Hammer Museum

4/2/13---Filmmaker David Lynch, comedian Russell Brand, and David Lynch Foundation Executive Director Bob Roth answer questions about Transcendental Meditation following a screening of the documentary Meditation, Creativity, Peace. (Run Time: 41 mins.)

Llyn Foulkes speaks on "Who's On Third", the first time he saw a dead body, and the inspiration behind his "Bloody Head" series. The extensive career retrospective LLYN FOULKES, devoted to Foulkes's groundbreaking and diverse body of work, is currently on view at the Hammer Museum through May 19, 2013. LLYN FOULKES travels to the New Museum, New York (June 12 - September 1, 2013) and to Museum Kurhaus, Kleve, Germany (December 6, 2013 - March 2, 2014).

2/19/2013---Maestro James Conlon, Richard Seaver Music Director of the LA Opera, has been named Regents' Lecturer at UCLA for winter 2013 and will give a series of three lectures with musical examples in honor of the 200th anniversaries of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, the two greatest opera composers of the 19th century. (Run Time: 1 hour, 42 min.)

February 2013---Latifa Echakhch reprised her 2007 work A chaque stencil une revolution (For each stencil a revolution) for the Hammer Museum's lobby wall in 2013. After attaching hundreds of sheets of carbon paper to the wall, Echakhch treated the surface with a solvent that caused the ink to run down the pages and pool on the floor. Her use of carbon paper points to an outmoded duplication technology that was central to the ability of political groups of earlier generations--such as the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests of the 1960s--to disseminate information. Referring as well to both abstract expressionism and the signature blue of Yves Klein, the work asks us to reconsider the relationship of abstract art to politics. Hammer Projects: Latifa Echakhch is organized by Hammer senior curator Anne Ellegood. (Run time 4 min.)

2/26/2013---Llyn Foulkes performs on his renowned Machine, a one-man apparatus created by the artist featuring horns, cowbells, organ pipes, percussion, and more. (Run Time: 1 hr, 2 min.)

3/6/2013---Join artist and musician Llyn Foulkes as he remembers the men who inspired him. The extensive career retrospective LLYN FOULKES, devoted to Foulkes's groundbreaking and diverse body of work, is currently on view at the Hammer Museum through May 19, 2013. LLYN FOULKES travels to the New Museum, New York (June 12 - September 1, 2013) and to Museum Kurhaus, Kleve, Germany (December 6, 2013 - March 2, 2014).

7/8/2013---Sanford Biggers is an installation, video, and performance artist whose work has been exhibited worldwide. Biggers has won several awards including the Creative Capital Project Grant, a New York Percent for the Arts Commission, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Award in performance art/multidisciplinary work. He is Assistant Professor at Columbia University's School of the Visual Arts. Marcus Samuelsson is an award-winning chef, author, and food activist. Samuelsson is noted for defeating 21 fellow chefs on Bravo's Top Chef Masters, winning $115,000 for the UNICEF Tap Project. He is the chef and owner of Red Rooster Harlem in New York City and his books include Aquavit and the New Scandinavian Cuisine, The Soul of a New Cuisine, New American Table, and his latest, Yes, Chef: A Memoir. (Run time: 1 hour, 17 min.)

1/22/2013---In conjunction with the exhibition Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews on view at the Fowler Museum at UCLA October 21, 2012 ? March 10, 2013, the Hammer presented a special evening of poetry and music. Poets Majid Naficy, Bernard Radfar, and Niloufar Talebi read from contemporary and classical poems in both Persian and in the ancient language of Aramaic, with English translations. The readings were accompanied by traditional Persian music performed by Sahba Motallebi on tar and setar, Mehdi Bagheri on kamancheh, tonbak, and setar, and Bobak Salehi on setar, violin, and Spanish guitar. (Run time: 1 hour, 10 min.)

1/24/2013---Catherine Opie is one of the leading photographers of this generation and a documentarian of the American landscape and people. Selected solo exhibitions include the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; St. Louis Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; MOCA, Los Angeles; and a midcareer survey at the Guggenheim Museum, New York. Her exhibition Twelve Miles to the Horizon is currently on view at the Long Beach Museum of Art. She is a professor in the UCLA Department of Art. (Run time: 1 hour, 32 min.)

12/11/2012 --- A scholar, artist, and independent curator, Zheng Shengtian is the managing editor of Yishu, a journal of contemporary Chinese art. He has curated numerous exhibitions, most recently Art and China's Revolution at the Asia Society Museum, New York. For this program, Zheng discusses the provocative work of Sun Yuan and Peng Yu. (Run time: 1 hour, 11 min.)

11/28/2012 --- Chip Kidd is a designer and writer in New York. His book cover designs for Alfred A. Knopf, where he has worked since 1986, have helped create a revolution in the art of American book packaging. Kidd has published two novels, The Cheese Monkeys and The Learners, as well as Batman: Death by Design, an original graphic novel published by DC Comics and illustrated by Dave Taylor. He is also the author of several books about comics, notably Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz, Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross, Batman: Animated, and Jack Cole and Plasticman (with Art Spiegelman). (Run Time: 1 hour, 34 min.)

10/25/12 --- Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) creative director Michael Lejeune and the supercharged creative team he leads have one goal: make public transportation cool. It's a daunting task in a region as car-crazy as Los Angeles. But by applying a bold design strategy to the work of the nation's third largest transit agency, Metro's 20-person in-house studio team is moving the needle, fostering big change, and earning major design kudos along the way. (Run time: 1 hour, 48 min.)

11/14/2012--- Award-winning producer T-Bone Burnett and communications scholar Henry Jenkins illuminate the debate over intellectual property rights versus Internet freedom. Burnett is a 12-time Grammy-winning composer and producer and a vocal advocate of artists' rights. Jenkins is the Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism and Cinematic Arts at USC and an advocate of Fair Use and Internet freedom. His recent book is 'Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide.' (Run Time 90 min.)

11/7/2012--- For Iranian expatriates abroad or in exile since 1979, the journey from Iran is full of untold stories that are relevant to our politics and times. From the universal experience of crafting new hybrid identities in America to confronting a serial assassination campaign against exiled opposition leaders, the Iranian exile community has a unique perspective on life in the diaspora. Roya Hakakian gives voice to this experience as a Jewish-Iranian poet, author, and activist who seeks to change the foundations of American understanding of Iran, human rights, and the exile community. She is joined by Rabbi David Wolpe, Senior Rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles. Named the most influential rabbi in America by Newsweek and one of the fifty most influential Jews in the world by the Jerusalem Post, Wolpe is the author of seven books including the national bestseller Making Loss Matter: Creating Meaning in Difficult Times and Why Faith Matters. (Run time 77 min.)

July 13-15, 2012---The Venice Beach Biennial (VBB), a weekend event that made tongue-in-cheek reference to the "real" Venice Biennale in Italy, treated the famed Venice Beach boardwalk, Ocean Front Walk, as an outdoor exhibition venue. Over the course of the weekend, some 25-30 artists will set up vending stands alongside the veteran boardwalk artists, exhibiting new bodies of work, collaborating with the veterans on new projects, displaying site-specific sculptures or installations, and presenting live performances. The Venice Beach Biennial is presented in conjunction with 'Made in L.A. 2012' and directed by Hammer curator Ali Subotnick. Made possible by the Teiger Foundation. (Run Time 8 min.)