Programs & Events

Double feature of two woman-directed films from 1980s Hong Kong, directed by Sylvia Chang and Ann Hui, respectively.

Educators lead 30-minute in-person talks about connections and comparisons between two works of art.

Author Steven C. Smith will deliver an illustrated talk about visionary collaborators Alfred Hitchcock and composer Bernard Herrmann before a screening of their iconic Psycho (1960) and a Q&A.

Curatorial assistant Juan Manuel Silverio leads an in-person discussion of Ali Eyal's work in Made in L.A. 2025.

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

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025, Katie Kitamura’s most recent novel Audition is a compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel that asks who we are to the people we love.

Double feature including director Juan Pablo González’s meditation on a father's grief and Chloé Zhao’s quietly devastating debut, which captures the beauty, hardship,and resilience of life on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation.

Hammer educators lead conversation-based tours of the exhibition Made in L.A. 2025.

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

The latest iteration of The World Around’s acclaimed series, this program of inspiring talks brings together global leaders in architecture and design who are driving positive and innovative forms of transformation, using their work to invite more equitable and sustainable forms of inhabiting the planet.