Hammer Museum

5/8/12 --- Teaching Artists, hybrid professionals who link the arts to education and community life, are redefining the roles that the arts can play in public education. Who are teaching artists? Where and how do they work? What new strategies might they offer to help ailing public schools? And how can schools become generative sites of creative growth for artists, teachers and students? A new national study of teaching artists shows that their work in schools is already providing answers to these questions. Nick Rabkin is a research affiliate of the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago, and the principal investigator of the Teaching Artist Research Project at NORC at the University of Chicago. He teaches cultural policy at Columbia College Chicago. (Run time: 1 hour, 38 min.)

2/2/12---Painter Mari Eastman's solo exhibitions include those at Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles; Emily Tsingou Gallery, London; Sies + Hoeke, Dusseldorf; and Spruth and Magers Projekts, Munich. She has also participated in group exhibitions at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Orange County Museum of Art; and the Hammer. She is a frequent visiting lecturer in the UCLA Department of Art. (Run Time 48 min.)

3/29/12 --- David Adjaye OBE is principal architect of Adjaye Associates. This global practice has won several prestigious commissions, including the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, and the Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo. Adjaye also collaborates with artists and curators to create unique spaces, including Olafur Eliasson's light installation Your black horizon at the 2005 Venice Biennale. Mack Scogin is a principal in the firm of Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects in Atlanta. He is also the Kajima Professor in the Practice of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His most recent recognitions include the 2011 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a 2012 AIA Institute Honor Award for Architecture for the Gates and Hillman Centers for Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. (Run time: 1 hour, 20 min.)

4/19/12---With more Americans registering as independents than as Democrats or Republicans, can an outsider make it to the White House in 2012? Joining us to discuss the changing electoral landscape are Rocky Anderson, Kellen Arno, and Buddy Roemer. Former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson is running for president with the newly formed Justice Party; his citizen-financed campaign rejects special interest and corporate funding. Arno is National Field Director of AmericansElect.org, an online presidential nominating process aimed at providing a competitive, nonpartisan ticket. Former Louisiana governor Roemer is an independent who served four terms as a U.S. congressman and never accepted special interest money. His current presidential campaign limits donations to $100. (Run Time 1 hour, 34 min.)

3/21/12 --- Nato Thompson, chief curator at Creative Time in New York and author of the forthcoming Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the Age of Cultural Production, discusses how to find one's voice and make change in a world flooded with information and images. From cooperative housing to anarchist infoshops to alternative art venues, Thompson shows that many of today's most innovative spaces operate as sites of dramatic personal transformation. (Run time: 1 hour, 14 min.)

3/15/12---As well-heeled candidates with Super PACs overwhelm their rivals, we look for an alternative to money-driven elections and explore ways for candidates and issues to be presented fairly and openly. Joining us is Lawrence Lessig, the director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University and a professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Lessig clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. He is the author of Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress---and a Plan to Stop It. (Run time: 1 hour, 31 min.)

4/22/12---Two days before the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide of 1915, we bring together two artists of Armenian descent to discuss its lasting impact. Atom Egoyan's critically acclaimed films include Chloe, Speaking Parts, The Adjuster, Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter (nominated for two Academy Awards), and the award-winning Ararat, a meditation on the Armenian Genocide. His work has been featured in international retrospectives including at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and at the Venice Biennale. Serj Tankian is a Lebanese-born Armenian American singer, songwriter, activist, and composer. Tankian has released five albums with the rock band System of a Down, one with Arto Tuncboyacyan, and two solo albums. In 2002 Tankian and Rage Against the Machine/Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello co-founded a nonprofit activist organization, Axis of Justice. In 2011 Tankian was awarded the Armenian Prime Minister's Medal for his contributions to the recognition of the Armenian Genocide and the advancement of music. (Run Time 1 hour, 26 min.)

2/29/12---Evan Holloway has had recent solo exhibitions at Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles; Harris Lieberman, New York; the Approach, London; and the Pomona College Museum of Art. His work has appeared in numerous group exhibitions including, All of this and nothing at the Hammer; Moby Dick and The Wizard of Oz at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; and The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculpture at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (Run Time 1 hour, 30 min.)

The first Los Angeles biennial, organized by the Hammer Museum in collaboration with LAXART, will be presented at the Hammer, LAXART, and the Department of Cultural Affairs' Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park. (Run time: 3 min.)

2/8/12---With demonstrations against corporations erupting around the world, Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal reporter Ellen Schultz, author of Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers, joins us to discuss corporate greed. Joining her is Vermont Law School professor Jennifer Taub, whose research focuses on corporate social responsibility, shareholders' rights, and consumer protection. A former VP and counsel for Fidelity Investments, Taub's book, "The Great Betrayal: How Washington Bailed Out Wall Street but Left Main Street Underwater," is forthcoming. (Run time 1 hour, 30 min.)

2/5/12--- Scholar Griselda Pollock is internationally known for her work on feminist studies in the visual arts and cultural theory. Her current work on art as a form of inscription and transformation of traumatic legacies will appear in the forthcoming After-Images/After-Effects: Trauma and Aesthetic Inscription/Encryption in the Virtual Feminist Museum. (Run Time 1 hour, 40 min.)

1/24/12---Former White House adviser Van Jones will discuss his new solution-oriented movement to rebuild America for the 99% who find the American dream increasingly unattainable. One of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World," Jones will present his 10-point plan to fix the economy, create jobs, and restore America's democracy. Jones, who is the author of the New York Times best-seller The Green Collar Economy, will also address how the Occupy Wall Street movement and related protests will affect the 2012 elections. (1 hour, 46 min.)

Trained as a painter, Barcelona-based Portuguese artist Carlos Bunga has expanded his practice to encompass multiple mediums including collage, drawing, performance, sculpture, and video. In his architecturally scaled installations, Bunga uses mass-produced materials like cardboard, packing tape, and house paint to build structures that recall temporary shelters or life-size maquettes. Built over a period of weeks, his site-specific sculptures are made in direct dialogue with the surrounding architecture. Largely improvised, Bunga likens the process to making an abstract painting in three dimensions. This video documents his process creating the lobby wall installation. (Run time: 2 min.)

1/12/12---Jeff Wall is among the most important and influential artists working today. His work has been the subject of major retrospectives at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Schaulager, Basel; Tate Modern, London; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. A group of his works was shown at the Hammer in 2003. He lives in Vancouver, Canada. (Run Time 1 hour, 34 min.)

1/19/12---Dale Seever (aka James Bewley) returns to L.A. for a live taping of his cult-hit podcast, Dale Radio. Dale welcomes artist and Internet celebrity Marc Horowitz of ineedtostopsoon.com and entertainment legend Mary Lou Metzger (The Lawrence Welk Show). The program features live music by the UCLA Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Kenny Burrell, and onstage mixology by Daniel Lee. (Run time: 1 hour)