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Upcoming Events (12)
Arthur Jafa: The White Album
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Assembled from found and produced footage, Arthur Jafa's 30-minute experimental film examines how visual media can transmit the 'power, beauty, and alienation' of Black music in American culture.
Hammer Projects: Mike Cloud
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Chicago-based artist Mike Cloud makes mixed-media assemblages typically composed of stretcher bars configured into geometric shapes and universal forms with objects embedded in thick oil paint.
Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials
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A group exhibition featuring work by 22 artists from North, Central, and South America exploring the intertwined relationship between living materials—such as stones, avocado, cacao, achiote, cochineal, and clay—and contemporary art.
SPACE IS THE PLACE: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection
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Taking its title from the 1973 studio album and 1974 film by Sun Ra, this group exhibition considers 'space' as a conceptual framework through themes of afro-futurism, belonging, placemaking, and the act of taking up space.
Five Centuries of Works on Paper: The Grunwald Center at 70, Part II
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This exhibition marks the 70th anniversary of the Grunwald Center, celebrating its history through a selection of significant works that reflect the collection's breadth and diversity.
Lunchtime Art Talk on Fred Wilson
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Curator Erin Christovale leads an in-person discussion of Fred Wilson's work.
Off-site program: Edgar Arceneaux & Frank Lawson: Place Is the Space
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Presented at the UCLA Nimoy Theater, this four-hour immersive performance experience combines live jazz improvisation, theatrical storytelling and multimedia design inspired by Sun Ra's philosophy and his film Space Is the Place.
Hammer Projects: Vibeke Mascini
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Mascini presents a new installation in which electrical cables and aerial root systems intermingle by electroforming plants including ceiba trees and orchids, rendering otherwise nonelectrical subjects into carriers of electricity.
Hammer Projects: Gê Viana
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The first institutional presentation in the U.S. of Viana, a visual artist working in collage, sound, video, and installation to explore material culture, oral history, and syncretism within the African diaspora across Brazil.
Huguette Caland: A Life in a Few Lines
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Lebanese by birth, French by marriage, and American by choice, Caland's life and work spanned continents and media, challenging the aesthetic and social conventions of her time in each place her diasporic migrations brought her.
Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images
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An important figure in geometric abstraction, Jamaican-born artist Mavis Pusey created rich abstract paintings and works on paper that reflect her wide-ranging engagement with fashion, printmaking, and the urban environment.
Felipe Baeza: Anima
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Baeza's figurative work depicts bodies in various states of fragmentation, hybridity, and legibility to explore racialized, queer, and migrant subjects who transgress the limitations of identity.