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The Hammer Museum will be closed on Friday, March 24 and Saturday, March 25 as we prepare for the public opening of the newly-transformed Hammer Museum. Learn more about our celebration weekend

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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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Together in Time Celebration Weekend

Celebrate the culmination of the Hammer’s two-decade transformation and the debut of the newly named Lynda and Stewart Resnick Cultural Center with a weekend of exciting events.

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On View

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Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist's Studio

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The first and most extensive museum exhibition dedicated exclusively to Bridget Riley’s drawings in over half a century.
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Cruel Youth Diary: Chinese Photography and Video from the Haudenschild Collection

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Pioneering Chinese photography and video from the 1990s and early 2000s featuring Cao Fei, Weng Fen, Xu Zhen, Yang Fudong, Zhu Jia, and more.
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Karon Davis: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection

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This installation of three figures rendered in Davis’s familiar lexicon of plaster and wire remarks on the long and continuing legacies of violence in American schools.
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Full Burn: Video from the Hammer Contemporary Collection

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Full Burn unfolds as a series of discrete looped encounters and thematic pairings pulled from the Hammer’s ever-expanding collection of video and other time-based media.

Upcoming Programs

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Tours & Talks

Lunchtime Art Talk on James Richards

Curatorial associate Vanessa Arizmendi leads an in-person discussion of James Richards' work.
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Hammer Forum

Originalism and the Supreme Court, with Erwin Chemerinsky

One of the nation's foremost constitutional scholars discusses the role originalism plays or doesn't play in the Supreme Court's decisions.
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Special Programs

Mindful Awareness Meditation

Thursday, Mar 23, 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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Together in Time Celebration Weekend

March 25–26, 2023
Celebrate the culmination of the Hammer’s two-decade transformation and the debut of the newly named Lynda and Stewart Resnick Cultural Center with a weekend of exciting events.

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Film & TV

Directors Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert on "Everything Everywhere All At Once"

The Oscar-nominated filmmakers discuss their box office hit, which mixes absurdist comedy, martial arts, sci-fi, and adventure.
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Film & TV

Brendan Fraser & Samuel D. Hunter discuss "The Whale"

A conversation with the star and writer of The Whale, director Darren Aronofsky's story of a reclusive English teacher living with severe obesity.
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Restaurant

Lulu is the Hammer's new restaurant from David Tanis and Alice Waters.
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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.

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

“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.

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