Programs & Events | Hammer Museum

The Hammer Museum will be closed on Saturday, May 17, for a private event.

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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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Ramon Novarro and Lupe Velez in Laughing Boy

Eskimo / Laughing Boy

Screening of two pre-Code Hollywood studio films that openly confronted the contemporary consequences of this nation’s fraught history with Indigenous peoples after they were granted citizenship in 1924.

Fri Feb 2 7:30 PM

Gallery view of an exhibition of prints

Exhibition Tour: Groove: Artists and Intaglio Prints, 1500 to Now

Hammer educators lead conversation-based tours of the exhibition Groove: Artists and Intaglio Prints, 1500 to Now.

Sat Feb 3 1:00 PM

Greta Garbo as Anna Christie

Camille / Anna Christie

UCLA Film & Television Archive presents a survey of the talent and mystique that made Greta Garbo the supreme icon of Classic Hollywood.

Sat Feb 3 7:30 PM

Kids write on paper

826LA@Hammer: Make a Guidebook for Your Imaginary World

Conjure up your own planet or island and create guidebooks for these wondrous places to entice visitors. Facilitated by Lorraine Allen Derosa.

Sun Feb 4 11:00 AM

James Conlon photo by Dan Steinberg (attached)

James Conlon

Illustrating and expanding on the importance of works by marginalized composers, Maestro James Conlon discusses “Highway 1,” by trailblazing African-American composer William Grant Still alongside Austrian refugee Alexander Zemlinsky’s “Der Zwerg.”

Sun Feb 4 3:00 PM

Still from Massacre

Massacre

This 1934 western is one of a group of pre-Code Hollywood studio films that openly confronted the contemporary consequences of this nation’s fraught history with Indigenous peoples after they were granted citizenship in 1924.

Sun Feb 4 7:00 PM

Colorful abstract etching in a circular shape

Lunchtime Art Talk on Sam Gilliam

Curatorial associate Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi leads an in-person discussion of Sam Gilliam's work.

Wed Feb 7 12:30 PM

Joan Silber and her book "Secrets of Happiness"

Some Favorite Writers: Joan Silber

Join author Joan Silber for a reading from her award winning publications. Followed by a conversation with Some Favorite Writers organizer, author Mona Simpson.

Thu Feb 8 7:30 PM

Kids Special Programs

CANCELED: Art Lab

This week's Art Lab is canceled due to the Only the Young Opening Celebration with Dynamicduo and PROWDMON. Art Lab will return next Saturday, February 17.

Sat Feb 10 1:00 PM

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Special Programs

Only the Young Opening Celebration with Dynamicduo and PROWDMON

Celebrate the openings of our winter exhibitions at the Hammer with a special performance by Korean hip-hop group Dynamicduo and dance crew PROWDMON.

Sat Feb 10 8:00 PM