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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Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

Food and Film: The Scent of Green Papaya

Writer-director Trần Anh Hùng won the Caméra d’Or at Cannes for his debut feature, The Scent of Green Papaya, a luminous portrait of the sensuous world as experienced by Mùi, a young servant girl to a troubled, middle-class family, in 1950s Saigon.

Sat Nov 15 7:30 PM

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Screenings Kids

Family Flicks: The Phantom Tollbooth

A mysterious tollbooth and a toy car transport young Milo to a magical, topsy-turvy world where letters are at war with numbers.

Sun Nov 16 11:00 AM

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Art in Conversation

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

Sun Nov 16 1:00 PM

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Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

I May Destroy You

Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You is a radical, genre-defying exploration of trauma, consent and creative survival in the post-#MeToo era. Three episodes will be screened, with Q&A with Professor Kathleen McHugh

Sun Nov 16 7:00 PM

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Lynn Hershman Leeson: Private I

Join pioneering conceptual artist Lynn Hershman Leeson and art historian Margot Norton for an evening of video screenings and insights into Leeson's revolutionary career and new book Private I.

Tue Nov 18 7:30 PM

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Nicole-Antonia Spagnola: 1-2-3: Apartment Gallery

Made in L.A. 2025 artist Nicole-Antonia Spagnola’s short film 1-2-3: Apartment Gallery (2025) loops on the big screen in the Billy Wilder Theater.

Wed Nov 19 11:00 AM

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Lunchtime Art Talk on Patrick Martinez

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

Wed Nov 19 12:30 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 Nov 20 12:30 PM

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Cocktails with a Curator: Made in L.A. 2025

Members-only after-hours exhibition walk-throughs followed by drinks and appetizers.

Thu Nov 20 6:00 PM

Expressive drawing of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dribbling a basketball

Hoops, Hopes & Dreams

The new film by artist Glenn Kaino animates the untold story about how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and an all-star team of civil rights activists took to basketball courts to rally young voters.

Thu Nov 20 7:30 PM