Programs & Events | Hammer Museum

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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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A rectangular image is divided into three segments. The bottom segment spans the full width and depicts three figures wearing dark clothes in a room with a yellow floor. Two figures lie on the floor and the third stands against the back wall. On the upper left, an arm extends into the frame, with the hand lightly cupped. The image in the upper right shows an detail of the image at bottom, showing the two figures on the right end of that image.

deader than dead, with Ligia Lewis & Mlondi Zondi

A conversation and a screening of Lewis’s dance performance “deader than dead," conceived for Made in L.A. 2020.

Sun Feb 21 1:00 PM

A family portrait of four preteens, arranged in a living room

Lunchtime Art Talk on Buck Ellison

Curatorial assistant Nicholas Barlow leads a live, online discussion of Buck Ellison's work.

Wed Feb 24 12:30 PM

A black marble notebook cover that reads Back to School: Vaccinating Teachers

Back to School: Vaccinating Teachers

Amid the push to reopen schools in the United States, how are educators being factored into the national vaccination strategy?

Tue Mar 2 5:00 PM

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Lunchtime Art Talk on Niloufar Emamifar

Made in L.A. 2020 assistant curator of performance Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi, leads a live online discussion of Niloufar Emamifar's work.

Wed Mar 3 12:30 PM

A photograph of two videos projected side-by-side against a black wall that takes up two-thirds of the image. The carpet in the lower third of the photograph is blue.

Lunchtime Art Talk on Kahlil Joseph

Made in L.A. 2020 assistant curator of performance Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi leads a live online discussion of Kahlil Joseph's work.

Wed Mar 10 12:30 PM

A view of the corner of a gallery. Two dark triangular structures extend across the corner, meeting in the middle at the tall ends. A large rock sits on the floor in front of the triangles, where they meet. A drinking fountain spout extends from the top of the rock. Behind the triangles, between them and the wall, the edge of a yellow piece of furniture is visible.

Lunchtime Art Talk on Patrick Jackson

Curatorial assistant Nicholas Barlow leads a live online discussion of Made in L.A. 2020 artist Patrick Jackson's work.

Wed Mar 17 12:30 PM

A woman in makeup looks over her shoulder with a mirror behind her, the photographer visible in the mirror

Lunchtime Art Talk on Reynaldo Rivera

Curatorial assistant Vanessa Arizmendi leads a live online discussion of Made in L.A. 2020 artist Reynaldo Rivera's work.

Wed Mar 24 12:30 PM

A green background with white font reading Reimagining the Museum: Community, Collaboration & Radical Inclusion

Special Programs

Reimagining the Museum: Community, Collaboration & Radical Inclusion

A discussion on how museums can center the needs and voices of communities and leverage the skills of education staff to create mutually beneficial, radically inclusive spaces.

Wed Mar 24 5:00 PM

Part of the series Reimagining the Museum

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Lunchtime Art Talk on Christina Forrer

The Huntington's chief curator of American art Dennis Carr leads a live online discussion of Made in L.A. 2020 artist Christina Forrer's work.

Wed Mar 31 12:30 PM

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Lunchtime Art Talk on Kandis Williams

Curatorial assistant Nika Chilewich leads a live online discussion of Made in L.A. 2020 artist Kandis Williams' work

Wed Apr 7 12:30 PM