Hammer Blog

Open Corner is an area near our Hammer Store that is designated for visitor participatory projects. In our current iteration of Open Corner, we encourage visitors to engage with the overarching goal of our mission statement—build a more just world.

On October 18, 2016, as part of our recurring program Open Projector Night, filmmakers were invited to screen their own short films or videos and vie for a prize at L.A.’s most raucous independent film fest.

Everyone at the Hammer looks forward to K.A.M.P. (Kids' Art Museum Project) all year! As we gear up for the big day on Sunday, May 21, we checked in with one of this year's artists, Kelly Akashi.

Jimmie Durham’s exhibition can be complicated to talk about with young ones (and grown-ups, for that matter), which made it all the more important to organize a Hammer Kids program around his work.

Earlier this month, the Hammer launched a digital archive of the 2014 exhibition "Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology," part of a series of digital initiatives funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.