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Collage of five diverse artworks from the Hammer Museum Collections side by side. From left to right: 1) Contemporary painting of two embracing figures with surreal elements. 2) Post-impressionist style painting of trees with vibrant blues and greens. 3) Black and white illustration of a face with intricate patterns. 4) Japanese woodblock print style image of a figure in a checkered robe. 5) Photograph of a couple dancing, the woman in a black dress and the man in white

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Craneway Event, 2009. Film Still.
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Craneway Event

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In the film Craneway Event, Tacita Dean, the “great poet of art film” (Guardian), turns her lens on the choreographer Merce Cunningham as he rehearses his dancers in an abandoned car-assembly plant in San Francisco. The result is as compelling for filmmaking aficionados as it is for fans of dance and Black Mountain College, the school where Cunningham once taught. (2009, dir. Tacita Dean, 16mm, color, 108 min.)

Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.


Support for programming related to Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957 is provided by Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer.

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