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Made in L.A. 2025

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The seventh iteration of the Hammer’s biennial exhibition highlighting the practices of artists working throughout the greater Los Angeles area.
Woodblock print of a line of people holding umbrellas in a rainstorm

Rising Sun, Falling Rain: Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts

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This exhibition, featuring over eighty prints from the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, allows visitors to discover Japan’s remarkable print industry through some of its greatest publishers and artists, and to understand the evolution of print technology between the 1730s and the 1930s.
Massive outdoor inflatable portraying a stern-eyed bear in a hot-pink convertible atop a strawberry-studded shaped hilltop with daisies

Alake Shilling: Buggy Bear Crashes Made in L.A.

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Due to weather conditions, this work is temporarily off view. Shilling’s monumental inflatable depicts one of her signature characters—a stern-eyed bear in a hot-pink convertible—atop a colossal strawberry-studded shaped hilltop with daisies.

Upcoming Programs

Oscar Isaac as Dr. Frankenstein, dressed in lush robes, sits pensively on a bench overgrown with weeds
Screenings

Frankenstein

Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley’s classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, bearing the unmistakable touch of a filmmaker known for his signature blend of gothic horror and dark fantasy.
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Tours & Talks

Lunchtime Art Talk on Gabriela Ruiz

Curatorial assistant Jessi DiTillio leads an in-person discussion of Gabriela Ruiz's work in Made in L.A. 2025.
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Screenings

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Rose Byrne’s bravura performance as a woman in full-throttle descent in this dark comedy-horror mashup earned her the Berlin Film Festival’s Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance.

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Politics

Law professor Leah Litman on the Supreme Court

University of Michigan Law School professor Leah Litman discusses her provocative new book, Lawless, which argues that the Supreme Court has abandoned legal reasoning in favor of political grievances dressed up in judicial language.
Books

Roxane Gay on "The Portable Feminist Reader"

In her innovative anthology The Portable Feminist Reader, acclaimed author and culture critic Roxane Gay explores what feminism looks like in practice.
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