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Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials

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This group exhibition featuring work by 22 artists from North, Central, and South America explores the intertwined relationship between living materials—such as stones, avocado, cacao, achiote, cochineal, and clay—and contemporary art.
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SPACE IS THE PLACE: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection

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Taking its title from the 1973 studio album and 1974 film by Sun Ra, the selected works in this group exhibition consider “space” as a conceptual framework, through the themes of afro-futurism, belonging, placemaking, and the act of taking up space.
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Arthur Jafa: The White Album

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Assembled from found and produced footage, Arthur Jafa’s 30-minute experimental film examines how visual media can transmit the “power, beauty, and alienation” of Black music in American culture.
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Five Centuries of Works on Paper: The Grunwald Center at 70

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This exhibition marks the 70th anniversary of the Grunwald Center, celebrating its history through a selection of significant works that reflect the collection’s breadth and diversity.
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Hammer Projects: Mike Cloud

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Chicago-based artist Mike Cloud makes mixed-media assemblages that are typically composed of stretcher bars configured into geometric shapes and universal forms with objects embedded in thick oil paint.
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Armand Hammer Collection

This impressive collection of European and American paintings and drawings reflects the interests and passion of the museum’s founder, Armand Hammer.

Upcoming Programs

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Special Programs

CicLAvia Special Hours

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The Hammer Museum remains open during its regular Sunday hours, with courtyard open at 9AM for restrooms, water refills, and art-making activities during CicLAvia—West LA.
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Screenings

The Last Laugh: Harlem Nights and the Legacy of Comedy as Resistance

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The only film written, directed, produced by and starring Eddie Murphy, Harlem Nights unites three generations of Black comedy—Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor and Murphy—in a story of Black nightlife, entrepreneurship and survival amid gangsters and corrupt cops.
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Tours & Talks

Lunchtime Art Talk on David Hockney

Curatorial assistant and collection specialist Jennie Waldow leads an in-person discussion of David Hockney's work.

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Art

Akinsanya Kambon: The Hero Avenges

Watch the new documentary on artist, activist, and 2023 Mohn Award winner Akinsanya Kambon, a Vietnam war veteran and Black Panther who avenges personal and historical injustices through art imbued with African mythology, resilience, and revolutionary spirit.
Art

Hilton Als on Diane Arbus in Manhattan

Writer, curator, and critic Hilton Als discusses photographer Diane Arbus's relationship to Manhattan, and how he and many other writers have responded to the island as well.
Art

Anna Sew Hoy: UCLA Department of Art Lecture

April 2026

Los Angeles-based artist Anna Sew Hoy exerts pressures of perception, language, and feeling onto the externalized body and psychic figurations of the self. 
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