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Mindful Awareness Meditation

Thursdays, 12:30–1 PM PDT

Free weekly drop-in sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

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Lunchtime Art Talk on Kitagawa Utamaro

Guest curator Hollis Goodall leads an in-person discussion of Kitagawa Utamaro's work.

Wed Sep 3 12:30 PM

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Special Programs

ONLINE ONLY: Mindful Awareness Meditation

Free online session open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

Thu Sep 4 12:30 PM

Animated still of a futuristic car driving through a ring of purple light

Lunchtime Art Talk on Lawrence Lek

Curatorial assistant Jessi DiTillio leads an in-person discussion of Lawrence Lek's work.

Wed Sep 10 12:30 PM

Two people looking at art on the wall in a gallery at the Hammer Museum.

Coffee with a Curator: Rising Sun, Falling Rain: Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Grunwald Center

Members at the Immerse level and above ($250+) are invited to join our curators for exclusive walk-throughs of Rising Sun, Falling Rain: Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts.

Thu Sep 11 10:00 AM

Photo of the branches of a jacaranda tree

Special Programs

ONLINE ONLY: Mindful Awareness Meditation

Free online session open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

Thu Sep 11 12:30 PM

Still from The Long Goodbye (1973)

Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

The Long Goodbye / California Split

Elliot Gould's Phillip Marlowe moves confidently from dive bar to Malibu beach while working an old school case of infidelity, theft, and murder in Robert Altman's adaptation of Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye

Sat Sep 13 7:30 PM

A girl in a yellow shirt is holding up an art project and is assisted by a man in a baseball cap who leans over with a glue gun pointed at the girl's project.

826LA@Hammer: Crafting the Magic Within Her

In this program led by writer Heidi Lepe, students will explore the women characters of Caribbean and Latin American magical realism, and create a character sketch of a protagonist for a future story that celebrates strength, heritage, and magic within.

Sun Sep 14 11:00 AM

Still from Thieves Like Us (1974)

Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

Thieves Like Us / Kansas City

Robert Altman’s Depression-era period piece about a trio of small-time bank robbers in the rural south.

Sun Sep 14 7:00 PM

Two cars in a fiery collision on a bridge lit by streetlamps

Lunchtime Art Talk on Carlos Almaraz

Curatorial assistant Juan Manuel Silverio leads an in-person discussion of Carlos Almaraz's work.

Wed Sep 17 12:30 PM

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After-Hours Tour: Hollis Goodall on Rising Sun, Falling Rain: Japanese Woodblock Prints

Guest curator Hollis Goodall leads an after-hours tour of the exhibition.

Wed Sep 17 6:00 PM