In Conversation
Frank Gehry, Judy Baca, Anthony Rendon, and Peter Sellars
Thursday, February 8, 2018, 6:30–8pm
University of California, Los Angeles
advocacy.ucla.edu
Policy makers and leading civic figures Frank Gehry, Judy Baca, Peter Sellars, and Anthony Rendon will discuss California Exceptionalism. The lecture is hosted by UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA Government and Community Relations, and the Center for California Studies. To attend the event, register at advocacy.ucla.edu.
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Art for a Safe and Healthy California
Presented by Jane Fonda, Gagosian, and Christie’s
Art for a Safe and Healthy California is a benefit exhibition and auction presented by Jane Fonda, Gagosian, and Christie’s to support Campaign for a Safe and Healthy California. Artworks donated by artists including Charles Gaines, Frank Gehry, Alex Israel, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Catherine Opie, Christina Quarles, Ed Ruscha, Jonas Wood, among others, will be sold to help the coalition of voters campaigning to stop oil companies attempting to repeal Governor Gavin Newsom’s SB1137 on the November ballot. The bill provides safe setbacks from oil wells for homes, parks, schools, and playgrounds, as well as requirements to make already pumping wells safer.
The benefit launches on April 9 with a ticketed fundraiser in Beverly Hills hosted by Jane Fonda, Larry Gagosian, Aileen Getty, and Susan and Mark Buell, with cohosts Edythe Broad, Frank Gehry, Wendy and Eric Schmidt, Chrissy Teigen and John Legend, and Sean Penn. Highlighted artworks will be on view. A selection of works will be auctioned in the Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale during their marquee sale week in May, while another group of works will be presented for sale in an exhibition in summer 2024 at the Beverly Hills gallery.
Ed Ruscha, UPS DOWNS, 2023 © Ed Ruscha. Photo: Brica Wilcox
Screening
Westermann
Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea
Tuesday, October 3, 2023, 7:30pm
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
hammer.ucla.edu
Join the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles for a screening of the 3D documentary Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea (2023), which tells the story of artist, combat veteran, and acrobat H. C. (Cliff) Westermann, whose dramatic history can be traced through the surreal artworks he made to process the horrors he witnessed on the front lines of the Korean War. The film was directed by Leslie Buchbinder and features narration by Ed Harris, as well as interviews with Frank Gehry and Ed Ruscha, among others. The event will be followed by a question-and-answer session with Buchbinder, Gehry, and Ruscha, and is free to attend.
Still from Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea (2023), directed by Leslie Buchbinder. Artwork © Estate of H.C. Westermann/Licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York
Honor
Frank Gehry
Los Angeles Philharmonic 2023–24
The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s twentieth-anniversary season at the Walt Disney Concert Hall will honor Frank Gehry, who designed the iconic venue. Planned celebrations include a gala and performance in October, a collaborative staging of Wagner’s Das Rheingold in January, and additional exhibits and commissions to be announced.
Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles. Artwork © Frank Gehry. Photo: Adam Latham, courtesy Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
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