The new ongoing film series American Originals Now focuses on the work of internationally recognized filmmakers from the Americas, and offers visitors an opportunity to interact with and share in the artists' production methodologies and current practices. The inaugural program brought recent short works by filmmaker Jem Cohen and a screening of his award-winning 1999 documentary Instrument, made in collaboration with DC-based band Fugazi. Cohen was present for both events; during the latter of the two he was joined by Fugazi frontmen Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto.

Invited by the Hammer to participate in our Artist Residency Program, VanDerBeek spent several weeks in Los Angeles over the past year. The works included in her Hammer Project have grown out of this residency and offer a particular view into our city. After she finished her installation in the vault gallery at the museum, we spoke with her about this project.

Performance 9: Allora & Calzadilla
December 8, 2010-January 10, 2011
In conjunction with the exhibition On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century
The Museum of Modern Art, November 21, 2010–February 7, 2011

Video produced by Ben Coccio

© 2010 The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Filmed in conjunction with the exhibition /Thing/Thought: Fluxus Editions, 1962–1978/. During the course of the exhibition, the display of Fluxkits—collective groupings of Fluxus Editions assembled by George Maciunas—will change. Artists—some who were original members of Fluxus—have been invited to select objects from the kits and determine their arrangement. © 2011 The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Rina Banerjee tries to cure the Hindu matriarchy of war-making, and describes the unexpected blessings of diasporic homelessness. Rina Banerjee is part of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' exhibition "The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India". • Video by Kai Hsing (proto-kai.com) • Music by Mike Doughty • More about the exhibition Rina is part of at ybca.org/​matter-within

At once grand and subtle, Spencer Finch’s light-based installations bridge an actual locale with a recalled memory. Rather than depict a scene’s physical contours, Finch evokes the moment and mood of a place by controlling the quality of light, color, or other sensory information. In this way, he translates one physical experience into an analogous aesthetic incident.

Elizabeth Diller is a founding member of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, a New York-based interdisciplinary design studio whose boundary-crossing architecture work is informed by the visual and performing arts. The firm has won rave reviews for projects such as Manhattan’s High Line park, the atmospheric Blur Building in Switzerland, a redesign of Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, and a new postmodern home for the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.

Brooklyn-based artist William Lamson (b. 1977) forges a captivating exploration of forces of nature and the passage of time through his inventive, often poetic interventions into natural and man-made environments.