The Hammer Museum Announces FREE SUMMER ADMISSION to All Exhibitions and Programs During June, July, and August 2005
Hammer Summer program highlights include outdoor film screenings, rock music, and blues performances in the Museum’s courtyard.
May 16
Los Angeles, CA—The Hammer Museum in Westwood announces free admission during the 2005 summer season. For the first time, all of the Museum’s acclaimed special exhibitions, permanent collection galleries, and dynamic public programs will be presented free of charge to all visitors from June 7 through Labor Day Weekend, September 4, 2005.
“The Hammer Museum has a popular tradition of offering its public programs free of charge, and we look forward to celebrating the 2005 summer season by inviting museum visitors into the exhibition and collection galleries for free as well,” said Hammer Director Ann Philbin. “We’ve noticed that attendance is always highest during our free Thursdays, and many people regularly enjoy the public courtyard and free programs. Completely opening the Museum for an entire season is something of an experiment, and will make some of the city’s best art and culture accessible to all Los Angeles residents and visitors.”
Hammer Summer 2005 includes exhibitions ranging from video installations by Patty Chang and Fiona Tan and a survey of photography by Stephen Shore to ongoing Hammer Projects and the permanent collection of masters including Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and Cezanne.
The Museum continues its tradition of presenting a diverse schedule of enlightening and entertaining summer programs, which include outdoor music performances and film screenings, intimate readings of contemporary fiction and poetry, and lectures and conversations on popular culture, politics, and the arts.
2005 SUMMER PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Outdoor Courtyard Events
The Museum is pleased to announce a new collaboration with the Sundance Institute, presenting Sundance Summer Shorts at the Hammer. This series of award winning short films was co-organized by the Sundance Institute and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, where it was previously shown. The Hammer Museum is the only West Coast venue for this four part series showcasing the innovation and energy in the field of short films from 2005 and past Sundance Film Festivals. Screenings will take place in the Hammer’s outdoor courtyard on consecutive Friday nights beginning July 9. From narrative to documentary to animation, the program features such directors as Spike Jonze, Andrew Jarecki, Phil Morrison, Peter Sollett, and Andrea Arnold. This series was organized by John Cooper, Director of Programming, Sundance Film Festival, Trevor Groth, Senior Programmer, Sundance Film Festival, and Jytte Jensen, Curator, Department of Film and Media at the Museum of Modern Art.
Inspired by the words of Lou Reed, Also I Like to Rock is a series of outdoor concerts showcasing up and coming rock bands from San Francisco and Los Angeles. Transforming the Hammer courtyard into a venue with a stage to rock, this three part series will be presented on consecutive Thursday nights beginning July 14 and will feature two to three bands each evening accompanied by projected images of great moments in rock film history. Bands featured are The Tints, Space Mtn, Monsters are Waiting, The Ebb & Flow, Bedroom Walls, Club Unicornio, and My Barbarian. The bands take the stage at 8pm and doors and cash bar open at 7pm. KCRW is the radio sponsor for Sundance Summer Shorts and Also I Like to Rock.
The third courtyard series is Hammer Blues, reviving the popular tradition of Hammer Jazz by presenting noteworthy performances by The King Brothers, Bobby Warren, and Café R & B on consecutive Thursdays, beginning August 4. Featuring soul, rock, funk, and gospel inspired jazz and blues, these evening are organized by KKJZ 88.1. Doors and cash bar open at 7pm; performances begin at 8pm.
Hammer Conversations
Hammer Conversations is an ongoing series of provocative dialogues on the cultures, sciences, and the arts. On July 7 at 7pm, the Museum hosts a Hammer Conversation with Miranda July and George Saunders. Miranda July is a filmmaker and a performer. Her first feature film Me and You and Everyone We Know won the Special Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and will be released in June of this year. George Saunders has written two short story collections Pastoralia and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, which is in development to become a feature film. Forthcoming, Saunders has a novella-length fable The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil and The Red Bow, which will be published in fall 2005 and fall 2006, respectively.
Hammer Forum: Women and Islam
On July 13 at 7pm, Egyptian commentator and journalist Mona Eltahawy presents a lecture on the Middle East, the state of politics, Islamic feminism, and being Muslim in post 9/11 United States followed by a discussion with the audience. Eltahawy is based in New York and writes a weekly column for Arabic-language daily newspaper Asharq al-Awsat. Before moving to the United States in 2000, Eltahawy was a news reporter in the Middle East for 10 years for Reuters News Agency. She is on the board of director of the Progressive Muslim Union of North America.
Hammer Readings: New American Writing
New American Writing is readings of contemporary fiction and poetry organized and hosted by Benjamin Weissman, author of Headless. Held on select Sunday afternoons, this series features some of the most prominent and promising authors working today including a Father’s Day Special reading with T.C. Boyle and daughter K. Kvashay-Boyle on June 19, Judy Budnitz and Selah Saterstrom on June 26, Darcey Steinke on July 31, Kim Addonizio on August 7, Lydia Millet on August 14, and Lan Samantha Chang on August 21. The series is made possible, in part, with support from Bronya and Andrew Galef.
Dance Camera West Screenings
The Hammer Museum, in collaboration with Dance Camera West (DCW), presents a two-part series of documentaries on modern dance. Held on two Sundays in June, these screenings of Height of Sky, Alonzo King Goes to Venice, and Belated Premier are part of DCW’s Los Angeles Dance Film Festival featuring experimental shorts, documentaries, and features from around the world on dance.
HAMMER EXHIBITIONS
On view from June 25 through October 16, 2005, the Hammer Museum presents three exhibitions featuring the newly commissioned video installations, Patty Chang: Shangri-La and Fiona Tan: Correction, as well as The Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1968-1993, the first U.S. presentation of an extensive selection of photographs by Stephen Shore. Collectively, the exhibitions will allow visitors to explore the work of an established artist whose images of the American landscape brought color photography to high art status in the 1970s alongside the most recent ambitious works by two emerging talents who are moving beyond photography to redefine the use of video in contemporary art today. Also on view in the ongoing Hammer Projects exhibition series are installations by Adam Cvijanovic, Paul Chan, and Phoebe Washburn.
Patty Chang: Shangri-La is a video work by New York-based artist Patty Chang that investigates a real journey to a mythical place. Chang’s Shangri-La, based on the mythical hamlet of James Hilton's 1933 novel Lost Horizon and subsequent film by Frank Capra, is about the reality and fiction inherent in the idea of a place that exists in both real and mythical incarnations. Accompanying the exhibition is Mountain Movies, a two part series of double features that are inspired by – or set on – mountains. Organized by Patty Chang, the films are Lost Horizon and The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas on August 3 and Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Aguirre, The Wrath of God) and The Crawling Eye (The Trollenberg Terror) on August 10. Chan will be present introduce the films on August 3.
Fiona Tan: Correction is an exhibition of over 300 intimate video portraits recently filmed at several U.S. prisons and projected on 6 hanging screens in the gallery. On June 25, 7pm, artist Fiona Tan will give a lecture on her work.
The Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1968-1993 is the first U.S. presentation of this exhibition featuring over 120 seminal color photographs of the American landscape by groundbreaking photographer Stephen Shore.
HAMMER PROJECTS: Adam Cvijanovic (February 6 – August 7, 2005)
Adam Cvijanovic’s large-scale landscape painting, Glacier (2005), spans the Hammer Lobby Wall, evoking the Hudson River School and 19th-century cycloramas. His room-sized installations portray beautiful yet charged natural scenes that challenge the seemingly sacred divisions between the mass-produced and the unique, the decorative and the profound.
HAMMER PROJECTS: Paul Chan (June 4 – September 4, 2005)
Paul Chan’s 17-minute digital animation, My Birds…trash… the future (2004), spans references to Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, the Bible, Goya, and Blake. Projected on both sides of a long, narrow screen, rendered in eye-popping acid colors, and peopled with a panoply of characters including the late rapper Biggie Smalls and the filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini, the piece is an ambiguous tale of political horror and modern alienation.
HAMMER PROJECTS: Phoebe Washburn (September 7, 2005 – February 12, 2006)
Phoebe Washburn’s monumental installations are composed of thousands of pieces of found, scavenged, and purchased pieces of cardboard or plywood cut into varying lengths and widths. Washburn’s site-specific work addresses ideas of environmental sustainability and notions of recycling, trash, and landscape. Materials for each piece are collected over time and built up in a slow, seemingly organic process to resemble topological maps, urban landscapes, or the fine layers of shells.
HAMMER MUSEUM INFORMATION
Location/Parking: The Museum is located at 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024. Parking is available under the Museum. Rates are $2.75 for the first three hours with Museum validation; $1.50 for each additional 20 minutes. There is a $3 flat rate after 6:30 p.m. Parking for people with disabilities is available on levels P1 and P3.
Museum Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, 11am-7pm; Thursday, 11am–9pm; Sunday, 11am–5pm; closed Mondays, July 4, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day.
Admission: FREE ADMISSION JUNE 7 – SEPTEMBER 4, 2005.
Regular admission resuming September 6, 2005: $5 for adults; $3 for seniors (65+) and UCLA Alumni Association members; free for Museum members, students with identification, UCLA faculty/staff, and visitors 17 and under. The Museum is free for everyone on Thursdays.
Admission to Public Programs: FREE. Gallery talks are free with Museum admission. Seating is first come, first served. Priority seating for Hammer Members.
Museum Tours: For reservations and information, call (310) 443-7041.
For additional information:
VOICE 310-443-7000, TTY 310-443-7094
WEB: www.hammer.ucla.edu
The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center is operated by the University of California, Los Angeles. Occidental Petroleum Corporation has partially endowed the Museum and constructed the Occidental Petroleum Cultural Center Building, which houses the Museum.
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Hammer Summer program highlights include outdoor film screenings, rock music, and blues performances in the Museum’s courtyard.
May 16
Los Angeles, CA—The Hammer Museum in Westwood announces free admission during the 2005 summer season. For the first time, all of the Museum’s acclaimed special exhibitions, permanent collection galleries, and dynamic public programs will be presented free of charge to all visitors from June 7 through Labor Day Weekend, September 4, 2005.
“The Hammer Museum has a popular tradition of offering its public programs free of charge, and we look forward to celebrating the 2005 summer season by inviting museum visitors into the exhibition and collection galleries for free as well,” said Hammer Director Ann Philbin. “We’ve noticed that attendance is always highest during our free Thursdays, and many people regularly enjoy the public courtyard and free programs. Completely opening the Museum for an entire season is something of an experiment, and will make some of the city’s best art and culture accessible to all Los Angeles residents and visitors.”
Hammer Summer 2005 includes exhibitions ranging from video installations by Patty Chang and Fiona Tan and a survey of photography by Stephen Shore to ongoing Hammer Projects and the permanent collection of masters including Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and Cezanne.
The Museum continues its tradition of presenting a diverse schedule of enlightening and entertaining summer programs, which include outdoor music performances and film screenings, intimate readings of contemporary fiction and poetry, and lectures and conversations on popular culture, politics, and the arts.
2005 SUMMER PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Outdoor Courtyard Events
The Museum is pleased to announce a new collaboration with the Sundance Institute, presenting Sundance Summer Shorts at the Hammer. This series of award winning short films was co-organized by the Sundance Institute and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, where it was previously shown. The Hammer Museum is the only West Coast venue for this four part series showcasing the innovation and energy in the field of short films from 2005 and past Sundance Film Festivals. Screenings will take place in the Hammer’s outdoor courtyard on consecutive Friday nights beginning July 9. From narrative to documentary to animation, the program features such directors as Spike Jonze, Andrew Jarecki, Phil Morrison, Peter Sollett, and Andrea Arnold. This series was organized by John Cooper, Director of Programming, Sundance Film Festival, Trevor Groth, Senior Programmer, Sundance Film Festival, and Jytte Jensen, Curator, Department of Film and Media at the Museum of Modern Art.
Inspired by the words of Lou Reed, Also I Like to Rock is a series of outdoor concerts showcasing up and coming rock bands from San Francisco and Los Angeles. Transforming the Hammer courtyard into a venue with a stage to rock, this three part series will be presented on consecutive Thursday nights beginning July 14 and will feature two to three bands each evening accompanied by projected images of great moments in rock film history. Bands featured are The Tints, Space Mtn, Monsters are Waiting, The Ebb & Flow, Bedroom Walls, Club Unicornio, and My Barbarian. The bands take the stage at 8pm and doors and cash bar open at 7pm. KCRW is the radio sponsor for Sundance Summer Shorts and Also I Like to Rock.
The third courtyard series is Hammer Blues, reviving the popular tradition of Hammer Jazz by presenting noteworthy performances by The King Brothers, Bobby Warren, and Café R & B on consecutive Thursdays, beginning August 4. Featuring soul, rock, funk, and gospel inspired jazz and blues, these evening are organized by KKJZ 88.1. Doors and cash bar open at 7pm; performances begin at 8pm.
Hammer Conversations
Hammer Conversations is an ongoing series of provocative dialogues on the cultures, sciences, and the arts. On July 7 at 7pm, the Museum hosts a Hammer Conversation with Miranda July and George Saunders. Miranda July is a filmmaker and a performer. Her first feature film Me and You and Everyone We Know won the Special Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and will be released in June of this year. George Saunders has written two short story collections Pastoralia and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, which is in development to become a feature film. Forthcoming, Saunders has a novella-length fable The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil and The Red Bow, which will be published in fall 2005 and fall 2006, respectively.
Hammer Forum: Women and Islam
On July 13 at 7pm, Egyptian commentator and journalist Mona Eltahawy presents a lecture on the Middle East, the state of politics, Islamic feminism, and being Muslim in post 9/11 United States followed by a discussion with the audience. Eltahawy is based in New York and writes a weekly column for Arabic-language daily newspaper Asharq al-Awsat. Before moving to the United States in 2000, Eltahawy was a news reporter in the Middle East for 10 years for Reuters News Agency. She is on the board of director of the Progressive Muslim Union of North America.
Hammer Readings: New American Writing
New American Writing is readings of contemporary fiction and poetry organized and hosted by Benjamin Weissman, author of Headless. Held on select Sunday afternoons, this series features some of the most prominent and promising authors working today including a Father’s Day Special reading with T.C. Boyle and daughter K. Kvashay-Boyle on June 19, Judy Budnitz and Selah Saterstrom on June 26, Darcey Steinke on July 31, Kim Addonizio on August 7, Lydia Millet on August 14, and Lan Samantha Chang on August 21. The series is made possible, in part, with support from Bronya and Andrew Galef.
Dance Camera West Screenings
The Hammer Museum, in collaboration with Dance Camera West (DCW), presents a two-part series of documentaries on modern dance. Held on two Sundays in June, these screenings of Height of Sky, Alonzo King Goes to Venice, and Belated Premier are part of DCW’s Los Angeles Dance Film Festival featuring experimental shorts, documentaries, and features from around the world on dance.
HAMMER EXHIBITIONS
On view from June 25 through October 16, 2005, the Hammer Museum presents three exhibitions featuring the newly commissioned video installations, Patty Chang: Shangri-La and Fiona Tan: Correction, as well as The Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1968-1993, the first U.S. presentation of an extensive selection of photographs by Stephen Shore. Collectively, the exhibitions will allow visitors to explore the work of an established artist whose images of the American landscape brought color photography to high art status in the 1970s alongside the most recent ambitious works by two emerging talents who are moving beyond photography to redefine the use of video in contemporary art today. Also on view in the ongoing Hammer Projects exhibition series are installations by Adam Cvijanovic, Paul Chan, and Phoebe Washburn.
Patty Chang: Shangri-La is a video work by New York-based artist Patty Chang that investigates a real journey to a mythical place. Chang’s Shangri-La, based on the mythical hamlet of James Hilton's 1933 novel Lost Horizon and subsequent film by Frank Capra, is about the reality and fiction inherent in the idea of a place that exists in both real and mythical incarnations. Accompanying the exhibition is Mountain Movies, a two part series of double features that are inspired by – or set on – mountains. Organized by Patty Chang, the films are Lost Horizon and The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas on August 3 and Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Aguirre, The Wrath of God) and The Crawling Eye (The Trollenberg Terror) on August 10. Chan will be present introduce the films on August 3.
Fiona Tan: Correction is an exhibition of over 300 intimate video portraits recently filmed at several U.S. prisons and projected on 6 hanging screens in the gallery. On June 25, 7pm, artist Fiona Tan will give a lecture on her work.
The Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1968-1993 is the first U.S. presentation of this exhibition featuring over 120 seminal color photographs of the American landscape by groundbreaking photographer Stephen Shore.
HAMMER PROJECTS: Adam Cvijanovic (February 6 – August 7, 2005)
Adam Cvijanovic’s large-scale landscape painting, Glacier (2005), spans the Hammer Lobby Wall, evoking the Hudson River School and 19th-century cycloramas. His room-sized installations portray beautiful yet charged natural scenes that challenge the seemingly sacred divisions between the mass-produced and the unique, the decorative and the profound.
HAMMER PROJECTS: Paul Chan (June 4 – September 4, 2005)
Paul Chan’s 17-minute digital animation, My Birds…trash… the future (2004), spans references to Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, the Bible, Goya, and Blake. Projected on both sides of a long, narrow screen, rendered in eye-popping acid colors, and peopled with a panoply of characters including the late rapper Biggie Smalls and the filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini, the piece is an ambiguous tale of political horror and modern alienation.
HAMMER PROJECTS: Phoebe Washburn (September 7, 2005 – February 12, 2006)
Phoebe Washburn’s monumental installations are composed of thousands of pieces of found, scavenged, and purchased pieces of cardboard or plywood cut into varying lengths and widths. Washburn’s site-specific work addresses ideas of environmental sustainability and notions of recycling, trash, and landscape. Materials for each piece are collected over time and built up in a slow, seemingly organic process to resemble topological maps, urban landscapes, or the fine layers of shells.
HAMMER MUSEUM INFORMATION
Location/Parking: The Museum is located at 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024. Parking is available under the Museum. Rates are $2.75 for the first three hours with Museum validation; $1.50 for each additional 20 minutes. There is a $3 flat rate after 6:30 p.m. Parking for people with disabilities is available on levels P1 and P3.
Museum Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, 11am-7pm; Thursday, 11am–9pm; Sunday, 11am–5pm; closed Mondays, July 4, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day.
Admission: FREE ADMISSION JUNE 7 – SEPTEMBER 4, 2005.
Regular admission resuming September 6, 2005: $5 for adults; $3 for seniors (65+) and UCLA Alumni Association members; free for Museum members, students with identification, UCLA faculty/staff, and visitors 17 and under. The Museum is free for everyone on Thursdays.
Admission to Public Programs: FREE. Gallery talks are free with Museum admission. Seating is first come, first served. Priority seating for Hammer Members.
Museum Tours: For reservations and information, call (310) 443-7041.
For additional information:
VOICE 310-443-7000, TTY 310-443-7094
WEB: www.hammer.ucla.edu
The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center is operated by the University of California, Los Angeles. Occidental Petroleum Corporation has partially endowed the Museum and constructed the Occidental Petroleum Cultural Center Building, which houses the Museum.
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