Programs & Events | Hammer Museum

The museum will close at 6 p.m. on Friday, April 3 and be closed all day Saturday, April 4 in advance of the Spring Exhibitions Opening. Join us for the opening

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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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Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

Harmony and Hustle: The Five Heartbeats

Following a fictional quintet from 1960s chart success through industry exploitation, infighting and addiction, Robert Townsend's film delivers a clear-eyed critique of a business that profits from Black genius while denying Black ownership.

Sat Apr 25 7:00 PM

Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor in tuxedos

Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

The Last Laugh: Harlem Nights and the Legacy of Comedy as Resistance

The only film written, directed, produced by and starring Eddie Murphy, Harlem Nights unites three generations of Black comedy—Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor and Murphy—in a story of Black nightlife, entrepreneurship and survival amid gangsters and corrupt cops.

Sun Apr 26 7:00 PM

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Lunchtime Art Talk on David Hockney

Curatorial assistant and collection specialist Jennie Waldow leads an in-person discussion of David Hockney's work.

Wed Apr 29 12:30 PM

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Special Programs

ONLINE ONLY: Mindful Awareness Meditation

Free online session open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

Thu Apr 30 12:30 PM

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

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 May 7 12:30 PM

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

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 May 14 12:30 PM

Poetry: A.E. Stallings

Stallings, forty-seventh Oxford Professor of Poetry and winner of the MacArthur Fellowship, has published five volumes of poems, most recently This Afterlife.

Tue May 19 7:30 PM

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

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 May 21 12:30 PM

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Out of Plain Sight

Thu May 21 7:30 PM

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

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 May 28 12:30 PM