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ON ADRIAN PIPER AND RACE

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Join philosophers Naomi Zack, Rebecca Tuvel, and Diarmuid Costello for a Hammer Museum conversation about “the ways in which Adrian Piper’s art interrogates racial identity, focusing on specific works as well as Piper’s own writings about race”: the essay “Passing for White, Passing for Black” and the travel memoir Escape to Berlin.*

 

DECONSTRUCTING THE TRUISM OF RACE AS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT*

NAOMI ZACK, REBECCA TUVEL, and DIARMUID COSTELLO in conversation

Saturday, November 3, at 2 pm.

 

ADRIAN PIPER—CONCEPTS AND INTUITIONS, 1965–2016

Through January 6.

Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles.

Above: Adrian Piper, Escape to Berlin: A Travel Memoir. Image credit: Adrian Piper.

Below: Adrian Piper, Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features, encil on paper.

The Eileen Harris Norton Collection © Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation Berlin. Image credit: Hammer Museum.

DO YOU KNOW ADRIAN PIPER?

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In conjunction with the Hammer exhibition ADRIAN PIPER—CONCEPTS AND INTUITIONS, 1965–2016, the symposium ADRIAN PIPER—THE LONG VIEW takes an extended look at the art-historical and social changes Adrian Piper has lived through, and the ways in which they contribute to an understanding of the work on view.

Participants include artist Donna Dennis, professor Bruce Altshuler, gallerist Jeffrey Deitch, art historians Alexander Alberro, Nizan Shaked, Elvan Zabunyan, and Vid Simoniti, and Frieze senior editor Pablo Larios.

Jörg Heiser, director of the Institute for Art in Context at the University of the Arts, Berlin, will deliver the symposium’s keynote address on Piper’s artistic trajectory in Europe.

See link below for full schedule.

 

ADRIAN PIPER—THE LONG VIEW

Sunday, October 7. First panel at 11:15 am.

Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles.

Above: Adrian Piper, Safe, 1990.

Below: Adrian Piper, The Mythic Being, I Embody Everything You Most Hate and Fear, 1975.

Image credit: Adrian Piper and Hammer Museum.

LETTER TO THE TIMES

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If, in anticipation of the upcoming Hammer exhibition ADRIAN PIPER—CONCEPTS AND INTUITIONS, 1965–2016, you’ve read the recent New York Times Magazine profile on Adrian Piper by Thomas Chatterton Williams, you may want to read Piper’s subsequent letter to the editor, which the Times’ declined to publish in full.

 

ADRIAN PIPER—CONCEPTS AND INTUITIONS, 1965—2016

October 7 through January 6.

Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles.

Above: Adrian Piper, LSD Self-Portrait from the Inside Out, 1966.

Below: Adrian Piper, Everything, 2003.

Image credit: Hammer Museum.