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HAMMER NEWS Tuesday–Friday 11am–8pm, Saturday & Sunday 11am–5pm, Closed Mondays news director the 1 HIGHLIGHTS FROM RECENT ACQUISITIONS L.A.-based artist Charles Gaines works with various mediums, including photography, drawing, text, and video, relying on existing and invented systems to generate his from A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR works. Numbers & Trees VI, Landscape, #4 (1989) is part of a body of work in which Gaines transformed photographic images within a series of prescribed operations. Made in L.A. 2012 is finally here! For nearly two years of the Tate’s Turner Prize and the Whitney Museum of the staffs at the Hammer and LA>

a heroic pace to organize and present this significant significant way, however: while a professional jury will L.A.-based artist Alexis Smith comments on social mores, the media’s depiction of a

biennial exhibition. Made in L.A. 2012 will be installed select five finalists from among the 60 artists, the Mohn gender roles, and our increasingly consumer-focused culture. InTown & Country (2001), in three locations around the city: here at the Hammer, Prize recipient will be chosen by visitors to the exhibition a card table with a scene of an English fox hunt is embellished with objects like a clock, in Los Feliz at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, through online and on-site voting. Shining a light on L.A. a shaving brush, and a perfume bottle in a critique of aspirational marketing.

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The exhibition is presented by 2012 Major support is provided by the Annenberg Foundation; the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs; Fundación Jumex, A.C.; Kayne Foundation—Ric & Suzanne Kayne and Jenni, Maggie & Saree; The Mohn Family Foundation; and the members of the Hammer Circle.

The Venice Beach Biennial is made possible by the Teiger Foundation.

Generous support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts; the Bloom Family; Gail and Stanley Hollander; Linda and Jerry Janger; Dori Peterman Mostov and Charles Mostov; Karyn Kohl; Heidi and Erik Murkoff; Julie and Barry Smooke; Amy Adelson and Dean Valentine; The Fran and Ray Stark Foundation; and an anonymous donor.

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CONTEMPLATIVE ART VIEWING WILD UP RESIDENCY Saturday, June 9, 1-2:15PM Ongoing through December Mindfulness educator Mitra Manesh leads a 75-minute wild Up, the Hammer’s first orchestra-in-residence, is an mindful art-viewing experience of the Armand Hammer L.A.-based 24-member experimental ensemble that mixes Collection. This contemplative session is designed to deepen classical works, new compositions, and indie music, seeking the art exploration experience, creating an opportunity to reconceptualize the role of an orchestra in its community. for art, artist, and self to be considered anew. Their insightful programming changes the experience of the classical concert, while vibrant performances and interactive FREE MADE IN L.A. 2012 iPHONE APP YEARBOOK SIGNING PARTY installations around the museum demonstrate their philosophy Made in L.A. Soundmap is a site-specific mobile audio experience designed for use while traveling to, from, and Saturday, June 23, 1-4PM of “radical-inclusionism”—audience members are invited to in between the three biennial venues in Culver City, Los Feliz, and Westwood. Made in L.A. Soundmap explores If you had your portrait taken for the Hammer Yearbook experience the performances as they see fit and no music is Los Angeles as the context for the exhibition through interviews with Made in L.A. 2012 artists and curators. In a or you’re curious about a year in the life of the Hammer, off limits. From July to December stop by to find out what’s first-of-its kind usage of geolocative technologies, audio segments from these interviews are placed throughout a city we invite you to join us for a yearbook signing party possible when an orchestra takes on a museum. map, with each location relating specifically to the segment content. Audio segments play automatically as the app replete with food, drinks, music, and of course, yearbooks! user moves through the city, responding to the user’s specific location. In between segments, music curated by the Harrell Fletcher and Adam Moser’s Public Engagement wild Up launches its residency on Saturday, July 21 at 3pm local collective Dublab creates a soundtrack for one’s journey through L.A. Made in L.A. Soundmap is a free iPhone app project—Yearbook—is an artist book that captures a year with WEST, the first of three large-scale concerts. WEST explores available in the iTunes store. at the museum in the vernacular of a high school yearbook. the west coast’s vast sonic landscape through , Participants in the project, including Hammer artists, jazz, noise, indie-rock, and the avant garde. public program participants, and staff will be on hand to autograph books and enjoy a festive afternoon with visitors in the courtyard.

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UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS talks

LUNCHTIME ART TALKS art exhibitions FROM THE STUDIO

THE CREATION OF GUSTAVE MOREAU’S SALOMÉ Lunchtime Art Talks take place every Wednesday at 12:30PM. The Hammer’s curatorial department September 16 – December 9, 2012

leads free and insightful 15-minute discussions 1

1 The Hammer presents an exhibition of a selection of paintings, drawings, and preparatory about works of art currently on view or from studies for Gustave Moreau’s Salome Dancing before Herod, one of the most important museum collections. *Speaker and well-known paintings in the Museum’s collection. The exhibition will include May 30 June 6 June 13 approximately 50 works from the collection of the Gustave Moreau Museum in Paris, Rebecca Morales D’Ette Nogle Mary Cassatt Untitled (dividing caps), 2006 displayed together with the Hammer’s painting. These related works from the Moreau Meditation Bell for Museum, 2012 Heads of Two Young Women, *Emily Gonzalez *Elizabeth Cline 1896–99 Museum include variant paintings and compositional studies, as well as individual studies *Cynthia Burlingham for the various figures, architecture, and decorative elements included in the Hammer’s painting. The Hammer is the sole American venue for the exhibition. The exhibition is organized by Cynthia Burlingham, deputy director of curatorial affairs, Hammer Museum; in collaboration with the Gustave Moreau Museum, Paris.

ZARINA PAPER LIKE SKIN September 30 – December 30, 2012 Zarina: Paper Like Skin is the first retrospective of the Indian-born American artistZarina , featuring approximately 60 works dating from 1961 to the present. Paper is central to Zarina’s practice, both as a surface to print on and as a material with its own properties June 20 June 27 July 11 and history. Works in the exhibition include woodcuts as well as three-dimensional July 18 July 25 Cornelis Cort Dan Finsel Meleko Mokgosi Fiona Connor Jill Spector casts in paper pulp. Zarina’s vocabulary is minimal yet rich in associations with her Dialectica from the The Space between You Pax Afrikaner: Satisfaction of Installation in Made in L.A., We Dance Like Sculpture #1, life and the themes of displacement and exile. The concept of home—whether personal, Seven Liberal Arts, 1565 and Me, 2012 Sensation, 2011 2012 2012 *David Rodes *Ali Subotnick *Brooke Hodge geographic, national, spiritual, or familial—resonates throughout her oeuvre. *Elizabeth Cline *Corrina Peipon Organized by Allegra Pesenti, curator, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts.

GRAPHIC DESIGN NOW IN PRODUCTION September 30, 2012 – January 6, 2013 Featuring work produced since 2000, Graphic Design: Now in Production explores design-driven magazines, newspapers, books, posters, and branding programs, showcasing recent developments in the field, such as the entrepreneurial nature of designer-produced goods; the renaissance in digital typeface design; the storytelling ZARINA, DIVIDING LINE, 2001 (DETAIL). potential of titling sequences for film and television; and the transformation of raw WOODCUT PRINTED IN BLACK ON data into compelling information narratives. Organized by the Walker Art Center and HANDMADE NEPALESE PAPER. August 1 August 8 August 15 August 22 August 29 COLLECTION UCLA GRUNWALD CENTER Kathryn Andrews Robert Smithson Koki Tanaka Liz Glynn Jay De Feo the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, the Hammer’s presentation is organized FOR THE GRAPHIC ARTS, HAMMER Installation in Made in L.A., Torn photograph from the second Installation for Made in L.A., Installation for Made in L.A., Untitled, 1973 MUSEUM. PURCHASED WITH FUNDS FROM by Brooke Hodge, director, exhibitions management and publications. THE FRIENDS OF THE GRAPHIC ARTS. 2012 stop (rubble): Second mountain 2012 2012 *Allegra Pesenti *Anne Ellegood of 6 stops on a section, 1970 *Emily Gonzalez *Ellen Donnelly *Ellen Donnelly 1 presents 10 Made inL.A.Music Celebrating Thursdays, June28–August9,7PM MADE INL.A.MUSIC Sweet hour. SetandaGuinnesshappy the by beginat4pm. Festivities read Comeearly to aloudfromseasoned actors. Organized by face. to Evening Telegraph the of offices Dublinnewspaper issetinthe celebration Aeolus from chapter his classic novel ofthe presentation fast-paced isunleashedinthis James Joyce’s comedicpathos Saturday, June16,7:30PM BLOOMSDAY AT THEHAMMER in L.A.2012 bike messenger thriller and watch runway, the bicycle outBespoke downcheck Spokes, stuff your strut reflector crafts, GoldBalloonSprints,make inthe bike; your race with Pose afree for portrait bicyclistic! all things somefriendsandpedalonover celebrating anevening for Grab Thursday, June7,7:30PM AT THE HAMMER! FOURTH ANNUAL BIKENIGHT HAMMER PRESENTS residence in the Hammer’s outdoor courtyard, selecting setsinspired by Hammer’soutdoorcourtyard, residence inthe the ideaof the created inourcity. Seethe Generous support for MadeinL.A.MusicisprovidedGenerous support by AquaHydrate. biennial exhibition! Guest hosted by artist artist by hosted biennialexhibition!Guest Made inL.A.2012 Made inL.A. , where Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus almost meet face , where meetface LeopoldBloomandStephen Dedalusalmost . Thursday evenings this summer, this evenings . Thursday KCRW up DJstake PHOTOS: ADAMRINDY. BICYCLE PORTRAITS FROMTHEHAMMER’STHIRDANNUAL BIKENIGHTAPRIL14,2011. andprograms. of exhibitionrelated-performances Please seethe MORE FREEPROGRAMS! Stanley Breitbard and representing the wide array ofmusic and representing widearray the , the Hammerand , the Quicksilver Made inL.A.2012 Made inL.A.2012 Ulysses , this program features a stellar cast of cast program features astellar , this . The Hammer’s third annual Bloomsday annual . Bloomsday The Hammer’s third . Free Hammer’s the admissionto Ulysses, KCRW 89.9FM Lisa AnneAuerbach insert for details. for insert insert for a full schedule afullschedule for insert enjoy live Irishmusic

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12 22 Sun 11am Family Flicks Film Series (p. 20) 21 Tue 7:30pm Made in L.A.: The Artist Theater Program (see insert) 13

CALENDAR My Friend Flicka Curated by Erika Vogt Public programs are made possible by Hammer Members and the generosity of Susan Bay Nimoy 12pm Sunday Afternoons for Kids (p. 20) and Leonard Nimoy; Bronya and Andrew Galef; Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley; 22 Wed 7:30pm Made in L.A. Films and Conversation (see insert) The Problem with Perfection and an anonymous donor. Zackary Drucker w/Flawless Sabrina & 24 Tue 7:30pm Hammer Forum (p. 17) Holly Woodlawn Drones and Robotic Warfare 23 Thu 7:30pm Hammer Screenings (p. 19) calendar calendar

The War Room 28 Thu 7pm Hammer Bash! (see insert) 26 Thu 7pm Made in L.A. Music (see insert) JUNE Made in L.A. Music with KCRW’s Jason Bentley KCRW DJ Anthony Valdez 28 Tue 7:30pm Hammer Screenings (p. 19) 5 Tue 7:30pm Hammer Lectures (p. 14) Spin 7:30pm Made in L.A. performance (see insert) 7pm Made in L.A. performance (see insert)

1 Thom Mayne: Culture Now Scott Benzel Simone Forti 29 Wed 7:30 Hammer Screenings (p. 19) 1 6 Wed 7:30pm Hammer Readings: Poetry (p. 16) Journeys with George 30 Sat 7:30pm Dance Camera West (p. 18) 31 Tue 7:30pm Hammer Presents (p. 11) UCLA Award-Winning Poets Going Somewhere Reckoning With Torture 30 Thu 7:30 Hammer Screenings (p.19) 7 Thu 7:30pm Hammer Presents (p. 10) …So Goes the Nation Bike Night! JULY August varies Made in L.A. performance (see insert) varies Made in L.A. performance (see insert) Zac Monday Zac Monday 5 Thu 7pm Made in L.A. Music (see insert) KCRW DJ Chuck P 1 Wed 7:30pm Hammer Screenings (p. 18) 9 Sat 1pm Public Engagement (p. 7) Black Thorns in the Black Box varies Made in L.A. performance (see insert) Contemplative Art Viewing Zac Monday 2 Thu 7pm Made in L.A. Music (see insert) 14 Thu 7:30pm Made in L.A. performance (see insert) KCRW DJ Jeremy Sole MADE IN L.A. TOURS 8 Sun 3pm Hammer Conversations (p. 15) Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle Sanford Biggers & Marcus Samuelsson varies Made in L.A. performance (see insert) Zac Monday Public tours of Made in L.A. 2012 at the Hammer Museum: 16 Sat 7:30pm Hammer Presents (p. 10) 9 Mon 10am Hammer Kids: Ragan Art Academy (p. 20) Thursdays at 6:45PM (museum admission is free on Thursdays) Bloomsday Intro Life Drawing Course (through July 12) 5 Sun 2pm Made in L.A. performance (see insert) Koki Tanaka Saturdays at 2PM (this tour is free with museum admission) 17 Sun 11am Family Flicks Film Series (p. 20) 10 Tue 7:30pm Made in L.A. performance (see insert) Back to the Future 2:30pm Made in L.A. performance (see insert) To schedule a private group tour of Made in L.A. at the Hammer Ashley Hunt Koki Tanaka Museum, please visit hammer.ucla.edu/visit or call 310-443-7041. 12pm Sunday Afternoons for Kids (p. 20) World Builders 11 Wed 7:30pm Hammer Readings (p. 16) 3:30pm Made in L.A. performance (see insert) Literary Death Match Nzuji De Magalhães Public tours of Made in L.A. 2012 at the Los Angeles 19 Tue 7:30pm Hammer Screenings (p. 18) We are Wisconsin! 12 Thu 7pm Made in L.A. Music (see insert) 7 Tue 7:30pm Hammer Presents (p. 11) Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park (LAMAG): KCRW DJ Anne Litt Flux Film Series Tuesdays at 7PM 21 Thu 7:30pm Hammer Forum (p. 17) The Future of Health Care 15 Sun 3pm Hammer Conversations (p. 15) 9 Thu 7pm Made in L.A. Music (see insert) Saturdays at 1PM Malek Jandali & KCRW DJ Valida Admission is always free at LAMAG. For more information 22 Fri 7:30pm Made in L.A. performance (see insert) please call 323-644-6269. Scott Benzel 16 Mon 7:30pm Hammer Presents (p. 11) 12 Sun 11am Family Flicks Film Series (p. 20) Malek Jandali in Concert The Incredible Mr. Limpet 8pm Made in L.A. performance (see insert) Math Bass 17 Tue 7:30pm Hammer Presents (p. 11) 12pm Sunday Afternoons for Kids (p. 20) Open Projector Night School’s Out, But Books Are In varies Made in L.A. performance (see insert) MADE IN L.A. CURATOR Zac Monday 18 Wed 7:30pm Hammer Reading (p.16) 3:30pm Made in L.A. performance (see insert) WALKTHROUGHS PEN Center USA: Emerging Voices Nzuji De Magalhães 23 Sat 1pm Public Engagement (p. 7) Yearbook Signing Party 19 Thu 7pm Made in L.A. Music (see insert) 14 Tue 7:30 Hammer Screenings (p. 19) Made in L.A. 2012 curators will lead exhibition walkthroughs KCRW DJ Chris Douridas Primary 24 Sun 3pm Made in L.A. performance (see insert) focusing on select works. Math Bass varies Made in L.A. performance (see insert) 16 Thu 7pm Made in L.A. performance (see insert) Sunday, June 24, 2PM with Malik Gaines Zac Monday Simone Forti 26 Tue 7:30pm Zócalo at the Hammer (p. 14) Sunday, July 8, 2PM with Cesar Garcia 7:30pm Hammer Forum (p. 17) Michael Lind 20 Fri 7:30pm Hammer Screenings (p. 18) Sunday, July 22, 2PM with Anne Ellegood Sneak Preview: Ruby Sparks Capitalism in Crisis: Makers vs. Takers 27 Wed 7:30pm Hammer Readings: New American Writing (p. 16) varies Made in L.A. performance (see insert) Exhibition walkthroughs are free with museum admission. Wayne Koestenbaum 21 Sat 3pm Public Engagement (p. 7) Zac Monday wild Up Concert: WEST 14 ZÓCALO AT 15

HAMMER THE HAMMER This vibrant series of programs CONVERSATIONS HAMMER LECTURES features thinkers and doers speaking on some of the most pressing topics lectures

of the day. For more information, please visit zocalopublicsquare.org. SANFORD BIGGERS &

MARCUS SAMUELSSON conversations

1 Can Old Government Catch Up sunday, July 8, 3PM to the New Economy? Sanford Biggers is an installation, video, and Tuesday, June 26, 7:30pm performance artist whose work has been exhibited Today, the United States finds itself worldwide. Biggers has won several awards including the 1 in a precarious economic place, mired Creative Capital Project Grant, a New York Percent for in decline and surpassed by other the Arts Commission, and a New York Foundation for the nations. Michael Lind, author of Land Arts Award in performance art/multidisciplinary work. He of Promise: An Economic History of the is Assistant Professor at ’s School of United States, argues that the biggest the Visual Arts. Marcus Samuelsson is an award-winning problem is one we’ve faced before—a chef, author, and food activist. Samuelsson is noted for mismatch between new industries and defeating 21 fellow chefs on Bravo’s Top Chef Masters, old political institutions. To solve it winning $115,000 for the UNICEF Tap Project. His books will require political renewal. But are include Aquavit and the New Scandinavian Cuisine, The we up to the task? Lind visits Zócalo Soul of a New Cuisine, and New American Table. to discuss how—or if—the United States can regain its eminence. MALEK JANDALI & MONA SIMPSON sunday, July 15, 3PM Syrian musician Malek Jandali and his cousin, award-winning writer Mona Simpson (who is half-Syrian) will discuss the uprising in and how their heritage informs their creative work. Jandali is an acclaimed pianist and considered to be among the most versatile and creative musicians in the Arab world. In 2011 he was THOM MAYNE: CULTURE NOW the recipient of the Freedom of Expression award for Tuesday, June 5, 7:30PM his song “Watani Ana (I am my Homeland),” as well Culture Now (CN) is a new research hub founded by Pritzker Prize-winner and as his activism in the movement. Simpson is UCLA Distinguished Professor Thom Mayne, one of the world’s leading architects, the author of Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, A Regular with urbanist Karen Lohrmann and UCLA Architecture and Urban Design. Focused Guy, Off Keck Road, and most recently My Hollywood. She is on connecting academic research to real-world professional practice, Culture Now a professor of English at UCLA.

seeks to integrate public policy and urban studies with contemporary culture. See also Hammer Presents: Malek Jandali in Concert page 11 Mayne presents the results of CN’s first major study of midsize American cities as they struggle to recover from the current economic crisis.

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HAMMER READINGS

NEW AMERICAN WRITING forum LITERARY DEATH MATCH readings This series of contemporary fiction and poetry readings Wednesday, July 11, 7:30PM

is organized by Benjamin Weissman, author of two books Literary Death Match brings together four authors to read their

of short fiction, most recently Headless, and professor of most electric writing before a panel of all-star judges, who take 1 creative writing at Art Center College of Design and Otis turns spouting hilarious, off-the-wall commentary in the categories 1 College of Art and Design. of literary merit, performance, and intangibles before selecting a favorite to advance to the finals. The two finalists then compete WAYNE KOESTENBAUM for the Literary Death Match crown. Hosted byTodd Zuniga. Wednesday, June 27, 7:30PM Wayne Koestenbaum’s books include Jackie Under My Skin: Interpreting an Icon; ; The Queen’s Throat, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism; and POETRY Humiliation, a meditation on one of the most disquieting of This series of readings is organized and hosted byStephen Yenser, human experiences. A graduate of Harvard and Princeton, he poet and professor at UCLA and author of A Boundless HAMMER FORUM is a distinguished professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Field: American Poetry at Large and Blue Guide. This ongoing series of timely, thought-provoking events addresses current social and political issues. Center and also a visiting professor in the painting department UCLA AWARD-WINNING POETS Hammer Forum is made possible, in part, by Bronya and Andrew Galef. of the Yale School of Art. Wednesday, June 6, 7:30PM This series is made possible, in part, with support from For over a decade, the Poetry Series has concluded its Bronya and Andrew Galef. THE FUTURE OF DRONES AND CAPITALISM IN CRISIS: annual offerings at the end of the academic year with a HEALTH CARE ROBOTIC WARFARE MAKERS VS. TAKERS reading by several UCLA students whose work has won awards in contests sponsored either by the Department Thursday, June 21, 7:30PM Tuesday, July 24, 7:30PM Thursday, August 16, 7:30PM PEN CENTER USA In anticipation of a ruling in The Pentagon recently announced As the growing financial sector of English or by a statewide consortium of universities. EMERGING VOICES June by the Supreme Court on the plans to reduce U.S. troop levels while approaches 50% of our economy, Wednesday, July 18, 7:30PM Sponsored by the UCLA Department of English and Friends of English. constitutionality of the Affordable expanding its global fleet of drones. many business leaders and economists Emerging Voices is a literary fellowship program that aims Health Care Act, public policy expert and Joining us to discuss the civilian use worry that instead of creating wealth to provide new writers, who lack access, with the tools professor of sociology and public affairs of drones and the technological, policy through products and jobs, we are they will need to launch a professional writing career. at Princeton University Paul Starr and ethical issues of robotic warfare extracting wealth and concentrating The recipients of the 2012 Emerging Voices fellowships joins us to offer his analysis. Starr are Eric Johnson, one of the country’s it at the top. William Lazonick, the are Jonathan Alfi, Amanda Fletcher, Rayne Gasper, received the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for leading experts in the development director of the Center for Industrial Nathan Go, Chelsea Hodson, and Sacha Howells. Nonfiction for his bookThe Social and operation of UAVs (unmanned Competitiveness and president of the Join us for a final reading as they celebrate the Transformation of American Medicine. aerial vehicles); Patrick Lin, director Academic-Industry Research Network completion of their program. For more information, He was a senior adviser on the Clinton of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences joins us along with the Silicon Valley please visit www.penusa.org. health plan, and his most recent Group at California Polytechnic State philanthropist and venture capitalist book is Remedy and Reaction: University and a former ethics fellow Andy Rappaport to discuss ways to The Peculiar American Struggle over at the US Naval Academy; and UCLA’s revitalize our economy and create jobs Health Care Reform. John Villasenor, a senior fellow in that sustain and broaden our prosperity. Governance Studies at the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution.

Hammer Forum is moderated by Ian Masters, journalist, author, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, and host of the radio programsBackground Briefing, Sundays at 11AM, and The Daily Briefing, Monday through Thursday at 5PM, on KPFK 90.7 FM. 2012 EMERGING VOICES FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS: NATHAN GO, AMANDA FLETCHER, SACHA HOWELLS, CHELSEA HODSON, JONATHAN ALFI, AND RAYNE GASPER. PHOTO: CASEY CURRY. 19 18

HAMMER SCREENINGS ELECTION FILMS In anticipation of the 2012 presidential election UCLA FILM & screenings screenings

in November, the Hammer presents a series of documentaries, each offering an enlightening TELEVISION ARCHIVE perspective on the political campaign process. The Billy Wilder Theater is also the home of the UCLA 1 1 Film & Television Archive’s renowned cinémathèque. PRIMARY Tuesday, August 14, 7:30pm SUMMER HIGHLIGHTS Focusing on the 1960 Democratic Party presidential primary, this groundbreaking documentary follows UNIVERSAL PICTURES: John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey as they crisscross CELEBRATING 100 YEARS Wisconsin, each trying to convince voters that he is the one JUNE 2012 who can beat Richard Nixon. (1960, Dir. R. Drew, 60 min.) UCLA Film & Television Archive is pleased to mark the THE WAR ROOM centennial of Universal Pictures, a leader and innovator thursday, august 23, 7:30pm among American motion picture studios. The Archive will James Carville, George Stephanopoulos, and Bill Clinton sample from a century’s worth of classics and rarities from strategize how to beat George H.W. Bush in the 1992 Universal’s legendary catalog, many presented in new prints. WE ARE WISCONSIN! SNEAK PREVIEW RUBY SPARKS presidential election despite numerous setbacks. The lineup includes such titles as Frankenstein (1931), Jaws Tuesday, june 19, 7:30pm Friday, July 20, 7:30PM (1993, Dirs. C. Hegedus, D. A. Pennebaker, 96 min.) (1975), Winchester ’73 (1950), Imitation of Life (1934), Documenting the public outcry against Wisconsin governor Filmed in part at the Hammer, Ruby Sparks is a new film by and The Birds (1963). Scott Walker’s controversial 2011 budget-repair bill, directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Little Miss SPIN Presented by American Express. Special thanks: Universal Pictures. We Are Wisconsin! focuses on the human story behind a Sunshine) starring Paul Dano as Calvin, a young novelist who TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 7:30PM remarkable popular uprising forged on the floor of the achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now Using unauthorized satellite footage, filmmaker Madison Capitol. The film asks the question “why should Brian Springer captures alarming behind-the-scenes UCLA Film & Television Archive and struggling with both his writing and romantic life. He makes The Andrew J. Kuehn Jr. Foundation present maneuverings of politicians and newscasters—who we care about what’s going on in Wisconsin?” through an a breakthrough when he creates a character named Ruby NQC @ 20: REVISITING NEW QUEER CINEMA in-depth profile of six protesters—a UW-Madison student presume they’re off camera—during the 1992 who serves as his muse, but things start to get weird when JUNE – DECEMBER 2012 leader, a county social worker, a nurse, a high school Calvin finds Ruby (Zoe Kazan), in the flesh, sitting on his presidential election. (1995, Dir. B. Springer, 57 min.) Throughout 2012, the archive celebrates the 20th anniversary teacher, a police officer, and a union electrician. couch. A Q&A with Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris will JOURNEYS WITH GEORGE of the provocative and hotly debated grouping of films (2012, Dir. A. Williams, 90 min.) follow the screening. (2012, Dirs. V. Faris and J. Dayton) WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 7:30PM known as New Queer Cinema, which depicted LGBT lives in This intimate and amusing portrait of life on the 2000 BLACK THORNS IN THE BLACK BOX transgressive terms and beautiful forms. On Sunday, June 3, GOING SOMEWHERE presidential campaign trail depicts a young, carefree wednesday, august 1, 7:30pm the archive will screen Christopher Munch’s renowned The Saturday, June 30, 7:30PM George W. Bush prior to the election recount controversy Hours and Times (1991), a reimagined historic encounter Co-presented with Dance Camera West Organized according to the medieval typology of and the 9/11 attacks. (2003, Dirs. A. Pelosi, A. Lubarsky, 79 min.) between John Lennon and Beatles manager Brian Epstein, Going Somewhere illustrates the passion and contagious music—musica mundana, musica humana, and musica with the director present. creativity of British choreographer Wayne McGregor. Renowned instrumentalis—this film and video program explores how …SO GOES THE NATION for his groundbreaking collaborations across dance and the mystic obscurity of black metal music has permeated thursday, august 30, 7:30pm film, he is the artistic director of Wayne McGregor/Random all known spheres of creation. Curated by Amelia Ishmael Concentrating on the battleground state of Ohio, this film For admission information, a complete schedule, or to learn more follows John Kerry and George W. Bush in the months about the archive’s screenings of new works and treasured classics, Dance and Resident Choreographer for the Royal Ballet. and Bryan Wendorf. (Total running time approx. 120 min.) please visit cinema.ucla.edu or call 310-206-3456. Learn more at dancecamerawest.org. leading up to the 2004 presidential election. (2006, Dirs.

See also Flux Film Series and Open Projector Night Page 11 A. Del Deo, J. Stern, 90 min.) (France, 2011, dir. C. Maximoff, 80 min.) ABOVE, LEFT–RIGHT: PHOTO: STILL FROM WE ARE WISCONSIN (2012); STILL FROM THE BIRDS (1963). 20 1 21

SPOTLIGHT: HAMMER MEMBER SUNDAY AFTERNOONS FOR KIDS KAREN COMEGYS-WORTZ, SANTA MONICA membership

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1 The Hammer’s free collaborative workshops, presented with 826LA, are designed for groups of up to 20 the Hammer Museum have teamed up for a HAMMER MEMBER SINCE 2000 students. Reservations are encouraged. matinee screening series of new and classic Please visit workshops.826LA.org or call 310-305-8418. family-friendly films from around the world. WORLD BUILDERS 1 BACK TO THE FUTURE Sunday, June 17, 12-2PM Laura Sils: What inspired your interest in the arts? Sunday, June 17, 11AM Recommended for ages 8–13 Recommended for ages 8+ Lurking just beyond the edges of real life are the Karen Comegys-Wortz: A date took me to the Art and Technology Michael J. Fox stars as a teenager foundations for fantastic worlds and fantasy literature. exhibition at LACMA in 1969. It was a one-of-a-kind show. who is accidentally sent back to Teacher and writer Michelle Suzanne Snyder helps As a kindergarten teacher, I would save my money to travel during 1955, where he must fix the course of students discover and create these worlds. the summers. In 1972 I went to Europe. Friends put together a history and get back to the present HAMMER list of all the museums in every place I was visiting. The Louisiana with the help of an eccentric scientist THE PROBLEM WITH PERFECTION Museum, outside of Copenhagen, and a small contemporary and his time-traveling DeLorean. Sunday, July 22, 12-2PM PATRONS museum in Stockholm were highlights. I came home and decided (1985, Dir: Robert Zemeckis, 35mm, color, 116 min.) Recommended for ages 8–13 In July, our Hammer Patrons will enjoy a private to take a class at UCLA about art in L.A. taught by an artist, Sadly, perfect societies with rainbows and unicorns (or ash clouds and zombies) studio visit with Made in L.A. 2012 artists Martha Alf. The next thing I knew I was working part-time at the MY FRIEND FLICKA tend to not last long. In this workshop, writer and curator Sarah Brin helps Lisa Williamson and Alex Olson led by Hammer Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, a new artists’ space in Sunday, July 22, 11AM students create fictional utopias and explore why it’s so difficult to keep curators Anne Ellegood and Ali Subotnick. For Century City. I was hooked! Recommended for ages 6+ everyone happy all the time. more information on how to JOIN the Hammer Considered irresponsible by his rancher Patrons or inquire about membership benefits, visit LS: Why is the Hammer important to you? father, young Ken dreams of having his SCHOOL’S OUT, BUT BOOKS ARE IN our website at hammer.ucla.edu/support/membership KCW: The Hammer shows a variety of artists, known and unknown, own horse. Ultimately entrusted with Sunday, August 12, 12-2PM or call 310-443-7050. young and old, national and international. I appreciate how a chestnut filly he names Flicka, Ken Recommended for ages 10–14 they scout L.A. for new and interesting talent. It is a great is put to the test. (1943, Dir: Harold D. Summer goes by much too fast. At this workshop, students are encouraged to CORPORATE place to discover artists. I am always interested in the Projects Schuster, 35mm, color, 89 min.) keep a little bit of it forever, by writing and creating short books about their and the Lobby Wall. It is exciting to see what the Hammer is doing. summertime adventures. Led by Emily Twombly, fine artist and ’zine maker. THE INCREDIBLE MR. LIMPET PARTNERS LS: You recently joined us for a member day trip to San Diego Become a Corporate Partner of the Hammer Museum Sunday, August 12, 11AM RAGAN ART ACADEMY to tour a few of the Pacific Standard Time exhibitions in the Recommended for ages 6+ today and enjoy an integrated experience at one of INTRODUCTORY LIFE DRAWING COURSE area. Did you enjoy the experience and spending the day with Don Knotts is Henry Limpet, a the leading cultural art institutions on the West Coast. July 9—12, 10am-12pm other museum members? bookkeeper whose wish to become Partners enjoy a wide range of customized benefits Recommended for ages 12–17 KCW: I loved the tour! The Phenomenal exhibition at the Museum a fish miraculously comes true.(1964, including free admission for employees, invitations to Barnsdall Arts offers a special four-session Ragan Art Academy course at the Dir: Arthur Lubin, 35mm, color, 99 min.) exclusive Director’s Receptions, guest passes for company of Contemporary Art San Diego was just that and a great walk Hammer—life drawing inspired by the Hammer’s collection. Ragan Art Academy clients, and the opportunity to host parties and events down memory lane. The PST design show at the Mingei Museum is supported by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the Family Flicks is co-presented with the in the Hammer’s many spectacular spaces. To create was a nice surprise. The tour was beautifully organized, and all UCLA Film & Television Archive. Stolaroff Family Foundation. For more information, please visit barnsdallarts.org. your custom partnership package today, please of the participants were friendly and interesting. To register, please contact Quan Trang, director, at [email protected] or 310-817-9605. contact the Events Department at 310-443-7065 or Enrollment is limited to 20 students, and there is a refundable registration fee of $25. Family Flicks is made possible, in part, [email protected]. To see more of our interview with Karen Comegys-Wortz and other conversations through the generosity of supporters and with Hammer Members, please visit the museum store to purchase your copy friends of the Hammer Museum’s Kids’ of the Hammer Yearbook. For more information on the project, see page 7. Hammer Kids is made possible through the generosity of K.A.M.P. (Kids’ Art Museum Project) Art Museum Project (K.A.M.P.). Additional supporters and friends. K.A.M.P. is an annual family fundraiser. support is provided by the Westwood Neighborhood Council. ABOVE: ILLUSTRATION BY JULIA LUKE. OPPOSITE, ABOVE: KAREN COMEGYS-WORTZ. WWW.HAMMER.UCLA.EDU 22 23

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