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LETTER TO THE TIMES

If, in anticipation of the upcoming Hammer exhibition ADRIAN PIPER—CONCEPTS AND INTUITIONS, 1965–2016, you’ve read the recent New York Times Magazine profile on Adrian Piper by Thomas Chatterton Williams, you may want to read Piper’s subsequent letter to the editor, which the Times’ declined to publish in full.

ADRIAN PIPER—CONCEPTS AND INTUITIONS, 1965—2016

October 7 through January 6.

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

Above: Adrian Piper, LSD Self-Portrait from the Inside Out, 1966.

Below: Adrian Piper, Everything, 2003.

Image credit: Hammer Museum.

HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING

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“I’ve believed that straying from structured acts of seeing can produce the strongest connection with an audience.” — RaMell Ross

HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING—a lyrical, experimental documentation of lives in a small Alabama community, directed by RaMell Ross—will screen this week at the Downtown Independent.

Following the film, Ross and Jheanelle Brown, co-curator of Black Radical Imagination, will discuss the writer-director’s work.

Ross will also present the film at the Hammer Museum and the Aero in early 2019

HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING

Wednesday, February 6, at 7:30

Aero Theatre

1328 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica.

Tuesday, January 8, at 7:30.

Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum

10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles.

Thursday, September 20, at 7 pm.

Downtown Independent

251 South Main Street, Los Angeles.

Through Thursday, September 27

Playhouse

673 Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena.

Monica Film Center

1332 2nd Street, Santa Monica.

Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018). Image credit: Idiom Film.

LARRY BELL AND ARAM MOSHAYEDI

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On the occasion of COMPLETE CUBES at Hauser & Wirth, Larry Bell will discuss his work with Hammer Museum curator and PARIS LA contributor Aram Moshayedi.

LARRY BELL IN CONVERSATION WITH ARAM MOSHAYEDI

Sunday, September 16, at 3 pm.

Hauser & Wirth, 901 East 3rd Street, downtown Los Angeles.

See “Metal Shop: Sohrab Mohebbi and Aram Moshayedi in conversation,” PARIS LA 15 (Spring 2017), 92–97.

Above: Larry Bell, Complete Cubes, installation view 2018. Photograph by Mario de Lopez. Image credit: Hauser & Wirth.

Below: Larry Bell in his Market Street studio in Venice, California, 1961. Image courtesy of Larry Bell, Marvin Silver and Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica. © Marvin Silver.

IN SEARCH OF JIŘÍ MENZEL

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Shivendra Singh Dungarpur’s durational documentary CZECHMATE—IN SEARCH OF JIŘÍ MENZEL (2018) will screen this weekend at the Hammer.

Dungarpur’s friendship with Menzel “resulted in this astonishingly detailed and probing documentary on Menzel’s life and career, postwar Czechoslovak cinema, the New Wave and political turmoil leading up to the Velvet Revolution, and the ever resilient Czech cultural identity.”

Interviews with Menzel, Miloš Forman, Agnieszka Holland, Ivan Passer, Věra Chytilová, Emir Kusturica, and many others “illuminate deftly chosen film clips, historical footage, and original contemporary views of places immortalized in Menzel’s films.”*

The eight-hour screening will include 15- and 30-minute breaks.

CZECHMATE—IN SEARCH OF JIŘÍ MENZEL, Sunday, September 16, at 2 pm.*

LARK ON A STRING—THE FILMS OF JIŘÍ MENZEL, through September 29.

Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles.

Image credit: Shivendra Singh Dungarpur

AFRO-PUNK

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African-American musicians “immersed in overwhelmingly white punk scenes” provide the focus of AFRO-PUNK (2004), the James Spooner documentary screening this week at the Hammer, followed by a conversation between the director and guests Tisa Bryant and Ernest Hardy.*

Bad Brains, Cipher, Fishbone, Dead Kennedys, and Candiria are all featured in the film, the title of which gave name to the annual music festival in New York City.

AFRO-PUNK, Wednesday, August 29, at 7:30 pm.

BILLY WILDER THEATER, HAMMER MUSEUM, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles.

*hammer.ucla.edu/afro-punk/

Bad Brains in performance, 1979.