Jordan Peele, Judy Chicago receive honors at Hammer Museum’s Gala in the Garden
The Hammer Museum honored American filmmaker, Jordan Peele, and groundbreaking artist, alumna Judy Chicago, at its annual Gala in the Garden. The Gala raised a record $2.7 million and featued a performance by seven-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Beck and a surprise appearance by Coldplay frontman Chris Martin. Author Roxane Gay and feminist icon Gloria Steinem respectively introduced Chicago and Peele.
"As the night’s first honoree at the Hammer Museum’s Gala in the Garden, Jordan Peele said his passion for filmmaking was less about making a commentary on society and more about eliciting a laugh or a scream from the audience.
“Any audible noise that an audience can make, that’s my passion,” said the actor-comedian and Oscar-winning screenwriter of “Get Out.”
He had already proved his point by getting laughs from the audience immediately after stepping onto the stage and joking that he expected a physical award, “something that had, like a base, gold — you know, a piece of art or something on top … to put on your desk — [looking] like a hammer.”
Peele then followed his joking by calling the evening “truly wonderful and surreal” and thanking the museum “for hosting this great event and doing such important work for the art community and for Los Angeles.”
The Hammer Museum honored Peele, along with groundbreaking artist Judy Chicago, at the Saturday affair, which raised a record $2.7 million and featured a performance by seven-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Beck and a surprise appearance by Coldplay frontman Chris Martin. Author Roxane Gay and feminist icon Gloria Steinem respectively introduced Chicago and Peele."— Ellen Olivier, Oct. 13, 2019
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