The Hammer Museum is pleased to announce the launch of a digital archive of the exhibition Now Dig This! Art in Black Los Angeles 1960-1980. The digital archive is a new platform for art historical research, which will give new life to the exhibition, organized by the Hammer in 2011 as part of the Getty's Pacific Standard Time initiative, by making a wealth of resources available to scholars and curators around the world. Now Dig This! was the first in-depth survey of the incredibly vital legacy of Los Angeles's African American artists, including Alonzo Davis, Dale Brockman Davis, Melvin Edwards, Fred Eversley, Maren Hassinger, Senga Nengudi, John Outterbridge, Noah Purifoy, Betye Saar, and Charles White. The digital archive includes images of all works exhibited in the Hammer installation, essays and other texts from the exhibition catalog, archival images gathered by curators during their research, installation views from all three venues of the exhibition's tour, advertising and PR ephemera, images from opening parties at all three venues, press coverage, and documentation of related public programs at all three venues.
We hope that you will take the time to peruse the digital archive, accessible here: https://hammer.ucla.edu/now-dig-this/ If you enjoy the site, please share with friends, colleagues, students, twitter followers..... Best, Philip Leers Project Manager for Digital Initiatives Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90024 310-209-7931
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