The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
The Hammer Museum, which is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, is an art museum and cultural center known for its artist-centric and progressive array of exhibitions and public programs. Founded in 1990 by the entrepreneur-industrialist Armand Hammer to house his personal art collection, the museum has since expanded its scope to become “the hippest and most culturally relevant institution in town.” Particularly important among the museum’s critically acclaimed exhibitions are presentations of both historically over-looked and emerging contemporary artists. The Hammer Museum also hosts over 300 programs throughout the year, from lectures, symposia, and readings to concerts and film screenings. As of February 2014, the museum’s collections, exhibitions, and programs are completely free to all visitors
Hammer Museum Tour (HD)
We visited the Hammer Museum (aka The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center) in Westwood near Los Angeles during December of 2016 around Christmas time. There were some very interesting exhibits of modern art there in various forms. The entrance fee was FREE which was really nice :-). Thank UCLA for that as they are an affiliate of the University. The Billy Wilder Theatre is located inside. Our six year-old son certainly enjoyed his visit, especially towards the end when he got to check out the cool gift shop. So I would say this was certainly a family/kids friendly museum. If you are ever in the west LA area, the Hammer Museum should be on your list to check out if you enjoy contemporary art. Enjoy this video tour of the museum and please feel free to leave a comment!
BTW check out the cool and fun Heatherwick Studio Spun Chair we tried at the museum:
A walk through the Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum: Galería con una colección permanente de obras históricas y exhibiciones especiales de vanguardia del arte contemporáneo. Ubicado en 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024.
Fue mi tercera vez dentro del museo y a pesar de que una parte se encontraba en construcción / remodelación, es la ocasión que más lo disfruté. Las exhibiciones fueron muy interesantes, las cambian con regularidad y la entrada siempre es gratuita :)
El patio central es muy agradable para pasar un rato cómodo, ya sea comiendo algo de la cafetería o platicando con amigos.
Además, el barrio de Westwood es muy seguro y bonito. Hay mucho que hacer a sus alrededores.
Exhibiciones mostradas:
- La colección de Armand Hammer
- Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel
- Celebration of Our Enemies: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection
- Hammer Projects: Andrea Fraser y Yunhee Min
Lari Pittman Declaration of Independence at the UCLA Hammer Museum Westwood Village LA California
Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence
SEP 29, 2019-JAN 5, 2020
The most comprehensive retrospective of the prolific Los Angeles painter and long-revered teacher.
Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence is the most comprehensive retrospective in 20 years of the work of the American artist Lari Pittman. As both a prolific painter and a long-revered teacher,
the Los Angeles–based artist is a strong presence in both the local art community and the international sphere. Pittman's work has been featured in important exhibitions such as Documenta (1997), the Venice Biennale (2003), and the Whitney Biennial (1993, 1995), as well as in major survey exhibitions of Los Angeles and American art in both the United States and Europe. This exhibition includes approximately 80 paintings and 50 works on paper drawn from the Hammer’s own holdings as well as from public and private collections throughout the world.
From his earliest experiments with collage and decoration during his formative years at California Institute of the Arts, to the iconic paintings produced in response to the AIDS crisis and culture wars of the 1990s, to his present philosophical investigations into the history-telling of textiles, Pittman’s works have remained some of the most prescient and influential of any artist since the 1980s. His highly detailed works on panel and paper—grand tales about love, sex, death, art, and citizenship—feature a rich visual language that he has developed over the course of his four-decade career, replete with owls, Victorian silhouettes, flying text, and exaggerated and sexualized bodies. These meticulously crafted works have become emblematic of a generation of Los Angeles artists who reclaimed ornamentation and lush detail during the 1980s, employing them as part of their political and personal iconography. At the same time Pittman shared the noirish sensibilities of many of his peers whose influences included that era’s thriving punk rock scene and the legendary Feminist Art Program at CalArts. In 1992 his work was featured in the critically acclaimed exhibition Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s, along with that of Mike Kelley, Liz Larner, Raymond Pettibon, Jim Shaw, and others. Pittman’s blend of densely painted surfaces and codified references to sexuality and other charged topics, such as the history of racial violence in the United States, aligned his works with the discourse surrounding the contested body in the early 1990s.
In recent years Pittman has moved inward, depicting memories, his own thought process, and a diverse group of artistic influences. These paintings function as rich dreamscapes and provide insight into the artist’s psyche. Key figures from art history are juxtaposed with references to production—represented as birds, babies, vulvas, thought bubbles, and other points of origin. His painted surfaces have become smoother, accentuating the synthetic quality of the works and showcasing the artist’s mastery of the medium. Among these recent works on view will be Pittman’s cycle of mural-scale paintings titled Flying Carpets (2013).
Pittman generally works alone in the studio and has described painting as a physical activity that involves his entire body. His paintings are created without preliminary sketches, and their large scale mirrors the outsized, complex, and even mythic ideas that inform them. In contrast, his works on paper are more intimate and graphic, featuring fewer objects and a more pronounced flattening of illusionistic space. Still lushly colored and decorated, they offer a quieter counterpart to his paintings. A selection of these drawings spanning Pittman’s career comprises Orangerie, a stand-alone installation that provides an intimate space for viewing his works on paper.
Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence is organized by Connie Butler, chief curator, with Vanessa Arizmendi, curatorial assistant.
Lari Pittman (b. 1952) was born in Los Angeles and spent part of his childhood in Colombia, where his mother was born. He attended University of California, Los Angeles, and received both his BFA (1974) and MFA (1976) from California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA. Pittman is a professor in the Department of Art at UCLA. He has received numerous awards and honors, including those from the International Association of Art Critics, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Flintridge Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, and the J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts.
Current Joys - My Motorcycle Live @ Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA 4/20/2018
cool show at a museum with free ice cream
crowds energy was sick
Ailee - Atmosphere - live - KCON West - Hammer Museum - Los Angeles CA - August 8, 2018
Korean stars Ailee, Roy Kim, and Echae Kang gave a special concert at Hammer Museum courtyard. This concert is a sneak peek for KCON, the world’s largest Korean culture convention and music festival.
Ailee is a K-pop star who performed at the Winter Paralympics closing ceremony in 2018
Made in L.A. at the Hammer Museum
Taking place once every two years, this unique art exhibit showcases the talent of local artists.
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California!
The Hammer Museum, which is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, in Westwood, California is an art museum and cultural center known for its artist-centric and progressive array of exhibitions and public programs.
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Ailee - U & I - live - KCON West - Hammer Museum - Los Angeles CA - August 8, 2018
Korean stars Ailee, Roy Kim, and Echae Kang gave a special concert at Hammer Museum courtyard. This concert is a sneak peek for KCON, the world’s largest Korean culture convention and music festival.
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This is a vlog about our Saturday trip to the Hammer Museum on our day off.
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Roy Kim - KCON West - Hammer Museum - Los Angeles CA - August 8, 2018
Korean stars Ailee, Roy Kim, and Echae Kang gave a special concert at Hammer Museum courtyard. This concert is a sneak peek for KCON, the world’s largest Korean culture convention and music festival.
Roy Kim - live - KCON West - Hammer Museum - Los Angeles CA - August 8, 2018
Korean stars Ailee, Roy Kim, and Echae Kang gave a special concert at Hammer Museum courtyard. This concert is a sneak peek for KCON, the world’s largest Korean culture convention and music festival.
Radical Women: Breaking Apart the Body
Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 runs from September 15th, 2017 to December 31, 2017.
Part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, this exhibition will reappraise the contribution of Latin American women artists and those of Latino and Chicano heritage in the United States to contemporary art.
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Parte de Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, esta exposición revalorizará las contribuciones de las artistas latinoamericanas y las artistas latinas y chicanas al arte contemporáneo.
Ailee - U & I - live - KCON West - Hammer Museum - Los Angeles CA - August 8, 2018
Korean stars Ailee, Roy Kim, and Echae Kang gave a special concert at Hammer Museum courtyard. This concert is a sneak peek for KCON, the world’s largest Korean culture convention and music festival.
Ailee is a K-pop star who performed at the Winter Paralympics closing ceremony in 2018
Go-go dancing at the Hammer Museum
Dancer Falk Hentschel performs for five minutes-a-day, unscheduled and unannounced at the Sardines and Oranges exhibit at the Hammer Museum in Westwood, CA.
Echae Kang - live - KCON West - Hammer Museum - Los Angeles CA - August 8, 2018
Korean stars Ailee, Roy Kim, and Echae Kang gave a special concert at Hammer Museum courtyard. This concert is a sneak peek for KCON, the world’s largest Korean culture convention and music festival.