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In Joan Didion: What She Means, the writer and curator Hilton Als creates a mosaic that explores Didion s life and work and the feeling each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics.Arranged chronologically, the book highlights Didion s fascination with the two coasts that made her. As a Westerner transplanted to New York, Didion…
One of the most prolific and exuberant painters of the past three decades, Lari Pittman creates works that mirror the social fabric of his time. This dazzling volume follows Pittman’s trajectory as his visual language evolved and his technical mastery grew ever more sophisticated. From his early works— defiant affirmations of identity in the increasingly…
This volume anthologizes the textual contributions from the Hammer exhibition titled Lifes. These texts formed the starting point from which choreographers and composers, theater directors and dramaturgs, and performance, video and installation artists contributed to the overall project. The publication documents the exhibition’s fostering of interdisciplinary conversation toward a “total work of art.” In addition to…
This wonderfully diverse and lavishly illustrated exhibition catalog accompanies the first biennial focused on new and cutting-edge artwork created in the Los Angeles region. Bringing together the work of 60 artists from in and around Los Angeles—many of them emerging or under-recognized—this collection of paintings, sculpture, installations, and stills from video and performance art offers…
This wide-ranging and generously illustrated book focuses on new and cutting-edge artwork created in Southern California. Celebrating the Hammer Museum’s biennial, this volume brings together the work of thirty-five emerging and under-recognized artists from Los Angeles. It features new installations, videos, films, sculptures, performances, and paintings, much of it commissioned especially for the biennial, and…
This fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition Made in L.A. 2016: a, the, though, only, and is developed in collaboration with the participating artists. The individual sections are disparate and unique, shedding light on the processes and methodologies that inform the contributions to the exhibition. As the third iteration in an ongoing series, this year’s Made in…
This book presents work featured in the 2018 edition of Made in L.A., the Hammer Museum’s biennial exhibition. Since its inception in 2012, Made in L.A. has been bringing together regional artists from every discipline and has been curated by some of the most exciting figures in the art world. 2018 is no exception. Spanning…
Made in L.A. 2020: a version brings together an intergenerational and interdisciplinary mix of artists, each of whom is contributing to L.A. s vibrant art scene. Since its inception in 2012, the Hammer Museum s Made in L.A. biennial has brought together local artists from a wide range of discipline. Under the direction of co-curators…
The sixth iteration of the Los Angeles biennial, highlighting themes of the vernacular, the urban, the performative and the collectiveMade in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living features the work of 39 artists and groups. It takes its cues from the ethos of the city and situates art as an expanded field of culture that is…
Bringing together fifty years of painting, sculpture, and installations from the celebrated Italian artist Marisa Merz, this monograph accompanies a major US retrospective of her work. This generously illustrated book offers readers the chance to appreciate the range of works by Marisa Merz, winner of the 2013 Golden Lion lifetime achievement award at the Venice…
Since 1986, Dutch artist Mark Manders (born 1968) has been developing an ongoing project titledSelf-Portrait as a Building. Taking the form of sculptures, installations, drawings and projections, these works map Manders artistic persona through the conceptual model of a built edifice, in the fashion of the Renaissance memory theater. Inspired by writings on this subject…
Comic strips and comic books were among the most popular and influential forms of mass media in 20th century America. This fascinating book focuses on fifteen pioneering cartoonists—ranging from Winsor McCay to Chris Ware—who brought this genre to the highest level of artistic expression and who had the greatest impact on the development of the…
Pax Kaffraria (2010–2014) is an eight-chapter project that takes Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe as case studies, and articulates questions around issues of national identification, colonial history, globalization, trans-nationality, whiteness, African-ness, and post-colonial aesthetics. In this work, Mokgosi continues his interrogation regarding the implications of established histories, and more broadly the construction of narrative….
The term “no humans involved” emerged shortly after the 1991 beating of Rodney King, when it was discovered that the Los Angeles Police Department was using the term as a shorthand for casework that involved Black and Latino men and sex workers. In 1994, Jamaican scholar and theorist Sylvia Wynter challenged her academic colleagues to…
ARAM MOSHAYEDI AND CONNIE BUTLER, WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY CATHERINE DAMMAN, BRUCE HAINLEY, AND PAUL McCARTHY This book looks at Paul McCarthy’s drawings, a rarely examined aspect of his oeuvre, and offers a greater understanding of this provocative artist. One of the world’s most prolific social critics, Paul McCarthy is best known for his work in…
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