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The Hammer was alive this summer with a record number of the centennial anniversary of his birth, our Billy Wilder The Hammer Museum wishes to thank those who have message

COCKTAILS WITH A CURATOR visitors who came to see our inaugural biennial exhibition Theater was made possible by a singular gift from contributed acquisition funds or made gifts of works of a

This fall, join us for our new series Cocktails with a Curator. Made in L.A. 2012. Our newly renovated courtyard was Audrey. The theater is also home to the UCLA Film & art since July 1, 2011. activated in the evenings with artists’ performances as Television Archive’s renowned cinematheque. A longtime On Friday, November 16 start off your weekend mingling well as our Made in L.A. music series presented with KCRW. resident of Westwood, Audrey’s generosity created a with other Hammer members and meet Brooke Hodge, the Matt Aberle Alice F. McIntosh Artis Metro Pictures

1 Hammer’s director of exhibitions management & publications. The exhibition’s success is a testament to the vitality and remarkable venue for film and performances for UCLA Aspen Community Foundation Danton S. Miller vibrancy of Los Angeles’s artistic community and we were students, Angelenos, and visitors from around the world. Enjoy a glass of wine or other light refreshments, followed by The Philip and Muriel Berman Joy and Jerry Monkarsh delighted by the public’s response to Made in L.A. We are grateful for her generosity and know that Audrey a tour of Graphic Design: Now in Production. Foundation Heidi and Erik Murkoff Ronda and Stanley Breitbard Joyce Neimanas and Billy’s legacy will live on for years to come in the Debbie and James Burrows Kelly and Jeff Poe As many of you know, we presented the inaugural Mohn Billy Wilder Theater. In addition to Cocktails with a Curator, we also offer our Beverly and Stuart Denenberg Brenda R. Potter Award to Meleko Mokgosi in mid-August. A recent UCLA popular morning series Coffee Talk. These members-only Zoe and Joel Dictrow Bill Resnick Heather Dawn Dundas Kristin Rey and Michael Rubel grad, Meleko’s monumental and provocative painting Finally, the venerable Hollywood restaurant Ammo set up events occur two to three times a year and are designed Shannon Ebner Adena M. Rivera-Dundas grapples with the complexities of post-colonial Africa. its westside outpost in our courtyard and launched a soft to engage our community of supporters. To JOIN today, Elena & Sam Erenberg Lynn and John Robertson please call the membership department at 310-443-7023. Nancy Evans and Roger Hollister Mary Ann and Dennis Ruiz The award, which is $100,000 and paid over two years, opening featuring a new farm-to-table menu. There will Honor Fraser and Stavros Merjos Andre Sakhai will be accompanied by the publication of a book on be an official grand opening mid-fall that will include a James and Maya Frey Jacob Samuel Meleko’s work. The award was made possible by the generosity fully conceived new menu, a revamped happy hour, and SHARE THE HAMMER WITH FRIENDS Erika Glazer Lisa Schiff AND FAMILY Sirje Helder Gold and Michael O. Gold Terri J. Seligman of Jarl and Pamela Mohn and will continue to be presented renovations to the café space. The Greenberg Foundation Marc Selwyn in conjunction with Made in L.A. in coming years. Hammer Membership is a great gift for any occasion. All Richard Hawkins Manfred Simchowitz —Ann Philbin, Director members enjoy a full year of art, culture, and new experiences Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard Piotr Stanislawski with benefits including unlimited free admission, invitations Gail and Stanley Hollander Judith A. and Anthony M. Summers I also want to take this opportunity to announce that Lynn and Craig Jacobson The Buddy Taub Foundation the Hammer Museum is the recipient of a major gift of to opening parties and other members-only events, store and Linda and Jerry Janger Richard Telles Fine Art GALA IN THE GARDEN OCTOBER 6 cafe discounts, and so much more! William E. Jones The Quiet in the Land, Inc. $500,000 from the Dream Fund at UCLA to support our L&M Arts LA Ruth and William True acclaimed public programs. Since their inception in 2000, Our 10th annual Gala in the Garden, supporting our Kourosh Larizadeh and Luis Pardo Sara VanDerBeek Not sure if someone you have in mind is already Joan and Stuart Levin Diana Wagman and Tod Mesirow the Hammer’s public programs have remained free to the exhibitions and public programs, will take place October 6. a member? Reach us any time at 310-443-7050 or John Lock Gail and Irv Weintraub public, and this support from the Dream Fund continues This year we honor two extraordinary artists, Barbara Kruger Mark Manders Gloria Werner [email protected]. to make this possible. and Cindy Sherman, with tributes by Steve Martin and Rachel Margo Leavin Gallery, Inc. Kevin West Susan and Larry Marx Mary Zlot Maddow, and a performance by Katy Perry. Gala co-chairs And remember: a portion of your membership contribution The Billy Wilder Theater is home to most of the Hammer’s are Elizabeth and Armie Hammer, and Jeanne and Anthony is always tax-deductible! The museum also thanks the members of the public programs, and this summer we were saddened to Pritzker. Once again Suzanne Goin of Lucques will create Hammer Board of Overseers, who have supported the learn of the passing of Audrey L. Wilder, beloved wife of the menu for a seated dinner in our courtyard. If you are Contemporary Collection since its inception, as well as the Academy Award-winning Hollywood screenwriter and interested in purchasing tickets please call 310-443-7026 or OPPOSITE: MELEKO MOKGOSI. PAX KAFFRARIA: SIKHUSELO SEMBUMBULU, 2012. OIL ON CANVAS. 96 x 584 IN. (243.8 x 1483.4 CM). MADE IN L.A. INSTALLATION VIEW AT THE CARTA and the Friends of the Graphic Arts, whose dues director Billy Wilder. Opened in 2006 to coincide with email [email protected]. HAMMER MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES, JUNE 2–SEPTEMBER 2, 2012. PHOTO BY BRIAN FORREST. support the Grunwald Center acquisitions. 1 exhibitions 4 Gund, and Christie’s. Special thanks to Specialthanks Gund, andChristie’s. Augustine, Luhring New York. provided by Catherine Glynn andBarbara Timmer, Benkaim Agnes Foundation, andthe LLWW was also Foundation. Additional support Leona B.Carpenter Foundation, the Audrey Charitable &Sydney Irmas was providedGenerous support by SusieCrippen,the E. Rhodesand Susan Steinhauser andDanielGreenberg/The Greenberg Foundation. Zarina: Paper Like Skin 22,2013). (June27–September 25–April21, of Institute (January 2013) Art andthe SolomonR.Guggenheim York MuseuminNew the to This long-overdue ofZarina’s work willtravel survey Arts. Graphic Pesenti, the Allegra curator, for Center Grunwald heroeuvre.throughout Thisexhibitionisorganized by personal, of displacementandexile.Theconcepthome—whether themes andthe herlife inassociationswith rich yet abstract is inpaperpulpandbronze. 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1 exhibitions 7 8 EXHIBITION-RELATED 9 A STRANGE MAGIC PROGRAMS GUSTAVE MOREAU’S SALOME September 16 – December 9, 2012 Hammer Lectures Oscar Wilde, Sarah Bernhardt, and the Murderous Princess exhibitions exhibitions

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1 The Irish writer and wit Oscar Wilde 1 and his friend the French actress Sarah Bernhardt were two of the most famous celebrities of late 19th-century Europe. HAMMER PROJECTS Their collaboration in the 1890s on the Hammer Projects is a series of exhibitions focusing primarily on the work of emerging artists. theatrical tragedy Salome was inspired Hammer Projects is made possible by a major gift from The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation. by the shimmering painting by Gustave Moreau, but by the time the play had its Generous support is provided by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and premiere in Paris in 1896, Bernhardt—cast Susan Bay Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy. Additional support is provided by Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley; the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs; the Decade Fund; and the David Teiger Curatorial Travel Fund. as the young princess—was over 50 and Wilde was serving a two-year sentence for LUCY RAVEN sodomy in an English prison. Nevertheless, SUN YUAN AND PENG YU September 11, 2012 – January 20, 2013 The Hammer Museum presents an exhibition devoted to Gustave Moreau’s as Wilde would assert, “Legend remains September 22, 2012 – January 6, 2013 Lucy Raven uses animation as the foundation for her Salome Dancing before Herod, one of the most remarkable and best-known victorious in spite of history,” and this Chinese artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu create provocative exploration of the relationship of still photography to paintings in the Hammer’s collection. Salome created a sensation when it program hopes to recapture the scandalous works that explore compelling issues of our day. Sometimes the moving image. During her 2011 Hammer residency, was exhibited for the first time in Paris in 1876 and is arguably Moreau’s excitement of the play and its starring creating a direct confrontation with viewers, their works tap Raven embarked on an ongoing investigation of the most important work. The painting depicts the biblical story of the daughter actress and imprisoned author. into common fears and anxieties and challenge worldviews. of Herodias, whose seductive dance before her stepfather and uncle, invention, growth, and mainstream acceptance of 3-D They often place viewers in the midst of strange situations: Herod, persuaded the aging king to grant her the head of John the Baptist. Hammer Screenings cinema, from its roots in animation to its new found a self-propelled garbage dumpster that crashes into gallery Salome danced at the behest of her mother, Herodias, who wanted to silence Sunset Boulevard popularity. In the process, she amassed an exhaustive walls, lifelike sculptures of elderly world leaders in wheelchairs John the Baptist from railing against her incestuous marriage to Herod, the WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 7:30PM archive of film and sound test patterns. Key to achieving bumping into one another, and a tall column composed of high-quality image and sound, these test patterns are brother of her murdered husband. A Strange Magic: Gustave Moreau’s Salome In Sunset Boulevard, Billy Wilder’s mordant human fat removed during plastic surgeries. The single work on usually seen only by projectionists. Raven’s new works comprises approximately 50 works—including related paintings, drawings, 1950 film noir, an aging and half-crazed view in their Hammer Project—I Am Here (2006)—grapples press these esoteric image and sound fragments into and preparatory studies—drawn entirely from the collection of the Gustave silent film star fantasizes about her with the political complexities that inform East-West relations use as both raw material and subject matter unto itself, Moreau Museum in Paris. Many of the works have never before been seen triumphant comeback in the “talkies” as and the lingering conflicts that affect our relationship to freighted with the patina of analog cinema in a digital in the , and the Hammer will be the sole American venue. Princess Salome. Actress Gloria Swanson the Middle East. Hammer Projects: Sun Yuan and Peng Yu is age. Hammer Projects: Lucy Raven will feature three new was herself 51, the same age as Sarah the first U.S. presentation of the duo’s work. This exhibition is works. The exhibition is organized by Hammer assistant A Strange Magic: Gustave Moreau’s Salome is organized by the Hammer Museum in Bernhardt when she appeared—amid organized by guest curator James Elaine. collaboration with the Gustave Moreau Museum in Paris and is curated by Cynthia Burlingham, curator Corrina Peipon. director of the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts and deputy director of curatorial scandal—in the title role of Salome, the affairs at the Hammer Museum. play that Oscar Wilde had written for her. Related Program (1950, Dir. Wilder, 110 min.) Artist talk: Lucy Raven A Strange Magic: Gustave Moreau’s Salome is made possible by a major gift from the Armand Hammer Foundation. The exhibition also received generous support from the Ahmanson Foundation Tuesday, January 8, 7:30PM and the Robert Lehman Foundation. Hammer presents Salome in Opera and on Film Hammer Projects: Lucy Raven is presented through a residency at the ABOVE, LEFT–RIGHT: LUCY RAVEN. STILL FROM RP31, 2012. 35MM FILM. 4 MIN. 48 SEC., LOOPED. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST. AND . I AM HERE, 2006 (DETAIL). INSTALLATION VIEW 1 1 SUN YUAN PENG YU GUSTAVE MOREAU. SALOME DANCING BEFORE HEROD, 1874–76 (DETAIL). OIL ON CANVAS; 56 ⁄2 x 41 ⁄16 IN. (143.5 x 104.3 CM). Hammer Museum. The Hammer Museum’s Artist Residency Program Sunday, November 18, 2pm FROM THE WORLD IS A FINE PLACE FOR YOU TO FIGHT FOR, GALLERIA CONTINUA, SAN GIMIGNANO, ITALY, THE ARMAND HAMMER COLLECTION; GIFT OF THE ARMAND HAMMER FOUNDATION, HAMMER MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES. 3 3 was initiated with funding from the Nimoy Foundation and is supported 2011. FIBERGLASS, SILICA GEL, SIMULACRAL SCULPTURE. 78 ⁄4 x 51 ⁄16 IN. (200 x 130 CM). COURTESY PHOTO: ROBERT WEDEMEYER. See page 17 through a significant grant from The James Irvine Foundation. GALLERIA CONTINUA, SAN GIMIGNANO//LE MOULIN. PHOTO BY MICHELE ALBERTO SERENI. 1 public engagement 10 WILD UP hammer.ucla.eduVisit ofprograms. a full schedule for how architecture soundmoves museum. the through ofthe November, secondSaturdays ofSeptember,On the October, and SPATIAL MUSICSERIES an electricbassoon. screaming saxophones, baritone piccolotrumpets, and strings, virtuosic by performed Concerti Brandenburg wild Up as concert end-of-summercourtyard afestive Join usfor Saturday, September1,3–5PM BACH-BQ installation. instrument andaninteractive performances, spatial musicseries,openrehearsals, music,solo chamber a concerts, major secondofthree thematic presents the This fall WILD UP provided Foundation. by TheShifting is a major grant from TheJamesIrvineFoundation. 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CALENDAR 21 Sun 2pm Libros Schmibros Book Club (p. 10) 27 Tue 7:30pm Films Selected by Zarina (p. 5) The Pre-Raphaelites and Their Circle Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters) Public programs are made possible by a major gift from the Dream Fund at UCLA. Generous support is also provided by Susan Bay Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy; Bronya and Andrew Galef; 23 Tue 7:30pm Some Favorite Writers (p. 20) 28 Wed 7:30pm Hammer Lectures (p. 19) the Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley; and an anonymous donor. Paris Review Presents the Art of the Story Chip Kidd calendar calendar

24 Wed 7:30pm Hammer Screenings (p. 22) 29 Thu 7:30pm Hammer Conversations (p. 13) HAMMER MEMBERS HAMMER MUSEUM FREE GROUP TOURS OF HAMMER Jews of Iran Michael Bierut & Ellen Lupton PROGRAMS ARE FREE RECEIVE PRIORITY EXHIBITIONS ARE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC. SEATING AT PROGRAMS. THURSDAYS AT 6:15PM. 25 Thu 7:30pm Hammer Lectures: Michael Lejeune (p. 18) 1 1 A Cooler Ride

SEPTEMBER 25 Tue 11am–8pm Hammer Screenings (p. 23) 28 Sun 11am Family Flicks Film Series (p. 25) * FREE WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION Chang’an Boulevard Where the Wild Things Are 1 Sat 3pm Public Engagement (p. 10) 7:30pm Hammer Screenings (p. 23) wild Up Concert: BACH-BQ 12pm Sunday Afternoons for Kids (p. 25) Disturbing the Peace Your World Order Ticketing 7 Fri 7:30pm JazzPOP (p. 16) Free tickets are required for program entry and are available from 26 Wed 11am-8pm Hammer Screenings (p. 23) 30 Tue 7:30pm Films Selected by Zarina (p. 5) Michael Dessen Trio the Billy Wilder Theater Box Office. One ticket per person. Hammer Beijing: The Second Ring & The Third Ring Garam Hawa (Scorching Winds) members are entitled to priority seating for all public programs subject 8 Sat 11am Public Engagement (p. 10) 7:30pm Hammer Screenings (p. 23) to availability. This does not guarantee seating, and we recommend wild Up: Spatial Music Series One Recluse NOVEMBER all attendees arrive at least a half hour early for programs they 1pm Public Engagement (p. 10) wish to attend. 27 Thu 7:30pm Hammer Screenings (p. 22) 1 Thu 7:30pm Hammer Poetry (p. 20) Contemplative Art Viewing Jai Bhim Comrade Dora Malech 11 Tue 7:30pm Hammer Forum (p. 21) 30 Sun 2pm Artist Talk: Zarina (p. 5) 4 Sun 12pm Sunday Afternoons for Kids (p. 25) In Search of the Center * A Conversation with Zarina Tabletop Moviemaking 2.0

13 Thu 7:30pm Some Favorite Writers (p. 20) 7 Wed 7:30pm Hammer Conversations (p. 13) OCTOBER Roya Hakakian & Rabbi David Wolpe 9 Tue 7:30pm Some Favorite Writers (p. 20) 14 Fri 7:30pm JazzPOP (p. 16) A.M. Homes 8 Thu 7pm Symposium Opening Lecture (p. 5) MINDFUL Vinny Golia Sextet Homi Bhabha 10 Wed 7:30pm UCLA Department of Art Lectures (p. 19) 16 Sun 2pm Libros Schmibros Book Club (p. 10) AWARENESS Pae White 9 Fri 9:30am–5:30pm Symposium: Strangers in a Strange Land (p. 5) Fleurs du Mal/Flowers of Evil Presentations & Discussion 11 Thu 7:30pm Hammer Lectures: David Rodes (p. 8) 18 Tue 7:30pm Hammer Screenings (p. 22) 6pm Symposium: Musical Performance (p. 5) Thursdays at 12:30pm, Billy Wilder Theater Oscar Wilde, Sarah Bernhardt, and the Gerhard Richter Painting Vidya Shah Murderous Princess Mindful awareness is the moment-by-moment process of actively 20 Thu 7:30pm Hammer Presents (p. 17) 10 Sat 11am Public Engagement (p. 10) and openly observing one’s physical, mental, and emotional 13 Sat 11am Public Engagement (p. 10) Flux Screening Series wild Up: Spatial Music Series experiences. The free weekly drop-in sessions take place in the wild Up: Spatial Music Series the Billy Wilder Theater. No special clothing is required, and 21 Fri 7:30pm JazzPOP (p. 16) 14 Wed 7:30pm Hammer Forum (p. 21) 14 Sun 2pm Exhibition Walkthrough: Brooke Hodge (p. 7) participants are welcome to stay for five minutes or enjoy the Aram Shelton Quartet * Artists’ Rights and Internet Freedom Graphic Design: Now in Production entire 30-minute session. Sessions are led by instructors from 23 Sun 11am Family Flicks Film Series (p. 25) 15 Thu 7:30pm UCLA Department of Art Lectures (p. 19) the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 16 Tue 7:30pm Hammer Forum (p. 21) Jim Drain The New Politics of Extremism 12pm Sunday Afternoons for Kids (p. 25) 18 Sun 11am Family Flicks Film Series (p. 25) Visit www.marc.ucla.edu to learn more. LITLAB 17 Wed 7:30pm Hammer Screenings (p. 8) Elephant Boy Sunset Boulevard 24 Mon 7:30pm Hammer Screenings (p. 23) 2pm Libros Schmibros Book Club (p. 10) Salammbo Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry 18 Thu 7:30pm Hammer Presents (p. 17) 2pm Hammer Presents (p. 17) Open Projector Night BACKGROUND: DAVID BENNEWITH. CHURCHWARD INTERNATIONAL TYPEFACES, 2009 (DETAIL). Salome in Opera and on Film PHOTO BY FRANZ VOS, JAN VAN EYCK ACADEMIE, AND COURTESY THE ARTIST. © DAVID BENNEWITH. 20 Sat 10am–6pm UCLA Art History Graduate Student Symposium (p. 19) Translations 20 Tue 7:30pm Hammer Lectures: Three of a Kind (p. 18) Brian Roettinger, Gail Swanlund, & Henri Lucas 38 1 presents 16 sensitivity with exuberance andvirtuosity. exuberance sensitivity with conviction, balancing nuanceand and personality compositions with navigate Dessen’swildly inventive and Yorkversatile New who players Jason Nazary Christopher Tordini jazzimprovisation.possible within soundsandshapes expands the Michael Dessen composer, andelectronic musician trombonist, California Southern Friday, September7,7:30PM MICHAEL DESSEN TRIO mediasponsorof the series. KJAZZ 88.1FMisthe official bassist SanFrancisco by Curated from LosAngeles, York, New collaborators andtheir bandleaders/composers West andChicago. Coast trailblazing featuring annualeditionofJazzPOP,The seventh September, this courtyard Hammer’screative the the to jazzseries,returns J HAMMER PRESENTS azz poles never forced feel orarbitrary. betweensplatter, those andhis shifts lyricism anddigitally distorted Dessen switches between voluptuous POP (drums) are smart are smart (drums) makes musicthat —Downbeat (bass)and

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HAMMER LECTURES THREE OF A KIND CHIP KIDD Brian Roettinger, Gail Swanlund, and Henri Lucas Wednesday, November 28, 7:30PM tuesday, november 20, 7:30pm Chip Kidd is a designer and writer in New York. His book lectures lectures Using the 20 essays from the Graphic Design: Now in cover designs for Alfred A. Knopf, where he has worked since

Production catalogue as a roadmap, three L.A.-based 1986, have helped create a revolution in the art of American independent designers discuss their work and that book packaging. Kidd has published two novels, The Cheese A COOLER RIDE of others. The work of Brian Roettinger, the former Monkeys and The Learners, as well as Batman: Death by Design, 1 1 With Michael Lejeune design director of the Southern California Institute of an original graphic novel published by DC Comics and thursday, OCTOBER 25, 7:30PM Architecture, encompasses design, publishing, writing, and illustrated by Dave Taylor. He is also the author of several books curating. Gail Swanlund is a designer whose professional about comics, notably Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority UCLA DEPARTMENT OF ART LECTURES (Metro) creative director Michael Lejeune and the practice includes work for art and design institutions Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross, Batman: Animated, supercharged creative team he leads have one goal: and collaborative projects with visual artists such as and Jack Cole and Plasticman (with Art Spiegelman). The UCLA Department of Art’s visiting lecture series is made possible through the generous support of the William D. Feldman Family Endowed Paul McCarthy, Jennifer Steinkamp, Laura Owens, and In conjunction with Graphic Design: Now in Production. make public transportation cool. It’s a daunting task in a Art Lecture Fund. region as car-crazy as Los Angeles. But by applying a bold Benjamin Weissman. Primarily a book designer (exploring design strategy to the work of the nation’s third largest the sensibility of printed matter, in material as well as TRANSLATIONS: TRANSFORMATIVE transit agency, Metro’s 20-person in-house studio team is content) Willem Henri Lucas is interested in addressing SHIFTS IN PROCESS AND EXCHANGE PAE WHITE moving the needle, fostering big change, and earning social issues and bringing design back “to the street,” The 47th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Student Wednesday, October 10, 7:30PM major design kudos along the way. and “humanity” back into design, encouraging future Association Symposium The work of Pae White has recently been featured in solo In conjunction with Graphic Design: Now in Production. designers to be a valuable part of their communities. Saturday, October 20, 10am-6pm exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago; SITE Santa In conjunction with Graphic Design: Now in Production. Translations will provide a forum for emerging scholars Fe, New ; and the Power Plant, Toronto. White had to explore the idea of translation in visual art and culture. a Hammer Project in 2004 and has exhibited in major Jonathan Hay, the Alisa Mellon Bruce Professor of Fine Arts international group exhibitions such as the Whitney at the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU, will deliver the keynote Biennial (2010); the Venice Biennale (2009); and Skulptur address. The symposium will include papers by graduate Projekte Münster (2007) and at venues such as the Tate students in various disciplines from across the country. Modern, ; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The AHGSA Symposium is funded by the UCLA Department of Art History, UCLA Council on Arts and Architecture, UCLA Friends of Art History, and and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. the UCLA Graduate Students Association. JIM DRAIN Thursday, November 15, 7:30PM Miami-based artist Jim Drain has had recent solo exhibitions at the University of ; Locust Projects, Miami; and the Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin. His has participated in group exhibitions at the Geffen Contemporary, MOCA, Los Angeles; the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; Serpentine Gallery, London; Depart Foundation, Rome; the 7th Bienniale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon; and the Whitney Biennial (2002). He will have a solo exhibition this fall in Los Angeles at Prism Gallery.

ABOVE, LEFT–RIGHT: PAE WHITE AND JIM DRAIN. OPPOSITE BACKGROUND: MICHAEL LEJEUNE.

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HAMMER FORUM This ongoing series of timely, thought-provoking events addresses current social and political issues. forum

Hammer Forum is made possible in part by Bronya and Andrew Galef. readings

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1 Tuesday, September 11, 7:30PM In a political climate charged with fierce partisanship and negative rhetoric, Democratic strategist and former Clinton White House counsel Lanny Davis HAMMER READINGS and former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele discuss strategies for bridging the red-blue divide. Motivated by a desire for bipartisanship and civility, Davis and Steele founded Purple Nation Solutions, a D.C.-based SOME FAVORITE WRITERS POETRY government affairs, legal crisis management, and strategic communications firm. This series of readings is organized by Mona Simpson, author of This series of readings is organized My Hollywood, Anywhere But Here, and Off Keck Road. Readings are and hosted by Stephen Yenser, poet THE NEW POLITICS OF EXTREMISM followed by discussions with Simpson. and professor at UCLA and author of Tuesday, October 16, 7:30PM

Sponsored by the UCLA Department of English and Friends of English. A Boundless Field: American Poetry at Long time Washington insiders Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann join us Large and Blue Guide. to discuss why they believe that Washington is not working for the American

MICHAEL CHABON people and who is responsible. Ornstein, a senior fellow at the American Thursday, September 13, 7:30PM DORA MALECH Enterprise Institute, writes a weekly column for Roll Call called “Congress Michael Chabon is the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Thursday, November 1, 7:30PM Inside Out” and is an election eve analyst for CBS News. Congressional scholar Mysteries of Pittsburgh, , The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Dora Malech is the author of two Thomas Mann is a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution. , The Final Solution, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, and Gentlemen collections of poems, Say So and Both are authors of the best-seller It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the of the Road, as well as the short-story collections A Model World and Werewolves Shore Ordered Ocean. Her poems have American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism. in Their Youth and the essay collections Maps and Legends and Manhood for appeared in numerous publications, Visitors are invited to watch the broadcast of the second Presidential Debate Amateurs. His new novel is . including the New Yorker, Poetry, in the Billy Wilder Theater from 6-7:30PM. Best New Poets, American Letters and A. M. HOMES Commentary, Poetry London, and the Tuesday, October 9, 7:30PM ARTISTS’ RIGHTS AND INTERNET FREEDOM Yale Review. The recipient of a Glenn A. M. Homes is the author of the memoir The Mistress’s Daughter and the novels Wednesday, November 14, 7:30PM Schaeffer Poetry Award, a Writer’s This Book Will Change Your Life, Music for Torching, and The Safety of Objects. Award-winning producer T-Bone Burnett and digital entertainment scholar Fellowship at the Civitella Ranieri Her new novel, May We Be Forgiven, takes a darkly comic look at 21st-century Jonathan Taplin illuminate the debate over intellectual property rights versus Center in Italy, and a Ruth Lilly domestic life. Homes lives in New York City. Internet freedom. Burnett is a 12-time Grammy-winning composer and producer poetry Fellowship, Malech earned an and a vocal advocate of artists’ rights. Taplin, who opposes anti-piracy laws, is PARIS REVIEW MFA in poetry from the University of the director of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab, a member of the California Tuesday, October 23, 7:30PM Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She directs Broadband Task Force, and the CEO of Intertainer, the pioneer in video-on-demand. Author Mona Simpson, Paris Review editor Lorin Stein, and Paris Review Daily Iowa Youth Writing Project, an arts editor Sadie Stein discuss literary life and read selected stories from the new outreach program. Paris Review anthology Object Lessons. A Q&A will follow the reading. Hammer Forum is moderated by Ian Masters, journalist, author, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, and host of the radio programs Background Briefing, Sundays at 11AM, and The Daily Briefing, Monday through Thursday at 5PM, on KPFK 90.7 FM.

ABOVE, LEFT–RIGHT: MICHAEL CHABON, A. M. HOMES, AND DORA MALECH; RIGHT: T-BONE BURNETT.

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HAMMER SCREENINGS AI WEIWEI DOCUMENTARIES The Hammer presents three days of documentaries about and by ’s most famous international artist and its most outspoken domestic critic—Ai Weiwei. Ai’s detainment for three months in a secret detention center sparked a global outcry from human screenings

rights activists and the art world. screenings

GERHARD RICHTER PAINTING AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY tuesday, September 18, 7:30pm Monday, September 24, 7:30PM This documentary about the renowned German artist 1

1 Winner of the 2012 Sundance Special Jury Prize, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry is the inside Gerhard Richter shows his creative process combined with story of a dissident for the digital age who inspires global audiences and blurs the intimate conversations with Richter and his closest associates. boundaries of art and politics. (2012, Dir. Ai, 91 min.) (2011, Dir. C. Belz, 97 min.) CHANG’AN BOULEVARD JAI BHIM COMRADE Tuesday, September 25, 11AM–8PM Thursday, September 27, 7:30PM Composed of 608 one-minute segments, and running at a length of 10 hours and 13 Co-presented with UCLA Center for India and South Asia minutes, Chang’an Boulevard is Ai Weiwei’s record of the famed Beijing thoroughfare. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar was a hero of India’s oppressed Dalit Filmed in sequence along its 28 miles, the work captures the rhythms of the city, community. When his statue in Mumbai’s Ramabai colony its social structure, and cityscape. (2004, Dir. Ai, 613 min.) was desecrated in 1997, angry crowds gathered and police DISTURBING THE PEACE opened fire, killing 10 unarmed Dalits. Vilas Ghogre, an Tuesday, September 25, 7:30PM activist and poet, hung himself in despair. Filmmaker Anand Ai documents the trial of the journalist and civil rights advocate Tan Zuoren, who Patwardhan traces the protest through the poetry and music investigated government corruption when a school building collapsed during the 2008 of Ghogre and others. (2011, Dir. Patwardhan, 185 min.) Sichuan earthquake, killing 512 students. Tan was charged with “inciting subversion A Q&A with Anand Partwardhan will follow the screening. of state power” and sentenced to five years in prison.(2009, Dir. Ai, 78 min.)

BEIJING: THE SECOND RING (2005, Dir. Ai, 110 min.) JEWS OF IRAN BEIJING: THE THIRD RING (2005, Dir. Ai, 66 min.) wednesday, october 24, 7:30pm Wednesday, September 26, 11AM–8PM Jews of Iran examines the lives of the Persian Jews Beijing: The Second Ring records two opposite views of traffic from the 33 bridges along currently living in Iran’s predominately Islamic society. Beijing’s Second Ring, one of the three loop highways that govern the spatial organization The director Ramin Farahani captures the prejudices of the city. Shooting entirely on cloudy days, Ai filmed a single frame for one minute from against the Jewish minority as well as friendships among each bridge. Beijing: The Third Ring was shot from the 55 bridges of the Third Ring—all on Muslims and Jews. (2005, Dir. Farahani, 52 min.) sunny days. Both films will be screened simultaneously on opposite walls of the Annex. In conjunction with the exhibition Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews at the Fowler Museum at UCLA. ONE RECLUSE Wednesday, September 26, 7:30PM FILMS SELECTED BY ZARINA In June 2008 Yang Jia carried a knife, hammer, gas mask, pepper spray, and Molotov cocktails into a Chinese police station and killed six police officers. During his subsequent detainment See page 5 and trial, his mother mysteriously disappeared. One Recluse traces the motivations behind the In conjunction with Zarina: Paper Like Skin. (2010, Dir. Ai, 120 min.) tragedy and a trial process filled with cover-ups and questionable decisions. SUNSET BOULEVARD See page 8 In conjunction with A Strange Magic: Gustave Moreau’s Salome. BACKGROUND: STILL FROM AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY, 2012. PHOTO: COURTESY OF IFC FILMS. MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON 25 24 1

UCLA FILM & Sunday, September 23, 11AM Recommended for ages 8+ TELEVISION ARCHIVE Junior Senator Jefferson Smith (James Stewart) arrives for the

first time in Washington, D.C., brimming with idealism. Jean The Billy Wilder Theater is also the home of the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum Arthur is his street-smart secretary, who becomes swept up in his UCLA Film & Television Archive’s renowned cinémathèque. have teamed up for a matinee screening series of new wish to create a national boys’ camp, despite cynical Washington SUNDAY AFTERNOONS FOR KIDS screenings and classic family-friendly films from around the world.

wheeling and dealing. (1939, Dir. Capra, 35mm, b/w, 130 min.) The Hammer’s free collaborative workshops, presented 1 Preceded by: with 826LA, are designed for groups of up to 20 students. Family Flicks is co-presented with UCLA Film & Television Archive. SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK! “PREAMBLE” Reservations are encouraged. Please visit (1975, Digital video, color, 3 min.) 1 workshops.826LA.org or call 310-305-8418. SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK! “I’M JUST A BILL” (1975, Digital video, color, 3 min.)

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE LITLAB Sunday, October 28, 11AM Sunday, September 23, 12-2PM Recommended for ages 10+ Ages 10–14 This contemporary fantasy film based on the classic children’s LITLAB is a creative laboratory for young writers, so come book by Maurice Sendak follows the misunderstood young Max ready to take some risks, explore, and experiment with as he boards a mysterious boat to a land of enormous monsters. language and writing. Taught by actor, teacher, and writer Befriended by these wild things and made their king, Max does Lili Flanders, graduate of the Juilliard School of Drama FALL HIGHLIGHTS his best to govern the unruly creatures and learns a few lessons and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. about cooperation and friendship. (2009, Dir. Jonze, 35mm, color, 101 min.) YOUR WORLD ORDER BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI: ELEPHANT BOY Sunday, October 28, 12-2PM A RETROSPECTIVE Sunday, November 18, 11AM Ages 8–13 Inspired by ancient Maya mythology and cosmology, October 2012 Recommended for ages 7+ students will reinterpret their surroundings and construct UCLA Film & Television Archive celebrates the 50-year A group of elephant hunters in India come to depend on accounts of the supernatural forces that shape their universe. career of the legendary director and screenwriter Bernardo young Toomai for help in tracking a herd of elephants after Instructor Victoria Lyall is an associate curator at LACMA. Bertolucci. One of Italy’s most revered cinematic masters, they witness his rapport with his own elephant, Kala Nag. Mediating between men and beasts, Toomai must navigate a Bertolucci distinguished himself as an auteur of world TABLETOP MOVIEMAKING 2.0 way through the jungle, and through the mixed motivations cinema with such classics as Before the Revolution (1964) Sunday, November 4, 12-2PM and Last Tango in Paris (1972). This series is presented in of the adults. (1937, Dirs. Flaherty and Korda, 35mm, b/w, 91 min.) Ages 10–14 collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles, Students will be the first to use the Tabletop Moviemaking with prints from the archives of Cinecittà Luce. Studio, which includes 3D paper sets, LED lights, and SAVE THE DATE! color gels! Students will write, shoot, edit and share the 1ST CHINA ON-SCREEN BIENNIAL short films for the whole group. InstructorBrick Maier Family Day October 2012 developed Tabletop Moviemaking while on a Fulbright Sunday, December 9 UCLA Film & Television Archive is pleased to collaborate grant in Dublin in 2004. The Hammer will present its with the UCLA Confucius Institute on a landmark citywide second annual Family Day event highlighting the rare, the classic, and the cutting-edge focusing on graphic design in contemporary Chinese cinema and culture. inspired by the exhibition Family Flicks and Hammer Kids are made possible through the Graphic Design: Now in generosity of K.A.M.P. (Kids’ Art Museum Project) supporters For admission information, a complete schedule, or to learn more and friends. K.A.M.P. is an annual family fundraiser. about the archive’s screenings of new works and treasured classics, Production. Join us for art visit cinema.ucla.edu or call 310-206-3456. BACKGROUND: STILL FROM WHERE THE workshops, presentations, WILD THINGS ARE, 2009. OPPOSITE: STILL FROM BEFORE THE REVOLUTION, 1964. and music. 2 WWW.HAMMER.UCLA.EDU 26 27

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1 Free for Hammer members, $3 with validation. Enter on general envisioned by artists for kids of all ages on Sunday, May Special thanks to our 2012 committee students with ID, UCLA Westwood Boulevard or faculty and staff, active duty 20, 2012, from 10am to 2pm. With more than 800 guests in Glendon Avenue. Parking for Brooke Kanter, Chair military personnel, veterans, attendance, and chaired by Brooke Kanter, the event was a people with disabilities is 3 and visitors 17 and under. sold-out success and raised more than $100,000 in support provided on levels P1 and P3. 1 5 BEST FRIEND SUPPORTERS SUPPORTERS Free every Thursday for Bikes park free. of Hammer Kids programs, which are offered free to the public. 9 4 Colleen & Bradley Bell Family Meredith Alexander all visitors. K.A.M.P. took place throughout the entire museum and provided 6 Amanda Anka & Jason Bateman extraordinary access and experiences for children and their SUPER FRIEND SUPPORTERS Alisa Becket To request a group tour, visit our website or call the Group Tours line at 310-443-7041. families with renowned contemporary artists, many of whom have Viveca Paulin-Ferrell & Will Ferrell Jackilin & Jason Bloom The Hammer Museum is operated and partially funded by the University of California, The Brotman Foundation of California Rebecca Bloom & David Kurtz Los Angeles. Occidental Petroleum Corporation has partially endowed the Museum and been the subject of exhibitions at the Hammer Museum or are Loeb & Loeb LLP Mary Leigh Cherry & constructed the Occidental Petroleum Cultural Center Building, which houses the Museum. represented in the Hammer Contemporary Art Collection. Candace & Charles Nelson Tony de los Reyes 10 Gelila & Wolfgang Puck Andrea Feldman Falcione & Participating artists: Sandra Nelson Winkler & Greg Falcione Board of Directors Board of Overseers Artist Council Lisa Anne Auerbach, Justin Beal, Meg Cranston, Mark Flores, Charles Winkler Lauri Firstenberg Founder Peter Benedek Edgar Arceneaux Erik Frydenborg, Charles Gaines, Hollyflora, Nery Gabriel Leslie Fram Dr. Armand Hammer Ruth Bloom Lisa Anne Auerbach FRIEND SUPPORTERS Jane Glassman Susie Crippen Jennifer Bolande Chairman Emeritus Lemus, Shana Lutker, Malerie Marder, Jason Meadows, 14 Lewis Baskerville Maryam Lieberman Rosette Varda Delug Meg Cranston Michael A. Hammer Matthew Monahan, Ruby Neri, Catherine & Oliver Opie, Jodi Guber Brufsky & Seth Brufsky Maya McLaughlin George Freeman Teddy Cruz Alessandro Pessoli, Lara Schnitger, Frances Stark, Koki Tanaka, Erica Hiller Carpenter & Julie Miyoshi Honorary Directors Bronya Galef Charles Gaines Bob Gersh Fritz Haeg Kevin E. Carpenter Amber Busuttil Mullen & Armie Hammer Mateo Tannatt, Mungo Thomson, and Kerry Tribe David Hoberman Glenn Kaino Susanna Felleman & Erik Feig Christopher Mullen Viktor Armand Hammer Stanley Hollander Yoshua Okón Ryan & Tucker Gates Story time took place in the museum galleries Amber Noland Chairman Linda Janger Laura Owens Stefanie Griswold Lindsay Berger Sacks & Brian Sacks John V. Tunney with children’s book readings by: Barbara Kruger Hirsch Perlman Linda & Jerry Janger Lara Shriftman Dori Peterman Mostov Alexis Smith President Eric Dane, Will Ferrell, Minnie Driver, Annabeth Gish, Brooke & Adam Kanter Robyn & Michael Siegel Erik Murkoff Mario Ybarra Jr. Michael Rubel* and Molly Shannon. Deborah Kaplan Lauren & Benedikt Taschen Susan Bay Nimoy Suzanne & Michael Kraus Cynthia Taylor Gene D. Block Lari Pittman Director Hathaway Pogue John Umbanhowar Marcy Carsey* Ronnie Sassoon Ann Philbin Marni Pozil Lloyd E. Cotsen* Chara Schreyer 7 8 Barry Smooke Alisa & Kevin Ratner Martin Cozyn Samuel P. Dominick Susan Steinhauser 9 10 11 Carolyn & Gregory Trattner Eric Esrailian David Teiger Weinberg Family Foundation Frank O. Gehry Bill True Erika Glazer* Dean Valentine Tim Hanlon Jeremy Zimmer SPECIAL THANKS TO Larry Marx* Steven A. Olsen Anthony N. Pritzker 1. FUN IN THE MVS STUDIO DIGITAL 7. SPECIAL THANKS TO SCOOP NYC Lee Ramer STUDIO PHOTOBOOTH 8. PLAYING WITH COLOR (LED BY MARK FLORES) Kevin L. Ratner* 2. REBECCA GAYHEART & ERIC DANE 9. STORY TIME WITH WILL FERRELL Nelson C. Rising 3. JULIE BURLEIGH, CATHY OPIE, & OLIVER OPIE 10. GEILA & WOLFGANG PUCK Heather Skinazi 4. CHARLES GAINES 11. FRANCES STARK Kevin Wall* 5. MOLLY SHANNON & ANNIE PHILBIN 12. HAMMER KIDS 6. EVENT CHAIR BROOKE KANTER & John Walsh JIMMY FREEMAN ALL PHOTOS BY STEFANIE KEENAN EXCEPT #1. Christopher A. Waterman *Sits on Board of Overseers as well51