Programs & Events

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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Tours & Talks

After-Hours Tour: Zirwat Chowdhury on Five Centuries of Works on Paper: The Grunwald Center at 70

UCLA Professor of Art History Zirwat Chowdhury leads an after-hours tour of the exhibition.

Wed Feb 11 6:00 PM

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 Feb 12 12:30 PM

Tours & Talks

Exhibition Highlights Tour: Made in L.A. 2025

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

Sat Feb 14 1:00 PM

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 Feb 19 12:30 PM

Readings

Some Favorite Writers: Katie Kitamura

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025, Katie Kitamura’s most recent novel Audition is a compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel that asks who we are to the people we love.

Thu Feb 19 7:30 PM

Tours & Talks

Exhibition Highlights Tour: Made in L.A. 2025

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

Sat Feb 21 1:00 PM

Conversations

Matisse Inventing and Adapting

In old age Matisse devised flat, spaceless designs of boldly colored and nearly abstract forms that he often cut from colored paper.

Sun Feb 22 3:00 PM

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

Featured programs

Mindful Awareness Meditation

Explore our series

Program listing

Exhibition Highlights Tour: Made in L.A. 2025

826LA@Hammer: Improv: Creative Fuel

Home and Away: Matisse Makes Another Heaven

After-Hours Tour: Zirwat Chowdhury on Five Centuries of Works on Paper: The Grunwald Center at 70

Mindful Awareness Meditation

Exhibition Highlights Tour: Made in L.A. 2025

Mindful Awareness Meditation

Some Favorite Writers: Katie Kitamura

Exhibition Highlights Tour: Made in L.A. 2025

Matisse Inventing and Adapting