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GALLERY TALKS JenniferGross and Susan Greenberg Sunday, April 23, 2-4pm Exhibition walk-throughs led by the curators. Limitedto 10 people each, tours repeat as necessary.

THE Soc1ETE ANoNYME: LECTURE MODERNISM FOR AMERICA Christian Scheidemann "BreedingDust: The Meaningof New April 23 - August20, 2006 Materialsin ContemporaryArt" The Societe Anonyme: Modernismfor America charts the development of modern Wednesday,May 10, 7pm art in the early 20th century. Foundedin NewYork in 1920 by KatherineS. Dreier, Christian Scheidemann is the senior conservator of Contem MarcelDuchamp, and ManRay to promote contemporaryart among Americanaudi porary Conservation Limited in NewYork and a member of ences, Societe Anonyme,Inc. was organized upon the philosophy that the story the AdvisoryCommittee for the International Networkfor the of modern art should be chronicled and told by artists rather than historians or Conservation of ContemporaryArt Research Group America. academics. Founded nearly a decade before the opening of The Museumof Modern Scheidemannhas workedclosely with artists MatthewBarney, Art, New York, the Societe Anonyme-whose name translates as Incorporated, Robert Gober, Paul McCarthy,and KikiSmith. Inc.-fulfilled its mission by organizing more than 80 exhibitions, hosting lectures

and other educational programs, publishing more than 40 catalogues, and amass READINGS ing an exceptional collection of Europeanand Americanart dating primarilyfrom The Poetry of Gertrude Stein 1920 through 1940. Wednesday,May 17, 7pm The exhibition draws from Yale University'sextensive collection of artworks held Readingsof GertrudeStein's worksby CalBedient, Terry Castle, by the Societe Anonyme,w hich was donated in the 1940s by Katherine S. Dreier and Stephen Yenser. and Marcel Duchamp. The HammerMuseum's installation features approximately Cal Bedient is professor of English at UCLAand the author 240 works by more than 100 artists which include Constantin Brancusi, Marcel of several books of Literarycriticism and two books of poetry, Duchamp,Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Roberto Matta, Joan Mir6, CandyNecklace and The Violenceof the Morning. Piet Mondrian,Pablo Picasso, ManRay, Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Stella, Vincent van Terry Castle is professor of English at Stanford University. Gogh, along with lesser-knownartists who made significant contributions to mod Her books and articles of criticism address 18th-century ernism. British fiction, WorldWar I, English art and culture of the 1920s and 1930s, and gay and Lesbianwriting. Stephen Yenser writes Literarycriticism and poetry, and is professor of Englishand director of creative writing at UCLA. He organizes the Museum'sContemporary Poetry Series.

Co-sponsored by the UCLALesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program.

Top:Jean Arp. Bird-Man(Tete d'Homme;Tete-Oiseau), ca. 1920. Painted wood. YaleUni versity Art Gallery.Gift of KatherineS . Dreierto the CollectionSociete Anonyme. <>2006 Artists Rights Society {ARS),New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Bottom: KurtSchwitters. Carnival,1947 . Collage.Yale UniversityArt Gallery. Gift, Estate of KatherineS. Dreier.<> 2006 Artists Rights Society {ARS),New York/ VGBild-Kunst, Bonn. Far left: MarcelDuchamp. Rotoreliefs (Optical Disks) (Play Toys), 1935 (detail). Yale UniversityArt Gallery. Gift of CollectionSociete Anonyme.<> 2006 Artists Rights Society {ARS),New York/ADAGP, Paris.

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SCREENINGS Art of the Future Wednesday,May 31, 7pm

CONCERT Inspired by Katherine S. Dreier's 1931 event, "An Evening The Twenties:The Paris Avant-Garde with the Art of the Future,"this program presents screenings Saturday,May 20, 6pm of early avant-garde films. An evening of solo and chamber compositions by LesSix and Manhatta,1920, dir. Paul Strand & Charles Sheeler, 11 min. friends, culminating in a screening of Entr'acte (1924), the ChessFever, 1925, dir. Vsevolod Pudovkin & Nikolai silent film directed by Rene Clair,written by Francis Picabia, Shpikovsky, 28 min. with Livemusic composed by Erik Satie; organized by Neal Anemic Cinema,1926, dir. Marcel Duchamp, 7 min. Stulberg, Visiting Directorof OrchestralStudies at UCLA. Emak-Bakia,1926, dir. Man Ray, 18 min. Co-sponsored by the UCLADepartment of Music. L'Etoilede Mer,1928, dir. Man Ray, 21 min. SkyscraperSymphony, 1929, dir. Robert Florey, 9 min. DISCUSSION An OpticalPoem, 1938, dir. Oskar Fischinger, 7 min. Incorporated,Inc.: A Museumof Modern Art BeforeThe Museumof ModernArt CONCERT Wednesday,May 24, 7pm Tonesin Shadow:The VienneseSociety for Discussionon the importance of the Societe Anonymeas the Private MusicalPerformance (1919-24) first "experimental museum" for contemporary art in the Saturday,July 15, 6pm United States, organized and moderated by George Baker, Solo and chamber worksfrom ArnoldSchoenberg's Verein fUr with MiwonKwon, Richard Meyer,and NancyJ. Troy. musikalischePrivat-Auffi.ihrungen, the Viennesesalon known George Baker is assistant professor of art history at UCLA, for its presentations of groundbreakingmodernist repertoire. A Letter from Japan an editor of Octobermagazine, a critic for Artforum,and is Composersinclude Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Alexander Scriabin, The Photographs of John Swope currently preparing the book TheArtwork Caught by the Tail: Claude Debussy,and KarolSzymanowski; organized by Neal FrancisPicabia and Dadain Paris. Stulberg, Visiting Directorof OrchestralStudies at UCL.A. Through June 4, 2006 Miwon Kwonis associate professor of contemporary art his Co-sponsored by the UCLADepartment of Music. tory at UCLAand the author of One Place After Another: This exhibition marks the first in-depth presentation of vintage prints and text Lecture Site-SpecificArt and LocationalIdentity. from the late Los Angeles photographer's 1945 journey as a Navy photographer Anne WilkesTucker Richard Meyer is associate professor of art history at the through post-war Japan. Shot during a three-and-a-half-week period, the images Thursday, May4, 7pm University of Southern California (USC); his book Outlaw vividlyconvey the impact of WorldWar II on the local Japanese population as well Curatorof photographyat The Museum Representation:Censorship and Homosexualityin Twentieth as on the Allied soldiers and prisoners of war. The exhibition presents over 115 of Fine Arts, Houston discusses CenturyAmerican Art received the Charles C. EldredgePrize. vintage prints and gives insight into Swope's larger pursuit of capturing the uni Swope's work in the context of the Nancy J. Troy is professor of modern art at USC,president of versal human experience by also including highlights of his work as a renowned war photography genre. the National Committee for the History of Art, and is cur Hollywoodphotographer and his international travels from the 1930s through rently working on a book about Piet Mondrian. 1970s. GalleryTalk A Letter from Japan: The Photographsof John Swope is organized by Carolyn Peter, associate CarolynPeter Right: Man Ray.Revolving Doors, 1926 (detail). Ten color screen prints. Yale curator of the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum. UniversityArt Gallery.Gift, estate of KatherineS. Dreier. 0 2006 Man Ray Trust/ Saturday,June 3, 2pm Artists Rights Society (ARS),Ne w York/ADAGP,Pari s. The exhibition is generously supported by Gail and Jerry Oppenheimer, with additional support Exhibition walk-through led by the from Mrs. Sidney F. Brody, The Judith Rothschild Foundation, Shirlee Fonda, and Jane Wyatt. curator. Above left: John Swope. Hamamatsu,September 6, 1945. Gelatin silver print. John Swope Collection,e John Swope Trust. Aboveright: John Swope.Near Tokyo,Dmori POWcamp, August 29, 1945. Gelatin silver print. John Swope Collection. C>John SwopeTru st.

6 7 Clockwise,from top left: MirandaLichtenstein. Untitled#18 (flower), 2002-05. Polaroid.Courtesy Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles,and Elizabeth Dee, NewYork. Moniquevan Genderen. WallPainting Jar the Hammer Museum,2006 (detail). Vinylon wall. Courtesyof the artist and HappyLion Gallery, Los Angeles; photo by Joshua White. Elliott Hundley.Kindling for the GreatFire, 2005 (detail). Collagewith bamboo and string. Collectionof Andrea Rosen, New·York;photo by Joshua White. Walead Beshty. Vorhalle,die Botschaft der Bundesrepublik Irak in Berlin,Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR) (Foyer,the Embassyof the Republicof Iraq in Berlin,German DemocraticRepublic (GDR)) 2001, photo documentation, . 2001-06. Courtesyof the artist, Wallspacegallery, New York,and China Art Objects, Los Angeles. Jesper Just. Still from No ManIs An Island II, 2004. DVD. Courtesy Perry Rubenstein Gallery,New York.

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,, Reading from the first installment of Before Pictures, his An ongoing series of artists' lectures organized by UCLA's forthcoming memoirof the 1970s, Crimptells the story of his HAMMERconversations Department of Art. first jobs in NewYork-working for fashion designer Charles HammerConversations pair two of today's most interesting The UCLADepartment of Art's visiting lecture series is made possible James and at the Guggenheim Museumin 1971 when the people for engaging and spontaneous conversations on cul through generous support of the William D. Feldman Family Endowed artist DanielBuren's work was removedfrom the Guggenheim ture, science, and the arts. Art Lecture Fund. International Exhibition. DouglasCrimp is the Fanny Knapp Allen Professorof Art Historyat the Universityof Rochester, New York. He is the author of Melancholiaand Moralism: UCLA'sDepartment of Art presents a series of lectu es by Essayson AIDSand QueerPolitics and Onthe Museum'sRuins. William Pope.L's installations and performances address internationallyrenowned artists and theorists whichaddresses issues of race, class, and physicalendurance. Often occurring Presented in collaboration with UCLA'sDepartment of Art and the psycho-political interface of violence and de iphers Department of Art History. directly on the streets of American cities, Pope.L'sproduc forms of representing or resisting it in the visual alits. The tions combine myths of black male sexual prowesswith men series is organized by MaryKelly, professor of Art and o:ritical acing, clownish, or abject costumes and actions. He forces Theoryin UCLA'sDepartment of Art. his viewers to confront the often ignored problems facing American society. Pope.L currently teaches in the theater On the Subject of Violence is sponsored by the UCLADepartment of Art with additional support from UCLA'sCenter for the Study of British actor, comedian, and writer TerryJones was a found department at Bates College. Women, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Depart"] ent of French and Francophone Studies, the Department of Political S ence, ing member of Monty Python. He is the author of numerous Jeff Garlin & Patton Oswalt and the UC Santa Barbara Department of Film Studies. fiction and nonfiction books on medieval history, which Tuesday, May 16, 7pm include TheSaga of Erikthe Viking,The Lady and the Squire, Jeff Garlin executive produces and co-stars as Larry David's and WhoMurdered Chaucer?: A MedievalMystery. Jones will Renowned Los Angeles artist John Baldessari is a professor loyal manager and side-kick in the HBOcomedy series Curb discuss his latest work, TerryJones' Barbarians,the story of in the UCLADepartment of Art. Knownfor conceptual work YourEnthu siasm. He recently began work on The Jeff Gar/in Roman history as seen from diverse perspectives that sug that often intersects artistic genres and media, his recent Program, a sketch-comedyva riety show to be aired on TBS. Professor of English a: gest the empire was more manipulative than traditional his and upcoming retrospectives include exhibitions at Deutsche He has appeared on manytele vision shows, includingArrested Professor of rhetoric and Queen MaryUniversits of tory recorded. Guggenheim Berlin, Germany; Museum Moderner Kunst Development and Mad About You. His solo performance, I film at UCBerkeley speaks London discusses psyc.ho Stiftung LudwigVienna, Austria; and at the Museed'art con WantSomeone to Eat CheeseWith, a bout a man's relationship on Gerhard Richter and the analysis, Sigmund Fre~ d, temporain de Nimes, France. with women and with food, was recently adapted for film and art of analogy. and Arnold Zweig. Below, left to right: DouglasCrimp (photo: CatherineOpie). TerryJones. Far right, left to right: Jeff Garlin. Patton Oswalt. stars comedian Sarah Silverman.

Screening of Rose's' mm Actor and comedian Patton Oswalt created, produced, and DangerousLiaison: Israel headlined TheComedians of ComedyTour, an alternative com and America edy tour that was the subject of a series on ComedyCentral and a documentary film t hat was released in 2005. He was Artist lectures on her named EntertainmentWeekly's "It" Comedian for 2002 and surgical performancesand one of ten "Comedians to Watch" by Varietyin 1999. Among Laterworks. many regular film and television appearances, Oswaltis cur Artist Lectureson The rently a regular co-host on Jimmy KimmelLive a nd is filming RwandaProject, 1994 -·2000. his seventh season on The Kingof Queens.

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New AmericanWriting ContemporaryPoetry SundayAfternoons • NewAmerican Writing is a series of contemporaryfiction and Susan Straight & ZZPacker ContemporaryPoetry is a series of poetry readings organized In collaboration with 826LA,the HammerMuseum continues poetry readings organized by Benjamin Weissman,author of Sunday, May 14, 6pm by Stephen Yenser,poet and professor of Englishat UCLAand its series of workshops,for children ages 8 to 13, on creative two books of short fiction, most recently Headless,and pro Susan Straight reads from her most recent book, A Million author of Blue Guide(Phoeni x Poets Series). ways to write about and understand visual art. Space is fessor of creative writing at Art Center Collegeof Designand Nightingales, a novel about the AmericanSouth of the early limited to 20 students, and reservations are required. Email Otis Collegeof Art+ Design. 19th century. In her six novels, Straight repeatedly intersects Elizabeth Alexander [email protected] call 310-305-8418 by the Thursdayprior This series is made possible, in part, with support from Bronya and filial love, race, class, and violence. She has published six Thursday,April 27, 7pm to each workshop. Andrew Galef. novels, including HighwireMoon, and is a frequent contribu Elizabeth Alexander's collections of poems include American This series is made possible by The Claire and Theodore Morse tor to many publications and National Public Radio's All Foundation. Sublime, The Black Interior, and The Venus Hottentot. Her Karen Finley ThingsConsidered . poems explore the interior lives of historical black figures, 826LA is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students Sunday, April 30, 6pm with their creative and expository writing skills and to helping ZZPacker reads from her first book, DrinkingCoffee Elsewhere, exposing emotions and experiences that strikinglyilluminate Karen Finley reads from her latest work, Georgeand Martha, teachers inspire their students to write. a collection of eight short stories about the experiences of timely public sentiments. Her work has appeared in The which imagines a torrid affair between the president of the young AfricanAmericans. Packer has been recognized as one Southern Review, American Poetry Review, Black American United States and the first lady of domesticity, Martha Jeremy Glatstein of the freshest voices of her generation and is the recipient LiteratureForum, and The American Voice.A 1992 recipient Stewart. Finley teaches art and public policy at the Tisch Sunday, May 7, 12pm of some of literature's most coveted honors, including a of an NEAartist grant, Alexander also reviews contemporary School of the Arts, NewYork University. Her books include A Glatstein, lecturer at the Getty Center, leads a workshop on Whiting Writers' Awardand a RonaJaffe Foundation Writers' literature for The VillageVoice . Different Kind of Intimacy, Enough is Enough: Weekly writing original prose using found text . Award. Meditationsfor LivingDysfunctionally, and LivingIt Up. 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Ehrenreich's also edited or co-edited 22 collections, including American written 11 books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry including workhas been publishedin TheBeliever , the LosAngeles Times, Poetry: The Nineteenth Centuryand The Oxford Anthology of The Queen's Throat:Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery The New YorkTimes, and The VillageVoice, and his fiction has EnglishLiterature . Hollanderreads from his most recent works of Desire. Koestenbaumis a professor of English, American been included in numerous anthologies. Poems Bewitched and Haunted, Picture Window, and Studies, and Film Studies at The Graduate Center, The City DanielAlarcon is the associate editor of the Lima-basedmaga Figurehead.He is the Sterling Professor Emeritus of English Universityof NewYork, and Visiting Professorin the painting Above, left to right: zine Etiqueta Negro. He reads from his debut book, Warby at Yale University. department of the Yale UniversitySchool of Art. Karen Finley (photo: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders). Candlelight,a collectionoffictional stories creating a devastat Wayne Koestenbaum. Bruce Hainley is Associate Director of Graduate Studies in ing portrait of the fault lines that divide nations and people. Student Poetry Awards Susan Straight (photo: " Dan Chavkin). Alarcon is a distinguished visiting writer at Mills Collegein ZZ Packer (photo: Marion Ettlinger). Criticismand Theoryat Art Center Collegeof Design,an inde Thursday,June 8, 7pm Ben Ehrenreich (photo: Virginia Lee Hunter). Oakland,California . Hisfiction has been published in The New Daniel Alarcon (photo: Olivia Armenta). pendent curator, and a contributing editor of Artforum. He Readings by award-winning UCLAstudent poets. For more Yorker,Harper's, and Best AmericanNonrequired Reading. Elizabeth Alexander (photo: Ficre Ghebreyesus). has published his work in The Nation, Frieze,Metropoli s, and information and a full schedule visit www.hammer.ucla.edu. 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Join Hammercurators each week for LunchtimeArt Talks insightful, 15-minutes talks about works Wednesdaysat 12:30pm of art on display and from the collections.

April 26 MarcelDuchamp's Jesper Just's John Swope's Paul Klee's SpringFestival Tum', 1918 No Man is An Island II, 2004 Jimmy Stewart with a model The Kingof All Insects (Der of WorldMusic plane, 1936 Konigalles Ungeziefers),1922

UCLA'sDepartment of Ethnomusicology and the Hammer Museumjointly present the Spring Festival of World Music. Performedby students and faculty, this Lively series of inter national rhythms, sounds, and dance is free to the public.

Musicof China Saturday,April 29, 2pm Wind and string instruments, compositions from Shanghai and Canton province, and folk dance May24 May31 June 7 June 14 Elliot Hundley's Constantin Brancusi's Claude Monet's Vincent van Gogh's Musicof the Balkans HammerProject, 2006 YellowBird, 1919 Viewof Bordighera,1884 Hospitalat Saint-Remy, 1889 Musicof Korea Saturday, May 6, 2pm & 3:30pm Bulgarianfolk songs and music; Koreancourt and folk music and dance

Musicof India Saturday, May 13, 2pm North Indian classical and semi-classical music, featuring the sitar and tabla

Above: Musicof Koreaperformance, 2005 (photo: Donna Armstrong). Right: Still from a found Indian music video. June 21 June 28 July 5 July 12 Opposite, bottom, second from left: AlfredStieglitz, Equivalent,Portrait Danny Lyon's Alfred Stieglitz's Equivalent, Francis Picabia's WassilyKandinsky's of Georgia,No. 3/Songs of the Sky (No. 2), 1923 (detail). The J. Paul Getty Museum,Lo s Angeles. " Estate of Georgia O'Keeffe. Portraitof John Baldwinin Portraitof Georgia,No. 3/ Midi, c. 1923-26 MulticoloredCircle (Mit an AbandonedRoom, 1967 Songs of the Sky (No. 2), 1923 Buntem Kreis), 1921

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The Armand HammerCollection A selection of paintings and works on paper from the ArmandHammer Collect' on is permanently on view. It provides an impressive overview of the major mo•e ments of 19th-century Frenchart, with significant examples of realism, orien~al ism, the Barbizon school, impressionism, postimpressionism, pointillism, and symbolism.Portraiture and landscape both figure prominentlyin the collectio in addition to a small but wide-ranginggroup of Europeanold master paintings and works by Americanartists from the 18th to 20th centuries.

The Armand HammerDaumier and ContemporariesCollection The Museumhouses an extensive collection of several thousand works featu · ng the painting, sculpture, and lithography of 19th-century French satirist Hon)re Daumierand his contemporaries.The next special exhibition from the collect'on will open on June 20, 2006.

GrunwaldCenter for the GraphicArts The GrunwaldCenter's holdings comprise morethan 45,000 workson paper dat ng from the Renaissanceto the present. A primaryresource for teaching and researich, the Centerserves UCLAand the public by special appointment. Call310-443-7078 to schedule an appointment.

Franklin D. MurphySculpture Garden One of the most distinguished outdoor sculpture collections in the country, the FranklinD. MurphySculpture Gardenspans more than five acres on UCLA'scampus with over 70 sculptures.

GroupTours Led by trained museumeducators, group tours can be arranged for special exh1 i tions, permanent collections, the sculpture garden, or museum highlights. To rs last approximately45 minutes and are available Tuesdaysthrough Fridays,11am and 3pm, by contacting the Museum'sEducation Department at 310-443-70•~1. Please note that due to the nature of the exhibition, groups touring TheSoa ,ete Anonyme are limited to 12 adults or 10 students. Advance reservations are required.

Background:Franklin D . MurphySculpture Garden.Alexander Calder . Button Flower,1959. Steel and paint. The FranklinD. MurphySculpture Garden.Gift of DavidE . Bright.

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