Programs & Events | Hammer Museum

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

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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Vast green forest view, with a small wooden house towards the right.

Stemple Pass

Screening and Q&A with filmmaker James Benning.

Sat Mar 5 7:30 PM

Part of the series Contested Landscapes: Three Digital Features by James Benning

Horses among hay.

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Screening and Q&A with filmmaker James Benning.

Sun Mar 6 7:00 PM

Part of the series Contested Landscapes: Three Digital Features by James Benning

A boy lays on grass.

Trevor / Word is Out

Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s Pioneers of Queer Cinema screening series.

Mon Mar 7 7:30 PM

Confirm Humanity Image

Music & Performance

confirm humanity

A solo choreography for two dancers that asks what remains after the contemporary body—as digital as it is human—is reset to its factory settings.

Tue Mar 8 2:45 PM

Burnt Sugar Arkestra

Music & Performance

Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber

The legendary improvisational ensemble plays the Hammer in conjunction with the exhibition Lifes.

Tue Mar 8 7:30 PM

Remnants of the Watts Festival, by Ulysses Jenkins, 1972-1973

Lunchtime Art Talk on Ulysses Jenkins

Curatorial assistant Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi leads an in-person discussion of Ulysses Jenkins's work.

Wed Mar 9 12:30 PM

Confirm Humanity Image

Music & Performance

confirm humanity

A solo choreography for two dancers that asks what remains after the contemporary body—as digital as it is human—is reset to its factory settings.

Wed Mar 9 2:45 PM

Girl and boy stand facing each other in front of a sunny hedge.

Licorice Pizza, followed by Q&A with director Paul Thomas Anderson

Screening of the 2021 feature film, followed by a Q&A with the director, Paul Thomas Anderson.

Wed Mar 9 7:30 PM

Part of the series MoMA Contenders 2021

Confirm Humanity Image

Music & Performance

confirm humanity

A solo choreography for two dancers that asks what remains after the contemporary body—as digital as it is human—is reset to its factory settings.

Thu Mar 10 2:45 PM

Still from Dune

Dune, followed by Q&A with director Denis Villeneuve

A screening of the 2021 feature film followed by a Q&A with director Denis Villeneuve.

Thu Mar 10 7:30 PM

Part of the series MoMA Contenders 2021