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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Witch Hunt

Oct 10, 2021–Jan 9, 2022
Sixteen critically acclaimed artists employ feminist, queer, and decolonial strategies to explore gender, power, and the global impacts of patriarchy.

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On View

A person sits in a beauty salon chair in a dark room with potted palm trees behind her. The person has medium-dark skin, wears a yellow dress with several metal necklaces, is barefoot, and holds the chair's drying helmet over their face with two hands. Various-sized video monitors peek out rom the plants.

No Humans Involved

Oct 10, 2021–Jan 9, 2022
A showcase of work by seven artists and collectives whose work interrogates and disrupts Western modes of humanism.
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Houseguest: Shadows Fall Down

Aug 21, 2021–Jan 2, 2022
Artist Monica Majoli explores themes of melancholy and desire in this exhibition drawn from the Grunwald Center collection.
Brian Jungen, The Evening Redness in the West, 2006 (detail), baseballs, softballs, leather furniture, home theater system and DVDs, dimensions variable.

Hammer Contemporary Collection: Brian Jungen

Aug 14–Oct 31, 2021
An installation of consumer goods and materials that addresses the legacy of colonialism and violence in Hollywood westerns.
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Hammer Projects: David Hartt

Aug 21, 2021–Jan 2, 2022
This multimedia installation examining the relationships between culture, geography, and colonial histories in the Americas in the 19th century.
Juno

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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Tours & Talks

Lunchtime Art Talk on Wilmer Wilson IV

WEDNESDAY OCT 20, 2021, 12:30 PM
Curatorial assistant Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi leads an in-person discussion of Wilmer Wilson IV's work.
Mindful awareness meditation
Special Programs

ONLINE: Mindful Awareness Meditation

THURSDAY OCTOBER 21, 2021, 12:30 PM
The free weekly drop-in sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.
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Conversations

ONLINE: David Hartt: UCLA Department of Art Lecture

THURSDAY OCT 28, 2021, 6:30 PM
David Hartt discusses his practice and is joined by Aram Moshayedi, who organized the artist's Hammer Projects exhibition.

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CONVERSATION

Maggie Nelson & Hari Kunzru discuss Nelson's "On Freedom"

Online book launch with “one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today” (The Guardian).
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CONVERSATION

Artists Hedi El Kholti & Reynaldo Rivera discuss the music that made them

Made in L.A. 2020 artists Hedi El Kholti and Reynaldo Rivera play records and discuss music that has had a profound influence in their lives.
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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