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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: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection

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Presented in conjunction with the unveiling of the Hammer’s building expansion, this exhibition is the largest presentation of the Hammer Contemporary Collection in the museum’s history.

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On View

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Rita McBride: Particulates

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The Hammer’s new gallery opens with a monumental yet ethereal sculptural installation inspired by time travel, the principles of light and space, and quantum physics.
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Hammer Projects: Chiharu Shiota

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The inaugural exhibition in the Hammer’s redesigned lobby envelops the area with a unique and visceral installation.
Large-scale public sculpture of a seated oracle figure holding a torch

Sanford Biggers: Oracle

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This monumental sculpture–a cast bronze figure standing at 25 feet tall– inaugurates the museum's outdoor sculpture pedestal at Wilshire Boulevard and Glendon Avenue.
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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.
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Kaari Upson: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection

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At once familiar and foreign, Upson’s works merge personal and collective traumas, desires, fears, and fantasies.
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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Hammer Forum

Deconflating L.A.’s Homeless and Mental Health Crises

Anna Scott speaks with a panel of experts about these two urgent crises.
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Conversations

Artist Talk: Kerry Tribe

The artist shares insights into her practice and process making work that investigates human consciousness and communication.
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Special Programs

Mindful Awareness Meditation

Thursday Jun 8, 2023 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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Politics

What’s Driving L.A.’s Housing Crisis?

Anna Scott, journalist and creator of the KCRW podcasts Samaritans and City of Tents, convenes a panel of experts to drill down to the roots of the current housing crisis in Southern California.
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Art

Hammer Projects: Chiharu Shiota

Chiharu Shiota (b. 1972, Osaka) is a Berlin-based artist whose installations, sculpture, and performance art invoke psychogeographic spaces of memory, emotions, and the cyclical nature of life and death.
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Watch 1,000+ talks, performances, artist profiles, and more. Search, clip, and share topics ranging from politics and activism to art, film, and literature.
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Hammer Store

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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