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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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Special Programs

Fall Exhibitions Opening Day

Celebrate the opening of Witch Hunt and No Humans Involved with free admission, art performances, and live DJs in the courtyard!

Sun Oct 10 11:00 AM

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Lunchtime Art Talk on Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz

Curatorial assistant Nika Chilewich leads an in-person discussion of Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz's work.

Wed Oct 13 12:30 PM

Photograph of people in bathing suits laying on a sandy ground inside of a building with columns.

Special Programs

Sun & Sea

An opera-performance by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė

Thu Oct 14 12:00 AM

Photograph of people in bathing suits laying on a sandy ground inside of a building with columns.

Special Programs

Sun & Sea

An opera-performance by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė

Fri Oct 15 12:00 AM

Photograph of people in bathing suits laying on a sandy ground inside of a building with columns.

Special Programs

Sun & Sea

An opera-performance by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė

Sat Oct 16 12:00 AM

Large wall of white cement blocks, each engraved with a letter from the alphabet

Lunchtime Art Talk on Wilmer Wilson IV

Curatorial assistant Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi leads an in-person discussion of Wilmer Wilson IV's work.

Wed Oct 20 12:30 PM

A person sits in a beauty salon chair in a dark room with potted palm trees behind her. The person has medium-dark skin, wears a yellow dress with several metal necklaces, is barefoot, and holds the chair's drying helmet over their face with two hands. Various-sized video monitors peek out rom the plants.

No Humans Involved Curator Walk-through

Associate curator Erin Christovale leads an in-person walk-through of the exhibition No Humans Involved.

Sun Oct 24 1:00 PM

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Lunchtime Art Talk on Vija Celmins

Curatorial assistant Nicholas Barlow leads an in-person discussion of Vija Celmins's work.

Wed Oct 27 12:30 PM

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ONLINE: In the Best Interests of the Children

This groundbreaking doc portrays the diversity of experience, race, and class among eight lesbian mothers and their children. Q&A with filmmaker Frances Reid.

Thu Oct 28 4:00 PM

Four wooden chairs sit in the same room as David Hartt's painting

ONLINE: David Hartt: UCLA Department of Art Lecture

David Hartt discusses his practice and is joined by Aram Moshayedi, who organized the artist's Hammer Projects exhibition.

Thu Oct 28 6:30 PM