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Performance on Paper

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Featuring prints and drawings created at the intersection of music and dance by some twenty artists active from the 1960s to the present, this exhibition explores how works of art on paper can store sound and movement, becoming lasting visual records of ephemeral sonic and dance experiences.
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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 Projects: Renata Petersen

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Renata Petersen’s installation, an architectural intervention offering a contemporary reinterpretation of Giotto di Bondone’s Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Italy, explores the histories of new age religious sects that are specific to the region of Southern California.
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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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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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Armand Hammer Collection

Through May 27, 2025

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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Conversations

UCLA Department of Art Lecture: Cosmo Whyte

From his drawings to his installation works, artist Cosmo Whyte frequently draws upon his Caribbean roots through both material and image.
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Tours & Talks

Lunchtime Art Talk on Nikita Gale

Curatorial assistant Jessi DiTillio leads an in-person discussion of Nikita Gale's work.
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Special Programs

Mindful Awareness Meditation

Thursday May 22, 2025 12:30 PM

Free weekly drop-in sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently. 

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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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