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Made in L.A. 2020: a version

OPENING 2021
While we await L.A. County approvals to safely reopen for Made in L.A. 2020: a version, you can experience three artworks right now.

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Tours & Talks

Lunchtime Art Talk on Kahlil Joseph

WEDNESDAY MAR 10, 2021 12:30 PM PST
Made in L.A. 2020 assistant curator of performance Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi leads a live online discussion of Kahlil Joseph's work.
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Special Programs

Mindful Awareness Meditation

THURSDAY MAR 11, 2021 12:30 PM PST
The free weekly drop-in sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.
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Tours & Talks

Lunchtime Art Talk on Kandis Williams

WEDNESDAY MAR 17, 2021 12:30 PM PDT
Curatorial assistant Nika Chilewich leads a live online discussion of Made in L.A. 2020 artist Kandis Williams' work

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Artist Profiles

Learn more about the artists who have been a part of exhibitions, projects, and residencies at the Hammer through these insightful interviews and profiles.
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Collections

Digital Archives

Explore collection areas and past exhibitions online through these in-depth repositories of images and research materials.
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Watch + Listen

Watch hundreds of videos from our extraordinary slate of past programs.

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A rectangular image is divided into three segments. The bottom segment spans the full width and depicts three figures wearing dark clothes in a room with a yellow floor. Two figures lie on the floor and the third stands against the back wall. On the upper left, an arm extends into the frame, with the hand lightly cupped. The image in the upper right shows an detail of the image at bottom, showing the two figures on the right end of that image.
Screenings

deader than dead, with Ligia Lewis & Mlondi Zondi

A conversation and a screening of Lewis’s dance performance “deader than dead," conceived for Made in L.A. 2020.
Constitution Happy Hour
Special Programs

Constitution Happy Hour: Impeachment

This guided, topical conversation about the US Constitution focuses on the historic second impeachment of former President Donald Trump.
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Tours & Talks

Lunchtime Art Talk on Buck Ellison

Curatorial assistant Nicholas Barlow leads a live, online discussion of Buck Ellison's work.
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Audrey at the Hammer

Audrey is temporarily closed.
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Museum Transformation

We are working on a new entrance, more galleries, and an expanded lobby.

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Discussing Social Justice

Image: Charles White, Love Letter #1, 1971. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase. Photo by Ed Glendinning
Love Letter #1

Her Dream Deferred Series

This series explored the status of black women and girls in the United States, lifting their voices and stories to find solutions to social injustice. Copresented with the African American Policy Forum

The Watts Rebellion: 50 Years Later

Three historians discuss the past and present of race relations in the United States.

Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980

This digital archive of the 2011–2012 exhibition examines the legacy of African-American artists in L.A., many of whom were connected to civil rights and Black Power movements.

“Bad” Feminism

Re-watch one of our most popular programs. In October 2016, Roxane Gay, Andi Zeisler, and the Hammer’s Connie Butler discuss the political, social, and cultural relevance of contemporary feminism.

Social Justice in Church and State

Watch this 2014 program with Sister Simone Campbell who discussed the resurgence of social justice issues in the Catholic Church

Image: Charles White, Love Letter #1, 1971. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase. Photo by Ed Glendinning

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