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Charles Ray
Conversations Readings

Charles Ray: If You Can Read This You Are Dead

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The Los Angeles-based artist Charles Ray reads a selection of ghost stories and tales to do with haunted objects in this unique program developed with Hammer curator Aram Moshayedi. Known for his enigmatic sculptures, Ray is also a UCLA Department of Art professor emeritus and his “career as an artist…is easily among the most important of the last twenty years” (Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times).

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