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Hammer MuseumWestwood

Five Centuries of Works on Paper: The Grunwald Center at 70, Part II

Ended7 June 2026 – 25 October 2026Free

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Marking the Grunwald Center's 70th anniversary with over 70 prints, drawings and photographs spanning the Renaissance to the present.

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One photograph here lays an image of "NO CAL" bottled drinks over a sculpted female figure. It is a 1967 photogram by Robert Heinecken, and you reach it in a show that also holds a Dürer woodcut from around 1498 and Kara Walker's ship held above the waves by a giant pair of hands.

Part II hangs more than 70 works from the Grunwald Center's 45,000 prints, drawings, photographs and artists' books. Paper is sensitive to light, so the collection is shown in rotation, and this half brings fresh selections after Part I. Sections run from Fred Grunwald's founding gift through European prints and drawings to 20th-century photography and American printmaking after 1960, with Munch, Klimt, Matisse and Julie Mehretu among the names.

Entry is free, Tuesday to Sunday 11am to 6pm, with an audioguide in the Bloomberg Connects app. Artist Phil Chang leads a free after-hours tour on Tuesday 20 October at 6pm. The show closes on 25 October.

Look for

  • Robert Heinecken, untitled from Are You Rea, 1967

    Look for a photogram, made without a camera, that lays an image of "NO CAL" bottled drinks over a sculpted female figure.

  • Kara Walker, no world, 2010

    A black and white image of a ship lifted above the ocean waves by a huge pair of hands.

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  • Nerding Out
  • Rainy Days

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