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The Hammer Museum will be closed on Saturday, May 17 for a private event. The museum will close at 6pm on Friday, May 16.

September 12, by Robert Gober, 2005–9

Figure It Out

On the Possibilities of Political Figuration

Julia Bryan-Wilson

Glenn O'Brien performing on the public-access cable television program "TV Party," 1981

Welcome to the TV Party

Stephen Prina, "The Second Sentence of Everything I Read Is You: Mourning Sex," 2005–7. Installation view at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

Mourning in America

"Some Aspects of a Shared Lifestyle," by Gregg Bordowitz, 1986

Cultural Interference

The Reunion of Appropriation and Institutional Critique

Love Letter #1, by Charles White, 1971

Now Dig This!

An Introduction

Big Red, by Daniel LaRue Johnson, 1964

Figuring the Future in Los(t) Angeles

Eastside-Westside, from the Containment Series, by John Outterbridge, c.1970

Rebellion and Its Aftermath

Assemblage and Film in L.A. and London

Without Your Interpretation, by Ulysses Jenkins, 1983

Los Angeles Snapshots

Unknown, by Noah Purifoy, 1967

Find the Cave, Hold the Torch

Making Art Shows Since Walter Hopps

Franklin Sirmans

John Outterbridge in his Los Angeles studio with "No Time for Jivin',"1969, at right, 1970

Black Art in L.A.

Photographs by Robert A. Nakamura

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