Hammer Blog

Oliver Herring’s 2nd all day performance at Telescope, Areas for Action, Beijing: Aluminum Foil, was a spectacular event. Hundreds of local villagers, children, students, artists, workers, tourists, etc. came by to look and to participate.

November and December have long been associated with a season of giving. At the Hammer Museum, you can immerse yourself in the giving spirit by participating in a project that positively impacts an overlooked segment of our population—incarcerated youth.

Mexican artist Pedro Reyes’s project The People’s United Nations (pUN) is an experimental gathering of volunteer delegates connected by family ties or by birth to the 195 members and observer states of the United Nations.

With support from the James Irvine Foundation, the Hammer will develop a model for collaborative, offsite arts programming with Art + Practice Foundation (A+P), a new art and social service organization in Leimert Park created by the artist Mark Bradford, the philanthropist and collector Eileen Harris Norton, and the social activist Allan DiCastro.

Opening in February 2015 at the Hammer Museum, the John V. Tunney Bridge will connect the upper level galleries over the Hammer Courtyard. The pedestrian bridge will improve visitors’ experience by creating a straight path from the Temporary Galleries in the western portion of the building to the Permanent Galleries in the eastern portion.