Hammer Blog

The curator of "Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World" speaks out against her critics in response to the Durham controversy.

Two Hammer staff members discuss their favorite dance movies of all time.

Aguiñiga’s workshop will invite families to make what she calls "manifesto tea towels," a dynamic blend of community empowerment and textile design. The tea towels will become part of a collective artwork that will be donated to the nonprofit organization Heart of Los Angeles.

"Dream Object (I was looking at drawings of successful business men which became increasingly distorted and became a pornographic hedge…)" is a big, multi-part graphite drawing by Jim Shaw, and in Living Apart Together, it’s sandwiched between Nayland Blake’s erotic restraints piece and Barbara Smith’s “Field Piece,” a maze of objects that look a lot like giant sex toys.

Crosby’s current exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati includes Ike Ya (2016), which is part of the Hammer’s permanent collection.