Hammer Blog

The chefs at AMMO are excited to share their favorite recipes with you so that you can make them at home (and of course still enjoy them when you visit the Hammer). This Rustic Apple Tart is AMMO's November dessert special, and the perfect dessert to add to your Thanksgiving spread.

Oliver Herring was born in Germany and now lives and works in New York. He is an internationally acclaimed artist who has been featured in international art magazines and exhibited in major museums and galleries around the world, such as the Museum of Modern Art and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, Aichi Triennale 2010, Nagoya, Japan, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, 10th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy, among others.

The mirror that India held up to me demanded me to reevaluate so many things, starting from very simple things like crossing the street to more complicated issues, such as my relationship to currency and money and power. Deeper still were reflections on permanence and impermanence, creation, death and life, and undamental beliefs and spirituality. There is this spectrum of experience there, from the mundane to the very heavy.

When the Hammer invited Sonnets & Sonatas to celebrate artists in World
War I, the name of Winnaretta Singer, princesse de Polignac (1865-1943),
immediately came to mind.

Enjoy coffee, tea, and other light refreshments while getting a closer look at one of the most iconoclastic photographers in American history. Join Hammer curators Cynthia Burlingham and Leslie Cozzi as they take members on an intimate tour of Robert Heinecken: Object Matter on Sunday November 16 at 10 a.m., before the Museum opens to the general public.