Speed of Life

FREE SUNDAYS November 6, 2011 - January 8, 2012 Starting this Sunday, November 6, the Hammer will offer free museum admission for all exhibitions every Sunday until the closing of the exhibition  Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980  on Sunday, January 8, 2012. Admission is ALWAYS FREE for Museum members, students with ID, UCLA faculty and staff, military personnel, veterans, and visitors 17 and under accompanied by an adult. Free on Thursdays for all visitors. For hours, location, and parking information,  click here .

Ed Ruscha Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas 64.5" x 121.75" oil on canvas 1963 Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire © Ed Ruscha Opening this month in Southern California are a series of art exhibitions, Pacific Standard Time , documenting the Los Angeles art scene from 1945-1980. Pacific Standard Time is an unprecedented collaboration of more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California. Initiated through grants from the Getty Foundation, Pacific Standard Time will take place for six months until April 2011. In a Teaser for Pacific Standard Time , Anthony Kiedis from the Red Hot Chili Peppers Takes Artist Ed Ruscha for a Ride The Getty Museum's comphrehensive exhibit of the period, Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970 , opens on October 1, 2011. More at: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970