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BROOKE HODGE JOINS HAMMER STAFF In July the Hammer welcomed Brooke Hodge as the Hammer’s director of exhibition director management and publications. Hodge will provide management and guidance to the 1
the curatorial department, including assuming oversight of projects and administrative responsibility for the department’s staff and budget. Hodge has organized exhibitions and has written extensively about design, architecture, art, and fashion. Previously, from she was curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA),
Los Angeles. Prior to that, she was director of exhibitions and publications at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. message RECENT a
A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR ACQUISITION The Hammer has long been a place that values collaboration artists from the LA region with an emphasis on emerging ELLIOTT HUNDLEY’S and over the years we have forged significant partnerships with artists and will be large in scope taking place at the Hammer 1 PENTHEUS various departments at UCLA as well as institutions across Los and LA> PARALLEL OCCURRENCES / DOCUMENTED ASSIGNMENTS September 25, 2010 – January 2, 2011 exhibitions exhibitions The Hammer Museum and the Aspen Art evoke a mysterious world of daydreams and Museum have co-organized Mark Manders: fairy tales. In exhibition after exhibition, 1 1 Parallel Occurrences/Documented Manders has furthered his monumental Assignments, the first North American project, initiated in 1986, titled Self-Portrait tour of this acclaimed Dutch artist’s work. as a Building, which endeavors to map out Through his sculptural practice, the artist his identity using this distinct personal seeks to bypass language, translating his iconography. This exhibition includes roughly thoughts and obsessions directly into 15 new sculptural works and three earlier Related Programs three-dimensional objects—existing and works, including a piece on loan from The EVA HESSE self-made—and tableaux that incorporate Museum of Modern Art, New York. Organized sunday, september 26, 2PM figures, animals, household furniture, by Douglas Fogle, deputy director, SPECTRES 1960 Exhibition Walkthrough* archaeological fragments, everyday objects, exhibitions and programs, and chief curator, Grunwald center for the graphic arts and architectural components. Transformed Hammer Museum, and Heidi Zuckerman SEPTEMBER 25, 2010 – JANUARY 2, 2011 curator allegra pesenti by their proximity to one another, these Jacobson, director and chief curator, Related programs mundane sculptural elements collectively Aspen Art Museum. SUNDAY OCTOBER 24, 2PM Eva Hesse Spectres 1960 is an exhibition of seminal and Exhibition Walkthrough* sunday, september 26, 1PM rarely seen paintings by legendary artist Eva Hesse Artist Laura Owens Exhibition Walkthrough* (1936-1970). Created when Hesse was just 24, this Hammer chief curator Douglas Fogle group of 19 semi-representational oil paintings stands in Sunday, November 21, 2PM & Aspen Art Museum Director and contrast to her later minimalist structures and sculptural Hammer Lectures Chief Curator Heidi Zuckerman assemblages, yet constitutes a vital link in the progression Elisabeth Sussman Jacobson of her work. Dubbed her “spectre paintings,” they offer See page 16 for full program description. a haunting examination of states of consciousness, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 7PM foretelling Hesse’s desire to embody emotional states in Exhibition Walkthrough* abstract form. The paintings on view illustrate her charge Eva Hesse Spectres 1960 was organized by the University artist Elliott Hundley to “paint yourself out, through and through, it of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, in collaboration with the Estate of Hesse, and made possible by the FUNd will come by you alone,” as annotated in her diary in THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 7PM Endowment, the Julius Rolshoven Memorial Fund, and the 1959. Works have been lent from several private and Robert Lehman Foundation. Exhibition Walkthrough* museum collections and are brought together with the ARCHITECTURE PROFESSOR cooperation of the Estate of Eva Hesse. The exhibition is Major support for the Hammer Museum’s presentation is provided & CRITIC JEFFrey KIPNIS by Alice and Nahum Lainer. Generous support is also provided by curated by E. Luanne McKinnon, director, University of Agnes Gund, the Audrey & Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation, Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrences/Documented Assignments is co-organized by the Aspen Art Museum and the Hammer Museum the Fran and Ray Stark Foundation, the Dedalus Foundation, the Los Angeles. The presentation at the Hammer is made possible through the generosity of Rosette Varda Delug. It is also supported, New Mexico Art Museum. Southern California Committee of the National Museum of Women in part, by the Mondriaan Foundation and with public funds from the Netherlands Cultural Services (New York). in the Arts, and the Robert Lehman Foundation. *Exhibition walkthroughs are free 89.3 KPCC FM is the official media sponsor of the exhibition. with museum admission. *Exhibition walkthroughs are free LEFT TO RIGHT: MARK MANDERS. ROOM WITH CHAIRS AND FACTORY (2003-2008). WOOD, IRON, RUBBER, PAINTED POLYESTER, PAINTED CERAMIC, PAINTED CANVAS, PAINTED WIG, CHAIR, AND 1 1 1 with museum admission. OFFSET PRINT ON PAPER. OVERALL APPROXIMATELY 10' 5 ⁄4" x 7' 10 ⁄2" x 13' 3 ⁄2" (318.1 x 240 x 405.1 CM). MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK. MARGUERITE STONE BEQUEST AND GIFT OF 1 5 MRS. SAIDIE A. MAY (BOTH BY EXCHANGE) 393.2010. EVA HESSE. NO TITLE, 1960. OIL ON MASONITE. 21 ⁄8 x 16 ⁄8 INCHES. THE ESTATE OF EVA HESSE, COURTESY HAUSER & WIRTH. 1 exhibitions 6 HAMMER MUSEUM.MARY ELIZABETHBRAUNESTATE. OPPOSITE:SANDMANDALA (DETAIL). 18 STRUMPFEN (GIRLWITHPURPLE STOCKINGS) PHOTO: BRIANFORREST. BOTTOM RIGHT: CONTEMPORARY COLLECTION “COLOR BUTTERFLY 10WINGS” EVAN HOLLOWAY TOP LEFT: KCRW 89.9FM istheofficial media sponsor of the exhibition. Hammer curatorial associate. Ali Subotnick, Hammer curator, and Corrina Peipon, Is aDeadNiggerWaiting toBeBorn Kara Walker’s 20-partpainting installation, such asElliott Hundley's Angeles, Los Several of the workshavenever before beenseen in Alina Szapocznikow Evan Holloway collection by features approximately 42significant additions tothe This new installation of the Hammer Contemporary Collection work made inSouthern California. World War IItothe present, paying particular attention to on the acquisition of key works byinfluential artistsfrom continually broadening the collection, the focus hasbeen films, and videos. Withthe goal of collecting in depth while includes drawings, photographs, sculptures, paintings, artists employ, thisgrowing collection of nearly 1,500works gifts. Recognizing the variety of media thatcontemporary collection of contemporary artthrough bothpurchases and In 2005the Hammer launched aninitiative tobuilda CONTINUES THROUGHJanuary30,2011 COLLECTION HAMMER CONTEMPORARY SELECTIONS FROMTHE 7 ⁄ 8 x 12 ELLIOTT HUNDLEY 5 ⁄ 8 IN.(48 , 35 –39 x Mel Bochner 32.1CM).COLLECTIONUCLA GRUNWALD CENTER FOR THEGRAPHICARTS, , Monica Majoli , 2007; , , JULY 3,2010–JANUARY 30,2011,HAMMERMUSEUM, LOSANGELES. PENTHEUS , 2004.INSTALLATION VIEWFROM , and JACOB YANES , 2010; , Gillian Wearing Mark Bradford, EGON SCHIELE (DETAIL), 1913.GRAPHITE ANDWATERCOLOR. SHEET: MONICA MAJOLI , , SARA Charles Ray , 2007;AND (2009).Organized by , Pentheus MÄDCHEN MITDENVIOLETTEN , SELECTIONS FROM THE HAMMER SELECTIONS FROMTHEHAMMER HANGING RUBBERMAN#1 MARKGROTJAHN Llyn Foulkes , among others. , EveryPainting Frances Stark (2010), and (2010),and , UNTITLED, UNTITLED, , , 2006; , 2006; , Grunwald Center for the Graphic Artsatthe Hammer Museum. and Egon Schiele such as intuitive lines of prints and drawings inworksbyartists relationships, identity, and death. Starkfocused onthe creation, reproduction, pleasure, the essence of the body, viewer through apanoply of humanity withthemes of the form of avisual essayonthe sexes, transporting the the Renaissance tothe present. Her exhibition takes drawings, photographs, and artistbooks dating from Graphic Arts, acollection of more than45,000prints, to siftthrough the worksinthe Grunwald Center for the exhibition, LosAngeles-based artist museum’s and UCLA’s diversecollections. Forthis in which artistsare invitedtocurate ashow from the Houseguest October 16,2010–January2011 GRUNWALD COLLECTION SELECTS FROMTHE FRANCES STARK Agnes Martin Jacques Callot isaseries of exhibitions atthe Hammer Museum , Isabel Bishop . Organized byAllegra Pesenti, curator, , Francisco deGoya , Kenneth Price Frances Stark , , Edgar Degas, Mike Kelley chose , summer 2011 ON THEROAD ED RUSCHA May 22–September4,2011 DIVER, ARETROSPECTIVE, 1963–1988 PAUL THEK February 12–May 22, 2011 THIRD MIND RICHARD HAWKINS January 30–April24,2011 6TH INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION ALL OFTHISANDNOTHING UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS October 26–November 7,2010 THE MANDALA PROJECT Driving directions willbeprovided atthe ceremony. procession, butyou willneed yourowntransportation. All are welcome tojointhe dissolution ceremony and and at3:30pmthey willleadaprocession tothe ocean. The monks willperform adissolution ceremony at3pm, Dissolution Ceremony &Procession toPacific Ocean Sunday, November 7,3pm See page 12for fullprogram description. Michael Rotondi&Pema NamdolThaye Hammer Conversation Sunday, November 7,1pm before itsdissolution the following day. The public isinvitedtoview the completedmandala Mandala Viewing Saturday, November 6,2-7pm work onthe mandala. The public isinvitedtowatchthe monks begintheir Tuesday, October26,11am Related Programs Tibetan art. mandala, created by Michael Rotondi architect story mandala for AriBhödbyLos Angeles-based will beaseries of architectural drawings of aproposed four compassion inthe viewer. Accompanying the sand mandala power totransform negativity and awaken altruismand purity and clarity. It isbelieved thatmandalas havethe The mandala painting represents boundless compassion, flat surface overanelaborate two-weekceremony. of grains of colored sand willbesprinkledcarefully ona instructions passeddown overthousands of years. Millions The mandala they create willfollow precise and ancient from the Thubten Choeling Monastery inPharping, Nepal. team of traditionally trained Lamas visiting LosAngeles feature the construction of aTibetansand mandala bya pleased topresent The Mandala Project. Thisprogram will American Foundation for TibetanCultural Preservation—is The Hammer Museum, inpartnership withAriBhöd—the , aswellasmaller three-dimensional Pema NamdolThaye , amaster of 1 exhibitions 7 1 exhibitions 8 Continues through OCTOBER 14, Friedrich Kunath screening &artisttalk with EricBaudelaire tuesday, september 21,7pm hammer lectures related programs Continues through september26,2010 Eric Baudelaire Continues through September26,2010 Stephen G.Rhodes Continues through September26,2010 Greg Lynn and theDavidTeiger Curatorial Travel Fund. Maggie &Saree; theDepartmentof Cultural Affairs, Cityof LosAngeles; Foundation; Kayne Foundation—Ric &SuzanneKayne andJenni, Commission; GoodWorks Foundation andLaura Donnelley; LAArtHouse Additional generous supportisprovided by theLosAngelesCountyArts Nimoy andLeonard Nimoy andTheHorace W. GoldsmithFoundation. Hammer Projects ismadepossiblewithmajorgiftsfrom SusanBay primarily onthe workof emerging artists. Hammer Projects isaseries of exhibitions focusing HAMMER PROJECTS 2010 the politics of art.Organized byAnne Ellegood, Hammer senior curator. condition, and atrio of curators trapped in aboard room argue over turns to witchdoctors when hisinsurance won’tcoverhismedical starts aromance withasupernatural being afterlosing her job, aman crisis through the tropes of thatgenre. In performers appear insixshort videos thatview the current financial by episodic television shows like RodSerling’s related tothe economic collapsewith supernatural occurrences. Inspired Epi$ode 2000 by My Barbarian October 23,2010–January2011 My Barbarian players) 13 (for Artist Talk andperformance of tuesday, september28,7pm hammer lectures related programs categorization. Organized byAnne Ellegood, Hammer senior curator. as wellakey figure inconceptual artinthe 1960s, Marioni defies embodying allthe genres atonce. As anartist,writer, and curator, distinctions betweensculpture, music, drawing, and performance by it tofall tothe ground—encapsulated hisdesire toeradicate the he released acoiledmetal tapemeasure into the airand allowed site. Hisfirstartaction— ephemera, and drawings, including twowalldrawings created on host aspartof the piece, the exhibition willfeature avideo, installation and remains from eachof the fivegatherings he will the HighestFormof Art present hisongoing artwork For hisfirstone-person exhibition inLosAngeles, August 28–October3,2010 Tom Marioni (2010) explores the genre of science fiction, linking narratives Malik Gaines isaLosAngeles-based performance collectivefounded in , 1996 , , first realized in 1970.Along withabar-like Jade Gordon One SecondSculpture The Act of DrinkingBeerwithFriendsis , and The NightEpi$ode Alexandro Segade Beer Drinking Sonata Sonata Drinking Beer Night Gallery (1969), in which (1969),inwhich Tom Marioni , the three , the three a woman awoman . The Night The Night will will AND DAVID KORDANSKYGALLERY, LOSANGELES. AND BLUM&POE,LOS ANGELES. PHOTO:HEATHER RASMUSSEN. 12:48 MIN.COURTESY OFTHEARTISTS ANDSTEVETURNERGALLERY, LOSANGELES. ANONYMOUS GIFT. ©TOMMARIONI.PHOTO:BENBLACKWELL. REFRIGERATOR, FRAMEDPRINT, SHELF, BEERBOTTLES,ANDLIGHTBULB.114IN. LYNN COURTESY THEARTIST ANDELIZABETHDEE,NEWYORK. GREG INSTALLATION VIEWAT THEHAMMERMUSEUM,LOSANGELES. JUNE19–SEPTEMBER26,2010.PHOTO:BRIANFORREST.PROJECTS: HAMMER LEFT-RIGHT: See page 23for fullprogram description. HILL DEMON Sunday, November 21,12-2PM Hammer Kids with julianHoeber thursday, November 18,7PM exhibition walkthrough* Related programs by AliSubotnick, Hammer curator. transplanted tothe Hammer's marble terrace. Organized is acombination artinstallation and roadside attraction, Installed onthe museum’s Lindbrook Terrace, is soconvincing thatitgivesevenrational peoplepause. anomaly orasupernatural phenomenon and the illusion spots” claimtobeaneffectand marker of ageological that bodies stand atasharpangle tothe floor. “Mystery gravity worksatanangle, thatwaterruns uphill,and architecture of these shackscreates the illusion that the architecture of “gravitational mystery spots.” The presents emotion, and narrative. Forthisexhibition, Hoeber installation, and photography—to explore psychology, range of media—including sculpture, drawing, filmmaking, Los Angeles-based artist October 30,2010–January23,2011 Julian Hoeber HAMMER PROJECTS: FRIEDRICH KUNATH FRIEDRICH PROJECTS: HAMMER Demon Hill Tour for Kids , afreestanding structure basedon . INSTALLATION VIEWOF JulianHoeber . INSTALLATION VIEWAT THEHAMMERMUSEUM,LOSANGELES. APRIL17TOOCTOBER14,2010.PHOTO:JOSHUAWHITE. TOM MARIONI FOUNTAIN usesawide MY BARBARIAN MARK FLORES , 2010,AT THEHAMMERMUSEUM,LOSANGELES.PHOTO:BRIANFORREST. Demon Hill . FREE BEER(THEACTOFDRINKINGWITH FRIENDSISTHEHIGHESTFORMOFART) . THE NIGHTEPI$ODETWO: YOGAMATT /VERONICA PHOENIX . STUDIOVIEWANDDETAIL OFWORKINPROGRESS, OILONPANELS, 2010.COURTESY OFTHEARTIST x 114IN. JULIAN HOEBER x 60IN.(289.56CM by Anne Ellegood, Hammer senior curator. will bethe artist’sfirstsolo museum exhibition. Organized dozens of Flores’s photographs. work, the exhibition willinclude adigital slide show of during the day and atnight. Inaddition tothismulti-panel which he walked the fulllength of Sunset Boulevard, both photographs taken byFlores during hours-long journeys in upon one another insmall dots. The paintings are basedon in which the CMYKcolorsof the printing process are layered brushy quality and alabor-intensive benday-like technique Wall. The worksare painted alternately withanexpressive, paintings layered and juxtaposedacross the museum’s Lobby Project, color-saturated handmade paintings. Hisambitious Hammer optically driven mechanics of the photographic process into Los Angeles-based painter October 30,2010–April14,2011 Mark Flores . DEMON HILL See ThroughThis, x 289.56CM , 2010(PROTOTYPE).INSTALLATION VIEW. COURTESY OF THEARTIST ERIC BAUDELAIRE x 152.4 CM).SANFRANCISCO MUSEUMOFMODERNART, willconsist of 99individual Mark Flores , 2009.SINGLE-CHANNEL VIDEOSTILL. , SUGAR WATER Hammer Projects:MarkFlores with museum admission. *Exhibition walkthroughs are free HAMMER PROJECTS: STEPHEN G. RHODES G. STEPHEN PROJECTS: HAMMER translates the , 2007.HDVIDEO.72MIN. , 1970-1979. . 1 exhibitions 9 1 a.i.r. 10 PHOTO COURTESY CRITTER. A The piece uses abstract theater, humor, song, dance, and American musicals, Asher Hartman Annie Okay Saturday, October 16,8:30PM Friday, October15,8:30PM OKAY ANNIE video inthe BillyWilder Theater. are welcome to watch portions of via the characters, oralibis, thatthey assume. Visitors three-day participatory piece, 50playerswilltransform theater—to explore the construction of the self.Inthis performance artists, and practioners of experimental disparate communities—performative folk artists, seminars of the 1970s. Condon’s workdraws together Brody Condon Level5 friday, September3–Sunday, September5 level5 violins, tubas, accordions, and clarinets. will beperformed byfour LosAngeles-based duos playing works from American and European composers. The works New Music the Lobbystairs).Thisfall wewillpresent two guests—inthe LittleWilliam Theater (coatroom under Join usfor Microconcerts—brief concerts for amaximum of Every Saturday, 1–4pm little williamtheater:thefestival of new music continued exploration of visitorinteraction with the museum. This fall the Hammer and Public Engagement ArtistinResidence (A.I.R.), isaliveaction role-playing performance piece by is asite-specificplaywrittenand directed by comprising 400new commissioned two-minute , basedonthe BayArea self-actualization , basedonthe merging of twocolonialist . I Annie GetYour Gun . R Level5 and live-streamed The KingandI The Festival of . Machine Project ARTIST INRESIDENCE . Mark Allen with exploration of the reconstruction of the self.Adiscussion piece itself.Forthe documentation isnot simplyaremnant, butanelement of the role-playing performance, of Condon’s practice, and aswithhis2008live-action 2010 Hammer performance. Video isakey component video, aproduction created inconjunction withhisSeptember The museum will host the premiere of Thursday, November 18,7pm level5 and other related events throughout the museum. be micro performances (short concerts withtiny instruments) examined. Continuing the theme of microscopy, there will and samplestaken from around the museum willbe about building and manipulating microscopes. Materials The evening willfocus ondemonstrations and workshops relationships between culture and the environment. Francisco-based salondedicated toexpanding the from amicroscopic perspectivewithCRITTER,aSan Enormous Microscopic Evening saturday, November 6,4–7pm enormous microscopic evening terraces withaconcentrated visual poem. through the lobbyof the museum and highlight the of bothmusicals. The three actsof relational practice modalities toinvestigate the themes Brody Condon SCREENING Machine Project, willfollow the screening. Level5 and Machine Project director video, Condon continues hislayered Twentyfivefold Manifestation inviteyoutojoinusinour examines the museum Annie Okay Brody Condon’s will move Level5 , the Hammer Forum ismadepossiblein partby Bronya andAndrew Galef. This ongoing series of timely, thought-provoking dialogues addresses current social and political issues. HAMMER FORUM Sundays at11AM,and Hammer Forumis moderated by Straight Talk froman EnergyInsider author of the former president of Shell Oiland disaster inU.S.history, Following the worstenvironmental Wednesday, September8,7pm + CHARLESWOHLFORTH JOHN HOFMEISTER can theearthrecover? addicted tooil: that isincreasingly dangerous toextract. our dependence onadepleting resource urgent challenge of globalwarming and perspective tohow wecanmeet the an ecological, historical and cultural Ability toRescuetheEarth of journalist to the 1989Exxon Valdez disaster, Alaskan towards anoil-free future. Aneyewitness environmental strategy thatwillmove us joins ustodiscusshisideas for an The Fateof Nature:RediscoveringOur Why We HatetheOilCompanies: Charles Wohlforth The DailyBriefing, John Hofmeister Ian Masters , willoffer , author Monday through Thursday at5PM,onKPFK90.7 FM. , journalist, author, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, and host of the radio program , , political campaigns. offer alternatives tomoney-driven Governmental Studies, joinusto political reform atthe Center for and advocate for campaign finance reform, Common Cause, the nation’s leading former congressman and head of people and not money? voice and that candidates represent ensure that average citizens havea into political campaigns, how do we With more money thaneverpouring Tuesday, October12,7pm + JESSICA LEVINSON ROBERT EDGAR Candidates AND Issues How toMake ElectionsAbout DEMOCRACY FORSALE: Jessica Levinson , director of Robert Edgar , political information. which most voters get their to examine the medium from culture, scholar ontelevision, media, and the corporate bottomline. Aleading between social responsibility and provide aperspectiveonthe choice CNN Co-founder and former head of which they benefit soprofitably? any incentive tofixasystem from do the media monopolies have going tothe television networks, that politicians raise for campaigns With alarge portion of the money Tuesday, November 9,7PM + TOBY MILLER EASON JORDAN TELEVISION NETWORKS! AND THEWINNERIS...THE Eason Jordan Toby Miller Background Briefing joins usto alsojoins us , 1 forum 11 13 12 HAMMER CONVERSATIONS ANTONIO SKÁRMETA lectures + DANIEL CATÁN wednesday, september 22, 7pm conversations Skármeta...is able to capture the beauty of life and love, to express—through the interaction of his characters— 1 how caring and compassion are more beautiful than any treasure known to man. —New York Times 1 In anticipation of the world premiere of Il Postino at the Los Angeles Opera, Chilean novelist Antonio Skármeta and renowned Mexican composer Daniel Catán will discuss the process of collaborating on the theatrical adaptation of music and literature. Skármeta’s 1985 novel and film Ardiente Paciencia inspired the 1994 Academy Award- winning movie, Il Postino. Catán is best known for his operas which include Rappaccini’s Daughter, Florencia JONATHAN GOLD en el Amazonas, and the newly-commissioned Il Postino. ZÓCALO AT + BRET EASTON ELLIS Tuesday, November 16, 7pm THE HAMMER MICHAEL ROTONDI …the high-low priest of the L.A. food scene…Chefs read This collaborative series of programs features thinkers + PEMA NAMDOL THAYE Gold, as do food nerds in their thirties who spend their and doers speaking on some of the most pressing Sunday, November 7, 1PM weekends retracing his steps. topics of the day. For more information and the Zócalo — The New Yorker calendar, please visit www.zocalopublicsquare.org. Pema Namdol Thaye’s…dedication as a professional Tibetan thangka painter in preserving and promoting Over the course of six novels and one book of short this Tibetan art form is inspiring. stories, Bret Easton Ellis has put together one of the MEGAN McARDLE —H.H. The Dalai Lama, 1997 most entertaining, fascinating, and fucked-up bodies of work in contemporary literature. IN DEFENSE OF FAILURE —Vice Magazine Architect and educator Michael Rotondi is the principal Wednesday, October 13, 7pm of RoTo Architecture, an award-winning firm that creates Jonathan Gold, restaurant critic for LA Weekly and author Americans may worship success, but we are also good unconventional structures that aim to dissolve the of Counter Intelligence: Eating in the Real Los Angeles, is at failing. Silicon Valley executives highlight rather boundaries between design, science, technology, and the only food writer to have been awarded the Pulitzer than bury collapsed start-ups on their resumes, our the fine arts. Rotondi co-founded Morphosis in 1972 Prize. Bret Easton Ellis is the author of six novels including corporate and personal bankruptcy systems are the and was director of the Southern California Institute Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, most generous in the world, and New Deal-era financial of Architecture (SCI-Arc). A master of Tibetan art, Glamorama, and Lunar Park, as well as a collection of safeguards let banks collapse without destroying Pema Namdol Thaye is renowned for his expertise in short stories, The Informers. His latest novel is Imperial sound institutions or personal wealth. New America traditional Tibetan thangka painting, sculpture, and the Bedrooms. Gold and Ellis share their fascination for Foundation fellow, Atlantic magazine business and creation of rare three dimensional mandalas. For more Los Angeles, pop culture, and eating. economic editor, and self-described Libertarian than 25 years, Pema has provided a vital contribution Megan McArdle explains why failure—and the to the world’s understanding of traditional Tibetan Art. ability to do it gracefully—is an essential part OPPOSITE, TOP TO BOTTOM: ANTONIO SKÁRMETA, DANIEL CATÁN, MICHAEL ROTONDI, PEMA NAMDOL THAYE. ABOVE, TOP TO BOTTOM: JONATHAN GOLD, AND BRET EASTON of the American economy. In conjunction with The Mandala Project. ELLIS (PHOTO: JEFF BURTON). TOP RIGHT: MEGAN McARDLE. CALENDAR 14 15 Public programs are made possible, in part, by a major gift from Ann and Jerry Moss. Additional support is provided by Bronya and Andrew Galef, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, an anonymous donor, the Hammer Programs Committee, and Susan and Leonard Nimoy. calendar calendar September October 8 Wed 7pm Hammer Forum: Addicted to Oil(p. 11) 2 Sat 1pm Hammer Panel: Superclogger, Super Public (p. 16) 27 Wed 7pm Hammer Readings (p. 17) 17 Wed 7pm Hammer Screenings (p. 21) John Hofmeister & Charles Wohlforth Performance En Route Slake Los Angeles Magazine Open Projector Night 1 1 12 Sun 12pm Sunday Afternoons for Kids (p. 23) 5 Tue 7pm Hammer Presents: 24/7 2010 (p. 19) 28 Thu 7pm Hammer Presents (p. 21) 18 Thu 7pm Hammer Readings: Poetry (p. 18) What Happens When a Dog Faces The State of the Art in DIY Video Films by Cameron Jamie Joanie Mackowski Downward 7pm A.I.R.: Level5 Screening (p. 10) 6 Wed 7pm Hammer Screenings (p. 20) 29 Fri 7pm Hammer Presents (p. 19) 14 Tue 7pm Hammer Screenings (p. 20) César’s Last Fast TRANSylvania Mania! 7pm Exhibition Walkthrough (p. 9) William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible Demon Hill Tour with Julian Hoeber* 7 Thu 7pm Exhibition Walkthrough: Mark Manders (p. 4) 31 Sun 11am Family Flicks Film Series (p. 22) 15 Wed 8pm Hammer Screenings (p. 20) With Elliott Hundley* Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein 21 Sun 12pm Hammer Kids (p. 23) Flux Screening Series The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Demon Hill Tour for Kids 12 Tue 7pm Hammer Forum: Democracy for Sale (p. 11) 2pm Hammer Lectures: Eva Hesse (p. 16) 16 Thu 7:30pm Hammer Screenings (p. 20) Robert Edgar & Jessica Levinson November Elisabeth Sussman Viva Zapata! 13 Wed 7pm Zócalo at the Hammer (p. 13) 2 Tue 7pm Hammer Readings: New American Writing (p. 18) 23 Tue 7pm Hammer Lectures: Antonio Damasio (p. 17) 19 Sun 11am Family Flicks Film Series (p. 22) Megan McArdle Stuart Dybek Self Comes to Mind Sing China! 14 Thu 7pm UCLA Department of Art Lectures (p. 17) 4 Thu 7pm Hammer Readings: Poetry (p. 18) 30 Tue 7pm Hammer Readings: Poetry (p. 18) 21 Tue 7pm Hammer Screenings (p. 20) Walead Beshty Carrie Jerrell Poetry Society of America Ed Hardy: Tattoo the World 7pm Exhibition Walkthrough: Mark Manders (p. 4) Centennial Celebration 7pm Hammer Lectures (p. 8) 15 Fri 8:30pm A.I.R.: Annie Okay (p. 10) With Jeffrey Kipnis* Screening & Artist Talk with Eric Baudelaire 16 Sat 8:30pm A.I.R.: Annie Okay (p. 10) 6 Sat 2pm The Mandala Project (p. 7) 22 Wed 7pm Hammer Conversations (p. 12) Mandala viewing Antonio Skármeta & Daniel Catán 19 Tue 7:30pm Hammer Presents (p. 19) Hamlet in the Hammer Courtyard 4pm A.I.R.: Enormous Microscopic Evening (p. 10) 23 Thu 8pm Hammer Presents (p. 19) HAMMER PUBLIC PROGRAMS 20 Wed 7:30pm Hammer Presents (p. 19) 7 Sun 1pm Hammer Conversations (p. 12) Flood Tide: Remixed Michael Rotondi & Pema Namdol Thaye ARE FREE TO THE PUBLIC. Hamlet in the Hammer Courtyard 25 Sat 1pm Joel Kyack's Superclogger (p. 16) 3pm The Mandala Project (p. 7) 21 Thu 7pm Hammer Presents (p. 19) Dissolution Ceremony & Procession 26 Sun 1pm Exhibition Walkthrough: Mark Manders (p. 4) The Watts Towers Project Ticketing With Douglas Fogle 9 Tue 7pm Hammer Forum: Politics & T.V. (p. 11) Free tickets are required for program entry and & Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson* 22 Fri 10am UCLA Art History Graduate Student Eason Jordan & Toby Miller Association Symposium (p. 17) are available from the Billy Wilder Theater Box Office. One ticket per person. Hammer Members 2pm Exhibition Walkthrough: Eva Hesse (p. 5) Back to the Future 10 Wed 7pm Hammer Screenings (p. 20) With Allegra Pesenti* are entitled to priority seating for all public Space, Land and Time: programs, subject to availability. This does not 24 Sun 12pm Sunday Afternoons for Kids (p. 23) Underground Adventures with Ant Farm 28 Tue 7pm Hammer Lectures (p. 8) A Guy Walks Into the Hammer… guarantee seating, and we recommend that all attendees arrive at least a half-hour early. Artist Talk with Tom Marioni and 2pm Exhibition Walkthrough: Eva Hesse (p. 5) 14 Sun 11am Family Flicks Film Series (p. 22) Beer Drinking Sonata performance of With Laura Owens* The Black Stallion (for 13 players), 1996 Hammer Members receive priority seating at 12pm Sunday Afternoons for Kids (p. 23) 26 Tue 11am The Mandala Project (p. 7) programs. To JOIN, contact the membership 29 Wed 7pm Hammer Readings: New American Writing (p. 18) Speak, Memory Mandala viewing department at 310-443-7050. Caryl Phillips 16 Tue 7pm Hammer Conversations (p. 13) 7pm Hammer Panel (p. 16) *Exhibition walkthroughs are free with museum admission. Jonathan Gold & Bret Easton Ellis 30 Thu 7pm UCLA Department of Art Lectures (p. 17) Race, Class, and Residence in LA Yoshua Okón BACKGROUND IMAGE: ANT FARM. CLEAN AIR POD, 1970. PERFORMANCE AT LOWER SPROUL PLAZA, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY. PHOTO BY CHIP LORD. For additional program information: www.hammer.ucla.edu Voice: 310-443-7000, TTY: 310-443-7094. 1 lectures 16 (Los AngelesPublicDomain),anLA> production, the Superclogger , JoelKyack’s and LA> has YOSHUA OKÓN ELISABETH SUSSMAN LEFT TORIGHT: scholars and community activists attention tosocial justice concerns, spatial perspective, paying particular actions. Exploring race from a decisions andgovernment private patterns havecontinued through passed, these segregated housing In the 40yearssince the actwas had already become entrenched. law in1968,residential segregation When the FairHousing Act became Tuesday, October26,7PM IN LOSANGELES RACE, CLASS,ANDRESIDENCE MY NEIGHBOR? WON’T YOU BE have beenintermeshed inLosAngeles. different siteswhere race and space of Community Coalition) Harris-Dawson studies atUCSB) George Lipsitz (PHOTO:ELISAITURBE), AND SUPERCLOGGER , ANTONIO DAMASIO (executive director (professor of black and (PHOTOCOURTESY Marqueece will consider (PHOTO:LUIZCARVALHO), WALEAD BESHTY JOEL KYACK . ), Eva HesseSpectres 1960 In conjunctionwiththeexhibition outside New York in2001and 2002. best monographic exhibition AICA’s firstprize for the received on Hesse, anexhibition that Sussman co-organized aretrospective Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Jewish Museum. Forthe San Center and Eva HesseDrawing exhibitions onthe workof EvaHesse: Art. She recently co-curated two at the Whitney Museum of American Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography Elisabeth Sussman Sunday, November 21,2PM ELISABETH SUSSMAN GEORGE LIPISITZ SLAKE: LOSANGELES Eva Hesse:Sculpture , MARQUEECE HARRIS-DAWSON MAGAZINECOVER, atthe Drawing . iscurator and at , new book, Feeling of WhatHappens and decisions. Hisbooksinclude how the brain processes memory, language, emotions, has made seminal contributions tothe understanding of an internationally recognized leader inneuroscience and Institute atthe University of Southern California. He is Neuroscience and director of the Brain and Creativity Antonio Damasio making, socialbehavior,and His work hashelpedusunderstand decision MIND TO Tuesday, November 23,7pm COMES SELF ANTONIO DAMASIO Ochoa Lauren Weedman Leaves celebrate local writers, artists, and photographers. The evening will Laurie Ochoa and philosophical. Editedbyformer examines allthings curious, fictional, poetic, political, Slake: LosAngeles The worldviews reach outsidetraditional journalism. truth burst from thepagesof Moments ofsurprise, whimsy andunconventional Wednesday, OCTOBER 27,7pm ORGANIZED BY BENJAMIN WEISSMAN SLAKE: LOS ANGELES , author Donnelly Slake Self ComestoMind and Mark Z.Danielewski ’s second issuewithreadings by , and other contributors tothe publication. isanew LA-centric quarterly that isthe David Dornsife Professor of Joe Donnelly ( Date Night , and —Charlie Rose —Los AngelesTimes , willbepublished thisfall. Looking for Spinoza even consciousness… , , Hung Slake MAGAZINE Descartes’ Error Slake: Los Angeles , writer/comedian/actress LA Weekly , features workby The DailyShow House of editors , . His The ), ), … Ringier recently published amonograph onhis work. of Contemporary Art,Chicago; and the Hammer Museum. JRP/ the Whitney Museum of American Art,New York; the Museum He hasexhibited widely, including atTate Britain,London; Graduate Fine ArtDepartment of ArtCenter College of Design. Artist and writer Thursday, October14,7PM WALEAD BESHTY the UCLAGraduate StudentsAssociation. UCLA CouncilonArts &Architecture, UCLAFriendsof ArtHistory, and The AHGSA Symposium isfundedby UCLADepartmentof ArtHistory, from UCLAand other distinguished universities. symposium willinclude presentations bynine graduate students will offer her insights onhow artcontends withtime. The Keynote speaker Professor art, arthistory, and exhibitions constitute forms of time travel. chronology, and constructed histories/futures inart,asking how Association’s (AHGSA) 2010symposium,examines temporality, Back totheFuture Friday, October22,10AM–6pm BACK TO THEFUTURE STUDENT ASSOCIATION SYMPOSIUM UCLA ART HISTORY GRADUATE Okón iscurrently anartist-in-residence atthe Hammer Museum. Städtische Kunsthalle, Munich; and include City. In2002,he received anMFA from UCLA.Hissoloexhibitions works. In1994he founded LaPanadería, anartist-runspaceinMexico Yoshua Okón Thursday, September30,7PM YOSHUA OKÓN UCLA DEPARTMENT OFART LECTURES Ventanilla Única wasbornin1970,Mexico Citywhere he livesand Walead Beshty , the UCLAArtHistoryGraduate Student , Museo CarrilloGil,Mexico City; Pamela M.Lee isassociate professor inthe Bocanegra of Stanford University , the Project, New York. SUBTITLED , 1 lectures 17 18 19 readings presents HAMMER READINGS NEW AMERICAN WRITING POETRY 1 This series of contemporary fiction and poetry readings is This series of readings is organized and hosted by Stephen Yenser, 1 organized by Benjamin Weissman, author of two books of short poet and professor at UCLA and author of A Boundless Field: HAMMER PRESENTS fiction, most recentlyHeadless , and professor of creative writing American Poetry at Large and Blue Guide. at Art Center College of Design and Otis College of Art and Design. Sponsored by the UCLA Department of English and Friends of English. TRANSYLVANIA MANIA! online, geek, remix, and fan culture, curated to highlight the This series is made possible, in part, with support from Bronya and Andrew Galef. Friday, October 29, 7-11PM most recent trends and techniques emerging from anime music Trans and queer artists and allies invite you to a blowout videos, political remixes, fan vids, videoblogs, and the YouTube CARRIE JERRELL Halloween bash. Hostess Darlin’ welcomes comic Ian Harvie, scene. The evening kicks off with a talk by transmedia guru Thursday, November 4, 7pm CARYL PHILLIPS chanteuse Our Lady J, folksinger Phranc, and rock trio Henry Jenkins and ends with a reception in the courtyard. Carrie Jerrell was awarded the 2008 Anthony Hecht Poetry Wednesday, September 29, 7PM Patty Schemel, Will Schwartz & Daniela Sea. View the Prize for her collection After the Revival. A three-time Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, West Indies, and raised latest issue of Original Plumbing magazine, and tour Hammer HAMLET IN THE HAMMER COURTYARD Pushcart Prize nominee, she is assistant professor of in England. His novel Dancing in the Dark won the 2006 Projects artist Julian Hoeber's installation Demon Hill. Plus, Tuesday, October 19, 7:30PM English at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky, and PEN/Beyond Margins Award, and A Distant Shore won the Tranimal drag makeover workshop for attendees with before wednesday, October 20, 7:30PM serves as the poetry editor for Iron Horse Literary Review. 2004 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. His other awards include and after portraits by Austin Young. All ages, genders, and For 400 years and counting, Shakespeare’s Hamlet remains as Jerrell received her MA from the Writing Seminars at Johns the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim persuasions welcome. Costumes encouraged! Seasonal menu contemporary as ever. This foundational work of Western culture, Hopkins University and her PhD from Texas Tech University. Fellowship, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His and cash bar by Cafe Hammer. performed by UCLA’s professional actor training program, will be presented in two fully staged performances. Directed by most recent book is In the Falling Snow. He is a fellow of the JOANIE MACKOWSKI Royal Society of Literature and currently lives in New York. FLOOD TIDE: REMIXED Michael McLain of UCLA’s Theater program, with David S. Rodes, Thursday, November 18, 7pm Thursday, September 23, 8PM the Grunwald Center’s director emeritus, as dramaturge. STUART DYBEK Joanie Mackowski is assistant professor of English at Cornell A dreamlike, meditative journey down a river flowing both University and author of the poetry collections The Zoo Tuesday, November 2, 7PM ways with the tides, Flood Tide follows real-life, handmade THE WATTS TOWERS PROJECT and View from a Temporary Window. Her awards include the Stuart Dybek is the author of three books of fiction—Childhood boat-sculptures and their crews as they drift past empty new Co-presented with The Watts Towers Emily Dickinson Prize from the Poetry Society of America, and Other Neighborhoods, The Coast of Chicago, and I Sailed condominiums, explore crumbling castles, swim in iridescent Common Ground Initiative: Art, the Associated Writing Programs Award in Poetry, the Kate with Magellan—as well as two collections of poetry, Brass quarries, and are occasionally hindered by torrents of rain or Migrations, and Development Tufts Discovery Prize, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Grant, and Knuckles and Streets in Their Own Ink. Among Dybek’s numerous groaning motors. Interpreting and responding to extended Thursday, October 21, 7pm a Wallace Stegner Fellowship. awards are a MacArthur Prize, a Rea Award, and a PEN/Malamud footage not in the narrative version, Dark Dark Dark perform The Watts Towers Project is created and performed by Prize. He is distinguished writer in residence at Northwestern live with the film onstage following their pre-screening Roger Guenveur Smith with sound design by Marc Anthony POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA musical set. 7pm cash bar. 8pm screening/performance. Thompson, projections by Daniel Foster, and lighting by University and a member of the permanent faculty for Western CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION Michigan University’s Prague Summer Program. (2010, 50 min. Dir. Todd Chandler, cinematographer Ava Berkofsky) Jose Lopez. An intimate meditation on solo endeavor, Smith’s Tuesday, November 30, 7pm play is inspired by the Simon Rodia masterwork, which has Poets of the American West, 1910–2010 24/7 2010: THE STATE OF See also withstood earthquakes, riots, and civic indifference. Smith’s In honor of the Poetry Society of America’s 100th THE ART IN DIY VIDEO Wednesday, October 27, 7pm work for the international stage also includes the Obie Award- anniversary, celebrated Western poets read their own WITH HENRY JENKINS Slake: Los Angeles Magazine, p. 17. winning A Huey P. Newton Story, which he adapted into a work as well as poems by their favorite poets of the Tuesday, October 5, 7pm Peabody Award-winning telefilm, andInside the Creole Mafia, region from the past century. Poets include 24/7 2010 picks up where 24/7: A DIY Video Summit left off in named Production of the Year by LA Weekly. Wanda Coleman, Robert Hass, Juan Felipe Herrera, 2008, bringing together a feature-length program of the best LEFT TO RIGHT: CARYL PHILLIPS (PHOTO: LAURENT DENIMAL), STUART DYBEK LEFT TO RIGHT: AUSTIN YOUNG. PORTRAIT OF FADE-DRA, 2010. JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS. (PHOTO: DAVID KAMM), CARRIE JERRELL, AND JOANIE MACKOWSKI. Jane Hirshfield, Carol Muske-Dukes, and Michael Palmer. from the world of do-it-yourself video. Come find the latest in OPHELIA, 1852. OIL ON CANVAS. HAMMER SCREENINGS 20 ED HARDY: TATTOO THE WORLD 21 with Ed hardy & emiko omori Tuesday, September 21, 7pm A new documentary by Emiko Omori Ed Hardy: Tattoo the World documents the amazing life journey of California artist Don Ed Hardy (b. 1945), who decided at age screenings screenings 10 to be a tattoo artist. After receiving a classical art education with Asian influences, he went on to initiate tattooing’s ART 21 unprecedented global popularity. Hardy combined sophisticated work on skin with painting, printmaking, writing, publishing, 1 WILLIAM KENTRIDGE: 1 ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE and curatorial work. The film puts this in context with the Tuesday, September 14, 7pm Ed Hardy lifestyle brand that has saturated the world. (2009, 75 min. Dir: Emiko Omori) Rich in visual imagery and music, William Kentridge: Anything FILMS BY CAMERON JAMIE Is Possible intimately documents the acclaimed South African Thursday, October 28, 7PM artist’s working processes in a wide variety of media—from CÉSAR’S LAST FAST Cameron Jamie makes enigmatic and captivating drawing and paper cutouts, to film and performance, to staging Wednesday, October 6, 7PM documentary films exploring American and European the Shostakovich opera The Nose for its world premiere at the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program presents vernacular cultures and their rituals. For this special event, Metropolitan Opera. Presented by Art21, the film will have its a Work-In-Progress screening of the documentary film we will screen Jamie’s trilogy of filmsBB (1998–2000), national prime-time PBS premiere October 21, 2010. César’s Last Fast, a film about the private sacrifice behind Spook House (2002–2003) and Kranky Klaus (2002–2003), (2010, 55 min. Dir: Susan Sollins, co-dir: Charles Atlas) César E. Chávez’s struggle for the humane treatment of farm workers, and the impact his inspirational legacy has along with his latest film (making its American debut and FLUX SCREENING SERIES had on a new generation of activists, organizers, and Los Angeles premiere), Massage the History (2007–2009). community leaders. Following the screening, Academy These films all explore the idea of the home: from haunted Wednesday, September 15, 8PM houses, to suburban backyards, to domestic holiday rituals, Flux and the Hammer invite you to celebrate the 20th Award-nominated actor Edward James Olmos will host to living room dancing. Together the four films create a anniversary of the groundbreaking independent label Ninja a panel discussion featuring César Chavez’s son, hallucinatory and poetic vision of what goes on behind Tune with an evening of its very best and strangest videos Paul Chavez, the filmmakers, and Dr. Mario Garcia, closed doors and also what is right in front of our eyes that plus surprise guests. The evening will conclude with a sweet author of The Gospel of César Chavez. we don’t seem to acknowledge. treat—a courtyard reception with master turntablist DJ Food. (Running time: 60 min. Dir: Richard Ray Perez) VIVA ZAPATA! SPACE, LAND, AND TIME: Thursday, September 16, 7:30pm UNDERGROUND ADVENTURES Co-presented with the UCLA Film & Television WITH ANT FARM BACK BY Archive Wednesday, November 10, 7pm OPEN PROJECTOR NIGHT POPULAR DEMAND! Celebrate the 100th Aniversario of the Mexican Revolution Space, Land, and Time is the first film to consider the work Wednesday, November 17, 7:30pm with a screening of Elia Kazan’s sweeping biopic following of the renegade 1970s art/architecture collective Ant Farm, MCS: THE SKLAR BROTHERS Emiliano Zapata Salazar’s life from reluctant advocate for best known for its iconic land-art piece Cadillac Ranch. More showdown than showcase, the Hammer’s previous peasant land rights, to legendary general of the revolution, Radical architects, video pioneers, and mordantly funny Open Projector Nights have delighted and confounded and his tragic assassination. Marlon Brando’s intense cultural commentators, the Ant Farmers created a body of rowdy audiences. Whether roughly hewn or pristinely performance as Zapata and Kazan’s powerful direction act deeply subversive multidisciplinary work that questioned the polished, films and videos of all genres have garnered as weighty correctives to Hollywood’s typical portrayal of boundaries of architecture and everything else in the process. praise and wrath alike. Will yours earn a fantastic the revolution. Print courtesy of the Academy Archive. Incorporating archival video, new footage, and animation prize, or will it be voted off? Not for the thin-skinned! LEFT TO RIGHT: BACKGROUND IMAGE: WILLIAM KENTRIDGE. DRAWING FOR THE FILM Work under 10 minutes only. Free popcorn and cash bar. (1952, 113 min. Dir. Elia Kazan, 35mm, B/W). based on zany period sketches, this film is about the joy WEIGHING…AND WANTING [SOHO WITH HEAD ON ROCK]. 1997. CHARCOAL, PASTEL, of creation in a time when there were no limits. Discussion AND GOUACHE ON PAPER, 48 1/2 X 63” (123.2 X 160 CM). MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY Submissions begin at 7PM and are first come, first served. This screening is part of the Archive series, Viva La Revolucion, ART, SAN DIEGO. © 2010 WILLIAM KENTRIDGE. PHOTO COURTESY THE ARTIST. STILL FROM CAMERON JAMIE’S MASSAGE THE HISTORY (2007–2009). Please visit hammer.ucla.edu for accepted formats. The Mexican Revolution on Film, September 10–26. Please visit with Ant Farm’s Chip Lord will follow the screening. www.cinema.ucla.edu for more info. (2010, 78 min. Dirs: Laura Harrison and Beth Federicci) 22 23 UCLA FILM & TELEVISION ARCHIVE kids The Billy Wilder Theater is also the home of the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s renowned cinémathèque. screenings 1 The UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum have teamed up for ¡VIVA LA REVOLUCIÓN!: THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION ON a matinee screening series of new and classic family-friendly films from around FILM the world. Funded by the UCLA Arts Initiative and co-presented with the UCLA 1 Presented in association with the Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles Film & Television Archive. All films appropriate for ages 6+. SEPTEMBER 10 – 26 From the beginning of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, images of SUNDAY AFTERNOONS SPEAK, MEMORY the struggle against the regime of Porfirio Díaz circulated around the SING CHINA! Sunday, November 14, 12–2pm globe thanks to the advent of the new medium of cinema. Coinciding SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 11AM FOR KIDS What does a rhombus sound like? Can you smell a symphony? with citywide centennial celebrations of the Mexican Revolution, the Inspiring, heartwarming, and packed with amazing musical The Hammer’s collaborative workshops, presented with 826LA, In this workshop, participants will learn about synaesthesia, Archive approaches cinematic representations of the revolution from performances, Sing China! documents the trip of a lifetime are designed for groups of up to 20 students. Reservations are otherwise known as the mixing of the senses, and explore an international perspective with a series of classic films from Mexico as members of the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus journey to encouraged. Contact [email protected] or call 310-305-8418. their relationships to sight, touch, sound, and smell. and elsewhere that depict the revolution through the frame of their Beijing for the pre-Olympic International Youth Arts Festival. All workshops are appropriate for ages 8–13. Students will use their newly developed synaesthetic tool specific national, industrial, and historical contexts. Academy Award-winning filmmakerFreida Lee Mock captures kit to write about their own memories and the sensory the adventurous spirit of the chorus’ young singers—from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and recollections that shape them. Writer and curator Sarah Brin rehearsals, to sightseeing at the Great Wall, to their big night in UCLA Film & Television Archive present is currently writing her master's thesis on artists’ games and front of 10,000 people. In-person appearance by director Freida OUT OF THE PAST: FILM RESTORATION TODAY the power of play in public space. Ages 8–13. SEPTEMBER 27 – NOVEMBER 29 Mock and members of the Los Angeles Children's Chorus. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A DOG FACES Restoring and preserving our motion picture heritage are at the (2009, 72 min. Dir: Freida Lee Mock. 35mm, color) DOWNWARD? core of the UCLA Film & Television Archive activities. This 10-week ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN A Yoga/Storytelling Workshop program features a behind-the-scenes look into contemporary & THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW Sunday, September 12, 12–2pm Exhibition related restoration techniques and concerns, with introductions by leading SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 11AM Maybe our Downward Dog crosses a bridge and climbs a film preservationists.Admission to this series is free! DEMON HILL TOUR FOR KIDS ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN mountain to meet the Crow. Or the Lion. Or the Lord of the Sunday, November 21, 12–2PM The Archive is grateful for the generous support of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts Abbott and Costello face off against the world’s most Fishes. Or maybe not. In this workshop students will tell and Sciences, which made this series possible. Francis W. Hoeber—early collaborator with Brian us what happens after they use yoga poses (traditional notorious monsters in this inspired monster mash that De Palma, historian of American social and cultural and invented) to discover characters within and to explore PAINT IT BLACK: REVISITING BLAXPLOITATION and mixes old-fashioned scares with hilarious antics. behavior, tour guide, and amateur magician—will (1948, 83 min. Dir: Charles T. Barton. 35mm, b/w) how good stories flow. Joan Hawley McClain is a long time african american cinema of the 1970s give a tour of the Demon Hill mystery house, an Presented in association with the Pan African Film and Arts Festival, THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW certified yoga teacher who loves to make silly faces and the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA, installation by his son Julian Hoeber. The senior Bing Crosby narrates this classic Disney adaptation of the noises Ages 8–13. and the Interdepartmental Program in Afro American Studies at UCLA . Mr. Hoeber’s enthusiasm for theater, illusion, and haunted, heady tale by Washington Irving. OCTOBER 1 – 31 (1949, 34 min. Dir: Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney. 35mm, color) Americana has been an inspiration for the junior The explosion of hip-talking, eroticized, and violent urban films, A GUY WALKS INTO THE HAMMER… Mr. Hoeber’s work. Francis W. Hoeber will share dubbed “Blaxploitation,” in the early 1970s gave rise to a new THE BLACK STALLION Sunday, October 24, 12–2PM some of that enthusiasm by presenting illusions generation of black actors, writers, and directors even as its critics SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 11AM Stand-up comedy is the Mount Everest of phobias, but and tricks within the Demon Hill installation. decried the trend’s focus on pimps, pushers, and prostitutes. African Carroll Ballard (Duma) made his feature debut with this gorgeous rest easy: it’s not as hard as it looks. Students will American film culture at the time, however, was also more varied than adaptation of Walter Farley’s classic novel about a boy and a watch and study professional comedians, learning how Reservations are not necessary. the term “Blaxploitation” suggests. Whether embracing or rejecting majestic stallion who meet during an ocean voyage and bond to write jokes and turn them into stand-up routines to In conjunction with the exhibition “Blaxploitation,” writers and directors, then and now, grapple with the while stranded on a picturesque desert island. Ballard balances be performed at the end of the workshop. Ryan Stayton Hammer Projects: Julian Hoeber. pervasiveness of the genre’s complex, controversial popular image. action with subtle characterization, convincingly detailed art is a comedian living in Los Angeles. His pursuits include For admission information, a complete schedule, or to learn more about the Archive’s direction, and breathtaking cinematography by Caleb Deschanel. writing, stand-up, and improv. Ages 8–13. screenings of new works and treasured classics, please visit cinema.ucla.edu. (1979, 117 min. Dir: Carroll Ballard 35mm, color) ABOVE LEFT–RIGHT: STILL FROM VIVA ZAPATA! (1952); STILL FROM THE BLACK STALLION (1979). 1 kids 24 for ournextK.A.M.P! Hammer Kidsprograms. successfully raisedmorethan$50,000forfree a terrificvolunteercommittee,themuseum by K.A.M.P. chairpersonBrookeKanterand timewithcelebrityreaders.Ledand story scavenger huntinthepermanentcollection; artist-led, wildlyinventiveworkshops;a based artists.Creativityruledtheday, with experiences forkidsdesignedbyLosAngeles- family fundraiser, afunday ofmemorable first-ever K.A.M.P. (Kids’ArtMuseumProject) On May16,2010theHammerhostedits K KIDS’ ARTMUSEUMPROJECT . A . M Joinusspring2011 16 10 11 . P . 17 20 12 Westwood Village 3 ® 6 7 13 4 18 (LED BY 9. SCULPTURES (LED BY 8. SCULPTURES (LED BY 7. SOCKPUPPETS (LED BY 6. JERSEYDESIGN 5. 4. 3. 2. BALLOONSBY (LED BY 1. DESIGNINGKITES COLIN FARRELL JASON BATEMA PHIL LORD&ANNPHILBIN 14 1 MARK GROTJAHN MATT JOHNSON CHARLIE WHITE JONAS WOOD ELLIOTT HUNDLEY ADDI SOMKEH N ) ) ) ) ) 8 (LED BY 18. ‘BOWLSOFLIGHT’ MY BARBARIAN 17. KIDSPERFORMWITH SPONSORED BY 16. ‘CREATE YOUROWN’ JOHN CAMPISI 15. K.A.M.P. CHAIR (LED BY 14. MASKMAKING 13. 12. & DEBORAHKAPLAN-MEYER 11. 10. JODIE FOSTER TOBEY MAGUIRE BRECKIN MEYER K.A.M.P. KIDS EDGARARCENEAUX BRIAN BRESS , HILARY SWANK IKEA BROOKE KANTER ) ) 15 5 , 9 2 ABOVE: HOME OF the HammerBookstore. at 310-443-7050,visitwww.hammer.ucla.edu, orswingby To purchase agiftmembership, calltheMembership Department contribution istax-deductible! And remember: aportionof your membership parties, the Hammer calendar…and somuch more. at Hammer public programs, invitations toopenings and exhibition viewings, abookstore discount, priority seating fun withbenefits thatinclude unlimitedfree admission, friends. Allmembers enjoyafullyearof culture and Hammer membership makes aterrific gift for family and SHARE THEHAMMEREXPERIENCE [email protected] for more information. Contact Laura Silsat310-443-7023or BECOME AHAMMERFELLOW! exhibitions and programs. Fellows for their continued supportof Hammer Museum Many thankstoourgracious hosts and ourHammer the perfectsetting for aleisurely dinner among friends. home. Their open-airpavilion and cactusgarden were the couple’sexquisite 2010 Michael Maltzan-designed Richard Neutra structure withpanoramic views, down to guests made their wayfrom the lovingly preserved 1952 Roy Dowelland LariPittman. As the evening progressed, Fellows dinner—this yearatthe hilltop home of artists curators, architects, and artistsfor the annual Hammer In mid-July Hammer Fellowsjoined Director Ann Philbin, AN EVENINGWITHHAMMERFELLOWS HAMMER MEMBERSHIP ROY DOWELL AND LARI PITTMAN (PHOTO:AMBER BUSUTTILMULLEN). 1 membership 25 LUNCHTIME ART TALKS MINDFUL AWARENESS WWW.HAMMER.UCLA.EDU 27 26 Lunchtime Art Talks take place every Wednesday at 12:30pm. The Hammer’s curatorial department leads free and insightful 15-minute 310-443-7000 MEDITATION AT THE HAMMER discussions about works of art currently on view or from museum collections. *Speaker thursdays at 12:30pm, Billy Wilder Theater Hours Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat 11am–7pm talks Thu 11am–9pm Mindful Awareness is the moment-by-moment process of Sun 11am–5pm actively and openly observing one’s physical, mental, and Closed Mondays art emotional experiences. Mindfulness has scientific support Admission information as a means to reduce stress, improve attention, boost the $7 Adults immune system, reduce emotional reactivity, and promote $5 Seniors (65+) and 1 a general sense of health and well-being. UCLA Alumni Association Members with ID Parking Free for Hammer members, general The free weekly “drop-in” sessions take place in the Available under the museum: September 1 September 8 September 15 September 22 students with ID, UCLA comfortable seats of the Billy Wilder Theater and are open $3 with validation. Enter on Tom Marioni’s Kay Nielsen’s Elliott Hundley's Edgar Degas’s faculty and staff, and Westwood Boulevard or Glendon FREE BEER (The Act of Drinking A Lady’s Lover from A Thousand Pentheus, 2010 Woman at Her Toilette, 1880 to all who are interested in learning how to live more visitors 17 and under Avenue. Parking for people Beer with Friends is the Highest and One Nights, 1918–22 *Brooke Hodge *Cynthia Burlingham presently in life. No special clothing is required, and Free every Thursday for with disabilities is provided 1 Form of Art), 1970-1979 *Claudine Dixon participants are welcome to stay for five minutes or enjoy all visitors. on levels P1 and P3. *Anne Ellegood the entire 30-minute session. To request a group tour, visit our website or call the Group Tours Line at 310-443-7041. Sessions are led by instructors from the The Hammer Museum is operated and partially funded by the University of California, UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. Los Angeles. Occidental Petroleum Corporation has partially endowed the Museum and constructed the Occidental Petroleum Cultural Center Building, which houses the Museum. Visit www.marc.ucla.edu to learn more about the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. Board of Directors Board of Overseers Founder Peter Benedek Dr. Armand Hammer Lloyd E. Cotsen Rosette Varda Delug September 29 October 6 October 13 October 20 EXHIBITION TOURS Chairman Emeritus George Freeman Evan Holloway’s Selected works from After Rosso Fiorentino’s Domenico del Barbiere’s Michael A. Hammer Bronya Galef 35–39, 2007 Mark Manders: Parallel Mars and Venus, ca. 1494–1540 Skeletons and Flayed Bodies, Honorary Directors Bob Gersh *Corrina Peipon Occurrences/Documented *David Rodes 16th century FREE STUDENT EDUCATOR-LED TOURS Armie Hammer Stanley Hollander Assignments, 2010 *David Rodes Viktor Armand Hammer Linda Janger OF SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS *Douglas Fogle Barbara Kruger Thursdays at 6:15pm Chairman Larry Marx Free half-hour tours of special exhibitions are led by John V. Tunney Erik Murkoff Susan Bay Nimoy student educators. Reservations are not required. Roy H. Aaron Lari Pittman Gene D. Block Phil A. Robinson Lloyd E. 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