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).

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

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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Still from Dark Matter

Dark Matter

Director Karim Lakzadeh channels the French New Wave by way of Jim Jarmusch into this wildly unexpected and entirely welcome independent Iranian production

Sat Jun 29 7:30 PM

Installation view of a fashion exhibition

CANCELLED: Curator Walk-through: Refashioning: CFGNY & Wataru Tominaga

Sun Jun 30 1:00 PM

Still from In the Land of Brothers

In the Land of Brothers

Directors Alireza Ghasemi and Raha Amirfazli tell a powerful story across three interconnected episodes of an Afghan refugee family’s generational struggle to make a home in Iran.

Sun Jun 30 7:00 PM

Pink poster reading "a spectacle and nothing strange"

Lunchtime Art Talk on Eve Fowler

Collection specialist/curatorial assistant, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts Jennie Waldow leads an in-person discussion of the work of Eve Fowler.

Wed Jul 3 12:30 PM

Gallery view full of bright fabrics and clothing

After-Hours Tour: Diane Fujino and Kano Fujino-Harmachis on Refashioning: CFGNY & Wataru Tominaga

UC Santa Barbara professor of Asian American Studies Diane Fujino and UC Davis graduate Kano Fujino-Harmachis leads a walk-through of the exhibition.

Tue Jul 9 6:00 PM

Black and whit the photo of a mother standing, holding her young daughter in front of her

Rabbit in the Moon

Documentary film on Japanese Americans in American concentration camps during World War II. Followed by a Q&A with director Emiko Omori and producer Chizuko Omori.

Tue Jul 9 7:30 PM

Photo of a man's swim trunks with the words "Mondrian in Excelsis" written on them

Lunchtime Art Talk on David Medalla

Curatorial assistant Jennifer Buonocore-Nedrelow leads an in-person discussion of the work of David Medalla.

Wed Jul 10 12:30 PM

Graphic of the Supreme Court

Under the Gavel: The U.S. Supreme Court’s Most Recent Term in Review

An all-star panel of legal scholars analyzes the meaning and implications of the latest Supreme Court cases

Wed Jul 10 7:30 PM

Ben Stiller and Robin Williams in Night at the Museum

Screenings Kids

Family Flicks: Night at the Museum

History comes alive—literally—after a divorced dad, struggling to reconnect with his son, takes a job as a guard at a museum with a magical secret: When the doors are locked, its exhibits spring to life.

Sun Jul 14 11:00 AM

Still from Daughters

Daughters

Four young girls prepare for a special Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C., jail in this eight-year documentary journey.

Tue Jul 16 7:30 PM

Part of the series Summer Night Cinema: True Stories