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The HammerMuseumis pleased to offer free admission
for the second year in a row. ALL
exhibitions, collections,
and programswill be free of charge between May30 and
September 3, 2006.
MemorialDay to Labor Day
A Messagefrom the Director
The HammerMuseumopened a beautiful and evocative exhibition of the late Los
Angeles photographer John Swope's photographs of post-war Japan earlier this
spring, hailed by the LosAngelesTimesas an excellent exhibition with a beautiful
catalogue. We are pleased to now debut the major national traveling exhibition,
The Societe Anonyme:Modernismfor America,organized by Yale University Art
Gallery.This extensive exhibition offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity Io see
one of the most influential collections of modern art assembled in the early
20th century.
The founders of the Societe Anonyme-Katherine S. Dreier,MarcelDuchamp,and
Man Ray-conceived of an unprecedented artists' collaborative that organized
exhibitions and educational programsin an effort to build broader understanding
for avant-garde art. At the HammerMuseum,we have a particular affinity for their
mission as it is so similar to our goal as a cultural center and arts institution for
UCLAand the greater Los Angeles area. The exhibition-related programs capture
the culture of the 1920s through the 1940s alongside many other events outlined
in this calendar that feature the cutting edge of today.
Amongthe many exhibition and program highlights on the following pages, you'll
notice an update on the construction of the Billy Wilder Theater taking place
behind the beautifully designed construction fence by Jim Isermann, a 1dthe
announcement of our fourth annual Galain the Garden honoring John Baldessari
and Joan Didion.
The Hamme(s public programswill continue to take place in the newly reconfigured Gallery 6 until the Billy WilderTheater is completed this fall. Thanks to a
generous gift from the Annenberg Foundation, Gallery6 has been expanded, and
we are creating an additional space for audience overflowon the gallery level. I
would also Liketo thank Laura Donnelley-Morton,Bronyaand AndrewGale-f,and
ErikaGlazerfor their generous support of the Hamme(s public programs.
Topto bottom: A Letterfrom Japan:ThePhotographs
of John Swopeopening reception. GrunwaldCenter
director Cynthia Burlingham, Hammerassociate
curator CarolynPeter who organizedthe exhibition,
and Hammerdirector Ann Philbin; John Swope's
children, Tope and MarkSwope; a visitor in the
galleiy; Jeriy and GailOppenheimer and Peggyand
NormanLloyd (photos: Stefanie Keenan).
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Billy WilderTheater
The Museumhas begun construction of the 288-seat, state of-the-art BillyWilderTheater designed by MichaelMaltzan
Architecture. To be programmed jointly by the Hammer
Museumand the UCLAFilm& TelevisionArchive, the theater
will be the new home of the Archive's renowned public
screenings as well as the HammerMuseum'spublic programs.
Thetheater is scheduled to open in late 2006, the centennial
anniversary of BillyWilder'sbirth.
Please also note the return of FREESUMMER
at the HammerMuseum.Beginning
MemorialDayweekend, all exhibitions and programswill be free of charge. l hope
that you'll be able to take advantage of this offer to join us often in the coming
months.
Ann Philbin
Director
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HAMMER EXHIBITIONS
GALLERY
TALKS
JenniferGross and Susan Greenberg
Sunday, April23, 2-4pm
Exhibition walk-throughsled by the curators. Limitedto 10
people each, tours repeat as necessary.
THE Soc1ETE ANoNYME:
MODERNISM
FOR
AMERICA
April 23 - August20, 2006
The Societe Anonyme: Modernismfor America charts the development of modern
art in the early 20th century. Foundedin NewYorkin 1920 by KatherineS. Dreier,
MarcelDuchamp,and ManRayto promote contemporaryart among Americanaudiences, Societe Anonyme,Inc. was organized upon the philosophy that the story
of modern art should be chronicled and told by artists rather than historians or
academics. Foundednearly a decade before the opening of The Museumof Modern
Art, New York,the Societe Anonyme-whose name translates as Incorporated,
Inc.-fulfilled its mission by organizing morethan 80 exhibitions, hosting lectures
and other educational programs, publishing more than 40 catalogues, and amassing an exceptional collection of Europeanand Americanart dating primarilyfrom
1920 through 1940.
The exhibition draws from Yale University'sextensive collection of artworks held
by the Societe Anonyme,which was donated in the 1940s by KatherineS. Dreier
and MarcelDuchamp.The HammerMuseum'sinstallation features approximately
240 works by more than 100 artists which include Constantin Brancusi, Marcel
Duchamp,WassilyKandinsky,Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Roberto Matta, Joan Mir6,
Piet Mondrian,Pablo Picasso, ManRay,KurtSchwitters, Joseph Stella, Vincentvan
Gogh,along with lesser-knownartists who made significant contributions to modernism.
LECTURE
ChristianScheidemann
"BreedingDust: The Meaningof New
Materialsin ContemporaryArt"
Wednesday,May 10, 7pm
Christian Scheidemann is the senior conservator of Contem-
porary Conservation Limited in NewYorkand a member of
the AdvisoryCommitteefor the International Networkfor the
Conservation of ContemporaryArt Research Group America.
Scheidemannhas workedcloselywith artists MatthewBarney,
Robert Gober, Paul McCarthy,and KikiSmith.
READINGS
The Poetry of Gertrude Stein
Wednesday,May 17, 7pm
Readingsof GertrudeStein's worksby CalBedient,TerryCastle,
and Stephen Yenser.
Cal Bedient is professor of English at UCLAand the author
of several books of Literarycriticismand two books of poetry,
CandyNecklaceand The Violenceof the Morning.
Terry Castle is professor of English at Stanford University.
Her books and articles of criticism address 18th-century
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'sContemporaryPoetry 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.
YaleUniversity Art Gallery.Gift of KatherineS. Dreierto the CollectionSociete
Anonyme. <>
2006 Artists RightsSociety {ARS),NewYork/VGBild-Kunst,Bonn.
Bottom: KurtSchwitters. Carnival,1947. Collage.YaleUniversityArt Gallery.
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Far left: MarcelDuchamp.Rotoreliefs(OpticalDisks)(Play Toys),1935 (detail).
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Rights Society {ARS),NewYork/ADAGP,
Paris.
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SOCIETE
ANONYMEPROGRAMS
HAMMER EXHIBITIONS
SCREENINGS
Art of the Future
CONCERT
The Twenties:The Paris Avant-Garde
Saturday,May20, 6pm
An evening of solo and chamber compositions by LesSix and
friends, culminating in a screening of Entr'acte (1924), the
silent film directed by Rene Clair,written by FrancisPicabia,
with Livemusic composed by ErikSatie; organized by Neal
Stulberg, Visiting Directorof OrchestralStudies at UCLA
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Co-sponsored by the UCLADepartment of Music.
DISCUSSION
Incorporated,Inc.: A Museumof Modern
Art BeforeThe Museumof ModernArt
Wednesday,May24, 7pm
Discussionon the importance of the Societe Anonymeas the
first "experimental museum" for contemporary art in the
United States, organized and moderated by George Baker,
with MiwonKwon,RichardMeyer,and NancyJ. Troy.
George Baker is assistant professor of art history at UCLA,
an editor of Octobermagazine, a critic for Artforum,and is
currently preparing the book TheArtworkCaughtby the Tail:
FrancisPicabiaand Dadain Paris.
MiwonKwonis associate professor of contemporaryart history at UCLAand the author of One PlaceAfter Another:
Site-SpecificArt and LocationalIdentity.
Richard Meyer is associate professor of art history at the
University of Southern California (USC); his book Outlaw
Representation:Censorshipand Homosexualityin TwentiethCenturyAmericanArt received the CharlesC. EldredgePrize.
Nancy J. Troyis professor of modern art at USC,president of
the National Committee for the History of Art, and is currently working on a book about Piet Mondrian.
Right: Man Ray.RevolvingDoors, 1926 (detail). Ten color screen prints. Yale
UniversityArt Gallery.Gift, estate of KatherineS. Dreier. 0 2006 Man RayTrust/
Artists Rights Society (ARS),New York/ADAGP,
Paris.
Wednesday,May31, 7pm
Inspired by Katherine S. Dreier's 1931 event, "An Evening
with the Art of the Future,"this programpresents screenings
of early avant-garde films.
Manhatta,1920, dir. Paul Strand & Charles Sheeler, 11 min.
ChessFever,1925, dir. Vsevolod Pudovkin & Nikolai
Shpikovsky, 28 min.
AnemicCinema,1926, dir. Marcel Duchamp, 7 min.
Emak-Bakia,1926, dir. Man Ray, 18 min.
L'Etoilede Mer,1928, dir. Man Ray, 21 min.
SkyscraperSymphony,1929, dir. Robert Florey, 9 min.
An OpticalPoem, 1938, dir. Oskar Fischinger, 7 min.
CONCERT
Tonesin Shadow:The VienneseSocietyfor
Private MusicalPerformance(1919-24)
Saturday,July 15, 6pm
Solo and chamber worksfrom ArnoldSchoenberg'sVereinfUr
musikalischePrivat-Auffi.ihrungen,
the Viennesesalon known
for its presentations of groundbreakingmodernist repertoire.
ComposersincludeSchoenberg,AlbanBerg,AlexanderScriabin,
Claude Debussy,and KarolSzymanowski;organized by Neal
Stulberg, Visiting Directorof OrchestralStudies at UCL.A.
A Letter from Japan
The Photographs of John Swope
Through June 4, 2006
Co-sponsored by the UCLADepartment of Music.
This exhibition marks the first in-depth presentation of vintage prints and text
from the late Los Angeles photographer's 1945 journey as a Navyphotographer
through post-war Japan. Shot during a three-and-a-half-week period, the images
vividlyconveythe impact of WorldWarII on the local Japanese population as well
as on the Allied soldiers and prisoners of war. The exhibition presents over 115
vintage prints and gives insight into Swope's larger pursuit of capturing the universal human experience by also including highlights of his work as a renowned
Hollywoodphotographer and his international travels from the 1930s through
1970s.
Lecture
Anne WilkesTucker
Thursday
, May4, 7pm
Curatorof photographyat The Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston discusses
Swope'sworkin the context of the
war photography genre.
GalleryTalk
A Letter from Japan: ThePhotographsof John Swope is organized by Carolyn Peter, associate
CarolynPeter
curator of the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum.
Saturday,June 3, 2pm
Exhibitionwalk-through led by the
curator.
The exhibition is generously supported by Gail and Jerry Oppenheimer, with additional support
from Mrs. Sidney F. Brody, The Judith Rothschild Foundation, Shirlee Fonda, and Jane Wyatt.
Aboveleft: John Swope. Hamamatsu,September 6, 1945. Gelatin silver print. John Swope Collection,e John
SwopeTrust. Aboveright: John Swope.Near Tokyo,Dmori POWcamp, August 29, 1945. Gelatin silver print.
John Swope Collection. C>John SwopeTrust.
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Clockwise,from top left:
MirandaLichtenstein. Untitled#18 (flower), 2002-05.
Polaroid.CourtesyMaryGoldmanGallery,LosAngeles,and
Elizabeth Dee, NewYork.
Moniquevan Genderen. WallPaintingJar the Hammer
Museum,2006 (detail). Vinylon wall. Courtesyof the artist
and HappyLionGallery,LosAngeles;photo by Joshua White.
Elliott Hundley.Kindlingfor the GreatFire,2005 (detail).
Collagewith bamboo and string. Collectionof Andrea
Rosen, New·York;photo by Joshua White.
WaleadBeshty. Vorhalle,die Botschaftder Bundesrepublik
Irak in Berlin,DeutscheDemokratischeRepublik(DDR)
(Foyer,the Embassyof the Republicof Iraq in Berlin,German
DemocraticRepublic(GDR))2001, photo documentation, .
2001-06. Courtesyof the artist, Wallspacegallery, New
York,and ChinaArt Objects, LosAngeles.
Jesper Just. Still from No ManIs An Island II, 2004. DVD.
CourtesyPerryRubenstein Gallery,NewYork.
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HAMMERSCREENINGS
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Calendar
of events
HammerMuseumprograms
are FREEto the public
HammerMembersreceive
priority seating at programs
MAY
APRIL
23 Sun 2pm
25 Tue 7pm
26 Wed7pm
27 Thu 7pm
28 Fri 7pm
29 Sat 2pm
29 Sat 7pm
30 Sun 6pm
Listen to HammerPodcasts
at www.kcet.org/podcasts
13 Sat 2pm
Spring Festival of WorldMusic
Music of India
Symposium: On the Subject of Violence
Orlan
14 Sun 6pm
HammerReadings: NewAmericanWriting
Susan Straight & ZZ Packer
HammerForum:The Environment
Laurie David & Elizabeth Kolbert
16 Tue 7pm
HammerConversations
Jeff Garlin & Patton Oswalt
A Letterfrom Japan: Lecture
Anne Wilkes Tucker
17 Wed7pm
TheSocieteAnonyme: Readings
Cal Bedient, Terry Castle, Stephen Yenser
Spring Festival of WorldMusic
Music of the Balkans, Music of Korea
18 Thu 7pm
HammerLectures: UCLADepartment of Art
John Baldessari
TheSocieteAnonyme:GalleryTalks
Jennifer Gross & Susan Greenberg
2 Tue 7pm
Symposium:On the Subject of Violence
Kaja Silverman
3 Wed7pm
HammerLectures: UCLADepartment of Art
William Pope.L
4 Thu 7pm
HammerReadings: ContemporaryPoetry
Elizabeth Alexander
6 Sat 2pm
HammerLectures: WayOut on a Nut
Douglas Crimp
7 Sun 12pm
Spring Festival of WorldMusic
Music of China
7 Sun 6pm
HammerLectures: TheBarbarians
Terry Jones
9 Tue 7pm
HammerReadings: NewAmericanWriting
Karen Finley
10 Wed12pm Screening: On the Subject of Violence
Public programsare made possible, in part, by the
Annenberg Foundation, with additional support from
Laura Donnelley-Morton,Bronyaand AndrewGalef,
and ErikaGlazer.
HammerReadings: Sunday Afternoons
Jeremy Glatstein
20 Sat 6pm
TheSocieteAnonyme:Concert
The Twenties: The Paris Avant-Garde
HammerReadings: NewAmericanWriting
Wayne Koestenbaum & Bruce Hainley
21 Sun 6pm
HammerReadings: NewAmericanWriting
Ben Ehrenreich & Daniel Alarcon
Symposium:On the Subject of Violence
Jacqueline Rose
23 Tue 7pm
Symposium:On the Subject of Violence
Alfredo Jaar
24 Wed7pm
TheSocieteAnonyme:Discussion
George Baker, MiwonKwon, Richard Meyer,
Nancy J. Troy
25 Thu 7pm
HammerScreenings
Thrift Store Movies II
DangerousLiaison:Israel and America
10 Wed6pm
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HammerProjects: GalleryTalk
Monique van Genderen
10 Wed7pm
TheSocieteAnonyme:Lecture
Christian Scheidemann
11 Thu 7pm
HammerReadings: ContemporaryPoetry
John Hollander
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3 Sat 2pm
A Letterfrom Japan: GalleryTalk
Carolyn Peter
4 Sun 12pm
HammerReadings:Sunday Afternoons
Caryn Coleman
8 Thu 7pm
HammerReadings: ContemporaryPoetry
UCLAaward-winning student poets
10 Sat 8pm
HammerScreenings: Dance CameraWest
Beyond Dance Film
15 Thu 7pm
HammerScreenings: DanceCameraWest
The Future of Dance on Screen
Free weekly talks and tours
LunchtimeArt Talksare held every Wednesdayat 12:30pm.
These brief discussions focus on works of art on view or in
the collections. For more details, see page 19.
Join HammerMuseumeducators for free tours of special
exhibitions Tuesdaysat 1pm and Thursdaysat 1pm & 6pm.
FREESUMMER
31 Wed7pm
Opposite : Marcel Duchamp. Tu m', 1918. Oil on canvas, wit h bottle brush,
three safety pins, and one bolt. Gift from the estat e of Katherine S. Dreier.
, Paris.
2006 Artists RightsSociety (ARS), New York/ADAGP
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JUNE
TheSocieteAnonyme: Screenings
Art of the Future
MemorialDayto LaborDay
The HammerMuseumis pleased to offer free admission
for the second year in a row. All exhibitions, collections,
and programswill be free of charge between May30 and
September 3, 2006.
HAMMER LECTURES
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An ongoing series of artists' lectures organized by UCLA's
Department of Art.
The UCLADepartment of Art's visiting lecture series is made possible
through generous support of the William D. Feldman Family Endowed
Art Lecture Fund.
William Pope.L's installations and performances address
issues of race, class, and physicalendurance. Often occurring
directly on the streets of American cities, Pope.L'sproductions combine myths of black male sexual prowesswith menacing, clownish, or abject costumes and actions. He forces
his viewers to confront the often ignored problems facing
American society. Pope.L currently teaches in the theater
department at Bates College.
RenownedLos Angeles artist John Baldessari is a professor
in the UCLADepartment of Art. Knownfor conceptual work
that often intersects artistic genres and media, his recent
and upcoming retrospectives include exhibitions at Deutsche
Guggenheim Berlin, Germany; Museum Moderner Kunst
Stiftung LudwigVienna, Austria; and at the Museed'art contemporain de Nimes, France.
UCLA'sDepartment of Art presents a series of lectu es by
internationallyrenownedartists and theorists whichaddresses
the psycho-political interface of violence and de iphers
forms of representing or resisting it in the visual alits. The
series is organized by MaryKelly,professorof Art and o:ritical
Theoryin UCLA's
Department of Art.
On the Subject of Violence is sponsored by the UCLADepartment of
Art with additional support from UCLA'sCenter for the Study of
Women, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Depart"] ent of
French and Francophone Studies, the Department of Political S ence,
and the UCSanta Barbara Department of Film Studies.
Professorof rhetoric and
film at UCBerkeleyspeaks
on Gerhard Richter and the
art of analogy.
Professorof Englisha:
Queen MaryUniversits of
Londondiscusses psyc.hoanalysis, Sigmund Fre~d,
and ArnoldZweig.
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Screening of Rose's mm
DangerousLiaison:Israel
and America
Artist lectures on her
surgical performancesand
Laterworks.
Artist Lectureson The
RwandaProject,1994-·2000.
Reading from the first installment of Before Pictures, his
forthcomingmemoirof the 1970s, Crimptells the story of his
first jobs in NewYork-working for fashion designer Charles
James and at the Guggenheim Museumin 1971 when the
artist DanielBuren'sworkwas removedfrom the Guggenheim
International Exhibition. DouglasCrimpis the Fanny Knapp
Allen Professorof Art Historyat the Universityof Rochester,
New York. He is the author of Melancholiaand Moralism:
Essayson AIDSand QueerPoliticsand Onthe Museum'sRuins.
HAMMERconversations
HammerConversationspair two of today's most interesting
people for engaging and spontaneous conversations on culture, science, and the arts.
Presented in collaboration with UCLA'sDepartment of Art and
Department of Art History.
British actor, comedian, and writer TerryJones was a founding member of MontyPython. He is the author of numerous
fiction and nonfiction books on medieval history, which
include TheSagaof Erikthe Viking,TheLadyand the Squire,
and WhoMurderedChaucer?:
A MedievalMystery.Jones will
discuss his latest work, TerryJones' Barbarians,the story of
Roman history as seen from diverse perspectives that suggest the empire was more manipulativethan traditional history recorded.
Below, left to right: DouglasCrimp(photo: CatherineOpie). TerryJones.
Far right, left to right: Jeff Garlin. Patton Oswalt.
Jeff Garlin & Patton Oswalt
Tuesday
, May16, 7pm
Jeff Garlin executive produces and co-stars as LarryDavid's
loyal manager and side-kick in the HBOcomedy series Curb
YourEnthusiasm. He recently began work on The Jeff Gar/in
Program
, a sketch-comedyvariety show to be aired on TBS.
He has appeared on manytelevision shows,includingArrested
Development and MadAbout You. His solo performance, I
WantSomeoneto Eat CheeseWith,about a man's relationship
with women and with food, was recently adapted for film and
stars comedian Sarah Silverman.
Actor and comedian Patton Oswalt created, produced, and
headlined TheComediansof ComedyTour,an alternative comedy tour that was the subject of a series on ComedyCentral
and a documentary film t hat was released in 2005. He was
named EntertainmentWeekly's"It" Comedianfor 2002 and
one of ten "Comedians to Watch" by Varietyin 1999. Among
many regular film and television appearances, Oswaltis currently a regular co-host on Jimmy KimmelLiveand is filming
his seventh season on TheKingof Queens.
Far left: WilliamPope.L.Whiteroom#4, 2005. Performance
, London,Engjand.
Left: John Baldessari(photo: AnaliaSaban). Above, left to right: KajaSilverman.
Orlan (photo: Stefanie Keenan). Jacqueline Rose.AlfredoJaar.
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HAMMER READINGS
NewAmericanWriting
NewAmericanWritingis a series of contemporaryfiction and
poetry readings organized by BenjaminWeissman,author of
two books of short fiction, most recently Headless,and professor of creative writing at Art Center Collegeof Designand
Otis Collegeof Art+ Design.
This series is made possible, in part, with support from Bronya and
Andrew Galef.
KarenFinley
Sunday, May14, 6pm
Susan Straight reads from her most recent book, A Million
Nightingales, a novel about the AmericanSouth of the early
19th century. In her six novels, Straight repeatedly intersects
filial love, race, class, and violence. She has published six
novels, including HighwireMoon,and is a frequent contributor to many publications and National Public Radio's All
ThingsConsidered
.
Sunday,April30, 6pm
Karen Finleyreads from her latest work, Georgeand Martha,
which imagines a torrid affair between the president of the
United States and the first lady of domesticity, Martha
Stewart. Finley teaches art and public policy at the Tisch
School of the Arts, NewYorkUniversity.Her books include A
Different Kind of Intimacy, Enough is Enough: Weekly
Meditationsfor LivingDysfunctionally,and LivingIt Up.
ZZPackerreads from her first book, DrinkingCoffeeElsewhere,
a collection of eight short stories about the experiences of
young AfricanAmericans.Packerhas been recognized as one
of the freshest voices of her generation and is the recipient
of some of literature's most coveted honors, including a
Whiting Writers' Awardand a RonaJaffe FoundationWriters'
Award.
WayneKoestenbaum& Bruce Hainley
Ben Ehrenreich& DanielAlarcon
Sunday, May 7, 6pm
WayneKoestenbaumreads from his recently published book
of poems, Best-SellingJewish Porn Films. Koestenbaum has
written 11 books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry including
The Queen's Throat:Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery
of Desire. Koestenbaumis a professor of English, American
Studies, and Film Studies at The Graduate Center, The City
Universityof NewYork,and Visiting Professorin the painting
department of the Yale UniversitySchool of Art.
Bruce Hainley is Associate Director of Graduate Studies in
Criticismand Theoryat Art CenterCollegeof Design,an independent curator, and a contributing editor of Artforum. He
s, and
has published his workin TheNation, Frieze,Metropoli
others, and wrote Art: A Sex Book with John Waters. He is
currently working on the solo project, FoulMouth.
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Susan Straight & ZZPacker
SundayAfternoons
ContemporaryPoetry is a series of poetry readings organized
by Stephen Yenser,poet and professorof Englishat UCLA
and
author of Blue Guide(Phoenix Poets Series).
In collaboration with 826LA,the HammerMuseumcontinues
its series of workshops,for children ages 8 to 13, on creative
ways to write about and understand visual art. Space is
limited to 20 students, and reservations are required. Email
[email protected] call 310-305-8418 by the Thursdayprior
to each workshop.
Elizabeth Alexander
Thursday,April27, 7pm
This series is made possible by The Claire and Theodore Morse
Elizabeth Alexander's collections of poems include American Foundation.
Sublime, The Black Interior, and The Venus Hottentot. Her
826LA is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students
poems explore the interior lives of historical black figures, with their creative and expository writing skills and to helping
exposing emotions and experiences that strikinglyilluminate t eachers inspire their students to write.
timely public sentiments. Her work has appeared in The
Southern Review, American Poetry Review, Black American Jeremy Glatstein
LiteratureForum,and The American Voice.A 1992 recipient Sunday, May 7, 12pm
of an NEAartist grant, Alexander also reviewscontemporary Glatstein, lecturer at the Getty Center, leads a workshop on
literature for The VillageVoice.
writing original prose using found text .
John Hollander
Sunday, May21, 6pm
Ben Ehrenreichreads from his debut novel, TheSuitors,which
looselyfollowsthe story of Homer'sTheOdyssey. Ehrenreich's
workhas been publishedin TheBeliever,the LosAngelesTimes,
TheNew YorkTimes,and The VillageVoice,and his fiction has
been included in numerous anthologies.
DanielAlarconis the associate editor of the Lima-basedmagazine Etiqueta Negro. He reads from his debut book, Warby
Candlelight,a collectionoffictional stories creating a devastating portrait of the fault lines that divide nations and people.
Alarconis a distinguished visiting writer at Mills Collegein
Oakland,California. Hisfiction has been publishedin TheNew
Yorker,Harper's,and Best AmericanNonrequiredReading.
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ContemporaryPoetry
Thursday,May 11, 7pm
John Hollanderhas published 17 poetry volumes as well as
nine books of criticism, including The Workof Poetryand The
Gazer'sSpirit: PoemsSpeaking to Silent Worksof Art. He has
also edited or co-edited 22 collections, including American
Poetry:The Nineteenth Centuryand The Oxford Anthology of
EnglishLiterature. Hollanderreads from his most recent works
Poems Bewitched and Haunted, Picture Window, and
Figurehead.He is the Sterling Professor Emeritus of English
at Yale University.
Student Poetry Awards
Thursday,June 8, 7pm
Readings by award-winning UCLAstudent poets. For more
information and a full schedule visit www.hammer.ucla
.edu.
CarynColeman
Sunday,June 4, 12pm
Coleman,editor of art.blogging.la, leads a workshopon how
to publish a blog.
Above, left to right:
Karen Finley (photo: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders).
Wayne Koestenbaum.
Susan Straight (photo: " Dan Chavkin).
ZZ Packer (phot o: Marion Ettlinger).
Ben Ehrenreich (photo: Virginia Lee Hunter).
Daniel Alarcon (photo: Olivia Armenta).
Elizabeth Alexander (photo: Ficre Ghebreyesus).
John Hollander (photo: <>
J erry Bauer).
Jeremy Glatstein.
CarynColeman.
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HAMMERSCREENINGS
LunchtimeArtTalks
Wednesdaysat 12:30pm
SpringFestival
of WorldMusic
Join Hammercurators each week for
insightful, 15-minutes talks about works
of art on display and from the collections.
April 26
MarcelDuchamp's
Tum', 1918
Jesper Just's
No Man is An Island II, 2004
John Swope's
Jimmy Stewart with a model
plane, 1936
Paul Klee's
The Kingof All Insects (Der
Konigalles Ungeziefers),1922
May24
Elliot Hundley's
HammerProject, 2006
May31
Constantin Brancusi's
YellowBird, 1919
June 7
Claude Monet's
Viewof Bordighera,1884
June 14
Vincent van Gogh's
Hospitalat Saint-Remy, 1889
June 21
Danny Lyon's
Portraitof John Baldwinin
an AbandonedRoom, 1967
June 28
AlfredStieglitz's Equivalent,
Portraitof Georgia,No. 3/
Songs of the Sky (No. 2), 1923
July 5
Francis Picabia's
Midi, c. 1923-26
July 12
WassilyKandinsky's
MulticoloredCircle(Mit
Buntem Kreis), 1921
UCLA'sDepartment of Ethnomusicology and the Hammer
Museumjointly present the Spring Festival of WorldMusic.
Performedby students and faculty, this Lively series of international rhythms, sounds, and dance is free to the public.
Musicof China
Saturday,April29, 2pm
Wind and string instruments, compositions from Shanghai
and Canton province, and folk dance
Musicof the Balkans
Musicof Korea
Saturday, May 6, 2pm & 3:30pm
Bulgarianfolk songs and music; Koreancourt and folk music
and dance
Musicof India
Saturday, May 13, 2pm
NorthIndian 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.
Opposite, bottom, second from left: AlfredStieglitz, Equivalent,Portrait
of Georgia,No. 3/Songs of the Sky (No. 2), 1923 (detail). The J. Paul Getty
Museum,Los Angeles. " Estate of GeorgiaO'Keeffe.
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HAMMER COLLECTIONS
The ArmandHammerCollection
A selection of paintings and workson paper from the ArmandHammerCollect'on
is permanently on view. It provides an impressive overviewof the major mo•ements of 19th-century Frenchart, with significant examples of realism, orien~alism, the Barbizon school, impressionism, postimpressionism, pointillism, and
symbolism.Portraitureand landscape both figure prominentlyin the collectio in
addition to a small but wide-ranginggroup of Europeanold master paintings and
worksby Americanartists from the 18th to 20th centuries.
The ArmandHammerDaumier and
ContemporariesCollection
The Museumhouses an extensive collection of several thousand worksfeatu · 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'sholdings comprisemorethan 45,000 workson paper dat ng
fromthe Renaissanceto the present. A primaryresourcefor teaching and researich,
and the public by special appointment. Call310-443-7078
the Centerserves UCLA
to schedule an appointment.
Franklin D. MurphySculpture Garden
One of the most distinguished outdoor sculpture collections in the country, the
FranklinD. MurphySculpture Gardenspans morethan five acres on UCLA's
campus
with over 70 sculptures.
GroupTours
Ledby trained museumeducators, group tours can be arranged for special exh1 itions, 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 Departmentat 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:FranklinD. MurphySculptureGarden.AlexanderCalder. Button Flower,1959.
Steel and paint. The FranklinD. MurphySculptureGarden.Gift of DavidE. Bright.
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UPCOMING
EXHIBITIONS
WolfgangTillmans
September 17, 2006 - January 7, 2007
WolfgangTillmansis co-organized by the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles,
and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
The Hammer Museum's presentation is made possible, in part, by
Stanley and Gail Hollander, and Michael Rubel.
Aernout Mik:Refraction
September 17, 2006 - January 7, 2007
Aernout Mik:Refractionis part of the Three M Project-a series by the
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York to
commission, organize, and co-present new works of art . Generous
support for the series has been provided by the Peter Norton Family
Foundation and the American Center Foundation.
Aernout Mik:Refractionalso received support from the Mondriaan
Foundation, Amsterdam, and The Consulate General of The Netherlands
in New York.
Top:WolfgangTillmans. Moonrise,PuertoRico,1995. Chromogenicdevelopment
print. Courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery,New York.
Bottom: Aernout Mik.Refraction,2005 (detail). Video still. Courtesythe artist.
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