Programs & Events | Hammer Museum

The museum will close at 4 pm on Christmas Eve (December 24) and New Year's Eve (December 31), and will be closed all day on Christmas Day (December 25) and New Year's Day (January 1).

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Mindful Awareness Meditation

Thursdays, 12:30–1 PM PDT

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

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After-Hours Tour: Whitney Arnold on Out of the Ordinary: Uncommon Marks, Materials, and Matrices

Join UCLA Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Medicine Whitney Arnold for a tour of the exhibition.

Wed Mar 26 6:00 PM

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Special Programs

Mindful Awareness Meditation

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

Thu Mar 27 12:30 PM

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Screenings Conversations

The Films of Ana Mendieta

A diverse selection of ten films created by the multidisciplinary artist Ana Mendieta between 1971 and 1981, followed by a talk with Raquel Cecilia Mendieta, Director of the Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, and Jay Ezra Nayssan.

Thu Mar 27 7:30 PM

Black and white photo of Audrey Hepburn inspecting items in an automat

Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

Food and Film: The Automat

Renowned chef, activist and cinephile Alice Waters will be in-person with filmmaker Lisa Hurwitz, whose documentary on the Automat brims with nostalgia for the fabled restaurant chain known for serving food from behind windowed, coin-operated doors.

Sat Mar 29 7:30 PM

Music & Performance

Turiya Rising: The Day I Met the Sun

Artist Devin T. Mays performs on stage with Bill Harris and Gerrit Hatcher in the galleries of Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal

Sun Mar 30 5:00 PM

Part of the series Turiya Rising Performance Series

Barbra Streisand as Yentl

Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

Yentl

Barbra Streisand shines as Yentl, an only daughter of a rabbi in a small Ashkenazi Jewish village in 1904 Poland who yearns to enter yeshiva like the young men her age in this musical epic.

Sun Mar 30 7:00 PM

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Lunchtime Art Talk on William Leavitt

Curatorial Assistant Jennifer Buonocore-Nedrelow leads an in-person discussion of William Leavitt's work.

Wed Apr 2 12:30 PM

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Special Programs

Drawing Workshop with Sam Winston

Artist Sam Winston will discuss and demonstrate his use of found local materials to make inks before leading attendees in drawing, writing, and breathing exercises

Wed Apr 2 3:30 PM

Overhead view of art materials on a table

Special Programs

Drawing Workshop with Sam Winston

Artist Sam Winston will discuss and demonstrate his use of found local materials to make inks before leading attendees in drawing, writing, and breathing exercises

Wed Apr 2 7:30 PM

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

Special Programs

Mindful Awareness Meditation

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

Thu Apr 3 12:30 PM