Event 2- Hammer Museum

For my second event I went to the Hammer Museum. This is my fourth year at UCLA and I have never gone and it really interested me to go because I love museums and this museum is situated in a very weird place because it’s on the corner of two of the busiest streets in West wood and it just looks like a high rise building.

The first thing I want to say is that it’s the weirdest/ most difficult museums that I have ever visited in my life. I say this for one reason only and that is that I had no clue where to go and what galleries I could enter. The first floor was the easiest because it was pretty bright and open and I really like the video that was in one of the rooms. The video was showing different things like 2 range rovers being crushed, people marching down in some parade in Europe, people playing music, children jumping on inflatables. These things showed me destruction, power, and fun all within the realm of art.

Next, the second level I saw the Mary Reid Kelley with Patrick Kelley pictures and they caught my eye right away. The one that caught my eye was the Minotaur with Skull picture. I don’t know why but it did. All the paintings took me back to the week that we talked about the human body and how it is used because in some senses all the images were sexual, because they showed off a woman’s and man’s assets. I also liked how they seemed to be going into the wall because they were pushed in and the walls were white and the paintings were black and white.

Furthermore, the third level was really interesting too not only because of the galleries but the view. That’s really the first thing that caught my eye. Also, the paddle tennis tables. That was surprising and different. Moreover, the chairs were also different, they looked like vases and honestly if people weren't sitting on them I would have just thought that they were empty vases.

In all, to me this was more of a contemporary art museum because it wasn't really displaying much art in a sense of being in rooms for specific art but it used the entire building, the natural light, the outside to make it a museum and even though I appreciate that I honestly did not like that I felt lost.