Message #892

Name:	HAMMER MUSEUM
Date:	Tuesday November 14, 2006 3:16:02 pm MST
Subject:	Museum Shows
Message:	This November, the Hammer Museum hosts an array of film screenings, readings by award-winning authors, and other free programs not to be missed. Seating at public programs is limited and all guests are encouraged to arrive early. Hammer Members always receive priority seating, but must arrive at least 20 minutes prior to the event.         Hammer Screenings                       Friday, Nov 3 7pm Free the Land Coop. Film still from The Wake. (photo: Courtesy Freewaves).                 Friday & Saturday, November 3 & 4, 7-11pm Freewaves presents an expansive, two-night event of 150 international artists' projections, works on flat screens, and digital and video installations screened on both levels of the Museum courtyard. Selected by 10 curators from Argentina, Egypt, Korea, South Africa, the United States, and elsewhere, the works respond to the question, "Too Much Freedom?" For details please visit www.freewaves.org. A selection of works will also be available in the Hammer Video Library and Viewing Room throughout November.                       Hammer Presents                         Saturday, Nov 11 7pm Edie Sedgwick (Photo: John Palmer).                 Edie Sedgwick (1943-1971) worked closely with Andy Warhol as a collaborator on and star of many of his films. Join David Weisman, John Palmer, and Melissa Painter for a presentation of rarely seen footage and previously unreleased audio tapes of Sedgwick talking about her life story and the role of celebrity. The program is followed by a book signing of Edie: Girl on Fire. Hammer Presents is a series of interdisciplinary events produced by leading musicians, filmmakers, and visual artists.                       Hammer Readings                         Sunday, Nov 5 6pm                 Ngugi wa Thiong'o is the author of many novels, plays, and essays, including Weep Not, Child, The River Between, A Grain of Wheat, and Matigari. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages. Sesshu Foster's first novel Atomik Aztex is the winner of a Believer Magazine Book Award. He has taught composition and literature in East LA for 20 years.                           Thursday, Nov 9 7pm (photo: Jessica Bennett)                 Stephen Burt reads from his most recent collection of poetry, Parallel Play. He is the author of the critical work Randall Jarrell and His Age and the poetry collection Popular Music. He teaches at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.                                 Sunday, Nov 12 6pm                 Henri Cole reads from his most recent collection of poetry, Blackbird and Wolf. His work Middle Earth was a ï¬�nalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2004.                                 Tuesday, Nov 14 7pm                 Iranian-born Nahid Rachlin lives in the US, where she has published several novels including Foreigner, Married to a Stranger, and The Heart's Desire; the memoir Persian Girls; and a collection of short stories, Veils.                                 Wednesday, Nov 15 7pm (Image: Drawing by Roz Chast).                 Roz Chast presents selections from her new book, Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons by Roz Chast, 1978-2006, a comprehensive collection spanning 27 years of her career and including previously unpublished works. Poetry is a series of readings organized by Stephen Yenser. New American Writing is a series of contemporary fiction and poetry organized by Benjamin Weissman.                       Panel Disucssion                         Wednesday, Nov 8 7pm Zoe Crosher. LAX Radisson, 2001. Lightjet print mounted on aluminum. Courtesy DCKT Contemporary, NYC.                 The publication of Zoe Crosher's monograph, Out the Window: LAX, marks a return for the LA Forum to the pamphlet format. Crosher, whose images document planes arriving and departing at LAX as seen through motel and hotel windows, joins writer Norman Klein, writers and urbanists John Chase and Alan Loomis, and art critic Michael Ned Holte for a discussion on the role that such publications might play in the evolution of the built environment. Moderated by Greg Goldin, architecture critic for the Los Angeles Magazine. Visit www.laforum.org for more information.                     Hammer Lectures                         Thursday, Nov 30 7pm William Christenberry. The Bar-B-Q Inn, Greensboro, Alabama, 1971. Photograph. (photo: Courtesy Aperture).                 A pioneer of American color photography, William Christenberry has plumbed regional identity of the American South. His photographs of his native Hale County, Alabama, were recently published in a self-titled collection. Christenberry's slide lecture on his work is followed by a book signing. This lecture is part of the Aperture West Collaborative Series.         Sunday Afternoons for Kids                       Sunday, Nov 5 12pm                 Author of the young adult novel Girl in Development, Jordan Roter reads from her book and leads a fiction writing workshop. Space is limited to 20 students. Email rsvp@826la.com or call 310-305-8418 to make a reservation.                     Hammer Projects                         Thursday, Nov 16 6pm                 The artist leads a gallery talk through her exhibition, on view through December 31.                             Thursday, Nov 30 6pm                 The artist leads a gallery talk through his exhibition, on view through February 11, 2007.                       Cafe                                     Clementine's seasonal menu now features hot sandwiches, meaty chili and a daily soup special, as well as an array of fresh salads, including the much-loved Autumn Chicken Salad, and delicious, fresh-baked cookies and pastries. Clementine also caters and has special menus and gift items available for the holidays. For complete menu information, go to www.clementineonline.com.                       Talks and docent-led tours                       Kendell Carter, Hommie, 2006. Mixed media. Installation at the Werby Gallery, California State University, Long Beach. Courtesy of the artist.                 Lunchtime Art Talks Wednesdays at 12:30pm Curators give brief talks about works of art on view and from the collections. Click here for a schedule of talks Docent-led tours of special exhibitions Museum educators give free tours of special exhibitions on Tuesday at 1pm and Thursdays at 1pm and 6pm.                   Exhibitions                     Wolfgang Tillmans. Smokin' Jo, 1995. Chromogenic development print. Courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, and Regen Projects, Los Angeles.                 Aernout Mik: Refraction, throught December 31 A Fine Experiment: A Tribute to Robert Heinecken, through December 31 Hammer Projects Gert & Uwe Tobias, through January 14 Christine Nguyen, through December 31 Kendell Carter, opening November 7                                                               HAMMER MUSEUM 10899 Wilshire Blvd at Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90024 310-443-7000 www.hammer.ucla.edu Hours: Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat 11am-7pm; Sun 11am-5pm; Thu 11am-9pm. Closed Mondays. Public programs are free of charge. Gallery talks are free with museum admissions. Hammer members receive priority seating. For more information about Hammer Membership, email membership@hammer.ucla.edu. Public programs are made possible, in part, by the Annenberg Foundation, with additional support from Laura Donnelley, Bronya and Andrew Galef, and Erika Glazer. Hammer Projects: Christine Nguyen. Migration over the Woods and Its Strange Powers, 2006. Installation at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2006; photo by Joshua White.

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