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If you have been to the museum recently I am sure you Amiri Baraka. Other highlights of the season include two noticed the construction taking place in the courtyard. We additional Conversations—one with the legendary Angela Davis are very excited to see some important and long overdue and author Robin Levi, and another with writer Hilton Als message

improvements to our space finally realized. Although it and artist extrordinaire Kara Walker. a will not interrupt any of our programs and activities, the

construction will continue through the spring of 2012 and Additionally, as part of the Pacific Standard Time Performance will improve the overall look and function of the courtyard Festival, in January the Hammer will present two important spaces. We will be adding a new space—The Lab—which performances—one by the legendary Eleanor Antin, and 1 FREE SUNDAYS! will provide a much needed area for student workshops, one by Now Dig This! artists Maren Hassinger, Senga Nengudi Through January 8, 2012 seminars, and other educational and community activities. and Ulysess Jenkins (see page 16). The Hammer is offering complimentary We will also be dramatically opening up the foyer area of HAMMER NEWS museum admission for all exhibitions the Billy Wilder Theater with a glass wall looking out to Finally, as we celebrate the history of art in Los Angeles every Sunday until the closing of the courtyard. The Hammer courtyard is a public oasis for with Pacific Standard Time, the Hammer is also gearing the exhibition Now Dig This! Art the westside of the city and our goal is to make the space up to celebrate the art of the moment with our upcoming NOW DIG THIS! and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980. more welcoming, beautiful, and easier to navigate. exhibition Made in L.A. 2012. Opening the first weekend in STUDENT OUTREACH PROGRAM Bring the entire family. June 2012, Made in L.A. is a collaboration with LA>

Accompanying the exhibition is a slate of free public Ann Philbin, Director ABOVE: HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS VISITING THE MUSEUM’S PERMANENT COLLECTION. programs, including a Hammer Conversation with curator OPPOSITE, TOP–BOTTOM: RENDERINGS FOR THE NEW HAMMER EDUCATION LAB. DIRECTOR ANN PHILBIN Kellie Jones and her father, the esteemed poet and activist EXHIBITION-RELATED PROGRAMS 5 4

Sunday, December 4, 2PM Hammer Lectures You’ve Come a Long Way Baby With Barbara McCullough, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville,

Josine Ianco-Starrels, Suzanne Jackson, and exhibitions exhibitions

Bridget Cooks See page 18

Thursday, December 8, 7PM

3 1 1 Hammer Lectures race, pLAce, and bLAck L.A. With Robin D. G. Kelley, Jacqueline Stewart, Daniel Widener, and Kellie Jones See page 18

Thursday, December 15, 7PM Hammer Presents Jason Moran See page 16

3-DAY closing celebration Free admission Friday, January 6 to Sunday, January 8 NOW DIG THIS! Friday, January 6, 7pm ART & BLACK LOS ANGELES 1960–1980 Closing Weekend Kick-Off through january 8, 2012 Join artists and friends for late night art viewing, special DJ set, and cash bar. Saturday, January 7 Family Day Enjoy a fun filled day of art making activities and workshops with renowned contemporary artists. “REQUIRED VIEWING” Visit hammer.ucla.edu for details. — Los Angeles Times Sunday, January 8 “ONE OF PST’S BEST EARLY-ROUND EXHIBITIONS” Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980 has been made Closing Day — Wall Street Journal possible by major grants from the Getty Foundation. 2PM Hammer Conversations Generous support has been provided by the Henry Luce Foundation; the Amiri Baraka & Kellie Jones See page 13 This comprehensive exhibition examines the vital legacy of the city’s African American visual artists, who—through their National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; The Andy Warhol work and their connections with other artists from a variety of ethnic backgrounds—made up an important part of the Foundation for the Visual Arts, which funded a Curatorial Research Fellowship; Thursday, january 26, 7PM and The Broad Art Foundation. Additional support has been provided creative community. Including 140 works by 35 artists, many of whom are not well known to the public, Now Dig This! by the Eileen Harris Norton Foundation, The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Hammer Presents expands the art historical record, placing the work of these African American practitioners within the context of the Foundation, Ina Coleman and Alan Wilson, and V. Joy Simmons, M.D. In-kind support has been provided by InterfaceFLOR. Walking Tall movements, trends, and ideas that fueled the arts in Los Angeles during this period. Many of these artists also responded to With Maren Hassinger, Senga Nengudi, and the civil rights and Black Power movements, and their work reflects the changing sense of what constituted African American Now Dig This! is presented as part of Pacific Standard Time, a collaboration Ulysses Jenkins See page 16 identity and American culture. of more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California, coming together for six months beginning in October 2011 to tell the story of the birth of the Los Angeles art scene and how it became a new Artists featured in the exhibition include Melvin Edwards, Fred Eversley, David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, Senga Nengudi, force in the art world. John Outterbridge, Alonzo Davis, Dale Brockman Davis, Noah Purifoy, Betye Saar, and Charles White. Organized by Kellie Jones, associate professor of art history at Columbia University. NOW DIG THIS! ART AND BLACK LOS ANGELES, 1960–1980. INSTALLATION VIEW AT THE HAMMER MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES. OCTOBER 2, 2011–JANUARY 8, 2012. PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBERT WEDEMEYER. 1 exhibitions 6 Paul Amir. The exhibition isalsomade possibleby additionalsupport from AlisaandKevin RatnerandThe Audrey &Sydney Irmas CharitableFoundation. The HammerMuseum’s presentation ismadepossiblethrough amajorgiftfrom Alice and NahumLainer. Generous supportisalsoprovided by Hertaand This exhibition andtheaccompanying catalogueare generously supportedby TheAndyWarhol Foundation for theVisualArts. in collaboration withThe Museum of ModernArt,New York, andtheHammerMuseum,LosAngeles. Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955–1972 isorganized by WIELSContemporary Art Centre, Brussels, andtheMuseumof ModernArt,Warsaw, See page20 Yael BartanaandDaniGal Hammer Screenings thursday, February16,7PM See page18 of Alina Szapocznikow inand outof Time Too Earlyand Too Late:The Sculptural Dissolutions Griselda Pollock Hammer Lectures Sunday, February5,2PM RELATED PROGRAMS Alina Szapocznikow’s art. works, demonstrating the tremendous range and scopeof 50 worksonpaper, aswellapoignant group of photographic resin. The exhibition includes approximately 60sculptures and precarious assemblages of lipsand breasts castinpolyester and impermanence, from carvings inCarrara marble tothe the human body. of Szapocznikow’s artisthe ephemeral condition of lifeand yet lesserknown sculptorsof the 20thcentury. At the core oeuvre of Alina Szapocznikow, one of the most significant Polish artist.The exhibition brings tolight the extraordinary first museum surveyinthe United States devoted tothis Alina Szapocznikow: SculptureUndone, 1955–1972 February 5–April29,2012 SCULPTURE UNDONE,1955–1972 ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW

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17½ ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW/ PIOTRSTANISLAWSKI /GALERIELOEVENBRUCK, ABOVE, LEFT–RIGHT: Douglas Fogle, chief curator and deputy director of exhibitions and public programs atthe Hammer. exciting worksbynewer artists, and willcomplement the Hammer Contemporary Collection. The exhibition iscurated by postwar collection includes many exemplary worksbyseminal abstract expressionist and conceptual artists, alongside Marx Collection comprisesmore than150paintings, sculptures, and worksonpaper made by109 different artists. This first public presentation of aselection from the extraordinary gift that the Marxes have pledged tothe Hammer. The proud tobethe recipient of asubstantial promised giftfrom our longtime supportersSusanand LarryMarx. Thisisthe Major giftsbydedicated patrons haveoften been the building blocksof museum collections. The Hammer Museum is February 5–May6,2012 SUSAN AND LARRY MARX x 22¼IN.(44.5 ALINASZAPOCZNIKOW x 56.5CM).HAMMERMUSEUM, LOSANGELES.PROMISEDGIFTOFSUSAN ANDLARRY MARX. . AUTOPORTRET I ( SELF-PORTRAIT I PARIS. ©ADAGP, PARIS. PHOTOFABRICE GOUSSET. ), 1966.MARBLEANDPOLYESTER RESIN;16 COLLECTION 1 ⁄ 8 JACKSON POLLOCK

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SARA VANDERBEEK CARLOS BUNGA ANTONY ALEX HUBBARD Continues through January 8, 2012 Continues through April 22, 2012 January 22 – May 13, 2012 February 18 – May 20, 2012

Trained as a painter, Barcelona-based Portuguese artist Over the past 20 years, Antony has developed an esoteric Working with fiberglass, paint, and resin, New York-based PATRICIA ESQUIVIAS Carlos Bunga has expanded his practice to encompass and diverse body of work that includes not only his artist Alex Hubbard creates richly textured abstract works Continues through February 12, 2012 multiple mediums, including collage, drawing, performance, critically acclaimed music and elaborate performances that challenge the two-dimensional limits of the conventional sculpture, and video. In his architecturally scaled installations, but also his lesser-known work in collage, drawing, and picture plane. These large paintings engulf the viewer with Bunga uses mass-produced materials like cardboard, sculpture. Antony’s work emerges from a set of rituals such Hammer Projects is made possible with major gifts from Susan Bay bright colors and all over compositions that often include Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy and The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation. packing tape, and house paint to build structures that as washing and burning paper or engaging in repetitive assemblage elements or silk-screened imagery. Just as found recall temporary shelters or life-size maquettes. Built over mark-making as well as cutting, tearing, and sewing found Additional generous support is provided by the Los Angeles County objects appear in Hubbard’s paintings, his stockpile of a period of weeks, his largely improvised, site-specific images. Antony’s growing visual vocabulary reflects his Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission; construction and art materials, urban detritus, domestic Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley; L A Art House Foundation; sculptures are made in direct dialogue with the surrounding ideas about the power of human intuition, the sacredness Kayne Foundation—Ric & Suzanne Kayne and Jenni, Maggie & Saree; items, and even the occasional animal make their way into architecture. Bunga likens the process to making an abstract of nature, transgenderism, and the revolutionary potential the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles; and the his dynamic videos. Avoiding a single point of focus, Hubbard David Teiger Curatorial Travel Fund. painting in three dimensions. Hammer Projects: Carlos Bunga of the feminine. The exhibition will feature collages constructs his videos in layers in a process analogous to his includes a new work made on-site for the Lobby Wall as well and drawings made from the late 1990s to 2011, some ABOVE, LEFT–RIGHT: HAMMER PROJECTS: SARA VANDERBEEK. INSTALLATION VIEW painting technique. His elaborate Foley sound tracks add a as a selection of Bunga’s drawings, paintings, sculptures, and of which were recently published in Swanlights, a book AT THE HAMMER MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES. SEPTEMBER 10, 2011–JANUARY 8, 2012. delightful and provocative dimension to these adventurous PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRIAN FORREST. CARLOS BUNGA. UNTITLED MODEL #1, 2002. videos dating from 2002 to 2008 on view in the Lobby Gallery. accompanying the 2010 Antony and the Johnsons album. 1 13 3 CARDBOARD, PACKING TAPE, AND PAINT. 9 ⁄16 x 9 ⁄16 x 13 ⁄4 IN. (23 x 25 x 35 CM). visual narratives that explore the construction, composition, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND GALERÍA ELBA BENÍTEZ, MADRID. ANTONY. XMAS 1922, Organized by Corrina Peipon, Hammer curatorial associate. Organized by guest curator James Elaine. 2010 (DETAIL). INK AND PAINT ON PRINTED PAGE. 9 x 7¾ IN. (22.1 x 18.9 CM). COURTESY color, and depth of images. Hammer Projects: Alex Hubbard OF THE ARTIST. ALEX HUBBARD. UNTITLED, 2011 (DETAIL). ACRYLIC, ENAMEL PAINT, is his first one-person museum exhibition. Organized by RESIN, AND FIBERGLASS ON CANVAS. 84 x 62 IN. (213.4 X 157.5 CM) COURTESY OF

THE ARTIST AND MACCARONE, NEW YORK. Corrina Peipon, Hammer curatorial associate.

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PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT The Hammer Museum's Public Engagement program is supported through a major grant from The James Irvine Foundation.

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this winter Last spring artist Lisa Anne Auerbach trained as a Hammer security guard to gain insight on the role of guards at the museum. She subsequently worked shifts 1

in the galleries that informed her Public Engagement project, United We Stand. public

For her subtle intervention, Auerbach replaced the guards’ standard blazers with a new set of blazers, tailored for each guard and bearing a slogan on the back related to standing. She homed in on standing as she found it to be a definitive 1 element of her experience as a guard, physically taxing and particular to the guards’ job at the museum. The phrases were selected by the guards and transferred onto the garments in their own handwriting. Hammer guards will wear the blazers by Auerbach throughout the museum this winter.

CONTEMPLATIVE ART VIEWING saturday, December 3, 1PM HAMMER COLLECTIONS Mindfulness educator Mitra Manesh will lead a one-hour mindful art-viewing experience of the Armand Hammer Collection. This contemplative session RECENT ACQUISITIONS FROM SELECTIONS FROM THE is designed to deepen the experience of art exploration by focusing on THE GRUNWALD CENTER HAMMER CONTEMPORARY the suspension of judgment and creating an opportunity for art, artist, FOR THE GRAPHIC ARTS COLLECTION and self to be considered anew. Continues through January 22, 2012 Continues through January 22, 2012 In 1956 Los Angeles collector Fred Grunwald made an In 2005 the Hammer launched an exciting initiative to HARRELL FLETCHER AND THE EMERGENCE extraordinary gift of more than 5,000 works on paper build a collection of contemporary art through both OF ART AND SOCIAL PRACTICE to establish the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at purchases and gifts. Acknowledging the breadth of wednesday, February 22, 7PM UCLA. Today the center’s collection has grown to more mediums engaged by contemporary artists, this growing Hammer Public Engagement artist Harrell Fletcher has worked collaboratively than 45,000 prints, drawings, photographs, and artists’ collection encompasses works in drawing, film, painting, and individually on a variety of socially engaged, interdisciplinary projects for books, dating from the Renaissance to the present. This photography, sculpture, and video. While the Hammer over a decade. His projects include The American War, a traveling exhibition, exhibition includes a selection of works acquired by the Contemporary Collection has focused particular attention and Learning to Love You More, a participatory website and book co-created Grunwald Center during the past five years. They range on artists from Southern California, it is also dedicated to with Miranda July. Fletcher’s current project with collaborator Adam Moser will from a vibrant 16th century engraving by Renaissance the acquisition of works by artists throughout the United document a year at the Hammer in the vernacular of a high school yearbook. artist Hieronymus Wierix to a large-scale aquatint from States and internationally. In this installment from our Until the end of March, when visitors come to the museum they may have their 2010 by artist Julie Mehretu. Other artists represented in series of exhibitions featuring works from the collection, portraits taken at the Front Desk to be included in the Yearbook. Visitor photos the exhibition include Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Enrico Castellani, the Hammer is proud to present several significant recent will be posted on www.hammeryearbook.com. Vija Celmins, Robert Gober, Robert Heinecken, and acquisitions, including Glenn Kaino’s Untitled (Ricky Jay)(2010),

Kara Walker. Organized by Cynthia Burlingham director; Siobhan Liddell’s Ordinary Magic (2010), and Nancy Rubins’s OPPOSITE ABOVE, LEFT–RIGHT: HIERONYMUS WIERIX. MADONNA AND CHILD ON A CRESCENT MOON (DETAIL), ENGRAVING. and Allegra Pesenti, curator, UCLA Grunwald Center for monumental Drawing (1975–2010). Organized by Ann Philbin, COLLECTION UCLA GRUNWALD CENTER FOR THE GRAPHIC ARTS, HAMMER MUSEUM. PURCHASED WITH FUNDS PROVIDED BY THE FRIENDS OF THE GRAPHIC ARTS. PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBERT WEDEMEYER. GLENN KAINO. UNTITLED (RICKY JAY), 2010. PLAYING the Graphic Arts. director, and Corrina Peipon, curatorial associate. CARDS. DIMENSIONS VARIABLE. HAMMER MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES. GIFT OF THE ARTIST AND LA>

This Place, Not of It:Narratives from Women’s ANGELA DAVIS and Abolition Democracy:BeyondPrisons, ; ROBIN LEVI Are PrisonsObsolete? AMIRIBARAKA AngelaDavis , HILTON ALS , AND KELLIE JONES (PHOTO:HILTON ALS), hasbeenone of Robin Levi .

Also onDecember11, HammerScreenings: Videosby Kara Walker, seepage20. the museum’s Hammer Projects series in1999. the Hammer. in Walker wasalsothefeatured firstartist tobe Minneapolis, before traveling toseveral venues, including Oppressor, MyLove exhibition in numerous exhibitions worldwide. In2007the major survey and violence through silhouetted figures. Her workhasappeared known for her candid investigation of race, gender, sexuality, Veneklasen Werner Gallery inBerlin.Artist University. In2010he co-curated 2000 and hastaught atSmithCollege, Wesleyan, and Yale received aGuggenheim fellowshipfor creative writing in the author of Hilton Als Sunday, December11,2PM HILTON ALS&KARA WALKER isatheater critic for the Kara Walker: MyComplement,Enemy, My Women premiered atthe Walker ArtCenter, and Justin Bond/JackieCurtis Self-Consciousness New Yorker Kara Walker and . He at the is is In conjunctionwiththe exhibition Dutchman Arts, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and anObie Award for hisplay Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment of the received numerous honors including fellowshipsfrom the criticism. The former Poet Laureate of New Jersey, he has 40 booksof essays, poems, drama, and music history and and numerous catalogues. Baraka isthe author of more than appeared in Archaeology atColumbia University. Her writings have associate professor inthe Department of ArtHistoryand on artmaking throughout different generations. Jones is Contemporary Art collaboration on Jones’s book poet, playwright, and activist Now DigThis! Sunday, January8,2PM AMIRI BARAKA &KELLIE JONES (1963).Abook signing willfollow the conversation. NKA curator , , which investigates various perspectives Artforum Kellie Jones Now DigThis!ArtandBlackLos Angeles1960–1980 , Flash Art Amiri Baraka EyeMinded: and her father— , Atlantica

Living and Writing Living andWriting —discuss their —discuss their , Third Text, renowned

. Washington BailedOutWall StreetbutLeftMain Underwater Investments, Taub's latest bookis consumer protection. Aformer VPand counsel for Fidelity on corporate social responsibility, shareholders' rights, and Law School professor joins ustodiscusscorporate greed. Joining her is Vermont Workers Plunder andProfitfromtheNest Eggsof American Schultz Ellen the world, Pulitzer Prize-winning With demonstrations against corporations erupting around Wednesday, February8,7pm SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY CORPORATE POWER AND movement Collar Economy is the author of the create jobs, and restore America’s democracy. Jones, who World,” Jones willpresent his10-point plantofixthe economy, One of who find the American dream increasingly unattainable. solution-oriented movement torebuild America for the 99% Former WhiteHouse adviser Tuesday, January24,7PM REBUILDING THEDREAMFOR THE 99% Hammer Forum ismadepossible, inpart,by Bronya andAndrew Galef. addresses current social and political issues. This ongoing series of timely, thought-provoking events HAMMER FORUM on KPFK90.7 FM. Sundays at11AM, and documentary filmmaker, and host of the radio programs Hammer Forumismoderated by Time

and related protests willaffectthe 2012elections. magazine’s “100Most Influential People inthe , author of , willalsoaddress how the OccupyWall Street The DailyBriefing, Jennifer Taub New York Times Retirement Heist: How Companies How Companies Retirement Heist: Ian Masters Van Jones Monday through Thursday at5PM, Wall StreetJournal , whose research focuses The GreatBetrayal:How , journalist, author, screenwriter, best-seller willdiscusshisnew

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CALENDAR Ticketing Public programs are made possible by Hammer Members and the generosity of Bronya and Andrew Galef, Free tickets are required for program entry and are available from the Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, and an anonymous donor. Billy Wilder Theater Box Office. One ticket per person. Hammer Members MINDFUL are entitled to priority seating for all public programs subject to availability. This does not guarantee seating, and we recommend all attendees calendar calendar

arrive at least a half hour early for programs they wish to attend. AWARENESS

HAMMER MUSEUM HAMMER MEMBERS GROUP TOURS OF HAMMER EXHIBITIONS every thursday 12:30pm PROGRAMS ARE FREE RECEIVE PRIORITY WITH UCLA STUDENT EDUCATORS ARE TO THE PUBLIC. SEATING AT PROGRAMS. AVAILABLE THURSDAYS AT 6:15PM. 1 1 Mindful Awareness is the moment-by-moment process of actively and openly observing one’s physical, mental, and emotional experiences. Mindfulness has scientific december January February support as a means to reduce stress, improve attention, boost the immune system, reduce emotional reactivity, 6 Fri 7pm Closing Weekend Kick-Off (p. 5) 1 Wed 7pm Hammer Readings: New American Writing (p. 19) 1 Thu 11am–6pm Hammer Screenings (p. 20) and promote a general sense of health and well-being. Untitled (World AIDS Day) Now Dig This! Samantha Hunt & Ben Marcus 7pm Hammer Conversations (p. 12) 7 Sat Free Family Day (p. 5) 2 Thu 7pm UCLA Department of Art Lectures (p. 17) The free weekly drop-in sessions take place in the Angela Davis & Robin Levi Now Dig This! Mari Eastman comfortable seats of the Billy Wilder Theater and are open to all who are interested in learning how to live 3 Sat 1pm Public Engagement (p. 11) 8 Sun 11am Family Flicks Film Series (p. 21) 5 Sun 2pm Hammer Lectures (p. 18) Contemplative Art Viewing Babies Griselda Pollock more presently in life. No special clothing is required, and participants are welcome to stay for 5 minutes or 2pm Hammer Conversations (p. 13) 4 Sun 12pm Sunday Afternoons for Kids (p. 22) 8 Wed 7pm Hammer Forum (p. 13) enjoy the entire 30-minute session.

826LA DIY Holiday Concert Amiri Baraka & Kellie Jones Corporate Power and Social Responsibility

2pm Hammer Lectures (p. 18) Sessions are led by instructors from the UCLA Mindful 12 Thu 7pm UCLA Department of Art Lectures (p. 17) 9 Thu 7pm Hammer Readings: Poetry (p. 19) You’ve Come a Long Way Baby Jeff Wall Sarah Lindsay Awareness Research Center. Visit www.marc.ucla.edu to learn more. 8 Thu 7pm Hammer Lectures (p. 18) 19 Thu 7pm Hammer Presents (p. 16) 12 Sun 11am Family Flicks Film Series (p. 21) race, pLAce, and bLAck L.A. Dale Radio Live! Jason and the Argonauts 11 Sun 11am Family Flicks Film Series (p. 21) 22 Sun 12pm Sunday Afternoons for Kids (p. 22) 12pm Sunday Afternoons for Kids (p. 22) Meet Me in St. Louis Tabletop Moviemaking with iPads, Time Travel through Movement iPods, and iPhones Exploration—Blast Off! 11am–2pm Hammer Screenings (p. 20) Videos by Kara Walker 24 Tue 7pm Hammer Forum (p. 13) 14 Tue 8pm Hammer Presents (p. 17) 2pm Hammer Conversations (p. 12) Rebuilding the Dream for the 99% Dirty Looks: Long Distance Love Affairs Hilton Als & Kara Walker 26 Thu 7pm Hammer Presents (p. 16) 16 Thu 7pm Hammer Screenings (p. 20) 3–5pm Hammer Screenings (p. 20) Walking Tall Yael Bartana and Dani Gal Videos by Kara Walker 29 Sun 2pm Hammer Presents (p. 16) 22 Wed 7pm Public Engagement: Artist Talk (p. 11) 13 Tue 7pm Hammer Lectures (p. 18) Eleanor Antin’s Before the Revolution Harrell Fletcher and the Emergence of Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design Art and Social Practice 7pm Hammer Presents (p. 16) 14 Wed 7pm Hammer Readings: Some Favorite Writers (p. 19) Eleanor Antin’s Before the Revolution 23 Thu 7pm Hammer Presents (p. 17) Literary Los Angeles and the L.A. Review of Books 31 Tue 7pm Hammer Readings: Some Favorite Writers (p. 19) Sanford Biggers: Moon Medicine Edmund White 15 Thu 7pm Hammer Presents (p. 16) 29 Wed 7pm UCLA Department of Art Lectures (p. 17) Jason Moran Evan Holloway

38 1 presents 16 and onstage mixology by program willfeature livemusic bythe Mary LouMetzger of ineedtostopsoon.com and entertainment legend welcomes artistand Internet celebrity live taping of his cult-hitpodcast, Dale Seever Thursday, January19,7PM DALE RADIOLIVE! In conjunctionwiththeexhibition Pennsylvania, exploring the theme of migration and music. Guthrie Ramsey The performance willbefollowed byadiscussion with His albums include of hisgeneration, including funk,hip-hop, and rock. blues, and jazztechniqueswiththe musical influences jazz performances. Moran marries established classical, musical stylestocreate adventurous, genre-crossing composer, and bandleader who mines avariety of 2010 MacArthur Fellow Thursday, December15,7PM JASON MORAN HAMMER PRESENTS (aka , professor of music atthe University of James Bewley ( Modernistic The LawrenceWelk Show Now DigThis!ArtandBlackLosAngeles1960–1980 Jason Moran Daniel Lee , Same Mother ) returns toL.A. for a UCLA JazzEnsemble . Dale Radio isapianist, Marc Horowitz , and ). The . Dale Ten

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LEFT–RIGHT: (AKA JAMESBEWLEY), COLOR, SOUND.5:23MIN.BOTTOM,LEFT–RIGHT: BACKGROUND: jam session asitisaperformative filmscreening. The result isan evocative concert thatisasmuch content and improvised turntableism and veejaying. Samoan dance, and Buddhism withoriginal video found images of punk,funk,film noir, sci-fi, traditional His livework,byturns troubling and inspiring, weaves conducted byinterdisciplinary artist Moon Medicine Thursday, February23,7PM MOON MEDICINE SANFORD BIGGERS: screening at8pm.Adiscussion willfollow the screening. Luther Price Jonesy Deanna Erdmann Darin Klein and violent whimsy. Curated by and today. Expectobsession, permuted notions of sex, and L.A.queerexperimental filmmakers of yesterday passionately proposing the curious coupling of EastCoast inquiry, discussion, and debate. Thisprogram isa loveletter series, asalonof influences, and anopenplatform for Dirty Looks Tuesday, February14,8pm DISTANCE LOVE AFFAIRS DIRTY LOOKS: LONG , DaniLeventhal, CharlesLudlam,Narcissister, JEFF WALL JONESY , and featuring workby isaNew York-based roaming screening ,

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The Uncertainty of Objects andIdeas:RecentSculpture Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, SanFrancisco; and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Hirshhorn nothing appeared innumerous group exhibitions including, London; and the Pomona College Museum of Art.Hisworkhas Gallery, LosAngeles; Harris Lieberman, New York; the Approach, Evan Holloway wednesday, February29,7PM EVAN HOLLOWAY She isafrequent visiting lecturer inthe UCLADepartment of Art. Art, LosAngeles; Orange County Museum of Art;and the Hammer. Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; the Museum of Contemporary Munich. She hasalsoparticipated ingroup exhibitions atLos Sies +Hoeke, Düsseldorf; and Spruthand Magers Projekts, Cherry and Martin, LosAngeles; EmilyTsingou Gallery, London; Painter Thursday, February2,7PM MARI EASTMAN shown atthe Hammer in2003.He livesinVancouver, Canada. Museum of Modern Art,New York. Agroup of hisworkswas Los Angeles; Schaulager, Basel;Tate Modern, London; and the major retrospectives atthe Museum of Contemporary Art, artists working today. Hisworkhasbeenthe subjectof Jeff Wall Thursday, January12,7PM JEFF WALL the generous supportof theWilliamD.Feldman Family Endowed ArtLecture Fund. The UCLADepartmentof Art’s visitinglecture seriesismadepossiblethrough OF ART LECTURES UCLA DEPARTMENT atthe Hammer; Mari Eastman isamong the most important and influential hashadrecent solo exhibitions atMarc Foxx ’s soloexhibitions include those at Moby DickandTheWizardof Oz All of this and All of thisand

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YOU’VE COME A LONG WAY BABY* SAUL BASS: A LIFE IN FILM & DESIGN Sunday, December 4, 2PM With Pat Kirkham Pioneering artists Barbara McCullough and Sheila Levrant Tuesday, December 13, 7PM 1 de Bretteville, curator Josine Ianco-Starrels, and gallerist Saul Bass was the designer of iconic titles and posters for HAMMER READINGS 1 Suzanne Jackson gather to reflect on gender politics in art, films by Alfred Hitchcock and Otto Preminger, among others; then and now. Moderated by art historian Bridget Cooks. the creator of dynamic logos and advertising campaigns SOME FAVORITE WRITERS NEW AMERICAN WRITING In conjunction with the exhibition Now Dig This! Art and for clients such as Quaker Oats and United Airlines; and This series of readings is organized by Mona Simpson, This series of contemporary fiction and poetry readings is Black Los Angeles 1960–1980. an Academy Award winning filmmaker.Pat Kirkham, co-author author of My Hollywood, Anywhere But Here, and Off Keck organized by Benjamin Weissman, author of two books of short *Title is the subtitle of the exhibition The Sapphire Show curated by Suzanne Jackson at Gallery 32 in 1970 Road. Readings are followed by discussions with Simpson. fiction, most recentlyHeadless , and professor of creative writing at and also a slogan from an ad for Virginia Slims cigarettes at that time. with Jennifer Bass of Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design, explores the world of one of the 20th century’s most influential Art Center College of Design and Otis College of Art and Design. Enjoy complimentary coffee and tea at all Hammer readings. visual innovators. A book signing will follow the program. This series is made possible, in part, with support from Bronya and Andrew Galef. race, pLAce, and bLAck L.A. Sponsored by the UCLA Department of English and Friends of English. Thursday, December 8, 7PM SAMANTHA HUNT & BEN MARCUS LITERARY LOS ANGELES & Scholars Robin D. G. Kelley (USC/UCLA), Jacqueline Stewart GRISELDA POLLOCK wednesday, February 1, 7PM THE LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS (Northwestern University), and Daniel Widener (UCSD) Sunday, February 5, 2PM Samantha Hunt is the author of The Seas and The Invention of discuss black artists in Southern California through history, Too Early and Too Late: The Sculptural Dissolutions Wednesday, December 14, 7PM Everything Else, a novel about inventor Nikola Tesla. Hunt’s work Mona Simpson, Tom Lutz, Matthew Specktor, and Lisa and the role of geography, migration, and economics of Alina Szapocznikow in and out of Time has appeared in the New Yorker, McSweeney’s, A Public Space, Jane Persky will present a lively discussion about writing, in creating the potent mix that produced the black arts Scholar Griselda Pollock is internationally known for her Tin House, Cabinet, and Blind Spot, among others. She teaches publishing, and the emergence of Los Angeles as a true movement. Moderated by Now Dig This! curator Kellie Jones. work on feminist studies in the visual arts and cultural at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Ben Marcus is the author capital for literature. The conversation will address the theory. Her current work on art as a form of inscription of Notable American Women and The Age of Wire and String. His In conjunction with the exhibition Now Dig This! Art and and transformation of traumatic legacies will appear in the vitality and urgency of cultural criticism, the ways in which Black Los Angeles 1960–1980. awards include three Pushcart Prizes, a Whiting Writers Award, the city and its literary institutions (like the Los Angeles forthcoming After-Images/After-Effects: Trauma and Aesthetic and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Marcus is a Review of Books) offer a unique vantage for the 21st Inscription/Encryption in the Virtual Feminist Museum. professor of creative writing at Columbia University. century, and ways in which readers and writers alike In conjunction with the exhibition Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955–1972. might thrive in this new landscape. POETRY EDMUND WHITE HARRELL FLETCHER AND THE This series of readings is organized and hosted by Stephen Yenser, Tuesday, January 31, 7PM poet and professor at UCLA and author of A Boundless Field: EMERGENCE OF ART AND Edmund White is the author of many novels, including American Poetry at Large and Blue Guide. SOCIAL PRACTICE A Boy’s Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, The Wednesday, February 22, 7PM Farewell Symphony, and, most recently, Hotel de Dream. Sponsored by the UCLA Department of English and Friends of English. See page 11. His nonfiction includesCity Boy and other memoirs; The SARAH LINDSAY Flâneur, about Paris; and literary biographies and essays. Thursday, February 9, 7PM White lives in New York and teaches at Princeton. Sarah Lindsay’s books of poetry include Primate Behavior, a finalist for the National Book Award,Mount Clutter, and Twigs and Knucklebones. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, OPPOSITE BACKGROUND: SAUL BASS. MOVIE POSTER FOR NINE HOURS TO RAMA, the Georgia Review, the Kenyon Review, the Paris Review, 1963 (DETAIL). ABOVE, LEFT–RIGHT: EDMUND WHITE (PHOTO: FRANK MULLANEY), SAMANTHA HUNT (PHOTO: MARION ETTLINGER), BEN MARCUS (PHOTO: JOYCE RAVID), Parnassus, and Yale Review. She holds an MFA in creative AND SARAH LINDSAY. writing from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and is a recipient of the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize. 21 20

HAMMER SCREENINGS screenings screenings

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The UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum have teamed up for a matinee screening series of new and classic family-friendly films from around the world.

MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS Sunday, December 11, 11AM Recommended for ages 6+ In this musical slice of Americana circa 1903, Margaret O’Brien steals the show as Tootie, a pint-sized town booster who dreams UNTITLED UCLA FILM & about St. Louis’s coming World’s Fair. The always-enchanting Thursday, December 1, 11AM-6PM Judy Garland performs memorable renditions of “Have Yourself Presented in conjunction with World AIDS Day/Day With(out) Art by Visual AIDS TELEVISION ARCHIVE a Merry Little Christmas” and “The Trolley Song.” (1945, Dir. Vincente Minnelli, 35mm, color, 113 min.) Untitled presents a nonlinear montage of footage to The Billy Wilder Theater is also the home of the UCLA conjure up the passionate activism sparked by the early YAEL BARTANA & DANI GAL Film & Television Archive’s renowned cinémathèque. BABIES years of the AIDS crisis. Created by artist Jim Hodges thursday, February 16, 7PM Sunday, January 8, 11AM Recommended for ages 3+ and filmmakersCarlos Marques da Cruz and Encke King, Polish artist and Holocaust survivor Alina Szapocznikow WINTER HIGHLIGHT This beautifully produced documentary introduces us to Untitled melds together media from a multitude of sources often reflected on the ephemeral condition of human four infants in four countries, showing cultural variations in including archival activist footage, news broadcasts, life in her work. This program presents the work of two UCLA Film & Television Archive and Hugh M. Hefner Classic American child rearing along with those features of babyhood common and popular TV and film. By juxtaposing fractious scenes contemporary filmmakers who provide context to her Film Program present to us all. Facing daily trials and triumphs, these bundles of from the last few turbulent decades, Untitled presents a experiences. In Dani Gal’s Nacht und Nebel (Night and joy become scene-stealing movie stars of the first order! provocative reflection on an era when political protest Fog, 2011, 22 min.), policemen transport the ashes of SPENCER TRACY: THAT NATURAL THING (2010, Dir. Thomas Balmès, 35mm, color, 79 min.) and personal existence converged. notorious Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Yael Bartana January – February 2012 explores an imaginary world in which Polish Jews form The Archive salutes actor Spencer Tracy, whose decades-long (2011, Dir. Jim Hodges, Carlos Marques da Cruz, Encke King. 60 min) JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS a fictional Jewish Renaissance Movement in her Polish career—coming between the florid acting of the silent era Sunday, February 12, 11AM Recommended for ages 6+ Trilogy: Mary Koszmary (Nightmares, 2007, 11 min.); and the Method acting made famous two decades later— VIDEOS BY KARA WALKER Don Chaffey’s retelling of this ancient myth finds heroic Mur i Wieza˙ (Wall and Tower, 2009, 15 min.); and bridged both periods with a uniquely interiorized style and Sunday, December 11, 11AM-2PM, 3-5PM Jason sailing the world in search of the magical “golden Zamach (Assassination, 2011, 35 min). a persona that came to epitomize a new type: the morally Kara Walker has risen to international prominence for fleece.” On his quest, he must battle mystical, monstrous introspective, spiritually embattled everyman. The series visually stunning works on paper and installations that In conjunction with the exhibition Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture creatures that stand in his way, conjured by the magic Undone, 1955–1972. includes such films asThe Power and the Glory (1933, Dir. challenge conventional narratives of American history and hand of special-effects wizard Ray Harryhausen. William K. Howard, 76 min.), Adam’s Rib (1949, Dir. George the antebellum South. With biting humor, she comments (1963, Dir. Don Chaffey, 35mm, color, 104 min.) Cukor, 101 min.), and Inherit the Wind (1961, Dir. Stanley on race, slavery and liberation, sexual attraction and ABOVE, BACKGROUND: KARA WALKER. STILL FROM FALL FROM GRACE, MISS PIPI’S BLUE TALE, 2011. DVD VIDEO (COLOR, AUDIO). 17 MIN. COURTESY OF SIKKEMA JENKINS & CO. Kramer, 128 min.). exploitation, discrimination, and modernity. This program OPPOSITE, LEFT–RIGHT: STILL OF SPENCER TRACY (RIGHT) IN THE POWER AND THE GLORY Family Flicks is co-presented with the UCLA Film & Television Archive. (1933), DIRECTED BY WILLIAM K. HOWARD. THE FILM HAS BEEN RESTORED BY THE UCLA presents nine videos by Walker, including three new works. To purchase tickets or for more information about the Archive’s screenings, FILM & TELEVISION ARCHIVE. STILL FROM MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS, 1944. PHOTO: © MGM. Family Flicks is made possible, in part, through the generosity of supporters A listing of all videos is available at hammer.ucla.edu. visit cinema.ucla.edu or call (310) 206-3456. COURTESY MGM/PHOTOFEST. and friends of the Hammer Museum’s Kids’ Art Museum Project (K.A.M.P). Additional support is provided by the Westwood Neighborhood Council. 1 22 and friends. K.A.M.P. isanannual family fundraiser. generosity of K.A.M.P. (Kids’ArtMuseumProject) supporters Hammer Kidsand Family Flicks are madepossiblethrough the themselves todifferent times and places. sounds, students willdiscoverhow totransport awareness. Using writing, movement, and outer-space by employing the principles of body and movement participants travel forward and backward through time Dance specialist Sunday, February12,12-2pm EXPLORATION—BLAST OFF! TIME TRAVEL THROUGHMOVEMENT grant inDublin in 2004. developed tabletopmoviemaking whileonaFulbright and avariety of AppleiOSdevices. Instructor a short-film festivalusing a Tabletop Moviemaking kit attendees willusethe same techniques toputtogether using miniature setsand tiny characters. Workshop diorama worlds, inventing stories, and performing them Salvador Dalíand OrsonWelles spent time creating Sunday, January22,12-2pm i TABLETOP MOVIEMAKING WITH songs and animpromptu concert. The workshop willculminate inthe writing of holiday the independent LosAngeles record label with the help of 826LAvolunteers and musicians from forms and techniquessuch asrhyme, rhythm, and meter In thisworkshop, participants develop songwriting Sunday, December4,12-2pm 826LA DIYHOLIDAY CONCERT PADS,

1 i PODS, AND Cynthia Miltenberger Ages 10–14 i PHONES or call310-305-8418 of up to 20 students.Reservationsencouraged.are The Hammer’s free collaborative workshops, presented with826LA,are designed for groups SUNDAY AFTERNOONS Ages 8–13 willhelp workshop Hit CityU.S.A. Ages 7–10 Brick Maier

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We thankthe following peopleand organizations for their generous supportof the Hammer Museum from October2010to2011 Museum isabletocontinue tooffer afullslateof free public programs. Hammer’s exhibitions, program series, and special projects. Thankstothe generosity of ourdonors and members, the Hammer We are grateful tonumerous individuals, foundations, corporations, and government agencies for their crucial supportof the THANKS TO OURSUPPORTERS ANDMEMBERS L AArtHouse Foundation Katten Muchin Rosenman Foundation, Inc. Kadima Foundation Gail and Stanley Hollander David Hoberman Linda and Bob Gersh GalenFamilyFoundation Dori P. Mostov and CharlesMostov / Bronya and Andrew Galef George Freeman Forest CityEnterprises Larry Field Viveca Paulin-Ferrell and WillFerrell City of LosAngeles, Department of Cultural Affairs Christie’s E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation Barbara and Peter Benedek Bell FamilyFoundation Bank of America The Ahmanson Foundation $25,000—$49,999 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Darren Star Eva and BobShaye Alisa and Kevin Ratner Moss Foundation County ArtsCommission Supervisorsthrough the LosAngeles Los Angeles County Board of Kayne Foundation Linda and Jerry Janger GUESS? Foundation The Greenberg Foundation Susan Steinhauserand Daniel Greenberg/ Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley The Horace W. GoldsmithFoundation Gagosian Gallery Rosette Varda Delug Asher Delug Susie Crippen The Broad ArtFoundation The David Bohnett Foundation Ruth and Jake Bloom Herta and Paul Amir Amy Adelson and DeanValentine $50,000—$99,999 David Teiger Susan Smalley and Kevin Wall Carole BayerSager Anthony &Jeanne Pritzker FamilyFoundation Brenda Potter Susan BayNimoy and Leonard Nimoy Susan and LarryMarx Alice and Nahum Lainer The James Irvine Foundation Erika Glazer Getty Foundation Creative Exchange Agency Marcy Carsey The Brotman Foundation of California The Annenberg Foundation $100,000+

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GALA IN THE GARDEN

gala On September 24, 2011, artists, gallerists, collectors, philanthropists, and entertainment figures gathered at the Hammer gala Museum’s ninth annual Gala in the Garden. The Gala, which raised over $1.7 million for the Hammer’s renowned exhibitions and public programs, was held in the museum’s elegant outdoor courtyard under a lighting installation by artist Jorge Pardo. This year’s honorees were artist and UCLA faculty member Lari Pittman and cartoonist, writer, and creator of The Simpsons 1 Matt Groening. The event was co-chaired by Rosette Delug and Darren Star and featured tribute speeches by art critic 16 13 17 18 1 Christopher Knight for Pittman and actor Neil Patrick Harris for Groening. Guests dined on cuisine by Suzanne Goin of Lucques and enjoyed a special performance by Grammy winner Bruno Mars. This evening was made possible with the generous support of

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7 8 9 28 29 1) DIRECTOR ANN PHILBIN AND HONOREE MATT GROENING 2) HONOREE LARI PITTMAN AND TRIBUTE SPEAKER CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT 3) JACK BLACK, TANYA HADEN, VIVECA PAULIN-FERRELL, AND WILL FERRELL 4) GALA CHAIR ROSETTE DELUG 5) DAVID BURTKA, GALA CHAIR DARREN STAR, AND TRIBUTE SPEAKER NEIL PATRICK HARRIS 6) KATE MULLEAVY, ELLIOTT HUNDLEY, LAURA MULLEAVY, ALPHAEUS TAYLOR, CATHY OPIE 7) DANNA AND ED RUSCHA 8) CAROLE BAYER SAGER, ALANA STEWART, MARGIE PERENCHIO, JERRY MOSS, KELLY DAY 9) BROOKE KANTER AND ALISA RATNER 10) DANA DELANY 11) CHARLES GAINES AND DOUGLAS FOGLE 12) RUTH BLOOM, JAKE BLOOM, MARK CANTON, ANNA MARIA MOSTROM 13) DORI AND CHARLES MOSTOV 14) ANN PHILBIN AND STANLEY HOLLANDER 15) BRUNO MARS 16) JULIE MIYOSHI, DAVID LACHAPELLE, CARMEN SCOTT, STEVEN PRANICA 17) PETER BENEDEK AND JEREMY ZIMMER 18) SUSAN AND LEONARD NIMOY 19) JOHN AND KATHINKA TUNNEY 20) LISA LOVE 21) MARK SIEGEL, CHRISTINA SIEGEL, TIM WHALEN, SARA STEWART, JIM CUNO 22) JENNI KAYNE AND GINA GERSHON 23) ANDREW DUNLAP, GEORGE FREEMAN, THOMAS JANE 24) BRETT ROBERTS, RAYMUNDO BALTAZAAR, ANN PHILBIN, JONATHAN WEEDMAN 25) ANNELIESE SCHIERCH AND AARON BAY-SCHUCK 26) JORGE PARDO 27) BETYE SAAR AND MERRY NORRIS 28) PAUL MORRIS, BRENDA POTTER, JOHN MCILWEE 29) ERIKA GLAZER AND ALEXANDRA SHABTAI

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