Since 2006 Butler has been The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings at The Museum of
Modern Art in New York. Butler replaces Douglas Fogle, who departed the Hammer in 2011.

“Connie is returning to L.A. after an impressive tenure at MoMA and the Hammer is thrilled to be
welcoming her back to this community—one she knows very well,” says Ann Philbin, Director of the
Hammer Museum. “Her depth of experience and range of knowledge—both in historical as well as
contemporary art—make her an ideal choice for the Hammer.”

In her new role at the Hammer, Butler will oversee the Hammer’s curatorial department—developing
and organizing exhibitions, building the Hammer Contemporary Collection, and overseeing the
Hammer’s artist residency program and artist council. Her appointment is effective July 2013.

“I have long admired Annie Philbin, her curators, and the programming at the Hammer. Los Angeles is a
great city for the production of art and the Hammer is a museum with artists at its center,” says Butler.
“It is a thrilling opportunity for any curator and I look forward to bringing my vision, both as a recent
outsider but also as someone with a long history in Los Angeles, to the museum.”

Butler is co-curating the first major Lygia Clark retrospective in the United States, which will open at
MoMA in May, 2014. She recently co-organized the exhibitions Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone
1955-1972, with the Hammer’s Allegra Pesenti, and On Line: Drawing through the Twentieth Century at
MoMA, and co-curated the survey Greater New York at MoMA PS1. She is the co-editor of Modern
Women: Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art, a groundbreaking examination of works by
modern and contemporary women artists in the Museum’s collection. She organized WACK! Art and the
Feminist Revolution for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, where she was curator from
1996 to 2006.

In addition Aram Moshayedi has been appointed as Curator in a newly created position also effective
July 2013. Since 2010 he has served as the associate curator of the Gallery at The Roy and Edna
Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), where he organized exhibitions and oversaw the production of new
works by artists The Otolith Group, Slavs and Tatars, Jordan Wolfson, Tony Cokes, Jay Chung & Q Takeki
Maeda, Ming Wong, and Geoffrey Farmer. Prior to that he was a curator at LA><ART in Los Angeles. Moshayedi has written extensively on art and film/video in numerous publications including Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly and Bidoun, for which he is also a contributing editor.

Celebrate Mother’s Day with us this Sunday, May 12. We will be offering free museum admission to all Moms and their guests.

In addition, Moms get a free mimosa orFrench press coffee with brunch at AMMO at the Hammer and15% off any single item at the Hammer Store!

We also have a  free Family Flicks screening of Winged Migration at 11AM.

Winged Migration is the thrilling documentary that transports audiences to each of the world’s continents as it follows countless birds in their natural migratory journeys. Offering scientific insights and technical wizardry, the film is truly a bird’s eye view of the spectacle of nature. (Recommended for ages 7+)

MOTHER’S DAY | SUNDAY, MAY 12, 11AM-5PM

· Free museum admission for Mom and her guests

· Brunch at AMMO includes a free mimosa or French press coffee for Mom

· 15% off any single item in the Hammer Store

· Free Family Flicks screening of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Winged Migration

We are pleased to announce that the Hammer Museum will receive a $100,000 grant from the Goldhirsh Foundation to implement our urban renewal project Arts ReStore LA: Westwood. Thank you for the overwhelming support and to everyone who made this possible. The Hammer was one of ten winners of the Goldhirsh Foundation’s My LA2050 challenge, which asked organizations across the city to address our region’s toughest challenges.

“We’re all thrilled to have received LA2050’s arts and cultural vitality grant,” said Hammer director Ann Philbin. “Now it is time to roll up our sleeves, get to work, and show how Los Angeles’ creative community can be a forceful economic driver.”

Arts ReStore LA: Westwood will tap into the thriving Los Angeles creative community to revitalize Westwood Village. On Westwood Boulevard, the main thoroughfare in the Village, and adjacent to the Hammer, nearly half of the storefronts are vacant—earning Westwood Village the highest retail vacancy rate in west Los Angeles.

Our vision is to inspire the retail property owners of Westwood to tap the extraordinary creative community of Los Angeles as a strategy to activate the Village long term. Everyone benefits if these empty spaces come alive with locally produced goods, crafts, apparel, and furniture, and the neighborhood becomes a vibrant community where consumers can buy unique, locally-made products.

LA2050 received 279 project submissions and more than 70,000 people voted to select the ten winning proposals.

As we begin to build our organizational team please send all inquiries to artsrestorela@hammer.ucla.edu.

The Hammer Museum has recently acquired a major work by John Outterbridge. Case in Point (c. 1970) is featured in the Hammer’s exhibition Now Dig This! Art & Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980. Assembled from leather and other materials and closely resembling a bag of grenades, this work communicates intense feelings about Outterbridge’s experience of being ushered to the back of a bus in 1955 despite his being in full army uniform. With Case in Point, Outterbridge confronts the all-too-common reality of racism that African Americans experienced at home after serving the country abroad in the Korean War.

Now Dig This! Art & Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980 is currently ON VIEW at MoMA PS1, New York, New York and will travel to Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown Massachusetts (July 20 - December 1, 2013).

[John Outterbridge. Case in Point, from the Rag Man Series, c. 1970. Mixed media, 12 x 12 x 24 in. (30.5 x 30.5 x 61 cm). Image courtesy of Andrew Zermeño.]

Monday, March 11 is your last chance to see Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980, at MoMA PS1 in New York.

When Now Dig This! opened at the Hammer Museum in October 2011 we launched a school outreach program that continues today. One of the first schools we welcomed was the Willows Community School in Culver City. Inspired by the exhibition,Willows Community middle school students (and budding artists) created these amazing sketches following in the tradition of Pacific Standard Time. We hope the students of New York were just as inspired.

Want to see more images? Check out our Tumblr.

Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980 was presented as part of Pacific Standard Time, a collaboration of more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California. Organized by the Hammer and curated by Columbia University professorKellie Jones, Now Dig This! chronicled and celebrated the nuanced and multicultural history of Los Angeles, and was the only Pacific Standard Time show to travel to New York.  The exhibition will travel to the Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, Massachusetts from July 20 – December 1, 2013.

Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955-1972

October 7, 2012 – January 28, 2013

On view at MoMA

A sculptor who began working during the postwar period in a classical figurative style, Alina Szapocznikow radically reconceptualized sculpture as an imprint not only of memory but also of her own body. Though her career effectively spanned less than two decades (cut short by the artist’s premature death in 1973 at age 47), Szapocznikow left behind a legacy of provocative objects that evoke Surrealism, Nouveau Réalisme, and Pop art. Her tinted polyester casts of body parts, often transformed into everyday objects like lamps or ashtrays; her poured polyurethane forms; and her elaborately constructed sculptures, which at times incorporated photographs, clothing, or car parts, all remain as wonderfully idiosyncratic and culturally resonant today as when they were first made. Spanning one of the most rich and complex periods of the 20th century, Szapocznikow’s oeuvre responds to many of the ideological and artistic developments of her time through artwork that is at once fragmented and transformative, sensual and reflective, playfully realized and politically charged.

Now Dig This: Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980

October 21, 2012 – March 11, 2013

On view at MoMA PS1

Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980 chronicles the vital legacy of the African American arts community in Los Angeles, examining a pioneering group of black artists whose work and connections with other artists of varied ethnic backgrounds helped shape the creative output of Southern California. The exhibition presents approximately 140 works by thirty-two artists active during this historical period, exploring the rising strength of the black community in Los Angeles as well as the increasing political, social, and economic power of African Americans across the nation. Several prominent black artists began their careers in the Los Angeles area, including Melvin Edwards, David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, Senga Nengudi, John Outterbridge, Noah Purifoy, and Betye Saar. Their influence, like that of all of the artists in the exhibition, goes beyond their immediate creative circles and the geography of Los Angeles and is critical to a more complete and dynamic understanding of twentieth-century American Art.

Zarina: Paper Like Skin

January 25 – April 21, 2013

On view at the Guggenheim

Zarina: Paper Like Skin is the first retrospective of the Indian-born American artist. Born in the northern Indian city of Aligarh, in 1937, Zarina Hashmi, who prefers to identify by her first name, has spent the majority of her life outside of her native country. Her largely abstract aesthetic is woven together with an acute political consciousness, originating in early recollections of Indian Independence and the 1947 partition demarcating the border between India and Pakistan, which resulted in the violent displacement and deaths of millions of people. Zarina’s oeuvre explores themes of diaspora, nostalgia, and memory.

The Hammer is participating in Printed Matter’s first annual LA Art Book Fair on Thursday, January 31 through Sunday, February 3 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Monique and Brooke from the Hammer Store will be on hand at the Hammer booth with a variety of our exhibition catalogues and other signature items. Here’s some info on the fair from Darin Klein, the Hammer’s Public Programs Associate:

Since 1991, I have been producing, promoting, distributing and collecting independent publications. One of the first public programs I brought to the Hammer back in 2007 was ‘Zineland, featuring local exhibitors, live music, a panel moderated by Aaron Rose and an ice cream truck. As a four-time exhibitor in the seven years that Printed Matter has been producing the NY Art Book Fair, I am particularly pleased that Angelenos will get a chance to experience the many facets of that fair—right here in our own city!

Over 200 exhibitors from 20 countries will exhibit and sell the most diverse range of books and printed matter that anyone could hope to find under one roof. When you visit the fair (and you WILL visit the fair) you will see much more than just the following enticing attractions: the rare (modlit, LEADAPRON); the prolific and edgy (Nieves from Switzerland); the political (visit the Friendly Fires section of Zine World, the fair within the fair); the queer-centric (Little Joe from London, Dirty Looks from NYC, JIMMY from LA, and many more); and the scrappy (Noah Lyon, Cinders, etc.).

Alongside magazines like Capricious and Frieze, and institutions like the Dia Art Foundation and Werkplaats Typografie, be prepared to see some serious exhibition action as well as artist prints of all kinds. Vitrines will display a variety of contemporary and historical publications and ephemera, but you can also grab some artwork to take home from exhibitors including artist Eve Fowler and record label/printmakers Awesome Vistas (Awesome Vistas label founder Chris Johanson and collaborator Johanna Jackson currently have a commissioned furniture installation on view at the Hammer).

A full schedule of fair related programing will take place in two separate theaters. Public engagement, lectures, performances and screenings will no doubt enrich the experience. Whether your interests lie in fine or lowbrow arts, whether your wallet is overstuffed with 100 dollar bills or you’re down to your last few bucks—or even if you just want to say you were there when the first ever Printed Matter LA Art Book Fair touched down in our fine city—you won’t want to miss this.

-Darin Klein

Public Programs Associate, Hammer Museum

Advisory Committee Member, Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair

Printed Matter’s LA ART BOOK FAIR
February 1-3, 2013
Opening: Thursday, January 31, 2013, 6–9PM
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Free and open to the public

Fritz Haeg. Domestic Integrities part A01: New York, 2012. Installation view at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo by Jack Ramunni, Mildred’s Lane.

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
Domestic Integrities part A03: Los Angeles
March 21–24, 2013

Over the course of four marathon days, the Los Angeles–based artist Fritz Haeg is working in the museum lobby with volunteers and museum visitors to crochet discarded textiles into the traveling Domestic Integrities rug. A display of edibles, medicinals, and herbals fresh from his Los Angeles garden, including offerings of produce and herbal tea infusions, is presented on the rug.

The rug of local textiles is a charged site for testing, performing, and presenting how we want to live. These spiral-stitched circular rugs gradually expand as they travel from city to city. The European edition traveled to Budapest, London, and Vienna before arriving at a yearlong installation at Pollinaria in Abruzzo, Italy. American editions started at Mildred’s Lane in Pennsylvania and the Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, coming to the Hammer from the Museum of Modern Art in New York, before continuing to the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Berkeley Art Museum.

Domestic Integrities surveys local and seasonal patterns and rituals of interior domestic landscapes, calling attention to the way that we use what we resourcefully find around us to thoughtfully make ourselves at home. Forming a plant-animal-human trilogy with Edible Estates (est. 2005), a series of front-yard food gardens, and Animal Estates (est. 2008), initiatives for urban wildlife architecture, Domestic Integrities focuses on the interior environments of humans and the ways in which local resources are digested into their dwellings.

Visitors may bring their clean discarded clothing, textiles, linens, towels, and sheets to contribute to the effort.

www.domesticintegrities.org

Hours
Thursday, March 21 11AM–8PM
Friday, March 22 11AM–8PM
Saturday, March 23 11AM–5PM
Sunday, March 24 11AM–5PM

The Hammer Museum’s Public Engagement Program is supported through a major grant from The James Irvine Foundation. Additional support is provided by Karyn Kohl.

]]> http://hammer.ucla.edu/newsblogs/?feed=rss2&p=2997 http://hammer.ucla.edu/newsblogs/?p=2971 http://hammer.ucla.edu/newsblogs/?p=2971#comments Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:58:54 +0000 admin http://hammer.ucla.edu/newsblogs/?p=2971 A new commission of custom furnishings by Los Angeles-based artists Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson is now installed on Lindbrook Terrace. These unconventional and enchanting chairs, tables, ottomans, and sofas incorporating used furniture, found wood, and colorful fabrics are available for the use of visitors. Below are photos of the artists installing their work. Visit our tumblr to see more.

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Rocco Landesman announced today that the Hammer Museum is one of 832 non-profit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art Works grant. The Hammer Museum is recommended for a $50,000 grant to support the upcoming exhibition LLYN FOULKES, on view February 3 to May 19, 2013.

The Hammer presents an extensive career retrospective devoted to the work of the groundbreaking painter and musician Llyn Foulkes (b. 1934 in Yakima, Washington). One of the most influential yet under recognized artists of his generation, Foulkes makes work that stands out for its raw, immediate, and unfiltered qualities. LLYN FOULKES is organized by Hammer curator Ali Subotnick and will travel to the New Museum in New York in June 2013 and to the Museum Kurhaus Kleve in Germany in November 2013. The exhibition will feature approximately 140 artworks, some of which have not been seen for decades. The show will explore the entire scope of the artist’s career, including early cartoons and drawings; his macabre, emotionally-charged paintings of the early 1960s; his epic rock and postcard paintings of the late 1960s and early 1970s; his “bloody head” series of mutilated figures from the late 1970s through the present; and his social commentary paintings targeting corporate America, which include his narrative tableaux that combine painting with woodworking, found materials, and thick mounds of modeling paste, seamlessly blended into the painted surface to create a remarkable illusion of depth. The show will also feature a video of Foulkes playing his Machine, a one-man instrument consisting of horns, bass, organ pipes, percussion and more.

In March 2012, the NEA received 1,509 eligible applications for Art Works requesting more than $74 million in funding. The 832 recommended NEA grants total $22.3 million, span 13 artistic disciplines and fields, and focus primarily on the creation of work and presentation of both new and existing works for the benefit of American audiences. Applications were reviewed by panels of outside experts convened by NEA staff and each project was judged on its artistic excellence and artistic merit.

For a complete listing of projects recommended for Art Works grant support, please visit the NEA website at arts.gov.

LLYN FOULKES is made possible by major gifts from Susan Steinhauser and Daniel Greenberg/The Greenberg Foundation in honor of Mickey Gribin; Kayne Foundation –Maggie Kayne; and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Generous support has also been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.

KCRW 89.9 FM is the official media sponsor of the exhibition.