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Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal

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Inspired by the life and legacy of jazz musician, devotional leader, and mother Alice Coltrane, this exhibition presents works by contemporary American artists paired with ephemera from Coltrane’s personal archive.
Installation featuring a partial wall with a painting of a horse and a potted plant on the floor

HEAD FOR THE HILLS! Selections from the Grunwald Center and Hammer Contemporary Collection

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Including many recent acquisitions and demonstrating the Hammer’s commitment to collecting diverse work by local and international artists, this exhibition highlights artworks that use the local, personal, and banal to tap into the universal.
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Hammer Contemporary Collection: Jennifer Bolande, Mona Hatoum, Alison Saar

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In three sculptures from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, three artists of the same generation emphasize the experience of perception, privilege the spectator’s interpretation, and insist that meaning remain open-ended.
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Hammer Projects: Colectivo Cherani

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As part of a 2011 political uprising by the Purépecha community of Cherán, in Michoacán, Mexico, Colectivo Cherani has pioneered a cultural movement that seeks to recover and invigorate the plurality of cultural expressions of the Purépecha people.
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Hammer Projects: Lap-See Lam

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Lap-See Lam’s immersive video installation Tales of the Altersea is inspired by the ruins of a dragon-shaped ship that Lam could see from her studio window in art school. The ruins of this historic vessel serve as a jumping-off point for Lam’s dreamlike story of loss, memory, and resilience.
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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

Kids

Art Lab

SATURDAY APR 19, 2025 1-4PM
Drop by Art Lab for hands-on creative activities inspired by artworks on view at the museum.
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Screenings

New Wave

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Documenting the careers and lives of Vietnamese American New Wave musicians in the 1970s and 1980s, Elizabeth Ai’s kinetic film skillfully weaves together the challenges of intergenerational understanding in the search for the American dream.
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Music & Performance

Turiya Rising: Deluge Presents: Nailah Hunter and Adee Roberson

Multi-instrumentalist and composer Nailah Hunter performs with interdisciplinary artist Adee Roberson on stage in the galleries of Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal.

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Art

Monument Eternal: Suné Woods

Artist Suné Woods discusses On this day in Meditation, a peaceful, immersive installation she created for Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal.
Art

John Walsh on Cézanne and the Impressionists

Art historian John Walsh discusses painter Paul Cézanne's Provençal beginnings, and his invention of techniques to make of Impressionism “something solid and durable.”
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