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A Conversation with Zarina
Sunday, September 30, 2pm
Join the artist Zarina and curator Allegra Pesenti for a conversation in the galleries.

Hammer Screenings: Films selected by Zarina
Zarina’s work has its roots in abstraction, but it is informed by a profound sociopolitical awareness. The artist has selected two extraordinary movies that evoke the realities of post partition India and Pakistan.

Garam Hawa (Scorching Winds)
Tuesday, October 30, 7:30pm
A Muslim businessman and his family struggle for their rights in post partition India.
(India, 1974, Dir. M. S. Sathyu, 146 min.)



Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters)
Tuesday, November 27, 7:30pm
Set in the late 1970s, Khamosh Pani follows the lives of a widowed mother and her young son as their village in Punjab, Pakistan is coming under radical influence.
(Pakistan, 2003, Dir. Sabiha Sumar, 99 min.)

Hammer Symposium
Strangers in a Strange Land: Art

Yunhee Min
For Instance, 2008
Velour, aluminum
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
Originally created for the James Gallery, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York.

Yunhee Min explores the impact of color and geometry on spatial perception in her vibrantly hued paintings and sculptures. Drawing on influences as varied as color theory, minimalism, the history of abstract painting, and architecture, Min creates immersive spaces that energize their surroundings. Originally conceived for and installed at the James Gallery at the City University of New York, For Instance was generously donated to the Hammer Museum by the university. Expanded and reconfigured for the Hammer’s Lindbrook Terrace, the work consists of drapes fabricated in various widths in a surprisingly serene palette of steely blue, muted red, warm tallow, and bright white. Designed to allow for open spaces between the panels, the curtains create planes of color that can be reconfigured into

Opening weekend for exhibitions Zarina: Paper Like Skin and Graphic Design: Now in Production.

The Hammer Museum will offer free admission to all visitors Saturday, September 29 and Sunday, September 30 during “Carmageddon II” when a portion of the 405 freeway will be closed for two days. Museum hours on Saturday and Sunday are 11am-5pm. Visit metro.net/405 for more information about 405 closures.

September 29 is the opening day for two major exhibitions at the Hammer— Zarina: Paper Like Skin and Graphic Design: Now in Production. Also, on September 30 at 2pm, the artist Zarina will be on hand for a conversation with curator Allegra Pesenti. Admission and events are free.

Zarina: Paper Like Skin
September 29 – December 30, 2012
Zarina: Paper Like Skin is the first retrospective of the Indian-born American artist Zarina, featuring approximately 60 works dating from 1961 to the present. Paper is central

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Hammer Lectures: Oscar Wilde, Sarah Bernhardt, and the Murderous Princess
With David Rodes, Director Emeritus, The Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts
Thursday, October 11, 7:30PM
The Irish writer and wit Oscar Wilde and his friend the French actress Sarah Bernhardt were two of the most famous celebrities of late 19th-century Europe. Their collaboration in the 1890s on the theatrical tragedy Salome was inspired by the shimmering painting by Gustave Moreau, but by the time the play had its premiere in Paris in 1896, Bernhardt—cast as the young princess—was over 50 and Wilde was serving a two-year sentence for sodomy in an English prison. Nevertheless, as Wilde would assert, “Legend remains victorious in spite of history,” and this program hopes to recapture the scandalous excitement of the play and its starring actress and imprisoned author.

Hammer Screenings: Sunset Boulevard
Wednesday, October 17, 7:30PM
In

Made in L.A. 2012, the Hammer’s first large-scale biennial, officially closed September 2, but if you missed the exhibition you are not entirely out of luck. Certain installations will remain up as we prepare for the installation of our upcoming exhibitions: A Strange Magic: Gustave Moreau’s Salome (opening September 16), Graphic Design: Now in Production and Zarina: Paper Like Skin (both opening September 30).

Pearl C. Hsiung’s work, From Above It Is Not Bright, From Below It Is Not Dark, located on Lindebrook Terrace will remain up through September 9, as will Mark Hagen’s piece, To Be Titled (Additive Sculpture , Los Angeles Screen) located in front of the marble staircase on the courtyard level. Also open through September 9 is David Synder’s work Me TV Located in Gallery 6.



Koki Tanaka’s Beholding Performer, Performing Beholder in the Lobby Gallery will remain open through September 16.

Morgan Fisher’s work