Museum admission is free
galleries open today until 6PM
Hammer Channel

Watch 1,000+ talks, performances, artist profiles, and more.

Go to Hammer Channel
Collections
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

See 50,000+ objects, including prints, photographs, paintings, and more.

Go to Hammer Collections

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

Digital Archive Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology
Art Renée Green, Venue
Venue, by Renée Green, 1994

Renée Green, Artist
Venue , 1994

Medium
Single-channel video, color, sound
Dimensions
30 min.
Credit Line
Courtesy of the artist and Free Agent Media. Video still courtesy of the artist and Free Agent Media (photo Pez Hejduk)

Venue documents Renée Green's monthlong conversion of the Pat Hearn Gallery in New York City into a rental space. Green advertised in the Village Voice and hired a booking agent to coordinate a series of events that took place inside the gallery, including a concert, a fashion show, and several brief art exhibitions. The resulting video reveals the interlocking economic, social, and cultural forces that unite rather than divide art and popular culture by producing and reaffirming taste within social circles. Exploiting the gallery as a frame for social activities, Green's project exemplifies the joining of institutional critique and emerging discourses of relational aesthetics in the mid-1990s.