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A Message from the Director how meaning is constructed. In addition to the light When I arrived at the Hammer ten years ago, we carved out a a $1 million grant from The James Irvine Foundation’s Art box, we have purchased a related graphite drawing vision/mission statement that I would like to share with you. Innovation Fund to support the continuation of our Artist Sam Durant. End White Supremacy, 2008. Electric sign with vinyl text, 96 x 136 in. CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) Civil Rights 1 It has served as our guiding principle for the last decade and is at Council and Artist Residency Program. The grant will also Hammer Museum. Purchase. Demonstration, New York, 1963 (index)(2009). the heart of many things we are up to in this coming season. fund an exciting new initiative—an artist-driven visitor Durant’s work has been exhibited internationally at a number of institutions, engagement and education program. We are thrilled to have The Hammer’s mission is to explore the capacity of including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Walker Art Mark Allen from Machine Project, an alternative art space in art to enhance the full range of human experience. Center, Minneapolis; the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent; and Echo Park, as the first artist in residence at the helm of this Through its collections, exhibitions, and programs, the Kunsthaus Graz, Austria. new program. Mark will work with us for a year to explore all Hammer illuminates the depth and diversity of artistic aspects of the visitor experience at the Museum. expression through the centuries, with a special emphasis British artist Grayson Perry was awarded the Turner Prize for his provocative on the art of our time. At the core of the Hammer’s The Hammer also looks to artists for their curatorial perspectives ceramic vases in 2003. A monumental etching recently acquired by mission is the recognition that artists play a crucial role and this fall we are very proud to present Heat Waves in a Swamp: the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts demonstrates Perry’s skills as a in all aspects of culture and society. As a cultural center, The Paintings of Charles Burchfield, curated by renowned printmaker. It combines a diagram of the artist’s body with a medieval the Museum advances UCLA’s mission by contributing to the sculptor Robert Gober. Opening October 4, the exhibition will map of the world. The composition is riddled with allegorical references intellectual life of the campus and the community at large. shine a new light on a fascinating early 20th century painter. to the artist’s own identities and witty allusions to current social, political, and economic themes. Churches for and Starbucks, and an Elizabethan Working from this commitment to contemporary artists, we Moving forward, we intend to deepen our commitment to portrait of a woman titled St. Claire, Perry’s alter ego/patron saint, are a few created Hammer Projects—a much lauded exhibition series of artists and our visitors by activating our spaces, exhibitions, of the images that adorn this iconographic tour-de-force. emerging artists, also now celebrating its 10-year anniversary. and website in imaginative new ways. The Hammer will We are marking the occasion with a major publication featuring continue to keep artists at the center of our activities, pushing the more than eighty Projects exhibitions from the last decade, boundaries, and challenging assumptions about museums and including the original brochure essays composed by an impressive artistic practices. I hope we’ll see you around The Hammer Museum is deeply grateful to the following individuals, foundations, and corporations selection of art critics and writers. The book will be available a lot this fall and bring your friends! for their gifts/promised gifts/pending gifts of art as well as acquisition funds since April 1, 2009, in October (see page 25). for the Hammer Contemporary Collection and the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts: At the Hammer, we also appreciate artists as imaginative and Stanley and Ronda Breitbard / The Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis Roach, Director / productive problem solvers and have actively enlisted them to Johan Grimonprez / Larry Johnson / Susan and Larry Marx / Lari Pittman and Roy Dowell / Grayson Perry. MAP OF NOWHERE, 2008. Purple color etching from above: Artist residency council: Back Row, join us in addressing institutional issues. Several years ago we five plates, ed. 10/15. UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Left–right: Yoshua Okón, Sue Bell Yank, Teddy Cruz, Susan Steinhauser and Daniel Greenberg in honor of Murray Gribin / David Teiger Hammer Museum. Purchased with funds provided by the Helga K. created our Artist Council (current council pictured above with Hirsch Perlman, Mark Allen, Douglas Fogle, Allegra and Walter Oppenheimer Bequest. our curatorial team)—a group of rotating Southern California Pesenti, Aimee Chang, Alexis Smith, Frances Stark; The museum also thanks the members of the Hammer Board of Overseers, who have supported Front Row, Left–right: Malik Gaines, Anne Ellegood, artists who work alongside the Museum staff—to help us seek Andrea Bowers, Ali Subotnick, Lisa Anne Auerbach; the Hammer Contemporary Collection since its inception, and the Friends of the Graphic Arts out innovative projects and solutions. This spring we received Bottom right: Director Ann Philbin. and CARTA, whose dues support Grunwald Center acquisitions. 1 exhibitions 4 The catalogue ispublishedwith theassistanceof theWyeth Foundation for American Art. Heritage Foundation, TheFran and RayStarkFoundation, and theRobertLehmanFoundation. It isalsorealized through thegenerosity of TheHorace W. GoldsmithFoundation, George Freeman, TheStraus Family Fund,RosetteVarda Delug,Booth Heat Waves ina Swamp ismadepossibleby TheJoy andJerryMonkarsh Family Foundation. Majorsupportisprovided by theLLWW Foundation andLynda andStewart Resnick. The exhibition isorganized by theHammer Museum,LosAngeles, incollaboration withthe Burchfield Penney ArtCenter, Buffalo StateCollege. and tothe Whitney Museum of American Art inNew York, June 24–September 2010. exhibition, curatedThe byartistRobertGober, willtravellife.” tothe Burchfield Penney ArtCenter inBuffalo, New everyday York, of March 5–May 23,2010, glamour healthy “the as described once he what in belief forward, steadfast in his his in immersed life local working landscape, trusting and then challenging hisowninstincts, often looking backward togo alternatively, a uniquemystical and visionary experience of nature. Although aware of the artof histime, he spent his frequently He imbuedthesedusk. subjectswithhighly expressionisticat light, creating aclear-eyeddepiction of the worldor, and bellsand vibrating telephone lines, deep ravines, sudden atmospheric changes, and the experience of entering aforest depicting his immediate surroundings: hisgarden, the views from hiswindows, snow turning toslush,the sounds of insects in the medium of watercolor, he made hisprimary subjectthe landscape around hishome outside Buffalo, New York, often Charles Burchfield (1893–1967) chose to focus his nature-based artonthe ground beneath hisfeet. Working almost exclusively cura The Paintigs of Charles Burchfield Hea ted b t Wa y robert gober ves inaS w amp October 4,2009–January3,2010

Charles Burchfield. The Coming of Spring, 1917–43. Watercolor on paper mounted on presswood, 34 x 48 in. (86.4 x 121.9 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. George A. Hearn Fund, 1943 sunday, october4,3pm exhibition walkthrough RELATED PROGRAMs see page17 SUNDAY, november15,3PM robert GOBER&DONNADESALVO HAMMER CONVERSATION on paper, 24 Pyramid ofFire(Flame),1929.Watercolor Sons S Buff R B un and and urch f alo State College, 1994. lo Company, 1921, printed 2009; P f enney enney w ield at ield the ers ers 1 w ⁄ 2 C x32 allpaper designed designed allpaper ollection o ollection 7 B ⁄ 8 urch in.(61x81.3cm).TheCharles f ield ield f Wor P k enney enney Charles Burchfield. s by by s f or or C M A harles harles . . rt H . . C B enter, enter, irge & irge E .

1 exhibitions 5 1 p r o j e c t s 6 James IrvineFoundation. is supported through a generous grant from the with fundingfrom theNimoy Foundation and Museum’s ArtistResidency Program was initiated a residency at the Hammer Museum. The Hammer Hammer Projects: Aïda Ruilova is presented through Organized byAliSubotnick, Hammer curator. and visual artistRaymondPettibon. and features actress Karen Black as partof Ruilova’sHammer Residency, (2009), anew video shot inLosAngeles more. Thisexhibition debuts MeettheEye wanting us leave always and resolved with short narratives thatare never fully take her gothic, B-movie stylefurther surface. Her more recent, longer works with horror movies alwayshovers near the sound and expression, and her fascination videos, Aïda Ruilovadeftly manipulates In her expressive and rhythmic films and Through September27,2009 Aïda Ruilova the Departmentof Cultural Affairs, Cityof LosAngeles;theDavidTeiger Curatorial Travel Fund;andFox EntertainmentGroup’s ArtsDevelopment Fee. Additional generous supportisprovided by theLosAngelesCountyArtsCommission;GoodWorks Foundation andLaura Donnelley; L A ArtHouseFoundation; Hammer Projects ismadepossiblewithmajorgiftsfrom SusanBay-Nimoy andLeonard Nimoy andTheHorace W. GoldsmithFoundation. Hammer Projects isaseries of exhibitions focusing primarily onthe workof emerging artists. Hammer Projects

See page23 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1,12PM drawing intape HAMMER kids RELATED PROGRAM Ali Subotnick, Hammer curator. designed for the site. Organized by presents a new workspecially For the Hammer’s Lobby Wall, Hess familiar signs in consumer culture. us reevaluate ourunderstanding of a variety of sources, Hess makes and contact paper, and icons from drawings, brightly colored tapes advertising. Combining hisown from corporations and commercial graphics, often borrowing logos turns everyday imagery into bold Like amaster graffiti artist, he almost entirely of masking tape. his inventive wallworkscomposed Swiss artistNic Hess isknown for Through November5,2009 Nic Hess see page 18 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17,8PM THE ONENESSAND THESUCHNESS SPATIAL EXPANSION, hAMMER PRESENTS RELATED PROGRAM Anne Ellegood, Hammer senior curator. placed atopsteelbases. Organized by painted palm fronds and sea shells vitrines containing objectssuch as perforated glassorcolored Plexiglas consist of two-waymirrored, tinted, and recently completedsculptures, which the natural worldisexplored inseveral mediated experience Our of 2003. since alongside aselection of photographs taken photographic lightbox wallreliefs, of new and twonew large mediums. Thisexhibition presents agroup a practice thatembraces arange of natural world—light, energy, and time—in explores the fundamental aspectsof the LA-based artistClaude Collins-Stracensky THROUGH October 25, 2009 Claude Collins-Stracensky

THURSDAY, OCTOBER1,7PM CHEN QIULIN ARTIST TALK RELATED PROGRAM James Elaine, Hammer adjunct curator. a new China being born.Organized by us with stark reality, and poetic beauty, 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, Chen shows generations, tothe devastation of the newly found materialism onthe younger Dam, to the effects of modernization and for the construction of the Three Gorges From the chaotic dismantling of cities latest, completed in the spring of 2009. a selection of her videos, including her formal training. The Hammer presents her interests, mastering itwithout she recently beganusing video toengage Although Chen works in multiple mediums, her home province in southwestern China. and tumultuous urbanization of Sichuan, been exploring and documenting the rapid For the pastseveral yearsChen Qiulinhas September 29, 2009 – January 3, 2010 Chen Qiulin

Advice, 2006. Reconfigured gymnasium floor.30x 26 x14ft. cOURTESY OFTHE ARTIST 27 x36inches (68.6x91.4cm).Courtesy o f theartist and SilvermanGallery, San Francisco;RobFischer.Bullrider’ s the artist and COURTESY OFTHEARTIST S. FigueroaSt the HammerMuseum, Los Angeles,2009.PhotobyJoshUAWhite; Claude Collins-Stracensky.Untiled(L ght cirle. 94, NewYork;icHess.Automa Left–right: AïdaRuilova. StillfromMeethe Eye, 2009.Video,color,sound.7min.Courtesy theartist andSalon Organized byAliSubotnick, Hammer curator. lures viewers into her games of make-believe.culture, anthropology, and simulation as she together elements of fiction, fantasy, pop unconventional scenarios. Holman weaves that features women and their babies in mother-and-child drawings and avideo is comprisedof Mary Cassatt–inspired several of her own “reborns.” The project researched this community and handcrafted if they were alive, Holman extensively life-like baby dolls and care for them as a subculture of women whoby purchase notion of “maternal instincts.” Inspired the Rebornproject, which questions the in role-play games. Here Holman presents figurative effigies that she manipulates and videos, Desirée Holman makes In her drawings, sculptures, photographs, November 8,2009–January31,2010 Desirée Holman ., LosAngele,C)2003–9(detail); Duratrans inlightbox;48x606in.(121.9 152.4x15.2cm); M ax P rotetch ; ChenQiulin.Stillfrom Peach Blossom,2009.Video.COLOR.SOUND . 16:37min.Courtesy of G allery, tic CrashRepon,2009.Mixed-mediatape-dra N e w

Y or k ; Desirée Holman.Milkie s, 2009.ColoredPencilonarchival paper. Anne Ellegood,Hammer senior curator. that willextend off the wall.Organized by gymnasium tocreate alabyrinth-like mural Fischer recycles woodensculptures. Forfloorboards the Hammer’s Lobby Wall, from an oldapart and reuses the materials inother practice, and he often takes pieces and recycling isparamount tothe artist’s from rebirth. The notion of impermanence In Fischer’s work,decay isinextricable are like monuments to a forgotten past. large-scale sculptural environments that materials and reconfigures them tocreate flooring, car parts, and other abandoned furniture, windows, mirrors, books, Brooklyn-based artistRobFischer finds November 28,2009–April1,2010 Rob Fischer wing installation. Installation at .

1 exhibitions 7 1 exhibitions 8 above: R.CrumbTheBooko f GenesiIllustra Generous supportfor thisexhibition isprovided by Brenda R.Potter. Organized by Ali Subotnick, Hammer curator. handwritten introduction bythe artist,willbepublished byW. W. Norton inlateOctober 2009. and amap of Abraham’s World. Abookfeaturing the completesetof drawings, witha 50 chapters, withno alterations, aswellafront and backcover, anintroduction, will include 207individual black-and-white drawings incorporating everyword from all mischievous animals, and geeky men tothe holiest of books. This highly anticipated exhibition first book of the Old Testament, the Book of Genesis, bringing hissignature zaftig women, Seminal comic artistR.Crumbhasspent the lastfive yearsonthisliteral adaptation of the approx. 14 October 24,2009–February7,2010 Book ofGenesis R Illumina T . . he Bi he C 1 ru ⁄ 2 x11 1 ⁄ 4 in. (36.8 x 28.6 cm). Courtesy theartist; P mb b ’s ’s le le

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aul Morris;andDavid Z wirner, NeYork. purchase tickets. or call310-825-2101 to Please visit www.uclalive.org Royce Hall Thursday, October29,8pm An EveningwithR.Crumb UCLA LIVE! see page23 Sunday, November 15, 12–2PMCreating Worlds Creating Comics, hammer kids see page18 tuesday, november10,7PM REGINALD ROBINSON HAMMER PRESENTS see page20 tuesday, november3,7PM crumb HAMMER SCREENING RELATED PROGRAMS courtesy oftheartist andDavid KordanskyGallery, LosAngeles. Los Angeles.GiftoDeanV wood, andplasterbase.102x6344 Ruby Neri. at theNorton SimonMuseum (December9,2009 toMarch 29,2010). February 28,2010)aswell asanexhibition of Rembrandt’s portraits of Rembrandt’s drawings attheGettyMuseum(December 8,2009to exhibition major a with collaboration in organized is exhibition This director of the collections atthe Hammer. director, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, and deputy each individual impression. Organized bycompositions andCynthia seehow the artistexperimented Burlingham, with same print, allowing the visitortocloselycompare the exhibition willalsofeature different impressions of the including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Center for the Graphic Arts, aswellother institutions, from the extensive collection of the Hammer’s Grunwald religious narratives tofigure studies and landscape. Drawn include avariety of etchings withsubjectsranging from about 300 etchings over his long career. The exhibition will Rembrandt vanRijnwasaprolific printmaker and created January 9–April4,2010 R Upcoming Exhibitios the Hammer and AliSubotnick, Hammer curator. and deputy director of exhibitions and public programs at This exhibition isorganized byDouglasFogle, chief Curator and areturn tothe consideration of the tangible object. that stands outfor the abundance of handmade artists and captures a significant moment in L.A. art making includes many of the key worksbythisnew generation of artists, made from 1995tothe present. Thiscollection Collection comprises50sculptures by29LosAngeles Dean Valentine and Amy Adelson. The Valentine-Adelson selection from the extraordinary gifttothe Hammer by in LosAngeles. Thisis the firstpublic presentation of a particularly vitaland inventive area of artistic practice Since the mid-1990s, sculpture hasdeveloped asa THROUGH October4,2009 The Valentie-A delson C S e eco mb Untiled(Lioness), 1998–99. Fiberglass, acrylic paint, r and nd mage alentine andAmydelson.Image t t N P ri 1 ⁄ 2 inches. a n ts ts ture ture H ammer M useum,

ollection a curator, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Artsatthe Hammer. transparent, fragile, and bold. Organized byAllegra Pesenti, and their patina is alternatively glossy, grainy, mottled, slippery, often elaborately modeled and collaged constructions on paper, little-known aspectof her artistic practice. The drawings are Conceived asindependent works, they represent acrucial yet sculptures. her in found presence and absence of notions are of a more intimate nature, yet they evoke the same poignant of 2000—are timeless emblems of society. Whiteread’s drawings downtown New York in1998,and Vienna’s Holocaust Memorial works—such asWater Tower, which graced the skyline of represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1997. Her public of London earned her the Turner Prizein1993,and she cast of a nineteenth-century terraced house in the East End of drawings byBritishartistRachel Whiteread. Her monumental The Hammer Museum willpresent the first museum retrospective January 31–May2,2010 Ra chel WhitereadDra t theHammer

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1 exhibitions 9 1 l e c t u r e s 10 THURSDAY, September24,7pm on CeliaAlv Please visit www.thewallproject.org tolearn more. Program at New America Foundation Irvine Senior Fellowand director of the California Fellows b der Anderen(TheLivesof Others),wonthe 2007Oscarfor director and screenwriter; hisfirstfeature film, DasLeben ambassador from 1988to 1990.Donnersmarck is aGerman and the subsequent finals days of the GDR. Barkleyservedas the dramatic events leading uptothe fall of the BerlinWall Award–winning director Florianvon Donnersmarck discuss Democratic Republic (GDR),Richard Barkley, and Academy fall of the BerlinWall, former U.S.ambassador tothe German Los Angeles commemorating the 20-yearanniversaryof the In conjunction withThe Wall Project, aseries of events in Tuesday, September29,7pm Berlin WallandtheEndofanEra the of Opening the Experiencing Routes: Escape The WendMuseuma the Hammer Bookstore willfollow the program. Center. Noriega isthe editorof the AVer History, aseries initiated bythe UCLAChicano Studies Research Tejada’s bookCeliaAlvarezMuñoz is part of A Ver: Revisioning Art up Catholic and Mexican American onthe Texas-Mexico border. communal memories toexplore her ownexperiences growing the 1991Whitney Biennial, and her workdraws onfamily and Alvarez Muñoz. Muñoz has exhibited widely, most notably in will discussthe workof conceptual and multimedia artistCelia the UCLADepartment of Film,Television, and Digital Media, University of Texas, Austin, and ChonNoriega , professor in Roberto Tejada, associate professor of arthistoryatthe R HAMMER LECTURES/ est foreign-language film.Moderated byGregory, Rodriguez o b erto erto T ej ada arez Muño & & CHO t TheHammer .

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ORIEG A P ANELS /SYMPOSIA orientalism inliterature and photography. comparative literature at UCLA, has publishedrespondent, Dr. widely AliBehdad,professor on of English and of Contemporary Art at the Harvard Art Museums.Art and the James R.and Maisie K.Houghton Curator The visit: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu. information, pleasee-mail [email protected] Student Programming, andtheDepartmentof ArtHistory. For more Council, theUCLAGraduate StudentAssociation, theCenterfor Support provided by theUCLAFriendsof ArtHistory, theUCLAArt of the Department of Modern and Contemporary The keynote speaker isDr. HelenMolesworth, head push ustoexpand the frameworks of arthistory? does the disjunction betweenmethod and object incongruity playedinthe historicizing of art?When throughout history. Whatrole hasthe concept of dissonance haveplayedindefinitions and uses of art discuss the roles thatincongruity, disjuncture, and Incongruities brings together emerging scholars to Hosted bythe UCLADepartment of ArtHistory, 44 FRIDAY, OCTOBER23,10AM Incongruities Gradu TH ANN a te S U A tudent S L

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He livesinLos Angeles and worksin situ. This fall he willhaveanexhibition atRichard Telles Fine Art,LosAngeles. (2009); and the Museu d’ArtBerlin Contemporani de Barcelona (2009). Museum, Bahnhof Hamburger (2008); Munich Schöttle, Galerie Rüdiger Germany (2008);Espaid’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Spain(2008); John Knighthasexhibited recently atMuseum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER12,7PM JOHN KIGHT Los Angeles, Belfast, Hong Kong, Edinburgh, and Belgrade. Bon hasproduced large-scale urbanand public worksincities including and ProjectRoom:HandHeldObjects , Santa Monica Museum of Art(2003). plot of land betweenChinatown and Lincoln Heights, LosAngeles (2005); Meat (2007),ACE Gallery;NotaCornfield , a32-acre living sculpture ona from MITand aBA from Princeton. Her soloexhibitions include Beesand Lauren BonlivesinLosAngeles and received amaster’s of architecture THURSDAY, NOVEMBER5,7PM LA that coincides withher first exhibition atRegen Projects inOctober. grace digital billboards onSunset Boulevard aspartof apublic artproject Green PinkCaviarwasfeatured inMadonna’s recent European tourand will her work,including large-scale projections of her video GreenPinkCaviar. Cincinnati and LaConservera inMurcia, Spain,willpresent installations of the 2006Whitney Biennial . InSeptemberthe Contemporary ArtsCenter a soloshow atthe SanFrancisco Museum of Modern Artin2005and Marilyn Minter’sworkhasbeenfeatured innumerous exhibitions, including THURSDAY, OCTOBER22,7PM MARILYN MITER the generous supportof the William D.Feldman FamilyEndowed ArtLecture Fund. The UCLA Department of Art’s visiting lecture series is made possible through UCLA DEP UREN BO ARTMENT OFART LECTURES ( James Ellroy Knode isalsoEllroy’s ex-wife. LA Weekly filmcritic and feature writer. acclaimed TheTicket Out and former Helen Knode,author of the critically America itinvents. Moderated by nature of hishistorical fiction and the Blood’s aRover,and toreflect onthe deconstruct hisbest-selling new novel, and consecrate, ballyhoo, to Zócalo L.A. Confidential,and WhiteJazz —visits The BlackDahlia,BigNowhere bestselling L.A.Quartet novels the of James Ellroyauthor —the MONDAY, OCTOBER19,7PM J www.zocalopublicsquare.org. visit calendar,please Zócalo the of the day. For more information and on some of the most pressing topics features thinkers and doers speaking collaboration withthe Hammer, that A vibrant series of programs, in THE HAMMER ZÓ AMES ELLROY C P hoto by by hoto A LO M arion arion A E ttlinger). ttlinger). T

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NEW AMERICAN WRITING Poetry SOME FAVORITE WRITERS This series of contemporary fiction and poetry readings is organized byBenjamin Weissman, author of two books of short fiction, A series of readings organized and hosted by Stephen Yenser, This series of readings is organized by Mona Simpson, author 1 most recently Headless, and professor of creative writing at Art Center College of Design and Otis College of Art and Design. poet and professor at UCLA and author of A Boundless Field: of Anywhere But Here and Off Keck Road. Readings are followed 1

This series is made possible, in part, with support from Bronya and Andrew Galef. American Poetry at Large and Blue Guide. by discussions with Simpson. Sponsored by the UCLA Department of English and Friends of English. Sponsored by the UCLA Department of English and Friends of English.

RAE ARMANTROUT & RACHEL LODEN MITCH SISSKIND third ANNUAL FESTIVAL MICHELLE HUNEVEN TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 7PM WEdnesday, november 4, 7pm OF CALIFORNIA POETS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 7PM Rae Armantrout is a professor of writing in the literature Mitch Sisskind is the author of two books of short fiction, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 7PM Novelist and journalist Michelle Huneven is the author of department at UCSD and the author of 10 books of poetry, Visitations and Dog Man Stories. He edited the Stud Duck, Distinguished contemporary California poets introduce and Blame and two previous novels, Round Rock and Jamesland. including Versed; Next Life, which was selected by Publishers a literary magazine. Like Ludwig Wittgenstein, he does read poems by canonical California poets, as well as their She has received a General Electric Foundation Award for Weekly as one of the best poetry books of 2007; and Up not care what he eats as long as it’s the same thing every own poems. Laurel Ann Bogen on Eloise Klein Healy; Younger Writers and a Whiting Writers’ Award for Fiction. to Speed, also selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the day. Like the late Robert Irsay, who made a fortune in the Ron Kortege on Steve Kowit; Al Young on Kenneth Rexroth. A former restaurant critic for the LA Weekly and Los Angeles best poetry books of the year. She has received awards from air-conditioning business and owned the Indianapolis Colts, Times, she has published her work in , Co-sponsored by the Hammer Museum, PEN Center USA, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Fund for Poetry, and the he tries to address everyone as “tiger.” Like Rocky Balboa, Friends of the Pasadena Public Library, the UCLA English Department, Gourmet, and Food and Wine. She lives in Altadena,California. California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship. Rachel Loden he knows that what’s important is not how hard you can and Friends of the UCLA English Department. is the author of Dick of the Dead, which came out in May hit but how hard you can get hit and still keep going. But MARK SARVAS 2009. Her first book, Hotel Imperium, was selected as one he does not know how hard he can get hit yet. His poem W. s. MERWIN TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 7PM of the 10 best poetry books of the year by the San Francisco “Like a Monkey” is included in The Best American Poetry 2009. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 7PM Mark Sarvas is the author of Harry, Revised and founder of the Chronicle, which called it “quirky and beguiling.” Honors W.S. Merwin was awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for his popular and controversial literary blog The Elegant Variation, include two appearances in the Best American Poetry series, a dylan landis & MarY otis most recent book of poetry, The Shadow of Sirius. Merwin a Guardian Top 10 Literary Blog, a Forbes Magazine Best of Pushcart Prize, a fellowship in poetry from the California Arts thursday, november 19, 7pm has received nearly every major literary award, including the Web pick, and a Los Angeles Magazine Top L.A. Blog. It has Council, and a grant from the Fund for Poetry. Dylan Landis is the author of Normal People Don’t Live Like the Pulitzer Prize in 1971, the 2005 National Book Award been covered by the New York Times, , Salon, the This. A former newspaper reporter, she has won many for his selected poems, Migration, and the 2007 Bobbitt Christian Science Monitor, Slate, the Denver Post, the Village Voice, JEAN THOMPSON awards for her fiction, including the Poets & Writers California Award from the Library of Congress. Newsday, and NPR’s Day to Day and All Things Considered. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 7pm Voices Award in fiction, the Writers@Work Fellowship, and Jean Thompson’s prose has been compared with the the Richard Yates Short Story Awards. Her work has JAMES GALVIN YIYUN LI craftsmanship of Raymond Carver, Flannery O’Connor, and appeared in Bomb, Tin House, Best American Nonrequired THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 7PM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 7PM Andre Dubus. She has been published in , and Reading, and other publications. Mary Otis is the author of James Galvin has published several collections of poetry, Yiyun Li is the winner of the Frank O’Connor International anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and Pushcart the short story collection Yes, Yes, Cherries, and her work including As Is, X: Poems and Resurrection Update: Collected Short Story Award, the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, and Prize. Thompson is the author of four acclaimed collections, has appeared in the Best New American Voices Anthology, Poems 1975–1997, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles First Book Award. She is the author of A Thousand including Throw Like a Girl and Who Do You Love, a 1999 National Los Angeles Times, Alaska Quarterly Review, Cincinnati Review, Times Book Award and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Years of Good Prayers, which was selected for a Whiting Award, Book Award finalist for fiction; and four novels, including City Berkeley Literary Journal, and Santa Monica Review. Her His honors include a Discovery/The Nation award, a Lila and recently The Vagrants. Li teaches at UC Davis and lives in Boy and Wide Blue Yonder, a New York Times notable book and story “Pilgrim Girl” received a Pushcart Prize honorable mention. Wallace–Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, and fellowships Oakland, California. Chicago Tribune best fiction selection for 2002. Her newest from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill collection is Do Not Deny Me. She lives in Illinois. Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

above, Left–right: Rae Armantrout (Photo by Nancy Richards Wolfing); Rachel Loden (Photo courtesy rahphoto.com); Jean Thompson (Photo by Marion Ettlinger); Mitch Sisskind (Photo by Rachel Hope); Dylan Landis (Photo by Don Coscarelli); Mary Otis; W.s. Merwin; James Galvin (Photo by Dora Malech); Michelle Huneven (Photo by Karen Tapia); Mark Sarvas (Photo by Sara Corwin); and Yiyun Li (Photo by Randi Lynn Beach).

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1 UCLA Film & 1 8 Thu 7pm Hammer Presents (p. 17) Television Archive september Rockpile with David Meltzer november & Michael Rothenberg 8 Tue 7pm Hammer Readings: New American Writing (p. 12) 1 Sun 12pm Hammer Kids (p. 23) Three nights a week the Billy Wilder Theater is also the home Rae Armantrout & Rachel Loden Drawing in Tape 14 Wed 7pm Hammer Conversations (p. 16) of the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s renowned cinémathèque. Wallace Shawn & Bruce Wagner 10 Thu 7pm Hammer Forum (p. 19) 3 Tue 7pm Hammer Screenings (p. 20) Untying the Knot of Separate and Crumb Unequal Marriage 15 Thu 7pm Hammer Readings: New American Writing (p. 12) FALL HIGHLIGHTS Jean Thompson 4 Wed 7pm Hammer Readings: New American Writing (p. 12) 13 Sun 12pm Hammer Kids (p. 23) Mitch Sisskind AFRICAN AMERICAN FILM PIONEERS Film Festival in 90 Minutes 16 Fri 7pm Hammer Screenings (p. 20) September 11 – 27 Open Projector Night 5 Thu 7pm UCLA Department of Art Lectures (p. 11) This series showcases the work of three artists—Oscar 15 Tue 8pm Hammer Screenings (p. 20) Lauren Bon Flux 18 Sun 11am Family Flicks Film Series (p. 22) Micheaux, Spencer Williams, and Herb Jeffries—whose Bedknobs and Broomsticks 10 Tue 7pm Hammer Presents (p. 18) work in the early part of the 20th century represents some 17 Thu 8pm Hammer Presents (p. 18) Reginald Robinson: 19 Mon 7pm Zócalo at the Hammer (p. 11) of the first and most exciting contributions of African Spatial Expansion, the Oneness and Ragtime and Rubber Hose Limbs James Ellroy Americans to an American film tradition. Entertaining and the Suchness 12 Thu 7pm UCLA Department of Art Lectures (p. 11) challenging, these works offer a stimulating contrast to 20 Tue 7pm Hammer Readings: Some Favorite Writers (p. 13) 20 Sun 11am Family Flicks Film Series (p. 22) John Knight mainstream, white-oriented American cinema originating The Wiz Mark Sarvas 7pm Hammer Readings: Poetry (p. 13) in Hollywood, and provide an essential glimpse of early James Galvin 24 Thu 7pm Hammer Lectures (p. 10) 21 Wed 7pm Hammer Screenings (p. 20) independent filmmaking. The Yes Men Fix the World Roberto Tejada & Chon Noriega 15 Sun 12pm Hammer Kids (p. 23) on Celia Alvarez Muñoz 22 Thu 7pm UCLA Department of Art Lectures (p. 11) Creating Comics, Creating Worlds BRITISH FILM NOIR 29 Tue 7pm Hammer Panel (p. 10) Marilyn Minter 3pm Hammer Conversations (p. 17) October 17 – 26 Robert Gober & Donna de Salvo Escape Routes: Experiencing the Opening French film scholars coined the term “film noir” to describe of the Berlin Wall and the End of an Era 23 Fri 10am UCLA Graduate Student Symposium (p. 10) Incongruities 17 Tue 7pm Hammer Forum (p. 19) a cycle of American films dealing with dark themes with Church and State: The Role of Spirituality in Politics a certain cynicism and a distinct visual style. Though less october 25 Sun 12pm Hammer Kids (p. 23) acknowledged, and with their own distinct sensibilities and Investigating Character 18 Wed 7pm Hammer Readings: Some Favorite Writers (p. 13) 1 Thu 7pm Artist Talk (p. 7) 7pm Hammer Readings: Poetry (p. 13) Yiyun Li differences, British filmmakers also made some fascinating Chen Qiulin Third Annual Festival of California Poets contributions to the genre. From classics like The Third Man 19 Thu 7pm Hammer Readings: New American Writing (p. 12) 4 Sun 3pm Exhibition Walkthrough (p. 5) (1949, Carol Reed) to gritty rarities such as No Orchids for 27 Tue 7pm Hammer Forum (p. 19) Dylan Landis & Mary Otis Heat Waves in a Swamp Miss Blandish (1948, St. John L. Clowes), this series shines California: State of Dysfunction 7pm Hammer Screenings (p. 21) a light on noir from across the pond. 6 Tue 7pm Hammer Readings: Some Favorite Writers (p. 13) Double Tide 29 Thu 7pm Hammer Readings: Poetry (p. 13) Michelle Huneven W. S. Merwin 22 Sun 11am Family Flicks Film Series (p. 22) For a complete schedule and more information about the 7 Wed 7pm Hammer Conversations (p. 16) Oliver! Archive’s collection of new works and treasured classics, 30 Fri 7pm Hammer Presents (p. 18) Dana Gioia & Deborah Borda please visit www.cinema.ucla.edu or call 310-206-3456. A Halloween Hoedown!

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ROCKPILE WITH DAVID MELTZER & conversations MICHAEL ROTHENBERG

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 7PM 1 ROCKPILE is a collaboration between David Meltzer—legendary poet, musician, and essayist—and Michael Rothenberg, 1 poet, songwriter, and editor of Big Bridge Press. In the tradition of the troubadour and with the spirit of collaboration, the duo will journey through eight U.S. cities and perform poetry, composed on the road, with local musicians in each city. The ROCKPILE journey begins here with world-class musicians: Theo Saunders (piano), Johnny Lee Schell (guitar), John B. Williams (bass), Joe Sublette (saxophone), and Debra Dobkin (drums and percussion) for a fusion of jazz, blues, and roots rock. HAMMER CONVERSATIONS

DANA GIOIA & Deborah Borda Wallace Shawn & Bruce Wagner ROBERT GOBER & DONNA DE SALVO WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 7PM Wednesday, October 14, 7PM SUNDAY, november 15, 3PM Former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Besides his career as one of America’s most beloved Heat Waves in a Swamp curator Robert Gober is a sculptor Dana Gioia is an award-winning poet and critic. His poetry character actors in films from My Dinner with Andre, which who has exhibited widely in both the U.S and abroad. In collection Interrogations at Noon won the 2002 American he co-wrote, to Clueless, Wallace Shawn has a parallel 2001 he was chosen to represent the in the Book Award, and his book Can Poetry Matter? was a finalist career as a writer and playwright. His latest book, Essays, 49th Venice Biennale. His other curatorial work includes The for the National Book Critics Circle award. He is credited takes readers on a revelatory journey through high art, Meat Wagon at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas (2005), with helping to revive the role of poetry in American public war, culture, politics, and privilege. Bruce Wagner is a and Anni Albers, Robert Beck, Cady Noland, Joan Semmel, culture and he is an active translator of poetry from Latin, novelist, screenwriter, and producer based in Los Angeles. and Nancy Shaver: Black and White Photographs, 1975–77 at Italian, and German. Deborah Borda is the president and He is the author of the novels The Chrysanthemum Palace, , New York (1999). Donna De Salvo chief executive officer of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. a PEN Faulkner fiction award finalist, and Still Holding; is chief curator and associate director of programs at the She joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association as I’ll Let You Go, a PEN USA fiction award finalist. Wagner Whitney Museum of American Art and former senior curator executive director after serving over eight seasons in currently produces and writes for the Emmy award–winning at the Tate Modern. She is also a noted expert on the work the same capacity at the New York Philharmonic. Gioia Showtime series Tracey Ullman’s State of the Union. of Andy Warhol and helped to establish the curatorial and and Borda will share their respective views on the arts archival programs for the Andy Warhol Museum, where she in a climate of shifting priorities and resources, the next served as adjunct curator. generation and arts learning in and out of the classroom, In conjunction with the exhibition Heat Waves in a Swamp: and news ways forward for culture in America. The Paintings of Charles Burchfield. above, Left–right: Dana Gioia (Photo by Linda Koolish); Deborah Borda; Wallace Shawn (Photo by Jared Rodriguez); Bruce Wagner; Robert Gober (Photo by Catherine Opie); Donna De Salvo (Photo by John Gruen). 1 p r e s e n t s 18 above: Reg inald Robinson website for dates andtimesasthey take shape. and bagpipeperformance. Pleaseseeour and incidentalevents, suchasataichiclass Collins-Stracensky, there willbeunscripted In conjunctionwithHammerProjects: Claude to beconfirmed. classical ragas. Additional performers Avhiman Kaushal ontablaperforming with DavidTrasoff onthe sarode and (light/sound sculpture performance), (interactive music), JohnWilliams (soundscapes), LuckyDragons The lineup willinclude WhiteRainbow lobby with soundscapes and light fields. performers willtransform the museum’s visual expression, adiversegroup of and aural of forms new Engaging installation. Collins-Stracensky’s to next lobby the in place take will this light–and–sound performance Projects artistClaudeCollins-Stracensky, ongoing collectiveinitiated byHammer Organized bythe CollectiveField, an THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER17,8PM THE SUCHNESS THE ONEESS AND SP HAMMER PRESENTS A TIAL EXP ANSION,

think Westwood Hillbillies! Hammer. Costumes bar in gingham asyouenjoythe cash Darlin’ willserveupdrag hospitality own creepy crafts. Plus, yourhostess everything youneed tomake your prizes— decorations inacontest for great Mountain Band.Enter yourHalloween from Joshua Tree, California’s Shadow the night awaywithlive bluegrass down-home Halloween! Barn-dance Hammer Museum courtyard for this Mountain folks converge onthe FRIDAY, OCTOBER30,7–11PM HOEDOWN! A HLLOWEEN and seasonal menu atthe Café JP Craft Captainwillsupply encouraged… encouraged…

Illuminated: R.Crumb’sBookof Genesis. In conjunctionwiththeexhibition TheBible Woodpecker, among others. Felix the Cat,DinkyDoodle, and Woody riffs onragtime classics tothe antics of original compositions and improvisational Foundation “genius grant,” willplay self-taught and recieved a 2004 screened. Robinson, who isprimarily Messmer, EarlHurd, and Walter Lantz are Otto pioneers cartoon by animation grand piano asrarely seensnippetsof syncopated rhythms of ragtime onthe Reginald Robinsonwillbang outthe a rare evening of 1920s entertainment. Step into the BillyWilder Theater for Tuesday, November10,7PM Rubber Hose Limbs Ra Reginald obinso: gtime and MacArthur program Background BriefingonKPFK90.7FM. documentary filmmaker, andhost of the radio journalist, commentator, author, screenwriter, Hammer Forum ismoderated by IanMasters Committee for CivilRights. former executive director atthe Lawyers’ founder of the Equal Justice Society and School. Paterson isthe president and and isavisiting professor atHarvard Law law atthe University of Pennsylvania teaches civilprocedure and constitutional presidential campaign . 2008 the during committee advisory served asco-chairof Obama’s LGBT of marriage equality inCalifornia. join ustodiscussthe uncertain future civil rights attorney Eva Jefferson Paterson Proposition 8.Legalscholar Tobias Wolffand eliminated thisright with the passage of same-sex marriage, California hasinstead While more statesmove tolegalize Thursday, September10,7pm EV TOBIA AND UNEQUALMARRIAGE UNTYING THEKNOTOFSEPARATE 89.3 FMKPCCistheofficial mediasponsor for this series. Hammer Forum is made possible in part by Bronya and Andrew Galef.This ongoing series of timely, thought-provoking events addresses current social and political issues. Hammer foru m A JEFFERSONP S B.WOLFF & He writes and and writes He A TERSON Wolff ,

Money andPower inSacramento. book entitled TheThirdHouse: Lobbyists, since 1975and isco-author of anew Walters hascovered the stateCapitol funded byleading California foundations. bipartisan state government reform group the co-chairof California Forward, a Assembly from 2000to2002.He isnow from 1996to2002and speaker of the assemblyman of California’s 40thDistrict state’s financial crisis. Hertzberg was obstacles and propose solutions tothe the SacramentoBee, willexamine Dan Walters, political columnistfor of the California StateAssembly, and Robert M.Hertzberg, former speaker of aconstitutional convention. an angry public and the possibility politicians inSacramento are facing raise revenues, and borrow money, With California struggling topaybills, Tuesday, October27,7pm D Robert Hert California’s brokendreams government gridlockand STATE OFDySFUNCTION: an Walters zberg & of The Church of Hopeful Uncertainty.” what he calls “the scattered refugees as he searches for a meeting placefor will provide uswithhisuniqueinsights that influences the Republican Party and powerful political/religious movement He eventually broke ranks withthe and Pat Robertson at the kitchen table. an evangelical worldwithJerry Falwell with the Christian right, growing upin Francis Schaeffer, Frank came of age evangelical past.The sonof theologian of ItBack, joins ustodiscusshis fiery and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) Elect, HelpedFoundtheReligiousRight for God:HowIGrewUpasOneof the York Times bestselling memoir, Crazy Frank Schaeffer, author of the TUESDAY, NOVEMBER17,7PM Frank Schaeffer in politics The roleofspirituality Church andState: New

1 f o r u m 19 1 s c r e e n i n g s 20 Back onTopps, www.backontopps.com. “The Bracket” and have their ownwebsitcomcalled on ESPN’sSportsCenterinacomedic segment called and Grey’s. They Anatomy currently writeand appear in television shows such asLaw&Order,Entourage Comedian twins Jasonand RandySklarhaveappeared About the MCs: accepted formats. from 7to7:30pm.Pleasevisit hammer.ucla.edu for Sign-ups are first come, first served. Submissions accepted Work under 10minutes only. Free popcornand cashbar! off? Bring itand see ... alike. Will yoursearnafantastic prize, orwillitbevoted films and videos of all genres havegarnered praise and wrath audiences. Whether roughly hewn or pristinely polished, Projector Nights havedelighted and confounded rowdy More showdown thanshowcase, the Hammer’s Open FRIDAY, OCTOBER16,7PM MCs: Jason&RandySklar OPEN PROJECTOR NIGHT Flux isledbyJonathan and Meg Wells. share their workand meet like-minded creators. artists, filmmakers, writers, and musicians have a platform to Flux isahub for the global creative community where Shynola, and more. design studio H5, plusnew workfrom Jonathan Glazer, entirely withcorporate logos from renowned French Logorama, aspectacular animated action movie created work from around the globe. The evening willinclude filmmaker retrospectives, and the most interesting visual innovative short films, music videos, feature films, The FluxScreening Series atthe Hammer presents TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER15,8PM FLUX SERIESSCREENIG Hammer SCREENIGS R. Crumb’sBookof Genesis. In conjunctionwith theexhibition TheBibleIlluminated: Tuesday, November3,7pm directed byterryzwigoff CR by the UCLA Arts Initaitive. Co-presented withtheUCLAFilm&Television Archive andfunded WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER21,7PM directed byAndyBichlbaum&MikeBonanno the YESMNfixworld ( and the influences thathaveendowed hiscreativity. footage of hiswork,topaint ariveting picture of Crumb his family, colleagues, critics, and ex-lovers, along with artist. The filmusesuncensored interviews withthe artist, Crumb isanilluminating portrait of the controversial comic Shot overaperiod of sixyears, director Terry Zwigoff’s ( “training course”withThe Yes Men, liveand inperson! for audience Q&A.Post-screening cashbarand hands-on Andy Bichlbaumand Mike Bonannowillbeonhand to savecivilization from itsworstexcesses. Directors from India toNew Orleans toNew York City, onamission market rulethe world, thisfilm follows ourprotagonists A wake-up callonthe dangers of letting the cultof the two gonzo activistsinfiltrating the world of big business. West Coastpremiere! Thisscrewball action doc follows 1995, 119 2009, 90 — Peter Travers, Rolling Stone that rejectedhimsaveone:Thenerdcandraw. misanthrope withnoweaponstofirebackatthesociety most unlikely badboy, askinny, four-eyed, sex-obsessed A brilliantchronicleof thelife andtwistedtimesof a — USA Today Comedic vigilantejustice…Media-savvypie-to-the-face. — Newsweek It shineswithrawwitandoriginality. UMB n i m

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SUNDAY AFTERNOONS FOR KIDS Creating Comics, Creating Worlds The Hammer’s collaborative workshops, presented with 826LA, are designed Sunday, November 15, 12–2PM for groups of up to 20 students. Reservations are encouraged. Contact Ages 10–14 workshops@826LA or call 310-305-8418. Following a brief tour of The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Film Festival in 90 Minutes Book of Genesis, workshop attendees will write and draw SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 12–2pm their own creation stories in comic form, learning how to Ages 10–14 narrate powerful stories through comics and sequential art. (PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED) Dave Kellett is the Harvey Award–nominated co-author of Salvador Dalí and Orson Welles spent time creating diorama The UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum have teamed up for a matinee screening series How to Make Webcomics and is the cartoonist behind the worlds, inventing stories, and performing them using of new and classic family-friendly films from around the world. daily all-ages comic strip Sheldon at SheldonComics.com. miniature sets and tiny characters. Workshop attendees He holds two master’s degrees in the history of cartooning. will use the same techniques to put together a short apprentice witch in order to help the war effort. In conjunction with the exhibition The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s The Wiz film festival in about an hour and a half, using methods Her studies are interrupted, however, when she is Book of Genesis. Sunday, September 20, 11AM developed by Brick Maier while on a Fulbright grant in compelled to take in three mischievous orphans. Appropriate for ages 7+ Dublin. Maier refined the Tabletop Moviemaking process Together they end up on a wild adventure buoyed Director Sidney Lumet’s The Wiz transplants L. Frank Baum’s in Turin, and helped teenagers across make 30 826LA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting students with by top–notch effects, artistry, and animation from their creative and expository writing skills and to helping teachers inspire fantastical world from somewhere over the rainbow to movies in three days at the MTV-sponsored Stranger the team behind Mary Poppins. their students to write. somewhere over the Brooklyn Bridge in this toe-tapping Festival in Amsterdam. For more information on Tabletop (1971, 117 m i n ., d i r . r o b e r t s t e v e n s o n ) adaptation of the hit Broadway musical. Diana Ross heads Moviemaking, please visit www.tabletopmedia.org. up an all African American cast as Dorothy, who’s whisked Oliver! Pre-registration required. Please visit workshops.826la.org, from Harlem to a wildly reimagined , where drawing in tape Sunday, November 22, 11AM write [email protected], or call 310-305-8418. she and Toto are befriended by the Scarecrow (Michael SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 12PM Appropriate for ages 4+ Jackson), Tin Man (Nipsey Russell), and Lion (Ted Ross) as INVESTIGATING CHARACTER Hammer Projects artist Nic Hess will lead an exciting, hands-on A timeless classic that Roger Ebert has called “a treasure they “ease on down the road” to see the Wiz (Richard Pryor). SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 12–2pm workshop for kids using his signature medium—a variety of a movie … one of those rare films like The Wizard of (1978, 134 m i n ., d i r . s i d n e y l u m e t ) Ages 8–13 of boldly colored adhesive tapes. Hess will instruct young Oz,” this freewheeling musical adaptation of Dickens’ In this dynamic interactive writing experience, students collaborators in his techniques and invite them to join in a classic novel Oliver Twist has been delighting kids and BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS are invited to think creatively on their feet and playfully group project that will remain on view through the closing their parents for more than 40 years. Sunday, October 18, 11AM discover new characters, both on their own and as part of his installation on November 5. Appropriate for ages 5+ (1968, 146 m i n ., d i r . c a r o l r e e d ) of a collective of young writers. A case file of the student’s In conjunction with the Hammer Projects: Nic Hess. Before there was Harry Potter there was Eglantine Price, missing character is uncovered during the workshop. the unlikely heroine of Walt Disney’s wartime musical tale Co-presented with the UCLA Film & Televison Archive Anna Hays is a writer, producer, and author of the Portia Avatar of witchcraft and wizardry, Bedknobs and Broomsticks. and funded by the UCLA Arts Initiative. series, which includes Portia’s Exclusive and Confidential As the London Blitz wears on, a determined Eglantine Rules on True Friendship and the recently published busies herself in her country home studying to become an Portia’s Ultra Mysterious Double Life. She lives in Silver lake and is currently working on a book about a girl magician. background: Still from Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

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The Hammer Museum is operated and partially funded by the University of California, Los Angeles. Occidental Petroleum Corporation has partially Heat Waves in a Swamp is endowed the Museum and constructed the Occidental Petroleum Cultural Center Building, which houses the Museum. accompanied by a 184-page, fully illustrated catalogue published by Prestel and edited by Cynthia Burlingham Board of Directors Board of Overseers and Robert Gober. It includes Founder Peter Benedek essays by Cynthia Burlingham, Dr. Armand Hammer Lloyd E. Cotsen Rosette Varda Delug September 23 September 30 Robert Gober, Dave Hickey, Chairman Emeritus October 7 October 14 George Freeman Tullis Johnson, and Michael A. Hammer Alexander Voet II’s Grayson Perry’s Claude Collins-Stracensky’s Charles Burchfield’s Bronya Galef Nancy Weekly. The Elderly Fool and His Cat, Map of Nowhere, 2008 Hammer Project, 2009 Four Seasons, 1949–60 Chairman Murray Gribin 17th Century $49.95 John V. Tunney Stanley Hollander Linda Janger Roy H. Aaron Barbara Kruger Gene D. Block Larry Marx Lloyd E. Cotsen Erik Murkoff Samuel P. Dominick Susan Bay-Nimoy CafE Hammer Frank O. Gehry Lari Pittman Richard W. Hallock b y W o l f g an g P u c k Phil A. Robinson James M. Lienert Michael Rubel Larry Marx Ronnie Sassoon Steven A. Olsen Barry Smooke Lee Ramer HAPPY HOUR Susan Steinhauser Nelson C. Rising Michael Straus Now serving wine & beer and a weekday happy hour Michael Rubel David Teiger Kevin Wall October 21 October 28 November 4 menu from 4–7PM. Dean Valentine Nov. 18 John Walsh Jeremy Zimmer Nic Hess’s Elizabeth Catlett’s La Negra R. Crumb’s Charles Burchfield’s Christopher A. Waterman Hammer Project, 2009 Sojourner Truth Lucho por los Book of Genesis, 2009 CAFE HOURS: Tuesday–Friday, 12–3pm & 4–7pm, Helen Zell Dangerous Brooding from Director Derechos de las Mujeres y Conventions for Abstract Saturday & Sunday, 12–4pm, closed Monday. Ann Philbin los Negros, 1984 Thoughts, 1917