Programs & Events | Hammer Museum

The museum and Lulu will be closed Friday, July 4.

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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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Moonlight

Moonlight

Barry Jenkins’s Academy Award–winning film follows Chiron from childhood to adulthood in Miami.

Fri Feb 14 7:30 PM

Part of the series Melancholy & Moonlight: The Poetic Vision of Barry Jenkins

Dancers in animal costumes perform a sacred Mayan Deer Dance

Music & Performance

Mayan Danza del Venado

A sacred Mayan Deer Dance is offered by the Maya-Quiche group Danza Maya Aipop Tecum, in which the deer step forward to offer their flesh so that humans can live.

Sat Feb 15 2:00 PM

Still from the film The Brother From Another Planet (1984) showing a close-up of a shirtless man looking into the eyes of a woman in a robe and touching her lip

The Brother From Another Planet / Baby It's You

As part of the series John Sayles: Independent, the Archive screens the director’s first bona fide box-office success, the lo-fi sci-fi The Brother from Another Planet, alongside the pop-infused teen love story Baby It’s You.

Sat Feb 15 7:30 PM

A group of people dancing with an overlay that reads Panic Party

Special Programs

Panic Party

Climate justice through art, advocacy, and action. Join us for a dance party for a greener future!

Sun Feb 16 5:00 PM

If Beale Street Could Talk

If Beale Street Could Talk

Barry Jenkins’s follow-up to Moonlight is both a love story and a moving portrait of two black families in civil rights–era Harlem.

Tue Feb 18 7:30 PM

Part of the series Melancholy & Moonlight: The Poetic Vision of Barry Jenkins

A mask

Lunchtime Art Talk on Inside the Mask

Hammer curatorial staff members lead 15-minute discussions on a work of art.

Wed Feb 19 12:30 PM

Still from the film Sleep Dealer (2008) showing a man in a face mask with his arms spread wide and connected to glowing tubes

Sleep Dealer

This sci-fi thriller follows a young man in Mexico in a strange factory at the US-Mexico border that outsources migrant workers north via virtual reality.

Wed Feb 19 7:30 PM

A sketch of a mummy

Paul McCarthy Artist Walk-through: Victor Estrada

In these informal, 45-minute gallery talks, artists and scholars discuss specific works in Paul McCarthy: Head Space, Drawings 1963–2019.

Thu Feb 20 6:00 PM

Constitution Happy Hour

Special Programs

Constitution Happy Hour, Jan-Feb 2020

Due to uncertainty around COVID-19, the Hammer is temporarily closed to the public and this program has been canceled.

Thu Feb 20 6:00 PM

Still from the film Sunshine State (2002) showing a woman sitting in the foreground at the edge of a bed, and a man half-covered by a sheet sitting up against the headboard

Sunshine State

The Archive screens this prescient satire about the slow gentrification of a simple Florida beach town—starring Edie Falco, Timothy Hutton, and Angela Bassett—as part of the series John Sayles: Independent.

Fri Feb 21 7:30 PM