Ian Masters, journalist, author, screenwriter, special interest money. His current presidential campaign documentary filmmaker, and host of the radio programsBackground Briefing, of International WOW Company, a film and theater company Sundays at 11AM, and The Daily Briefing, Monday through Thursday at 5PM, on limits donations to $100. committed to socially conscious themes and subjects. KPFK 90.7 FM. 27

WWW.HAMMER.UCLA.EDU 26 310-443-7000

Hours LUNCHTIME Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat 11am–7pm

talks Thu 11am–9pm ART TALKS Sun 11am–5pm Closed Mondays

SPRING INTO information art

Lunchtime Art Talks take place every Admission MEMBERSHIP $10 Adults Wednesday at 12:30pm. The Hammer’s $5 Seniors (65+) and Make this spring a and don’t put off becoming 1 curatorial department leads free and UCLA Alumni Association

a Hammer member for another day. JOIN now at the Friend Members with ID Parking general insightful 15-minute discussions about level ($75) or higher and receive THREE extra months of Free for Hammer members, Available under the museum; $3 with validation. Enter on works of art currently on view or from February 29 March 7 March 14 Hammer membership at no additional cost.* students with ID, UCLA or Alina Szapocznikow Alina Szapocznikow Peter Doig faculty and staff, active duty

museum collections. *Speaker 1 Untitled from Fotorzezby military personnel, veterans, Glendon Avenue. Parking for Herbier XIII, 1972 Study for Lake, 1998 JOIN at a Contributor level ($125) or higher and you’ll (Photosculptures), 1971/2007 *Claudine Dixon *Elizabeth Cline and visitors 17 and under. people with disabilities is *Allegra Pesenti also enjoy a special subscription rate of only $9.95 for the provided on levels P1 and P3. Free every Thursday for Bikes park free. entire year (that’s less than $1 an issue!) for Los Angeles all visitors. magazine. Become a real insider with this special offer and never miss another happening in L.A. again. 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. Corporation has partially endowed the Museum and To receive these special offers, join by phone or on-site constructed the Occidental Petroleum Cultural Center Building, which houses the Museum. using the promo code Los Angeles. For more information on Hammer membership or to join now, call the Membership Department at 310-443-7050. Board of Directors Board of Overseers Artist Council Founder Peter Benedek Edgar Arceneaux *This offer is available only to new Hammer Members or members whose Dr. Armand Hammer Ruth Bloom Lisa Anne Auerbach membership has lapsed more than six months. Offer valid through May 31, 2012. Chairman Emeritus Lloyd E. Cotsen* Michael A. Hammer Susie Crippen Teddy Cruz Rosette Varda Delug Fritz Haeg March 21 March 28 April 4 April 11 April 18 Honorary Directors George Freeman Glenn Kaino Alan Saret Mary Heilmann Llyn Foulkes Alina Szapocznikow Henri Fantin-Latour Riseburg Caesura Ensoulment, 1990 Water Kachina, 1982 Lucky Adam, 1985 Autoportret (Self-Portrait I), 1966 Siegfried and Rhine Daughters, Bronya Galef Yoshua Okón Viktor Armand Hammer *Anne Ellegood *Elizabeth Cline *Ali Subotnick *Brooke Hodge 1897 *Cynthia Burlingham Bob Gersh Laura Owens Chairman Erika Glazer* Hirsch Perlman ART. COMMUNITY. John V. Tunney David Hoberman Alexis Smith Stanley Hollander Gene D. Block Director Linda Janger LEGACY. Marcy Carsey Lloyd E. Cotsen Martin Cozyn Larry Marx* Together with UCLA, the Hammer Museum offers a Dori Peterman Mostov wide range of opportunities for you to fulfill your Garrett Devine Samuel P. Dominick Erik Murkoff philanthropic goals through participation in our Planned Frank O. Gehry Susan Bay Nimoy Giving program. Include the Hammer in your estate plans Erika Glazer Larry Marx Michael Rubel* and directly impact the museum’s ambitious efforts to Ronnie Sassoon enrich our community for generations to come. You can Steven A. Olsen Anthony N. Pritzker Chara Schreyer choose from a variety of flexible strategies that will Lee Ramer Barry Smooke Susan Steinhauser April 25 May 2 May 9 provide enduring support for the museum while giving you Nelson C. Rising May 16 May 23 David Teiger Marcel Duchamp Charles Ray Alex Hubbard Michael Rubel Gerard Edelinck, after T. Kelly Mason great tax benefits. For more information, please contact Bill True The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Untitled, 2009 Eat Your Friends, 2011 Nocturne (Pierce Brothers Heather Skinazi Laurie McGahey, associate director of development, at Dean Valentine Bachelors Even (the Green Box), *Allison Agsten *Corrina Peipon The Battle of Anghiari, 1673–84 Westwood Village), 2011 Kevin Wall Kevin Wall* 1934 *Allegra Pesenti *Allegra Pesenti *Corrina Peipon 310-443-7046 or [email protected]. John Walsh *Sits on Board of Directors Christopher A. Waterman Jeremy Zimmer