Sunday Afternoons for Kids
Keith Knight
Keith Knight is the Harvey Award-winning creator of several comic strips. A regular contributor to MAD and ESPN Magazine, he covers the nuts and bolts of newspaper, magazine, and autobiographical comic strips—from thought bubbles, word balloons, and character design, to the use of odd sound effects. Not for the weak!
Hammer Screenings
Body Double
John Lautner’s homes have been the dynamic backdrop for dozens of Hollywood films, television shows, and music videos. The Hammer screens four of these films over an intensive Lautner-inspired weekend.
Hammer Presents
Brent Green
"Some of the most original animations we have seen in years."
—The New York Times
Expect a full body experience including live music, short films, and improvised narration—an evening spent on the verge of collapse with wobbly guitar, musical saw, banjo, fiddles, trumpets, accordion, drums and adamantly hand-made animations. Watch Brent Green’s films (Susa’s Red Ears, Hadacol Christmas, Paulina Hollers, Abe Lincoln, Carlin, Louisville/Gravity, and Walt Whitman’s Brain) accompanied by Brendan Canty of Fugazi, Jim Becker of Califone, Alan Scalpone of the Bitter Tears, Rodney McLaughlin, and Brent Green himself. Green has shown previously at the Sundance Film Festival and at several museums and festivals around the world.
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Lunchtime Art Talks
George Bellows's The Village Massacre and Belgian Farmyard, 1918
HAMMER Conversations
Fritz Haeg & Chip Lord
Fritz Haeg works between his architecture and design practice, Fritz Haeg Studio, the happenings and gatherings of Sundown Salon, the ecology initiatives of Gardenlab, and his role as an educator. He has taught in architecture, design, and fine art programs at CalArts, Art Center College of Design, Parsons, and the University of Southern California. Haeg’s new on-going series of projects called Animal Estates debuted at the Whitney Biennial in 2008. His first book, Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, will be followed in fall 2008 by Sundown Salon 2001–2006 In Words and Pictures. Chip Lord is a media artist who works with video and photography. As a member of Ant Farm, he produced video art classics Media Burn, The Eternal Frame and Cadillac Ranch, in Amarillo, Texas. His video work straddles documentary and experimental genres, often mixing the two, and has been shown widely at film and video festivals and in museums. He is a Professor in the Film and Digital Media Department at UC Santa Cruz, and lives in San Francisco.
Hammer Music
Tokyo Police Club & Afternoons
Making a stop during their world tour is Tokyo Police Club, four early-20-somethings from Ontario, Canada. They have performed at Coachella and Glastonbury, and made two appearances on the Late Show with David Letterman,.
Consisting of former members of the band Irving, and filling out the soundwith several new members including horns and an operatic female vocal backing, Afternoons create an enormous textured landscape upon which to float their well-written songs.
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Tomma Abts
First Day of Exhibition
Hammer Music
Graham Connah's Detention Seven
"In the 'What is jazz?' debate, divisiveness runs deep ... but with the accessible tunefulness of the straightahead and an intuitive bent for imaginative extrapolation, Graham Connah bridges the divide." —SF Weekly
Pianist, composer, and bandleader Graham Connah from San Francisco leads his propulsive band of Bay Area heavyweight musicians in a rollicking set of swinging original jazz with deep ties to prog rock and psychedelia. Connah has collaborated with eclectic jazz and rock musicians on both coasts, and has performed with musicians in the bands Camper van Beethoven, Mr. Bungle, and John Zorn’s Masada, among others.
Photo: Tina Heringer
