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The Hammer Museum at UCLA believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.

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Picasso Cut Papers

OCT 1 – DEC 31, 2022
Spanning the full career of the artist, Picasso Cut Papers is devoted to a little known yet foundational aspect of Pablo Picasso’s artistic practice.

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On View

A black and white photo portrait of writer Joan Didion using her turtle-neck sweater to cover her face

Joan Didion: What She Means

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Curated by Hilton Als, Joan Didion: What She Means is an exhibition as portrait, a narration of the life of one artist by another.
Abstract landscape painting with a nude figure.

Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine

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The first major survey of the visionary US painter in more than 20 years makes its Los Angeles debut.
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Hammer Projects: Janiva Ellis

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The New York–based artist's first exhibition in Los Angeles centers on a single painting that responds to the architecture of the Hammer vault gallery.

Upcoming Programs

Still from the film "Corsage" (2022)
Screenings

Corsage

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In this "inspired addition to period films dedicated to complex women" Empress Elisabeth of Austria rebels against her public image and devises a plan to protect her legacy.
Still from the film "Everything Everywhere All At Once" (2022)
Screenings

Everything Everywhere All At Once, with directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

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The A24 box office smash starring Michelle Yeoh, followed by a conversation with directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.
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MoMA Contenders 2022

The Hammer Museum presents MoMA Contenders, The Museum of Modern Art’s renowned series of influential, innovative films from the past 12 months.

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Social Justice

Bamby Salcedo & Elana Redfield in conversation

In honor of Trans Awareness Week, Latina transgender speaker and activist Bamby Salcedo joins Elana Redfield of the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law.
Poet Harryette Mullen
Poetry

Poet Harryette Mullen reads, October 2022

Harryette Mullen, author of several volumes of poetry including Urban Tumbleweed, Blues Baby: Early Poems, and Sleeping with the Dictionary, reads from her work
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Museum Transformation

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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