In the upstairs gallery of the Hammer Museum’s current “Outside the Box” exhibit, a line from composer and performer Meredith Monk’s lithograph collection reads, “I have always thought that sound and space were inseparable.” Yet despite this connection, museums have a long history of being stiflingly silent spaces.
Author Archives: Jennifer Bastien
Libraries turn a page in the digital age
“Is that a library book? I haven’t seen one of those in years!”
Letters illuminate authors’ private lives
“A novel, like a letter, should be loose, cover much ground, run swiftly, take risk of mortality and decay.”
Screen Scene: “Babies”
The advent of the “Planet Earth” series may have died down, but the phenomenon of the nature documentary has taken an exciting (and humanistic) turn with Focus Features’ new film “Babies.”
Pens are free to run in writers’ journals
In a journal he kept while writing “The Grapes of Wrath,” novelist John Steinbeck wrote: “I have very grave doubts sometimes.
TV Tropes website keeps common media devices fresh
My postmodern American fiction class this quarter began by reading an author who wrote an essay called “The Literature of Exhaustion.”
Hammer bike event geared to students
With its freeways, traffic, and valet parking, Los Angeles is not a city known for its walk-ability. At least for tomorrow night, bike-ability will be a different story ““ when UCLA’s Hammer Museum hosts the second edition of Bike Night at the Hammer.