Summary: The Hammer Museum's Public Engagement brings an artist project by David Kipen---an interpretation of Libros Schmibros, a nonprofit lending library and used-book shop in Boyle Heights---to Westwood. Libros Schmibros is set up in the Hammer Museum's lobby gallery. Kipen, former Director of Literature for the National Endowment for the Arts and a past book critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, established Libros Schmibros in July 2010 with his collection of roughly seven thousand books, in response to the lack of accessibility to books in his Boyle Heights community. Book shop open through October 9, 2011. (Run time: 1 min., 8 sec.)
