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

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Conversations

Can a Story Save the Planet? with Scott Z. Burns, Amitav Ghosh & Elizabeth Kolbert

TUESDAY OCT 20, 2020 5 PM PDT
Celebrated writers discuss how the art of storytelling has failed to take on the climate crisis and its attendant catastrophes—and how that might change.

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Hammer Forum

Truth, Lies & Propaganda: How Disinformation Is Infecting the 2020 Elections

WEDNESDAY OCT 21, 2020 5 PM PDT
Campaigns are using familiar and emerging technologies to polarize voters, spread false narratives, sow confusion, and drown out the truth. An expert panel discusses the impact of information warfare.
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Special Programs

ONLINE: Mindful Awareness Meditation

THURSDAY OCT 22, 2020 12:30 PM PDT
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

Rembrandt in the Mirror

SUNDAY OCT 25, 2020 2 PM PDT
This lecture considers the paintings, drawings, and etchings Rembrandt made of himself, and explores the artist’s motives in making them, as assumed or projected by interpreters during the intervening centuries.

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Videos

Artist Profiles

Learn more about the artists who have been a part of exhibitions, projects, and residencies at the Hammer through these insightful interviews and profiles.
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Collections

Digital Archives

Explore collection areas and past exhibitions online through these in-depth repositories of images and research materials.
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Watch + Listen

Watch hundreds of videos from our extraordinary slate of past programs.

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Hammer Forum

Prop 17 & 25: Criminal Justice and Voting Rights

Learn about Propositions 17 and 25, which address voting rights for Californians on parole, and reform to the cash bail system.
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Tours & Talks

Exhibition Tours: Living Apart Together

From our 2017 exhibition Living Apart Together, artist Liz Larner reflected on Catherine Opie's photography and on Karin Higa, a beloved friend of the Hammer.
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Conversations

Rembrandt, Observer and Dramatist

Art historian John Walsh examined the secrets to Rembrandt van Rijn's early success in the first of a six-part lecture series on Rembrandt.
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Hammer Store

Books and products that celebrate fine artistry, excellent design, and exceptional craftsmanship.
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Audrey at the Hammer

Audrey is temporarily closed.
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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

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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

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