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Hammer Museum names a new director, ending speculation over one of L.A.’s prized art posts
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Hammer Museum names a new director, ending speculation over one of L.A.’s prized art posts

LA Times  

One of the highest profile jobs in L.A.’s art world has officially been filled: The UCLA Hammer Museum in Westwood announced Monday that its next director will be Zoë Ryan, who arrives from the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania. In blow to L.A. art scene, Hammer Museum director Ann Philbin to retire in 2024 E & …

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Review: Erotic soap-bubble sculptures are just part of David Medalla’s story at the Hammer Museum
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Review: Erotic soap-bubble sculptures are just part of David Medalla’s story at the Hammer Museum

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David Medalla, a Filipino artist who died in Manila in 2020 at age 82, is not well known in the United States. Its 1998 inclusion in “Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979” at the Museum of Contemporary Art is one of the few times Medalla’s art has been shown in Los Angeles. Now, the UCLA Hammer Museum …

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Hammer Museum pays tribute to departing Director Ann Philbin at star-packed gala
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Hammer Museum pays tribute to departing Director Ann Philbin at star-packed gala

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DJ D-Nice takes a photo with honoree Ann Philbin at the 19th Hammer Museum Gala in the Garden. Als launched into a tender speech, delivered like a poem, beginning with, “I’m very nervous because I really love Annie and I don’t want to mess up.” Multiple speakers noted that the institution, once called the Armand Hammer Museum, had morphed from …

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UCLA faculty protest at Hammer Museum gala, decrying treatment of pro-Palestinian students
7 months, 2 weeks ago

UCLA faculty protest at Hammer Museum gala, decrying treatment of pro-Palestinian students

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UCLA faculty gather outside the Hammer Museum’s annual fundraising gala to call for Chancellor Gene Block’s resignation and for amnesty for student protesters arrested in connection with the pro-Palestinian encampment on campus this week. About 20 UCLA faculty members protested Saturday night outside the UCLA Hammer Museum’s celebrity-heavy gala, calling for amnesty to be granted to pro-Palestinian students arrested on …

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Upheaval wrestles with tradition in Korean art of the 1960s and ’70s at the Hammer Museum
9 months, 1 week ago

Upheaval wrestles with tradition in Korean art of the 1960s and ’70s at the Hammer Museum

LA Times  

Seoul is the latest major city to establish itself as a significant international hub for new art. “Only the Young,” organized last year by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, working with Korea’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, is at the UCLA Hammer Museum in Westwood through May 12. A timeline of Korean performance art leads …

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In blow to L.A. art scene, Hammer Museum director Ann Philbin to retire in 2024
1 year, 2 months ago

In blow to L.A. art scene, Hammer Museum director Ann Philbin to retire in 2024

LA Times  

Generational change is coming to the UCLA Hammer Museum. “Breath: Toward Climate and Social Justice,” the Hammer’s contribution to the science-themed program, will include six new large-scale commissions among 35 existing works that explore connections between climate change and environmental justice. Entertainment & Arts Ann Philbin and the art of the provocative are thriving at the Hammer Museum In the …

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Review: The Hammer Museum's 'Made in L.A.' 2023 biennial
1 year, 2 months ago

Review: The Hammer Museum's 'Made in L.A.' 2023 biennial

LA Times  

In “Acts of Living,” the just-opened sixth installment of “Made in L.A.,” the UCLA Hammer Museum’s always hotly anticipated biennial survey of new art in the region, there’s a woman embedded inside a gallery wall. This “Made in L.A.” emphasizes the handmade — objects that used to just be called paintings and sculptures, which partly represent the artists’ presence. The …

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Photos: A first look at the Hammer Museum’s two-decade, $90-million reinvention
1 year, 9 months ago

Photos: A first look at the Hammer Museum’s two-decade, $90-million reinvention

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Call it the big reveal. The lobby will feature an immersive yarn installation by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota; the bank will house a large-scale installation of lasers and mist, “Particulates,” by Rita McBride; and Sanford Biggers’ 25-foot-tall cast bronze sculpture “Oracle” will stand on the terrace on the corner of Wilshire and Glendon Avenue. The exhibition “Together in Time: Selections …

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Commentary: A major trove of art on paper is coming to light at the Hammer Museum
2 years, 10 months ago

Commentary: A major trove of art on paper is coming to light at the Hammer Museum

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Daylight can be art’s best friend. At UCLA’s Hammer Museum and its affiliated Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, which both collect works on paper, the answer is to embrace an established museum practice while giving it an updated twist. As part of the Hammer’s ongoing, $100-million renovation and expansion project at its Westwood building, a new Grunwald study-storage facility …

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Looking for the best things to do in L.A.? Try these 12 pop-ups, merch drops, events
3 years, 2 months ago

Looking for the best things to do in L.A.? Try these 12 pop-ups, merch drops, events

LA Times  

This story is part of Image issue 5, “Reverence,” an exploration of how L.A. does beauty. “It is a blueprint for the near future of Black sovereignty, where California’s histories of migration, radical participation and experimental living converge into a foundation for the future of Blackness.” 6522 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles. welcometolace.org ‘Witch Hunt’ at ICA LA and Hammer Museum …

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L.A. and O.C. museums: The newest and coolest to see in August
3 years, 4 months ago

L.A. and O.C. museums: The newest and coolest to see in August

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Rembrandt’s “Juno” is among the works on display as part of the Armand Hammer Collection at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Union Station’s Passageway Art Gallery, 800 N. Alameda St., downtown L.A. unionstationla.com “Acting Out: Cabinet Cards and the Making of Modern Photography, 1870–1900” Examples of photographic portraits of celebrities and everyday people from the closing decades of the …

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