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1 COVER: LEE MULLICAN. NINNEKAH CALENDAR (DETAIL), 1951. OIL ON CANVAS. 30 x 50 ⁄8 IN. (76.2 x 127.3 CM). HAMMER MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES. For additional program information: 310-443-7000 information: program For additional 90024USA California LosAngeles, Boulevard 10899 Wilshire 2012/13 Winter Museum Hammer PURCHASE AND PARTIAL GIFT OF BILL RESNICK. PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRIAN FORREST. ON VIEW IN THE EXHIBITION SELECTIONS FROM THE GRUNWALD CENTER www.hammer.ucla.edu AND THE HAMMER CONTEMPORARY COLLECTION (SEE PAGE 10). Hammer Museum Hammer hammer_museum Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles, Non Profit Org. Profit Non Permit no. 202 no. Permit US Postage US PAID Winter 2012/13Calendar Winter 25 2 3 HAMMER NEWS news RECENT ACQUISITION director THREE WEEKS IN MAY The Los Angeles–based artist, activist, and writer the 1 Suzanne Lacy has been engaged with issues of gender, social justice, and racial inequalities since the late 1960s. Three Weeks in May is a signature piece by the from A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR artist and represents the first of a series of large-scale Creating a warm and inviting environment at the Hammer has be expanded with a dedicated small-plate menu, making it a performances on violence against women that she been an important focus for us over the past several years. We perfect place to sip and nibble before our public programs. It is created in collaboration with the artist Leslie Labowitz. started our Public Engagement and Visitor Services programs our aim to offer visitors an epicurean experience on par with During a three-week period in 1977, Lacy installed a message nearly four years ago with the intention of enhancing and their cultural experience at the Hammer. large map of Los Angeles in the City Hall mall and a improving visitor experience. The latest development in this stenciled the word RAPE in red where attacks had been initiative is the rollout of the Hammer’s volunteer Ambassador Finally, it is with great sadness that we mark the passing of reported to the police. Since her work often takes the program, which began over the summer during Made in L.A. Hal David in September. Although Hal is best remembered as form of public events, broadcasts, and installations, this 1 2012 as a way to help people register and vote for the Mohn a Grammy Award–winning lyricist, he and his wife, Eunice, particular object is a rare and important testament to Award. More than 50 Ambassadors logged upwards of 1,000 were also avid art collectors. In 2003 they generously gave a one of the leading pioneers of public practice. hours this summer, and they did a lot more than just facilitate significant group of drawings to the Grunwald Center for the the voting process—they also oriented guests to the museum Graphic Arts at the Hammer, and we subsequently mounted an SUZANNE LACY. THREE WEEKS IN MAY, 1977. INK ON PRINTED MAPS, SOUND. HAMMER MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES. PURCHASED THROUGH THE BOARD OF OVERSEERS and provided a crucial point of human contact. We received exhibition of the collection and published a beautiful catalogue. ACQUISITION FUND WITH ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FROM DORI PETERMAN MOSTOV, a great deal of feedback from visitors and know that in this The collection includes work by many of the artists who SUSAN BAY NIMOY, AND RUTH BLOOM. digital age the experience of being welcomed face-to-face shaped the course of 19th- and 20th-century art, from Eugène cannot be underestimated. The Ambassador program is officially Delacroix, Édouard Manet, Mary Cassatt, and Gustav Klimt here to stay, and you will continue to see these amazing to Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Robert Motherwell, Richard volunteers staff the front lines at the Hammer. For more Diebenkorn, Andy Warhol, Sam Francis, and David Hockney. The information about the Ambassador program, please contact processes of looking, reflecting, and composing are central to MADE IN L.A. SOUNDMAP Christopher Mangum-James, visitor services coordinator, at these works, and this reflects the interests of their talented NAMED BEST L.A. CITY APP [email protected]. and much-loved collectors. Hal once remarked that the couple’s BY LA WEEKLY “appreciation of drawings stems from the fact that they are Our iPhone app, Made in L.A. Soundmap was The venerable Hollywood restaurant AMMO set up its Westside often the first steps in the creative process towards something named “Best L.A. City App” by LA Weekly this outpost in our courtyard last summer, and we plan to celebrate larger and greater—much like the way a songwriter starts fall! The site-specific mobile audio experience the arrival of 2013 with a new look for AMMO at the Hammer. with nothing and ends with a completed song.” A selection of features interviews with Made in L.A. artists Building on the architectural strengths of the café and the natural drawings from the David collection will be on display in the and curators and music curated by the collective beauty of the courtyard, the changes will reflect the aura of Grunwald Center Study Room this winter. Dublab. Noted one L.A. Weekly judge, “It gives casual elegance that AMMO is known for. We will unite the L.A. the arts and culture narrative we don’t HAMMER MUSEUM COLLABORATES WITH indoor/outdoor experience of the courtyard with new furniture —Ann Philbin, Director get credit for having.” and materials, including the addition of a large Donald Judd THE HEART PROJECT communal table. With the completion of the kitchen renovation, FOR 2012––13 ABOVE: HAL AND EUNICE DAVID, 2003. we will expand and diversify the menu, making AMMO at the GUSTAV KLIMT. STUDY FOR SATYR L.A. arts education organization The HeArt Project combats the high school dropout Hammer a dining destination on the Westside. One of the CARRYING DRUM, C. 1886–88. GRAPHITE crisis with a long-term, sequential arts program. Through ten-week arts education AND WHITE CHALK ON BROWN PAPER, most exciting changes will be the introduction of a special LAID ON JAPAN PAPER. THE EUNICE AND programs, students create artworks and performances inspired by the exhibitions HAL DAVID COLLECTION OF 19TH-AND brunch menu on weekends, including innovative soju cocktails 20TH-CENTURY WORKS ON PAPER. Zarina: Paper Like Skin and A Strange Magic: Gustave Moreau’s Salome. Student work and a deftly curated wine and beer list. Happy hour will also RIGHT: DIRECTOR ANN PHILBIN will be presented in the Hammer courtyard on Thursday, February 14, until noon. 5 4 exhibitions exhibitions ZARINA 1 1 PAPER LIKE SKIN continues through December 30, 2012 GRAPHIC DESIGN— Zarina: Paper Like Skin is the first retrospective of the Indian-born American artist Zarina Hashmi (b. 1937), featuring works NOW IN PRODUCTION EXHIBITION-RELATED PROGRAMS dating from 1961 to the present. Zarina, who chooses to be continues through January 6, 2013 referred to simply by her first name, lived in India, Thailand, Family Day: Design Now! France, Germany, and Japan before settling in New York in the 1970s. Handmade paper is central to her practice, both as a This major international exhibition explores how graphic design Sunday, December 9, 11am–2pm surface to work on and as a material with its own properties, has broadened its reach over the past decade, expanding from With the technological tools of making and distributing history, and geographic associations. The exhibition displays a specialized profession to a widely used tool. With the rise of at our fingertips, the exhibition Graphic Design: Now the range and subtleties of her artistic practice, including her accessible creative software and innovations in publishing and in Production makes the point that everyone can be a production of woodcuts, etchings, pinpricked drawings, and distribution systems, people outside the field are mobilizing designer these days. The second annual Family Day at rubbings, as well as sculptural objects cast in paper pulp and the techniques and processes of design to create and publish the Hammer encourages all ages to participate in design bronze. Zarina’s vocabulary is abstract yet rich in associations visual media. At the same time, graphic designers are becoming by creating their own letterforms, screenprinting T-shirts with her life and the themes of displacement and exile. The producers, deploying their creative skills as makers of content and posters, interacting with new design technologies, concept of home—whether personal, geographic, national, and shapers of experiences. Featuring work produced since 2000 viewing groundbreaking commercials screened in the spiritual, or familial—resonates throughout her oeuvre. This in the most vital sectors of communication design, Graphic Billy Wilder Theater by the UCLA Film and Television exhibition is organized by Allegra Pesenti, curator, Grunwald Design: Now in Production explores design-driven magazines, Archive, and more. Featuring workshops with professional Center for the Graphic Arts. newspapers, books, posters, and branding programs, showcasing graphic designers such Henri Lucas, Brian Roettinger, recent developments in the field, such as the entrepreneurial Margo Graxeda, Eric Gardner, and others. Photo booth This long-overdue survey of Zarina’s work will travel to the Solomon R. nature of designer-produced goods; the renaissance in digital by Snap Yourself! and refreshments will be provided. Guggenheim Museum in New York (January 25–April 21, 2013) and typeface design; the storytelling potential of titling sequences Family Day received generous support from the Art 4 Moore the Art Institute of Chicago (June 27–September 22, 2013). for film and television; and the transformation of raw data into Fund of the Tides Foundation. compelling information narratives. Zarina: Paper Like Skin is made possible by a major gift from Susan HAMMER LECTURES Steinhauser and Daniel Greenberg/The Greenberg Foundation.