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Due to adverse weather conditions, Alake Shilling's inflatable sculpture Buggy Bear Crashes Made in L.A. is temporarily off view.

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

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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.
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.
A dismantled yellow sportscar sits in a field

Lawrence Lek: NOX High-Rise

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In Lek’s immersive installation, sound, video, and scenography intersect to evoke a virtual world in which AI systems dominate the lives of humans and machines.

Upcoming Programs

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Screenings

Flux, Fall 2025

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The Flux screening series brings the creative community together to celebrate outstanding short films and music videos from around the globe, with wildly inventive filmmaker presentations and performances, followed by a courtyard party with DJ and cash bar.
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Special Programs

UCLA Art History Graduate Symposium: Revolution

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The 60th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Symposium considers revolution as a mode of imagining new ways of seeing, knowing, and acting in the field of art history. Keynote: Dr. Sohl Lee.
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Screenings

Food and Film: The Scent of Green Papaya

Writer-director Trần Anh Hùng won the Caméra d’Or at Cannes for his debut feature, The Scent of Green Papaya, a luminous portrait of the sensuous world as experienced by Mùi, a young servant girl to a troubled, middle-class family, in 1950s Saigon.

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Politics

Law professor Leah Litman on the Supreme Court

University of Michigan Law School professor Leah Litman will discusses her provocative new book, 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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