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The first American survey of one of the UK’s most influential artists.

Jun 9–Sep 1, 2019

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Celebration of Our Enemies: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection
Jun 9–Sep 8, 2019
An intergenerational grouping of artists whose works have rarely been exhibited together.
Installation view, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin. November 29, 2014–January 24, 2015. Photo: Simon Vogel.

Hammer Projects: Andrea Fraser
May 18–Sep 15, 2019
Fraser's video installation "Men on the Line: Men Committed to Feminism, KPFK, 1972" highlights how social structures and identities shape our politics.

Installation view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, March 28—October 27, 2019. Photo: Jeff McLane.

Hammer Projects: Yunhee Min
Mar 28–Oct 27, 2019
Los Angeles-based artist Yunhee Min adapts the vibrant abstract imagery of her paintings on canvas to the steps of the Hammer’s lobby staircase, in the first Hammer Project to be oriented on the floor rather than the walls.
Oil and charcoal on clear primed canvas. 96 × 627 1/4 in. (243.8 × 1593.2 cm). Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Purchase. © 2012 Meleko Mokgosi

Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection: Meleko Mokgosi
Jun 22–Aug 18, 2019
This installation explores ideas of colonialism and globalization through the experience of the Xhosa people of South Africa.

Music & Performance

Summer Concerts 2019
Thursdays in July
Free live concerts and KCRW DJs in the museum’s courtyard. Copresented with KCRW 89.9FM.
PEN Emerging Voices authors with installation by Olivia Campbell at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions). Photo: Khalid F.

PEN Emerging Voices 2019
Tuesday Jul 23, 2019 7:30pm
PEN America’s Emerging Voices fellows read their works together with introductions by their mentors.
Several US flags wave in the wind against a blue sky.

Democratic Presidential Debates
Wednesday Jul 31, 2019 5:00pm
Watch the Democratic presidential debates on the big screen at the Hammer and stay after for a roundtable discussion with political experts.

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

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