With a prestigious grant from the Asian Cultural Council, Hammer adjunct curator James Elaine moved to China in April 2008 to seek out emerging artists within China and throughout Asia. This blog provides a fascinating insight into Jamie’s travels and the art world in China.
In mid-November 08 I joined Ma Qingyun, Dean of the School of Architecture at USC, and his team to visit a new architectural project sponsored by Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd in Inner Mongolia known as Ordos 100.
Wang Qingsong and I traveled south together to attend the opening of the 3rd International Guangzhou Photography Biennial, which was to open on May 18 at the Guangdong Museum of Art. Guangdong is a southern province near Hong Kong and is the area westerners have always called “Canton.”
ALSO I LIKE TO ROCK
AT THE HAMMER MUSEUM
Amazing Baby, Band of Skulls, & Dazzler
Thursday, July 2, 2009
The Hammer's free concert series, Also I Like to Rock, returned to the museum last Friday with dynamic sets by L.A.'s Dazzler, Britain's Band of Skulls and Brooklyn's Amazing Baby. Photos from the Los Angeles Times. All photos by Colin Young Wolff, Special to The Times.
Frannie Whelan, Gabby Abrao and Tatiana Hormann of West L.A.
Dave Hodgins and Joe Reno
Chloe Nil and Stephanie Lia of Silver Lake
Russel Marsden, left, Matthew Hayward and Emma Richardson of the Band of Skulls from Southampton, England.
Brooklyn-based Amazing Baby are Will Roan, from left, Don Devore, Matt Abeysekera, Simon O'Connor and Doc Laaxo.
Electronic group Dazzler performs to a packed crowd at the Hammer.
Percussionist Adam Villacin sings backup vocals during Dazzler's set.
This October the Hammer Museum presents seminal comic artist R. Crumb’s adaptation of the first book of the Old Testament, the Book of Genesis. Crumb has spent the last five years on this incredibly ambitious endeavor. The exhibition features 207 individual, black-and-white drawings incorporating every word from all fifty chapters, as well as a cover, title page, introduction and back cover. Each drawing contains six to eight comic panels illustrating the stories of Adam and Eve, Noah’s Ark, Sodom and Gomorrah, and more. Using his signature bawdy style, Crumb’s version of the Book of Genesis puts an entirely new twist on the Bible. This highly anticipated project has been building momentum over the last few years and it has established a huge fan base among comic and art lovers around the world.
For nearly fifty years R. Crumb has contributed a plethora
