Programs & Events | Hammer Museum

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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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Poet Maureen McLane with her volume What You Were

Poetry: Maureen McLane

Poet, memoirist, critic, and educator Maureen McLane reads from her recent publication What You Want.

Thu Mar 14 7:30 PM

A woman stands behind a cat who is wearing sunglasses

Bell Book and Candle / The Cassandra Cat

The UCLA Film and Television Archive presents a screening of two films featuring supernatural cats.

Fri Mar 15 7:30 PM

gallery exibit: Untitled (TV Stone Tower) by Park Hyunki

Exhibition Tour: Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s

Hammer educators lead conversation-based tours of the exhibition Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s.

Sat Mar 16 1:00 PM

Still from A Ciambra

The Vacation / A Ciambra

Making Waves features contemporary BIPOC filmmakers whose works awed audiences when they premiered and continue to cause a ripple today. Followed by Q&A with filmmaker Jarreau Carrillo.

Sat Mar 16 7:30 PM

Installation image showing wall-mounted artworks and multimedia sculptures, including a mouth with pink lips and mirrors for teeth

Curator Walk-through: Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s

Hammer curator Pablo José Ramírez leads a walk-through of the exhibition.

Sun Mar 17 1:00 PM

Greta Garbo in Grand Hotel

Grand Hotel / Anna Karenina

UCLA Film & Television Archive presents a survey of the talent and mystique that made Greta Garbo the supreme icon of Classic Hollywood.

Sun Mar 17 7:00 PM

Gallery visitors look at a sculpture in the shape of a large mouth

Coffee with a Curator

Hammer members experience our exhibitions before the museum opens to the public with a curator-led walk-through.

Wed Mar 20 10:00 AM

A Korean man stripped to his underwear sits cross-legged on a tree stump

Lunchtime Art Talk on Kim Kulim

PST Project Management Fellow Jennifer Buonocore-Nedrelow leads an in-person discussion of Kim Kulim's work.

Wed Mar 20 12:30 PM

Image of men eating and drinking at a table in the middle of an art gallery

Artist-led Walkthrough: Kyungmi Shin on Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s

Join Kyungmi Shin for an artist-led walkthrough of Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s.

Wed Mar 20 6:00 PM

Graphic for Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects

Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects

A panel of artists and activists discuss the new book Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects, exploring trans art, activism, artifacts and resistance across more than four centuries.

Wed Mar 20 7:30 PM