Programs & Events | Hammer Museum

The museum will close at 4 pm on Christmas Eve (December 24) and New Year's Eve (December 31), and will be closed all day on Christmas Day (December 25) and New Year's Day (January 1).

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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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Kids Special Programs

Art Lab

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

Sat Dec 20 1:00 PM

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Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

We Can’t Go Home Again / A Night at the Opera

Cartoonist and illustrator Nathan Gelgud will be on hand to discuss this screening of director Nicholas Ray's final film and the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera.

Sat Dec 20 7:30 PM

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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 Jan 8 12:30 PM

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Exhibition Highlights Tour: Made in L.A. 2025

Hammer educators lead conversation-based tours of the exhibition Made in L.A. 2025.

Sat Jan 10 1:00 PM

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826LA@Hammer: I, Me, Mine: First-Person Fictional Monologues

Write your own monologue from the perspective of a fictional character! Students will learn to embody a character of their own creation, and write from that character's perspective. Led by UCLA alum JP Cavender.

Sun Jan 11 11:00 AM

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Exactitude is Not Truth: Matisse Breaks Through

Art historian John Walsh shows how Matisse was seduced by light and color on the Riviera and pushed them to new extremes.

Sun Jan 11 3:00 PM

Part of the series Matisse’s Surprises, with John Walsh

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Nicole-Antonia Spagnola: 1-2-3: Apartment Gallery

Made in L.A. 2025 artist Nicole-Antonia Spagnola’s short film 1-2-3: Apartment Gallery (2025) loops on the big screen in the Billy Wilder Theater.

Tue Jan 13 11:00 AM

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 Jan 15 12:30 PM

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Special Programs Music & Performance

Will Rawls: Unmade

Made in L.A. artist Will Rawls performs in the Hammer's courtyard and gallery spaces, reflecting on notions of resource-sharing and social choreography.

Sat Jan 17 12:00 PM

Brightly colored painting of a sad teddy bear riding a car along a road

Exhibition Highlights Tour: Made in L.A. 2025

Hammer educators lead conversation-based tours of the exhibition Made in L.A. 2025.

Sat Jan 17 1:00 PM