Hammer Lectures feature today's most talented artists, architects, photographers, and critics.
All Hammer public programs are free. Tickets are required, and are available at the Billy Wilder Theater Box Office one hour prior to start time. Limit one ticket per person on a first come, first served basis. Members receive priority seating, subject to availability. Reservations not accepted, RSVP's not required.
UCLA Department of Art Lectures
7pm
Andrea Fraser
Andrea Fraser’s work has been identified with performance, video, context art, and institutional critique. Major projects include installations for the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennale, and the Kunsthalle Bern. Fraser is an Associate Professor in New Genres at the UCLA Department of Art.
Hammer Lectures
Lani Guinier
Co-presented with the UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies as part of the Center's College Access Project for African Americans conference
Lani Guinier, Bennett Boskey Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, has been a key force in civil rights, working in the Civil Rights Division at the US Department of Justice, heading the voting rights project at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1980s, and serving in the Civil Rights Division during the Carter Administration. Since 2001, Guinier has been working on issues of fairness in higher education and is the author of the forthcoming book, Meritocracy, Inc. How Wealth Became Merit, Class Became Race and Higher Education Became a Gift From the Poor to the Rich.
Darby English
Darby English is the author of How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness and co-editor of Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress. He is associate professor of art history at the University of Chicago, where he teaches modern and contemporary American art and cultural studies. He is also affiliated faculty in the Department of Visual Arts, as well as at the Center for Gender Studies and Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture.
Hammer Lectures are supported by the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation.