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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Shigeru Ban

A 2014 Pritzker Prize laureate, Ban stands as one of contemporary architecture’s most radical humanists, fusing structural innovation with profound social commitment

Fri Jan 30 7:30 PM

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Exhibition Highlights Tour: Made in L.A. 2025

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

Sat Jan 31 1:00 PM

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Screenings Kids

Family Flicks: The Secret Life of Pets

When two squabbling pet dogs end up outside their comfortable home they have to band together to stave off a gang of abandoned pets on a mission against the humans who've done them wrong.

Sun Feb 1 11:00 AM

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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 Feb 5 12:30 PM

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Special Programs Music & Performance

Will Rawls: Unmade

Made in L.A. artist Will Rawls performs in the Hammer's courtyard and gallery spaces, reflecting on notions of resource-sharing and social choreography.

Sat Feb 7 12:00 PM

Brightly colored painting of a sad teddy bear riding a car along a road

Exhibition Highlights Tour: Made in L.A. 2025

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

Sat Feb 7 1:00 PM

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826LA@Hammer: Improv: Creative Fuel

Learn to use comedic improv as a springboard into all kinds of writing and creating! Led by Groundling's Theater and School teacher, Tim Johnson.

Sun Feb 8 11:00 AM

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Home and Away: Matisse Makes Another Heaven

Art historian John Walsh shows how between the wars Matisse continued experiments adapting Cubist ideas to his recognizable forms.

Sun Feb 8 3:00 PM

Part of the series Matisse’s Surprises, with John Walsh

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After-Hours Tour: Zirwat Chowdhury on Five Centuries of Works on Paper: The Grunwald Center at 70

UCLA Professor of Art History Zirwat Chowdhury leads an after-hours tour of the exhibition.

Wed Feb 11 6:00 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 Feb 12 12:30 PM