Hammer Blog

SECOND NATURE: THE VALENTINE-ADELSON COLLECTION AT THE HAMMER
On View July 19 - October 4, 2009

Second Nature: The Valentine-Adelson Collection at the Hammer is the first public presentation of sculpture from the extraordinary gift made by Dean Valentine and Amy Adelson to the Hammer Museum in 2007, when Valentine joined the Museum's Board of Overseers. The Valentine-Adelson Collection comprises more than 50 sculptures by 29 Los Angeles artists, made from 1995 to the present. The exhibition will present a selection of work from The Valentine-Adelson Collection and will be mounted in the Hammer's permanent collection galleries. This exhibition is curated by Douglas Fogle, Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at the Hammer and Ali Subotnick, curator.

Sculpture has been a vital and inventive area of artistic practice in Los Angeles for more than forty years. In particular during the last two decades a significant number

From the Los Angeles Times
James Irvine Foundation rewards the innovators
The Hammer Museum is among recipients of a new round of Arts Innovation Fund grants.
By Susan Emerling

READ THE L.A. TIMES ARTICLE HERE

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HAMMER NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: June 17, 2009
Contact: Sarah L. Stifler, Communications, 310-443-7056, sstifler@hammer.ucla.edu

Hammer Museum Awarded $1 Million Grant by
The James Irvine Foundation’s Arts Innovation Fund for Artist-Driven Programs to Engage Visitors and Activate Spaces

Los Angeles - The Hammer Museum announced today that it has received a $1 million grant from the James Irvine Foundation’s Arts Innovation Fund—one of only four major grants made state-wide from this fund. The grant is payable over four years and will enable the Hammer to create a new kind of interactive museum: an artist-driven visitor engagement and education program that encourages daily contact among visitors, artists, and Museum staff and

From Guangdong in the south of China to Dandong in the frigid northeast and finally back to Beijing before the end of the Spring Festival days of celebration were over. I landed in Beijing to the sounds of guess what? Fireworks! From my apartment perch on the 24th floor I could watch a 24-hour citywide display of the sounds and sights of every type of firework imaginable.

Nine Lives artist Lisa Anne Auerbach shares her reflections on Los Angeles, art-making and commuting by bicycle in this weekly blog.

Saddlesore
Friday, May 29

I write an occasional publication called Saddlesore, and the emphasis here is on “occasional,” since I haven’t actually thrown one out into the world in quite some time. Maybe a couple years even. But I ride all the time and the adventures never end and from time to time I think I need to write them down, but with all this blogging and art production and teaching and communing with the cats, who has the time for small publications anymore?



In case anyone’s wondering how to bring freshly baked bread with them on a bike, here’s one solution. A couple days ago I had to return a container to a friend who had too much leftover kale salad. I gladly took the kale

Anonymous, Indian (Rajasthan, Kotah), c.1800. Tiger Attacks a Boar. 4 x 5 in. UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum. Gift of Catherine Benkaim.


The Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts was recently the recipient of a generous gift of six Indian drawings from collector Catherine Benkaim. The drawings are preparatory sketches for Indian miniature paintings and range in date between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. These exquisite examples of Mughal art are rare survivals of the period, and they shed light on the techniques and drawing practice of miniaturists.
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