The Hammer Museum is gearing up for a significant period of transition as it welcomes new leadership and grapples with high-level staff departures. The upcoming exhibition 'Head for the Hills!' will mark a turning point under the direction of Zoë Ryan, the museum's recently appointed director.
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24 'Head for the Hills! Selections From the Grunwald Center and Hammer Contemporary Collection,' Hammer Museum When this exhibit opens, it will be something of a holding action — no doubt unintentionally. The UCLA museum is in the midst of wide-ranging change, following the retirement of director Ann Philbin after 25 years at the helm. The show, featuring many recent acquisitions, represents where the much-admired program has come from; curiosity is rising about where it will be going. The exhibition was organized by senior curator Paulina Pobocha, who left her Hammer post for the Art Institute of Chicago in September after just nine months in Los Angeles. It will be the first large exhibition to open under the tenure of the Hammer’s new director, Zoë Ryan, who arrived on New Year’s Day from the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. Ryan, a not-widely-known museum administrator, will have two critically important jobs to fill right out of the gate — the new vacancy in the senior curator’s office, plus the Hammer’s chief curator, a position open since the departure of Connie Butler, who left more than a year ago for the directorship of New York's MoMA PS1. Not to put too fine a point on it: Turnover in all three top Hammer jobs is epic. A year or two will be needed to gauge the change. Museum programs take a while to assemble and present. Still, the coming appointments will offer up revealing clues. — Christopher Knight Feb.15-June 22 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,' Hollywood Pantages Theatre It’s an obvious pick, but I’m the mother of a child with a 'Harry Potter' obsession, so I’m super excited for the arrival of this stage pla
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