Programs & Events

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 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.

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

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

Marking the 90th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Silvia Ribelles de la Vega, scholar and historian at The Packard Humanities Institute, presents a program featuring seldom-seen views of the war, drawn from the Hearst Metrotone News collection.

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

This screening and conversation honors Ethno-Communications alumnus Robert A. Nakamura (1936–2025), who taught film at UCLA for over 30 years and was widely known as the “godfather of Asian American media.”

Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds shine in perhaps the greatest Hollywood musical of all time.