Tag: Hammer

  • Hammer Museum announces new mobile app

    UCLA’s Hammer Museum is the latest art institution to launch an app that helps you plan your visit and explore the museum’s permanent collection and current exhibitions. The app is free and available for iPhones (must have iOS 4 installed) and Android (Android 2.2 and higher) devices.

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  • Hammer Museum: 20th anniversary, 20 free days

    In celebration of its 20th anniversary this month, the Hammer Museum at UCLA will have 20 days of free admission — from November 26 to December 18.  Additionally, the museum’s store will offer 50% discounts on design books (totaling some 10,000 titles) for the entire month of December.  Here’s more information on current programs and…

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  • New exhibitions in Southern California

    A few new shows have opened in the last two weeks in case you’re heading to the LA area: At LACMA: Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea At the Getty: Cast in Bronze:  French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution and In Focus: Making a Scene (Note: the Getty is closed on July 4)…

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  • Magic Lantern show at the Hammer tonight

    If you’re in Los Angeles tonight, don’t miss The American Magic Lantern Theater‘s show at the UCLA Hammer Museum, 7pm.  The show, inspired by the Hammer exhibition The Darker Side of Light,  is a “Victorian era Magic-Lantern show, replete with flying ghosts, macabre goblins, and a petrifying rendition of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven.  Using…

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