http://hammer.ucla.edu/xml/rss The Hammer Museum spans the classics to the cutting-edge, with historical and contemporary exhibitions alongside masterworks from its collections. 10899 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90024. Contemporary Art; Armand Hammer Collection; Grunwald Center of Graphic Arts. en Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:54:17 -0800 http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/detail/exhibition_id/169 http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/detail/exhibition_id/169
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Desirée Holman makes figurative props or effigies which she manipulates in role-play games that then take the form of drawings, sculpture, photography and video. For this exhibition, Holman presents her new project, Reborn, which questions the notion of ‘maternal instincts.’ Inspired by a subculture of women (mostly in the U.S. and Great Britain) who purchase incredibly life-like baby dolls and bathe and feed them as they would a real infant, Holman extensively researched this com... ]]> Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/318 http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/318
Step into the Billy Wilder Theater for a rare evening of 1920s entertainment. Reginald Robinson will bang out the syncopated rhythms of ragtime on the grand piano as rarely seen snippets of animation by cartoon pioneers Otto Messmer, Earl Hurd, and Walter Lantz are screened. Robinson, who is primarily self-taught and received a 2004 MacArthur Foundation “genius grant,” will play original compositions and improvisational riffs on Ragtime classics to the antics of Felix the Cat, Dinky Doodle, and Woody Wo... ]]> Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0800 http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/319 http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/319
John Knight has exhibited recently at Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (2008); Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló (2008); Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich (2008); Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin (2009); and the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2009). This fall, he will have an exhibition at Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles. He lives in Los Angeles and works in situ. ALL HAMMER PUBLIC PROGRAMS ARE FREE. Tickets are required, and are available at the Billy Wilder Theater Box Office one hou... ]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0800 http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/277 http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/277
James Galvin has published several collections of poetry, including As Is, X: Poems and Resurrection Update: Collected Poems 1975-1997, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. His honors include a Discovery/The Nation award, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers’ Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.   POETRY A series of readings organized and hosted by ... ]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0800 http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/320 http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/320
AGES 10-14 Following a brief tour of The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis, workshop attendees will write and draw their own creation stories in comic form, learning how to create powerful story-telling with comics and sequential art. Dave Kellett is the Harvey Award-nominated co-author of How to Make Webcomics, and is the cartoonist behind the daily all-ages comic strip Sheldon at SheldonComics.com. He holds two Masters degrees in the history of cartooning. HAMMER KIDS The Hammer’s col... ]]> Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0800 http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/321 http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/321
Heat Waves in a Swamp curator Robert Gober is a sculptor who has exhibited widely in both the U.S and abroad. In 2001 he was chosen to represent the United States in the 49th Venice Biennale. His other curatorial work includes The Meat Wagon at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas (2005), and Anni Albers, Robert Beck, Cady Noland, Joan Semmel, and Nancy Shaver: Black and White Photographs 1975-77 at Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (1999). Donna De Salvo is chief curator and associate director of programs ... ]]> Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:00:00 -0800 http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/322 http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/322
Frank Schaeffer, author of the New York Times best selling memoir, Crazy For God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back, joins us to discuss his fiery evangelical past. The son of theologian Francis Schaeffer, Frank came of age with the Christian right, growing up in an evangelical/fundamentalist world with Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson at the kitchen table. He eventually broke ranks with the powerful political/religious moveme... ]]> Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0800 http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/323 http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/323
The Hammer's curatorial department leads free and insightful 15-minute discussions about works of art on view at the Museum. Charles Burchfield’s Dangerous Brooding from Conventions for Abstract Thoughts 1917 Public programs are made possible, in part, by a major gift from Ann and Jerry Moss. Additional support is provided by Bronya and Andrew Galef, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, an anonymous donor, and the Hammer Programs Committee. ]]> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:30:00 -0800 http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/284 http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/284
Yiyun Li is the winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, and the Guardian First Book Award. She is the author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, which was selected for a Whiting Award, and recently The Vagrants. Li teaches at the UC Davis and lives in Oakland, California.   SOME FAVORITE WRITERS This series of readings is organized by Mona Simpson, author of Anywhere But Here and Off Keck Road. Readings are followed by discussions with Sim... ]]> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0800 http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/324 http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/324
Artist and filmmaker Sharon Lockhart is known for creating beautiful, meditative films that incorporate subtle movement and a static, photographic gaze to examine her subjects. Her new film, Double Tide, documents the work of a female clam digger in the mudflats of coastal Maine and is filmed on the rare occasion in which low tide occurs twice within daylight hours—once at dawn and once at dusk. Expanding the focus of Lockhart’s recent films Lunch Break (2008) and Exit (2008), Double Tide creates a port... ]]> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0800 http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/281 http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/281
Dylan Landis is the author of the novel-in-stories Normal People Don't Live Like This, a finalist for the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction. She has won Poets & Writers' California Exchange Award and published stories in Bomb, Tin House and Best American Nonrequired Reading. Mary Otis is the author of the story collection Yes, Yes, Cherries and her work has appeared in the Best New American Voices anthology, Los Angeles Times, Alaska Quarterly Review, Cincinnati Review, Berkeley Literary Jou... ]]> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0800 http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/325 http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/325
Co-presented with the UCLA Film & Television Archive Appropriate for ages 4+ A timeless classic that Roger Ebert has called “a treasure of a movie … one of those rare films like The Wizard of Oz,” this freewheeling musical adaptation of Dickens’ classic novel Oliver Twist has been delighting kids and their parents for over 40 years. (1968, 146 MIN., DIR. CAROL REED) FAMILY FLICKS Funded by the UCLA Arts Initiative and co-presented with the UCLA Film & Television Archive The UCL... ]]> Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:00:00 -0800 http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/327 http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/327
The Hammer's curatorial department leads free and insightful 15-minute discussions about works of art on view at the Museum. Desirée Holman’s Hammer Project 2009 Public programs are made possible, in part, by a major gift from Ann and Jerry Moss. Additional support is provided by Bronya and Andrew Galef, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, an anonymous donor, and the Hammer Programs Committee. ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:30:00 -0800 http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/detail/exhibition_id/170 http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/detail/exhibition_id/170
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Brooklyn-based artist Rob Fischer finds furniture, windows, mirrors, books, flooring, car parts, and other abandoned materials and reconfigures them to create large-scale sculptural environments that are like monuments to a forgotten past. Fischer’s use of these found materials is a commentary on the lifecycle of objects and how those discarded things will inevitably be reclaimed by nature. While his constructions contain an aura of melancholy and we feel the loss and the weight of t... ]]> Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800