Hammer Blog

SATURDAY, August 7th
HOUSEPLANT VACATION
1-4pm Lindbrook Terrace

Performance schedule for plants:
1-2pm - Asher Hartman will meditate with the vacationing plants to enter into their world (and possibly yours) for intuitive healing.
2-3pm - Janet Sarbanes will read stories for plants about gardens.
3-4pm - Mary Frances Spencer will offer the plants a Sound Bath with Resonant Crystal Bowls, Tibetan Singing bowls, Tuning Forks and other Tonal Instruments.


THIS WEEK IN THE LITTLE WILLIAM THEATER
1-4pm

This week in the LWT we are proud to kick off the Festival of New Music!

The Festival of New Music comprises four resident ensembles, 96 composers, 350+ new works, and over 400 concerts inside a coatroom, under the stairs in the lobby of the Hammer Museum. All works have been commissioned for this festival and are under two minutes in length. Concerts are every Saturday from August through November from 1:00

A study for "Sugar Water," on view at the Hammer through September 26, 2010.

This interview was conducted by electronic mail. Questions were composed by the Hammer’s new media associate Amanda Law. Look for more information on Eric Baudelaire's film here.

AL: How difficult was the production process? How many rehearsals and shoots?
EB: The choreography had to be planned quite carefully because the film is shot in one take. We didn’t have many actors, I think around 15, and I needed them to fill the time and the space of the film. There aren’t that many possibilities for entrances and exits on a subway platform. The rhythm and the logic of the work are set by the billposter. The choreography of the passengers and the sound of a subway off-camera are timed in cycles around his activity. Most postures and gestures are simple reenactments of real attitudes

SATURDAY, July 31st
Houseplant Vacation - Plant drop off
11am- 6pm

The Hammer invites you to give your houseplant a vacation during our August cultural retreat for plants. Throughout the entire month, participant's plants will be installed in the light flooded Lindbrook terrace, and presented with a series of readings, performances and musical events, for plants every Saturday from 1-4pm. Check back for the full schedule and for information about plant portraiture by Lisa Anne Auerbach. (Please no sick/infested plants - this is a vacation, not rehab)

Plant drop off is July 31, 11am- 6pm and pick up August 28, 11am- 6pm ONLY!

You can download the plant release waiver here and fill it out before you come to the museum or you can do this when you drop off your plant.


Micro-concerts in the Little William Theater
1-4pm

This week the Little William Theater will host Kim Free

Machine Project's Emily Lacy sings for Communications director Sarah Stifler


"I will have no regrets"


And for Allison Agsten, curator of public engagement/director of visitor services, whose birthday is on the same day.
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LOS ANGELES, CA – Ann Philbin, Director of the Hammer Museum, has announced the appointment of Brooke Hodge, effective July 19, as the Hammer’s Director of Exhibition Management and Publications.

In her new role at the Hammer, Hodge will provide management and guidance to the curatorial department, including assuming oversight of projects and administrative responsibility for the department's staff and budget. Hodge will help to oversee the Museum's ever growing exhibitions, programs and publications.

“I am delighted that Brooke is joining the Hammer team.” says Ann Philbin, Director of the Hammer Museum, “She is a colleague we have long admired and I know that her organizational prowess and many years of institutional experience will serve the Hammer well – she is a great compliment to our curatorial department.“

“I am thrilled to be joining the staff of what I think is one of the most dynamic museums