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Hammer Museum Spring 2006 Non Profit US Postage PAID Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, at UCLA 10899 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90024 USA Los Angeles For additional program information: Voice: 310-443-7000 TTY: 310-443-7094 Web: www.hammer.ucla.edu Permit 202 ICCtTO,,-...,-lxplweC.-0..o.-,nd-l'Na.m ucLlfiJ Cover: John Swope. Shinagawa, September 2, 1945 (detail). Gelatin silver print. John Swope Collection, c John Swope Trust. A Messagefrom the Director The HammerMuseum co ntinues to build on the energy and An important body of over 80 photographs, drawings, prints, Selwyn; Patty Chang watercolors from Roberts & Tilton; and excitement that began with the start of the New Year. In and videos was generously donated by Los Angeles gallerist a number of other important additions to the collection we January, the LA Weeklydescribed the Hammer as "a model Patrick Painter, greatly expanding the Museum'scontempo look forward to exhibiting and recognizing in the future. for what a smaller museum should be," noting the dynamic rary holdings. The gift includes large groups of works by The Museumalso acquired works by MichaelBorremans wi th balance between our exhibitions, collections, and public Roy Arden, Douglas Huebler, Ed Ruscha, Collier Schorr, and funds providedby the BuddyTaub Foundation;prints by John programs. A memorable example of this was the beautiful Christopher Williams,as well as individual pieces by Peter Baldessari and Amy Cutler with funds provided by Brenda installation of Jean Prouve'sTropical House in the courtyard, Doig, RodneyGraham, Won Ju Lim,Stephen Prina, and many Potter and MichaelSandler; a mixed media work by Margaret accompanied by the Prefab Now symposium presented in others. Kilgallen; and historical works by artists such as Jean collaboration with Dwell magazine and introduced by Los From left to right: Milton Avery. Playingthe Piano, Weare very pleased to also recognize a partial and promised Baptiste-CamilleCorot and Daniel Hopfer. Director Ann Philbin with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. We are also proud to 1944. Watercolorand gouache on gift of six important paintings and drawings by American Angeles MayorAnton io Villaraigosa paper. Collection of the Grunwald note that the 2005 Hammerexhibition THING: NewSculpture Weare happy that manyof these acquisitions represent artists (photo: Howard Pasamanick) Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer artist Milton Avery from J. David Haft, a well-known sup from Los Angeles was recognized as the "Best Thematic who live and work in Southern Californiaor have previously Jim Shaw. DreamObject (I was Museum, Los Angeles. Gift of the J. porter of numerouscharitable causes in LosAngeles. Mr.Haft lookingat drawingsof successful David Haft Family. MuseumShow Nationally" by the International Association shown at the Hammer, further strengthening the relationship has donated two watercolor and gouache works to the businessmen whichbecame Douglas Huebler. VariablePiece 1/43 of Art Critics. between the Museumand our community of artists. We look increasinglydistorted and became a (Brussels),1974-97(detail). GrunwaldCenter and has made a promised gift of four paint pornographichedge .. .), 2001. Ink, Photograph. HammerMuseum, Los forward to making these works accessible for viewing and With the beginning of the NewYear, we were able to reflect ings to the Hammer Museum's permanent collection. The prisma color pencil, and pen on Angeles. Gift of Patrick Painter and research by students, scholars, and the general public. paper. HammerMuseum, Los Sao Jin Jeong-Painter. on the great number of notable new acquisitions to the HammerMuseum presented an important exhibition of Avery Angeles. Partial and Promised Gift of John Baldessari. Personwith a Museum'scollections. We are very grateful to all of the gen worksin 2002; this gift beautifully commemoratesthat occa If you have not already seen it, we hope that you won't miss DavidTeiger. (photo: Dave Hoffman) Guitar(Red), 1994. Color Christopher Williams. Departmentof erous donors whose gifts deepen the HammerMuseum's and sion and complements the Museum'sholding s of early and the final weeks of Masters of American Comics.It was the screenprint construction. Hammer Waterand PowerGeneral Office Museum, Los Angeles. Purchased GrunwaldCenter for the GraphicArt's holdings spanning the mid-20th-century Americanart . result of a very rewarding collaboration with our cross-town Building,dedicated on June 1, 1965 with funds provided by Brenda Renaissancethrough today. colleagues at MOCAand is one of the most popular exhibi Albert C. Martinand Associates,May Potter and Michael Sandler. 02004 Additionally,the Museumrecently received a large Jirn Shaw 18, 1994 (Nr. 1), 1994. Gelatin John Baldessari and Gemini GELLLC. tions in the Hammer's history. I am very grateful to our dear friend, long-time supporter, multi-panel work on paper from David Teiger; works by silver print. HammerMu seum, Los Angeles. Gift of Patrick Painter and and board member WernerKramarsky and his wife Sarah-Ann Johannes Kahrs and Catherine Opie from Rosette Delug; a Ann Philbin Sao Jin Jeong-Painter. for a significant gift of 29 drawings, which includes seminal Mike Kelleysculpture from Kourosh Larizadeh; Jorge Pardo Director abstract works by Agnes Martin, Sol Lewitt, and others. prints from Dean Valentine and AmyAdelson; works by Mark Grotjahn, Martin Kersels, and Monique Prieto from Marc 2 3 HAMMER EXHIBITIONS HammerForum War Prisons Saturday,April 1, 7pm Thistimely discussionasks the question "Havewe learned any lessons?" by examin ing WorldWar II military prisons in Japan as well as present-day conditions of military prisons and torture camps around the world. Speakers include Bill Barrette, artist and writer, who has spent the last five years researching Sugamo Opposite, clockwisefrom top left: Prison, where Americansincarcerated war crime suspects after Japan's surrender; John Swope. Arai,September 5, 1945. Gelatinsilver Herbert Bix, Pulitzer prize-winning author of Hirohitoand the Makingof Modern print. John Swope Collection,e John SwopeTrust. John Swope. NearTokyo, Omori POW Camp, Allied Japan; John A. Glusman, author of ConductUnder Fire: Four American Doctors and POW'sG reeting TheirLiberators, August 29, 1945. TheirFight for Life as Prisonersof the Japanese, 1941-1945; and John Sitton, an Gelatin silver print. John Swope Collection, e John Swope Trust. investigator of issues of torture and abuse in Afghanistan and Pakistan for Human John Swope. CaryGrant Filming a CarScene for Rights Watch's Asia division. "Mr.Blandings Builds His DreamHouse", Holly wood, 1948. Gelatin silver print. Collectionof Ben Stiller. Co-sponsored by the UCLACenter for Japanese Studies. e John Swope Trust. Screenings Propaganda Films Thursday,April 6, 7pm A double feature of Japanese and American propaganda films from WorldWar II that present two distinctly different portraits of the Japanese soldier. Intended as Japanese war-time propaganda, Tatakau Heitai (Fighting Soldiers), 1939, has been repeatedly described as the representative example of an anti-war A Letter from Japan film. Director KameiFurnia and his crew followed the Japanese army, attempting The Photographs of John Swope to capture the realities of front line operations. Findingthe film harshly realistic, the Japanese government prohibited its screening. March 5 -June 4, 2006 Directed by TheodoreS. Geisel, better known as Dr.Seuss, Design for Death (aka Our Job in Japan) portrayed the Japanese as victims brainwashed by cynical This exhibition of John Swope'swork marksthe first in-depth The exhibition and accompanying catalogue honor Swope's leaders obsessed with world domination. The film won the AcademyAward for best presentation of vintage prints and text from the late Los original intention of bringing together his timeless, power documentary in 1947. Angeles photographer's 1945 journey through post-war ful photographs with the emotional letter he wrote from Japan. As part of EdwardSteichen's elite team of Navypho Japan to his wife, actress Dorothy McGuire. Individual Co-sponsored by the UCLACenter for Japanese Studies. Tatakau Heitai is presented courtesy of tographers, Swope arrived even before Japan had officially images are juxtaposed with short excerpts in both the exhi the Film Library Collection of the University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies. surrendered. His assignment was to photograph the release bition and the catalogue. The exhibition includes significant Lecture of Allied prisoners of war, but he went far beyond that . loans from the John Swope Trust, Kiyosato Museum of GalleryTalk Above,top to bottom: Duringa three-and-a-half-week period, he shot images that Photographic Arts, Craig KrullGallery, Ben Stiller, and other Anne Wilkes Tucker Carolyn Peter Still from TatakauHeitai (Fighting Soldiers), 1939. Thursday,May 4, 7pm Advertisementfor Designfor Death (aka OurJob in vividly convey the impact of WorldWar II on the local popu private collections. Saturday,June 3, 2pm Japan), 1947. Courtesyof the Academyof Motion lation of Japan as well as on the Allied prisoners of war. The Tucker is Curator of Photography at Exhibition walk-through led by the Picture Arts and Sciences. e A.M.P.A.S. A Letterfrom Japan: The Photographsof John Swope is orga exhibition presents over 115 photographs and gives insight the Museumof Fine Arts, Houston, and curator. nized by Carolyn Peter, Associate Curator of the Grunwald into Swope's larger pursuit of capturing