Rather than letting the written word do all the heavy lifting, the Hammer Museum will use more than 200 works of art to sketch a portrait of the late literary icon Joan Didion. The pieces on display didn’t necessarily directly inspire (or be inspired by) Didion; instead, paintings, photos and drawings will be used to represent periods of her life in places like the Central Valley in the postwar period or New York circa 1960. Featured artists include Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Noah Purifoy, Ed Ruscha, Betye Saar and more than 50 others.
The exhibition runs concurrently with two others at the Hammer: Picasso Cut Papers and Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine.