Programs & Events

Filmmaker Charles Burnett will be in person to discuss his intimate drama To Sleep with Anger, which was named to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry in 2017.

Curatorial assistant Jennifer Buonocore-Nedrelow leads an in-person discussion of Barbara T. Smith's work.

Free weekly drop-in sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

Robert Townsend’s audacious directorial debut remains a razor-sharp social critique of Hollywood’s degrading and limited roles for Black actors, using satire not as escapism, but as a strategy to expose industry gatekeeping, reclaim authorship, and speak truth to power.

Drop by Art Lab for hands-on creative activities inspired by artworks on view at the museum.

The most commercially successful Black comedy feature of its era, this blockbuster is also a case study in power and authorship, as Eddie Murphy gives a tour de force performance of multiple characters and earns a “story by” credit.

Celebrate Several Eternities in a Day and other new exhibitions with galleries open late and music in the courtyard. Food and drink available for purchase all night. Hammer members receive priority.

Celebrate the exhibition opening with talks by artists Edgar Calel, Rose B. Simpson, and Raven Chacon, and a sound ceremony with artist Guadalupe Maravilla

Robert Mitchum stars as the wolf in preacher’s clothing pursuing the two children of a widow (Shelley Winter) who know about a stash of ill-gotten loot in this Depression era-set Southern Gothic thriller.

Los Angeles-based artist Anna Sew Hoy utilizes sculpture, ceramics, public art, and performance to connect with our environment, and to demonstrate the power found in the fleeting and handmade.