I’m so excited about Free Museum Day on Sunday, October 2, 2011! I can’t wait to see these exhibits! Anyone want to join me and get a little culture????
Hammer museum has some great exhibits this month to see AND Sunday is free museum day!
This exhibition includes more than 50 photos from the artist’s 2009 limited-edition interpretation of Jack Kerouac’s novel and painted landscapes captioned with quotes from the book.
NOW DIG THIS!
ART AND BLACK LOS ANGELES 1960 – 1980
This October the Hammer Museum will present Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980, a comprehensive exhibition that examines the vital legacy of the city’s African American visual artists. Now Dig This! comprises 140 works from 35 artists that have rarely been shown in a museum setting and includes early pieces by now well-established artists as well as works once considered “lost.” The exhibition expands the art historical record by presenting an array of artists, some not widely recognized by a broad public, and connecting their work to the movements, trends, and ideas that fueled the arts in Los Angeles during this period. The work of these African American practitioners was animated to an extent by the civil rights and Black Power movements reflecting the changing sense of what constituted African American identity and American culture. Artists featured in the exhibition include Melvin Edwards,Fred Eversley, David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, Senga Nengudi, John Outterbridge, Alonzo Davis, Dale Brockman Davis, Noah Purifoy, Betye Saar, and Charles White.
NOW DIG THIS! ART & BLACK LOS ANGELES 1960–1980
OPENS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2 WITH FREE ADMISSION
This comprehensive exhibition examines the vital legacy of the city’s African American visual artists, who—through their work and their connections with other artists from a variety of ethnic backgrounds—made up an important part of the creative community. Including 140 works by 35 artists, many of whom are not well known to the public, Now Dig This!expands the art historical record, placing the work of these practitioners within the context of the movements, trends, and ideas that fueled the arts in Los Angeles during this period.
Now Dig This! is presented as part of Pacific Standard Time, a collaboration of more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California, coming together for six months beginning in October 2011 to tell the story of the birth of the Los Angeles art scene and how it became a new force in the art world.
OPENING DAY FESTIVITIES
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2
11AM – 5PM
MUSEUM FREE DAY
Through the generosity of Bank of America, the Hammer is pleased to offer complimentary museum admission on Sunday, October 2, to celebrate the opening day of Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980.
1PM
EXHIBITION WALKTHROUGH
With exhibition curator Kellie Jones.
2PM
HAMMER PRESENTS
OPENING DAY PERFORMANCE: KISS
Artists Senga Nengudi and Maren Hassinger perform a collaborative project with Ulysses Jenkins in which they reimagine their works in the exhibition galleries.
11AM – 6PM
PACIFIC STANDARD TIME FREE SHUTTLE SERVICE
Free shuttle buses provided by South Coast Plaza will run between the Hammer and Pacific Standard Time partner institution, LACMA, between 11AM and 6PM on Sunday, October 2.
YEARBOOK: GROUP PHOTO
Harrell Fletcher and Adam Moser will document the span of an academic year at the Hammer with a yearbook dedicated to the museum’s visitors, programs, and staff.
Come by the Hammer on October 2 between 11am and 5pm to meet Harrell and Adam and to have your portrait taken for the book. A “group photo” of all visitors will take place in the courtyard at 3pm.
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