Programs & Events

Hammer educators lead conversation-based tours of the exhibition Noah Davis

UCLA Professor Kathleen McHugh’s latest research on women and anger explores the topic through Michaela Coel’s groundbreaking series I May Destroy You.

This Academy Award winner for Best Animated Feature follows a solitary cat in the aftermath of a devastating flood as it bands together with other animals learning to survive in a new watery reality.

Through present-day footage and family VHS archives, filmmaker Lina Soualem's Bye Bye Tiberias (2023) paints a lyrical, deeply personal portrait of four generations of Palestinian women shaped by exile and longing.

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

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

This six-night film series features films analyzed in James Baldwin's singular blend of memoir and film criticism, The Devil Finds Work (1976), as well as documentary works about Baldwin’s life. Each screening will also feature a live dramatic reading from the book.

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

Hammer educators lead conversation-based tours of the exhibition Noah Davis

Arch Obler's apocalyptic tale concerns the fateful actions of an extremely wealthy, egotistical industrialist (William Shatner) who finances a pioneering space flight for the U.S. government, triggering an escalating cascade of horrific events.