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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 Vibeke Mascini

Curator Pablo José Ramírez leads an in-person discussion of Vibeke Mascini's work.

Wed Sep 30 12:30 PM

Headshots of Brigitte Caland and Aram Moshayedi

Brigitte Caland & Aram Moshayedi on Huguette Caland

Independent curator Aram Moshayedi speaks to Brigitte Caland, who has managed the estate of her mother Huguette Caland since the artist’s death in 2019, about Caland’s singular artistic vision and a career that spanned decades and continents.

Wed Sep 30 7:30 PM

An audience sitting in a darkened theater, watching a woman on stage

Special Programs

Mindful Awareness Meditation

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

Thu Oct 1 12:30 PM

Gallery with works on paper installed on the wall and on a plinth

After-Hours Tour: Five Centuries of Works on Paper: The Grunwald Center at 70, Part II

Join Naoko Takahatake, director and chief curator, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, and curatorial associate and collection specialist Jennie Waldow for an after-hours tour of the exhibition.

Thu Oct 1 6:00 PM

Faceless figure in a paint-streaked white smock

Exhibition Highlights Tour: Huguette Caland: A Life in a Few Lines

Hammer educators lead conversation-based tours of exhibition highlights for "Huguette Caland: A Life in a Few Lines"

Sat Oct 3 1:00 PM

Child draws at a table while adults look on

Kids Special Programs

Art Lab

Drop by Art Lab for hands-on creative activities inspired by artworks on view at the museum.

Sat Oct 3 1:00 PM

Soft depiction of a man with light skin, brown hair, and a mustache in repose, his white shirt open and his penis visible. Behind or beneath him, a patchwork of different designs

Lunchtime Art Talk on Monica Majoli

Curatorial assistant Azul Silverio leads an in-person discussion of Monica Majoli's work.

Wed Oct 7 12:30 PM

An audience sitting in a darkened theater, watching a woman on stage

Special Programs

Mindful Awareness Meditation

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

Thu Oct 8 12:30 PM

Two women look at a painting on a gallery wall together

Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images Member Preview

Members can experience the exhibition before it opens to the public, along with up to four guests. Coffee and tea provided.

Sat Oct 10 11:00 AM

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Special Programs

Fall Exhibitions Celebration

Celebrate a pair of retrospectives featuring two prolific and trailblazing abstract artists, Huguette Caland and Mavis Pusey, with galleries open late and music in the courtyard.

Sat Oct 10 8:00 PM