It takes a striptease to enliven `Stories of Almost Everyone` at the Hammer Museum
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A ring whose stone is made from the ashes of famed architect Luis Barragán, a Marcel Duchamp-esque postcard holder - these are but two of the dozens of works in an extravaganza of self-contemplation. It takes a stripper`s spontaneity to break through the explanation-heavy art.