Programs & Events | Hammer Museum

The museum will close at 6 p.m. on Friday, April 3 and be closed all day Saturday, April 4 in advance of the Spring Exhibitions Opening. Join us for the opening

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.

Explore our series

Black-and-white image of the back of a person's head with short black hair, pointing a metal object at another figure wearing a black suit and hat

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.

Sat Feb 14 11:00 AM

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 14 1:00 PM

A girl works on an art project

Kids Special Programs

Art Lab

Drop by Art Lab for hands-on creative activities inspired by artworks on view at the museum.

Sat Feb 14 1:00 PM

A woman turns her back to a man in a suit

Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

Passion / Starry Is the Night

Double feature of two woman-directed films from 1980s Hong Kong, directed by Sylvia Chang and Ann Hui, respectively.

Sat Feb 14 7:30 PM

Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins in Psycho

Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

Archive Talks: Hitchcock and Herrmann With Steven C. Smith

Author Steven C. Smith will deliver an illustrated talk about visionary collaborators Alfred Hitchcock and composer Bernard Herrmann before a screening of their iconic Psycho (1960) and a Q&A.

Sun Feb 15 7:00 PM

A surreal, sometimes grotesque view of a hot dog cart next to the 9-11 memorial

Lunchtime Art Talk on Ali Eyal

Curatorial assistant Azul Silverio leads an in-person discussion of the work of Ali Eyal, winner of the Made in L.A. 2025 Mohn Award.

Wed Feb 18 12:30 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 Feb 19 12:30 PM

Some Favorite Writers: Katie Kitamura

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025, Katie Kitamura’s most recent novel Audition is a compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel that asks who we are to the people we love.

Thu Feb 19 7:30 PM

A girl looks off-camera, while behind her a man and woman hug in front of a church

Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

The Solitude of Memory / Songs My Brothers Taught Me

Double feature including director Juan Pablo González’s meditation on a father's grief and Chloé Zhao’s quietly devastating debut, which captures the beauty, hardship,and resilience of life on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation.

Fri Feb 20 7:30 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 21 1:00 PM