Martine Syms draws on early cinema history and the language of television for "Laughing Gas," the pilot episode for an ongoing conceptual project featured in Made in L.A.
In honor of Black History Month, this week’s #NotOnView selection is a work by Elizabeth Catlett that celebrates the rights of Black women.
Elizabeth Catlett, La Negra Sojourner Truth Lucho por los Derechos de las Mujeres y los Negros (The Black Woman Sojourner Truth Fought for the Rights of Women and Blacks), 1984. Linocut. 8 13/16 x 5 7/8 in. (22.4 x 14.9 cm). Collection UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum. Purchase.
All month on Pinterest in honor of Black History Month, we’re sharing works by Black artists in our collection: http://bit.ly/20OS06X
This week’s #NotOnView selection is a work from our Grunwald Center Collection.
Julie Mehretu, “Entropia (Review),” 2004. Screen print and lithograph. 29 x 39 1/2 in. (73.7 x 100.3 cm). Collection UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum. Purchased with funds provided by the Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Acquisition Endowment Fund.
RECENT ACQUISITION | Case in Point
The Hammer Museum has recently acquired a major work by John Outterbridge. Case in Point (c. 1970) is featured in the Hammer’s exhibition Now Dig This! Art & Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980. Assembled from leather and other materials and closely resembling a bag of grenades, this work communicates intense feelings about Outterbridge’s experience of being ushered to the back of a bus in 1955 despite his being in full army uniform. With Case in Point, Outterbridge confronts the all-too-common reality of racism that African Americans experienced at home after serving the country abroad in the Korean War.
Now Dig This! Art & Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980 is currently ON VIEW at MoMA PS1, New York, New York and will travel to Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown Massachusetts (July 20 - December 1, 2013).
[John Outterbridge. CASE IN POINT , from the Rag Man Series, c. 1970. Mixed media, 12 x 12 x 24 in. (30.5 x 30.5 x 61 cm). Image courtesy of Andrew Zermeño.]
Monday, March 11 is your last chance to see Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980, at MoMA PS1 in New York.
When Now Dig This! opened at the Hammer Museum in October 2011 we launched a school outreach program that continues today. One of the first schools we welcomed was the Willows Community School in Culver City. Inspired by the exhibition, Willows Community middle school students (and budding artists) created these amazing sketches following in the tradition of Pacific Standard Time. We hope the students of New York were just as inspired.
Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980 was presented as part of Pacific Standard Time, a collaboration of more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California. Organized by the Hammer and curated by Columbia University professor Kellie Jones, Now Dig This! chronicled and celebrated the nuanced and multicultural history of Los Angeles, and was the only Pacific Standard Time show to travel to New York. The exhibition will travel to the Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, Massachusetts from July 20 – December 1, 2013.