Ann Philbin

Don’t Challenge the Hammer Museum Director to a Bowling Match

Ann Philbin has been the director of the Hammer Museum since 1998. Before participating in a panel on the future of L.A.’s art museums, she confessed in the Zócalo green room that despite the fact that she was about to go on stage, she’s got stage fright—and it runs in her family. She was less modest about her most impressive pair of shoes—which she just happened to be wearing—and about her stealth bowling skills.