Currently on view at Westwood’s Hammer Museum is a solo exhibition from Los Angeles-based Stephen G. Rhodes.

Rhodes, renowned for his multimedia installations’ dramatization of the historical unconscious, presents a film inspired by Steve Allen’s late-1970s talk show “Meeting of Minds,” a fictionalized depiction of roundtable discussions among such historical figures as Plato, Cleopatra, Karl Marx, and Charles Darwin. In it, Rhodes combines narrative uncertainty with citations and various media to challenge the viewer’s understanding of the “fact” seemingly inherent in historical representation.

For more on the artist and a complete essay on the philosophy of the show, visit the Hammer.

Stephen G. Rhodes

Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Phone: 310.443.7000

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This Friday, Westwood’s Hammer Museum welcomes Paris-based artist Eric Baudelaire’s first solo show in the U.S. Baudelaire will present his video Sugar Water, a depiction of a sequence of billposter images of a combusting car. The portrayal progresses gradually, over a 72-minute period, suggesting a slow contemplation of political violence in opposition to the rapid-fire, visual nature of news media and its effect on the consumer.

Visit the Hammer for more on the exhibition and artist.

Eric Baudelaire / Sugar Water

Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Phone: 310.443.7000

Last Sunday,  UCLA’s Hammer Museum introduced its exhibition “Outside the Box,” a complete archive of prints from Los Angeles publisher Edition Jacob Samuel running until August 29.

Since 1988, Jacob Samuel has published 43 portfolios of prints made by a wide range of international artists, including Marina Abramovic, John Baldessari, Chris Burden, Mona Hatoum, Rebecca Horn, Anish Kapoor, Barry McGee, Ed Moses, Matthew Monahan, Wangechi Mutu, Gabriel Orozco, Nancy Rubins, Ed Ruscha, Robert Therrien, James Welling, Christopher Wool, and Andrea Zittel, among many others. Working primarily in series in intaglio mediums such as etching, drypoint, and aquatint, Samuel has collaborated with artists both in his Santa Monica studio and internationally.

The number of prints included in each portfolio range from 6 to 36, with over 550 individual prints included in the 43 portfolios.

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Edition Jacob Samuel / “Outside the Box”

Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Phone: 310.443.7000

This is a one night event that the Hammer Museum is hosting on Thursday May 13th at 7 pm.  A multimedia event which includes art, food, and music.  This is a free event so all can attend should make there way to the westside.  For more info regarding this event visit the Hammer Museum website.  There will be a sound art performance by Gil Kuno and all the galleries will be open.  There is also a promised “Special Guest” which will remain a secret.   These events are always a big success and get packed early so make sure to get there early.

Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024

This Thursday, February 4th , Westwood’s Hammer Museum will hold the Hammer Bash!, wrapping up its R. Crumb exhibit, a five-year project of idiosyncratic renderings of the Book of Genesis. Janet Klein and her Parlor Boys including Robert Armstrong and Tom Marion from The Cheap Suit Serenaders will perform. In addition, the event will include an R. Crumb Life Drawing Workshop.

Click here for more info on the show and artist.

For more general info, visit www.hammer.ucla.edu.

Hammer Bash!
Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90024
(310) 443-7000

Closing Party: Thursday, February 4, 7-11 p.m.

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The groundbreaking comic book artist R. Crumb will present his work, The Book of Genesis Illustrated at the Hammer Museum this October. Crumb became famous in the 60s for well-known cartoons like “Keep on Truckin’. ” With 207 black-and-white drawings that include all of the actual words from the original Genesis, this momentous project took Crumb 5 years to complete. His show opens on October 22, but if you can’t get enough of him you can attend “An Evening with R. Crumb,” where the artist will talk about his life and The Book of Genesis with The New Yorker art editor Françoise Mouly. Take a look at some of the pages of the book after the jump!

Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90024
310. 443. 7000

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