Hammer Blog

I moved to Los Angeles in 2002, initially it was going to be a 6 months stay to complete the final works for my first sole exhibition here… I got hung up on the place without any hesitation.

Now in its ninth year, JazzPOP brings some of the most singular voices in West Coast jazz to the Hammer courtyard for concerts that embrace sound and song, groove and grunge, and feature original music grounded in indie rock, chamber music, and jazz improvisation.

black panthers
black flag
blade runner, ridley scott
killer of sheep, charles burnett
the minutemen
the things you see when you don't have a grenade, daniel j. martinez

When we set out to make an educational guide for Made in L.A. 2014, we knew we had a challenge ahead of us. With over 100 works by 35 artists and collectives taking over the entire museum (literally), we dared ourselves to make a guide to allow visitors of all ages to engage with the dynamic range of work on view.

I came to Los Angeles to go to UCLA in 1991 and then I just stayed. There’s a lot of space here and the weather is good. My husband told me this morning that a friend of his said that California is like a squeezed out tit, and to some extent I agree with this comment, however L.A. is still a pretty rad place to live and make art.