Programs & Events | Hammer Museum

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

Mindful Awareness Meditation

Thursdays, 12:30–1 PM PDT

Mindful Awareness Meditation will be ONLINE ONLY on May 1, May 8, & May 15. Free weekly drop-in sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

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Two women and two children do arts and crafts together.

Pop-up Studio: Snapshots of L.A.

Document your impression of L.A. in a collage workshop led by teaching artists from Self Help Graphics & Art, inspired by the Ulysses Jenkins exhibition.

Sat Mar 12 11:00 AM

Exhibition tour

Exhibition Tours

One-hour tours of selected works in special exhibitions are facilitated by educators and take place Saturdays at 1 p.m.

Sat Mar 12 1:00 PM

Confirm Humanity Image

Music & Performance

confirm humanity

A solo choreography for two dancers that asks what remains after the contemporary body—as digital as it is human—is reset to its factory settings.

Sat Mar 12 2:45 PM

Still from the film "The Times of Harvey Milk" (1984), showing a group of men holding political campaign signs that say "Harvey Milk Supervisor"

Changes / Coming Out / The Times of Harvey Milk

Academy Award winning film The Times of Harvey Milk, and Q&A with director Rob Epstein. Plus two short docs.

Sat Mar 12 7:30 PM

Confirm Humanity Image

Music & Performance

confirm humanity

A solo choreography for two dancers that asks what remains after the contemporary body—as digital as it is human—is reset to its factory settings.

Sun Mar 13 2:45 PM

Illustration of a woman with two men fighting in the background.

Smog

The UCLA Film & Television Archive screens director Franco Rossi atmospheric meditation on class alienation in Los Angeles.

Sun Mar 13 7:00 PM

woman in a tank top with short hair laughs

A Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts / The Watermelon Woman

Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s Pioneers of Queer Cinema screening series.

Mon Mar 14 7:30 PM

Silver-white hand drawn notes and illustrations on a black background

Music & Performance

color a body who flees

An in-gallery performance by Holland Andrews, Elaine Carberry, Loren Davis Fisher, Jessika Kenney, and Andros Zins-Browne.

Tue Mar 15 7:00 PM

Abstract swirls of blue, purple, green, orange

Lunchtime Art Talk on Sam Gilliam

Vanessa Arizmendi, curatorial assistant, leads an in-person discussion of Sam Gilliam's work.

Wed Mar 16 12:30 PM

A man lies down on a bed with his fingers on a piano keyboard.

tick, tick… BOOM!, with Andrew Garfield

Screening of the 2021 feature film, followed by a Q&A with the lead actor, Andrew Garfield.

Wed Mar 16 7:30 PM

Part of the series MoMA Contenders 2021