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HENRY TAYLOR AT THE HAMMER

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Connie Butler—the chief curator at the Hammer, and the organizer of the current exhibition SELECTIONS FROM THE HAMMER CONTEMPORARY COLLECTION—will give a lunchtime art talk on one of the show’s featured artists, Henry Taylor.

CONNIE BUTLER—LUNCHTIME ART TALK ON HENRY TAYLOR, Wednesday, September 27, at 12:30 pm.

SELECTIONS FROM THE HAMMER CONTEMPORARY COLLECTION, through January 7, 2018.

HAMMER MUSEUM, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles.

hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2017/09/lunchtime-art-talk-on-henry-taylor/

hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2017/selections-from-the-hammer-contemporary-collection/

Henry Taylor, Watch your back, 2013. Acrylic on canvas. Image courtesy Henry Taylor and the Hammer.

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HANS ULRICH OBRIST IN CONVERSATION

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*hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2017/07/hans-ulrich-obrist-and-connie-butler/

Hans Ulrich Obrist in 1991 at the Swiss Institute in New York City. Image credit: Dis.

1991, Hans Ulrich Obrist dreaming at Swiss Institute during his first lecture in New York.

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VOGLIAMO TUTTO AT THE HAMMER

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In conjunction with MARISA MERZ: THE SKY IS A GREAT SPACE, the Hammer Museum presents the panel discussion “VOGLIAMO TUTTO”: POSTWAR ITALIAN ART on Tuesday evening, July 11, at 7:30 pm.

The words in quotes mean “we want it all,” and curator Marianna Vecellio, New Museum artistic director Massimiliano Gioni, UCLA Professor of Italian and gender studies Lucia Re, art historian Jaleh Mansoor, and moderator and Hammer chief curator Connie Butler will discuss the explosion of experimentation in art and design after the Second World War, and “the dynamic contexts that surround Marisa Merz’s work.”*

HAMMER MUSEUM, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles.

*hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2017/07/vogliamo-tutto-postwar-italian-art/

Image credit: A Proposito di Marisa Merz, edited by Carolina Italiano, and published by Mousse and MAXXI.

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STERLING RUBY ON DUBUFFET

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Sterling Ruby will walk and talk visitors through a selection of drawings by Jean Dubuffet at the Hammer Museum.

“The career of Dubuffet had some disappointing phases, but when he was on, he was a genius, and he was almost always on in his drawings.” — Roberta Smith*

 

ARTIST WALK-THROUGH—STERLING RUBY ON JEAN DUBUFFET

Tuesday, April 4 at 6 pm.

 

DUBUFFET DRAWINGS, 1935–1962

Through April 30.

Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard,Westwood, Los Angeles.

DUBUFFET DRAWINGS, 1935-1962 was organized by Isabelle Dervaux. The Hammer’s presentation is curated by Connie Butler, chief curator, with Emily Gonzalez-Jarrett, curatorial associate.

*Roberta Smith, New York Times, November 25, 2016.

Below: Jean Dubuffet, Quatre personnages (Four Figures), 1946. Gouache, with incising, on coarse sandpaper.
Richard and Mary L. Gray and the Gray Collection Trust. Photograph by Tom Van Eynde.
© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York /ADAGP, Paris.

MADE IN L.A. 2014 OPENS AT THE HAMMER

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Made in L.A. 2014 opens this Sunday June 15th. It is The Hammer’s biennial exhibition featuring 35 artists. The exhibition is curated by Connie Butler and Michael Ned Holte. There will be a hardcover catalogue and free public programs throughout the summer until the exhibition closes on September 7th.

The artists included in the exhibition are Juan Capistran, Danielle Dean, Harry Dodge, Lecia Dole-Recio, Kim Fisher, Judy Fiskin, Magdalena Suarez Frimkess & Michael Frimkess, Mariah Garnett, Gerard & Kelly, Samara Golden, Piero Golia, Marcia Hafif, Channing Hansen, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, James Kidd Studio, Barry Johnston, KChung, Devin Kenny, Gabriel Kuri, Caitlin Lonegan, Los Angeles Museum of Art, Tala Madani, Max Maslansky, Emily Mast, Jennifer Moon, Brian O’Connell, Harsh Patel, Marina Pinsky, Public Fiction, Sarah Rara, A.L. Steiner, Ricky Swallow, Tony Greene: Amid Voluptuous Calm, Clarissa Tossin, and Wu Tsang.