The Hammer Museum and Lulu restaurant will be closed to the public on Tuesday, December 24 and Wednesday, December 25.

Tours & Talks

SFMOMA Curator Sandra Phillips: Perfect Likeness Tour

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Sandra Phillips, senior curator of photography, SFMOMA, leads a walkthrough of the exhibition. Exhibition walkthroughs feature artists, scholars, and colleagues who lead tours of Hammer exhibitions, offering unique perspectives

More tours of the Perfect Likeness exhibition include:

August 13: LACMA Curator Britt Salvesen

August 20: Artist Heather Rasmussen

Sandra S. Phillips is senior curator of photography at SFMOMA where she has organized such exhibitions as History of Photography from California Collections (1989), and a 1989 retrospective of John Gutmann. Phillips has authored or coauthored numerous exhibition catalogues, including Daido Moriyama: Stray Dog (1999), Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West, 1849 to the Present (1996), and Dorothea Lange: American Photographs (1994). Her articles and essays have appeared in numerous journals, books and catalogues. Phillips received a BA in art and art history from Bard College in 1967 and an MA from Bryn Mawr College in 1969. She earned a PhD in art history in 1985 from City University of New York.

All Hammer public programs are free and made possible by a major gift from the Dream Fund at UCLA. 

Generous support is also provided by Susan Bay Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, an anonymous donor, and all Hammer members. 

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