Aperture Lecture Series at the Hammer March 4: Zwelethu Mthethwa

March 4 at 7pm at the Hammer Museum; 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Westwood

Zwelethu Mthethwa, (Aperture, March 2010) is the artist’s long-awaited first comprehensive monograph, providing an overview of his work to-date and featuring the stunning portraits that have brought him international acclaim. Mthethwa’s work has been featured in over thirty-five international solo exhibitions and numerous group shows, including the 2005 Venice Biennial and Snap Judgments at the International Center of Photography, New York. Born in Durban, South Africa, he now resides in Cape Town. A book signing will follow the lecture.

ALL HAMMER PUBLIC PROGRAMS ARE FREE. Tickets are required, and are available at the Billy Wilder Theater Box Office one hour prior to start time. Limit one ticket per person on a first come, first served basis. Hammer members receive priority seating, subject to availability. Reservations not accepted, RSVPs not required.

Parking is available under the museum for $3 after 6:00p.m.

Barbara Kruger Lecture @ LACMA Thursday October 29 7:30pm

Join LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director Michael Govan for a conversation with renowned contemporary artist Barbara Kruger. Barbara Kruger transformed LACMA's BCAM elevator from a functional object into a major work of art. She and Michael Govan will discuss how this work manifests her interest in creating art and commentary with "pictures and words." This popular series often sells out early so be sure to reserve your free tickets soon.
Bing Theater | Free, tickets required, available at the box office | For more information call 323 857-6010

Doug McCulloh Lecture in Burns 152 Monday, September 28 @ 4:30

Doug McCulloh is an artist based in Southern California. He is an honors graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara and holds an MFA in photography and digital media from Claremont Graduate University. McCulloh’s work has been shown in museums, academic institutions, and galleries in the US, Europe, China and Mexico, including more than two dozen large-scale solo exhibitions. Exhibitions include: California Museum of Photography; KIT/Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland; Asian Cultural Center, New York City; China San Jiangyuan Photography Festival and Los Angeles Center for Digital Art.

For more information: www.douglasmcculloh.com

"...after winning the right to name a street in a new tract housing development," writes Sheila Pinkel in AfterImage, the journal of the Visual Studies Workshop, "McCulloh spent seven years working on "Dream Street," shooting 12,891 photos and taping 47.5 hours of interviews, in order to accomplish a reflection of the tract house building trade as it exists in Southern California at the beginning of the 21st Century... What makes McCulloh's insightful work so unusual is that he is both photographer and writer and the intersection of these two voices are at times informative, moving and/or shocking."

Katy Grannan Lecture at USC February 25 12-2pm

February 25, 2009
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
University Park Campus
Graduate Fine Arts Building
Lecture Forum

Katy Grannan received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania and her MFA from Yale University. The artist has exhibited at the 2004 Whitney Biennial; the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao; the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Orange County Museum of Art, among others. Grannan's work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Orange County Museum of Art; the International Center of Photography; and the Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies and has been featured in Artforum, Frieze, Art on Paper, Art and Auction, Visionaire, the Village Voice, The New Yorker, the New York Times, and The New York Times Magazine, among others. Her monograph, Model American, was published by Aperture in 2005. Her exhibition catalog, The Westerns, was published in 2008. Katy Grannan lives in Berkeley, California.

For More Information: http://roski.usc.edu/calendar/event/868033/master-of-fine-arts-lecture-series-and-handtmann-photography-lecture-series-present-katy-grannan/

Lecture: Curating Contemporary Photography by Charlotte Cotton

Charlotte Cotton, Curator and Department Head of Photographs at LACMA, will be speaking at OTIS College of Art and Design, Ben Maltz Gallery on November 10 from 7:30-9.

The lecture is being held in conjunction with the exhibition, "When It's a Photograph" which examines variations on the traditional photographic image.

http://www.otis.edu/calendar/detail/id/1021

Martin Parr Lecture at LACMA March 9th

Sunday, March 9 @ 7pm

LACMA’s curator of photography Charlotte Cotton moderates an informal discussion with the British photographers Chris Killip and Martin Parr about their work from the early 1980s. This conversation explores the visionary work of these highly influential documentary photographers whose images document the social terrain of their communities in the United Kingdom during times of economic and political turbulence.
Brown Auditorium | Free; tickets are required. Tickets are available at the LACMA box office one hour before the program begins.