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Art

Analia Saban and Printmaking in L.A.

Artist Analia Saban joins Naoko Takahatake, director and chief curator of the Grunwald Center of the Graphic Arts, Case Hudson, master printer at Gemi...

01:24:17

Monument Eternal: GeoVanna Gonzalez

"In a lot of spiritual practices, there’s a transitional space that you have to enter to devote yourself to your practice . . ." GeoVanna Gonzal...

00:04:43

Monument Eternal: Cauleen Smith

“When the purpose of your music is so large that it has to be enacted through place and with other people . . . ” Cauleen Smith's practice...

00:02:21

Monument Eternal: Star Feliz

“I study and work with sound as a frequency, a wave, a vibration . . .” Star Feliz emphasizes human relationships to the earth as both wha...

00:03:40

Colectivo Cherani

“Through our art, we can express our opinions.” Colectivo Cherani is a political and artistic initiative organized by an intergenerational...

00:06:24

Gelare Khoshgozaran: UCLA Department of Art Lecture

Copresented by the UCLA Department of ArtUndisciplinary artist and filmmaker Gelare Khoshgozaran engages with the legacies of imperial violenc...

01:20:42

Monument Eternal: Suné Woods

"It's a process of becoming empty." Artist Suné Woods discusses On this day in Meditation, a peaceful, immersive installation she created for Alice Coltrane,...

00:03:16

Raquel Cecilia Mendieta & Jay Ezra Nayssan on the films of Ana Mendieta

Post-screening discussion with Raquel Cecilia Mendieta, Director of the Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, and curator Jay Ezra Nayssan, Del Vaz Proje...

01:01:14

John Walsh on Cézanne in Old Age, Unbowed

In the last of a three-part lecture series, art historian and curator John Walsh discusses Cézanne's solitary and hugely productive last years...

01:13:38

John Walsh on Cézanne and the Pull of the South

In the second of a three-part lecture series, art historian and curator John Walsh discusses Paul Cézanne's mid-life embrace of his native land...

01:11:44

Film & TV

Director Pamela Bright-Moon & more on Black women in politics

Hammer Forum is made possible by the Rosenbloom FamilyPost screening panel featuring: Areva Martin, Attorney; LaToya Baldwin-Clark, Professor...

00:38:26

David Dastmalchian talks to Bryan Fuller about "Late Night with the Devil"

Post-screening conversation with actor David Dastmalchian, moderated by writer and producer Bryan Fuller.Johnny Carson rival Jack Delroy hosts a syndicated talk show...

00:29:51

Writer-director India Donaldson on "Good One"

Post-screening conversation with writer-director India Donaldson and film critic Beandrea July.A seemingly small incident has monumental implications in the extraord...

00:30:07

Composers Clément Ducol & Camille on "Emilia Pérez"

Post-screening conversation with composers Clément Ducol & Camille. Moderated by Rajendra Roy, The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, The Museum of Modern Art, New...

00:25:08

Danielle Deadwyler on "The Piano Lesson"

Post-screening conversation with actor Danielle Deadwyler and journalist Antonia Blyth. The intensity of familial bonds are on full display—both in front of and be...

00:25:09

Titus Kaphar & Tarell Alvin McCraney on "Exhibiting Forgiveness"

Post-screening Q&A with Titus Kaphar and playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, Artistic Director of the Geffen Playhouse. Acclaimed artist Titus Kaphar’s debut fea...

00:52:29

Artists and directors on "Porcelain War"

Post-screening Q&A with co-directors Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev, and artist Anya Stasenko. Under roaring fighter jets and missile strikes, Ukrainian artists...

00:34:48

Director Chris Wilcha on "Flipside"

Post-screening Q&A with director Chris Wilcha. When filmmaker Chris Wilcha revisits the record store he worked at as a teenager in New Jersey, he finds the once-thri...

00:31:42

Carla Gutiérrez discusses "Frida"

Post-screening Q&A with director Carla Gutiérrez. An intimately raw and magical journey through the life, mind, and heart of iconic artist Frida Kahlo. Told t...

00:29:59

Natalie Rae discusses "Daughters"

Post-screening Q&A with Daughters co-director Natalie Rae moderated by film critic Beandrea July. Four young girls prepare for a special Daddy Daughter Danc...

00:30:32

Society & Culture

Author Elie Mystal on "Bad Law"

New York Times bestselling author Elie Mystal discusses his provocative new book Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America. In this sharp and...

01:10:52

Natalie Rae discusses "Daughters"

Post-screening Q&A with Daughters co-director Natalie Rae moderated by film critic Beandrea July. Four young girls prepare for a special Daddy Daughter Danc...

00:30:32

Symposium: An Encounter with the Korean Avant-Garde

Presented in collaboration with GYOPO, an L.A.-based collective of Korean cultural producers and art professionals, this program features dialogues with artists and thinkers on...

03:49:20

An Indigenous Present: Indigeneity in Made in L.A. 2023

Co-presented with the UCLA American Indian Studies Center Celebrating the launch of the new book An Indigenous Present, conceived by artist Jeffrey Gibson, this panel takes a cl...

00:03:42

50 Years of Ms. Magazine with Dolores Huerta & Eleanor Smeal

Since its founding in 1973, Ms. magazine has been a source for news, analysis, and commentary with a feminist point of view. In this panel, the magazine’s executi...

01:26:05

Cyberfeminism Index: Nora Khan, Lauren Lee McCarthy & Mindy Seu

Designer and technologist Mindy Seu joins artist and computer programmer Lauren Lee McCarthy and writer, editor, and curator Nora Khan to discuss the release of Cyberfeminis...

01:20:25

Erwin Chemerinsky on upcoming Supreme Court cases

As engaged citizens it is important for us all to understand the role the Supreme Court plays in our lives and its decisions impact us all. Erwin Chemerinsky, one of the nation&...

01:35:24

Liz Goldwyn leads a guided interactive meditation

In celebration of Valentine’s day and the release of her latest book, Sex, Health, and Consciousness: How to Reclaim Your Pleasure Potential, writer, filmmaker, a...

01:08:48

Maggie Nelson & Michelle Tea in conversation

On the occasion of the paperback release of Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint, the author joins fellow writer Michelle Tea for a conve...

01:36:08

Erwin Chemerinsky on recent Supreme Court rulings

As engaged citizens it is important for us all to understand the role the Supreme Court plays in our lives and its decisions impact us all. Erwin Chemerinsky, one of the nation&...

01:24:04

Politics

Director Pamela Bright-Moon & more on Black women in politics

Hammer Forum is made possible by the Rosenbloom FamilyPost screening panel featuring: Areva Martin, Attorney; LaToya Baldwin-Clark, Professor...

00:38:26

From November 5 to January 6: Are We Ready for a Fair and Legitimate Election?

Are election administrators up to the task of holding elections and fairly counting votes when they are subject to unprecedented public scrutiny and face possible harassment? Wi...

01:09:40

The United States Electoral College and Fair Elections

Co-presented with the Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA Law Moderated by Rick Hasen, UCLA Law. Panelists: Joey Fishkin, UCLA Law; Amanda Hollis-Brusky, Pomona Colle...

01:16:25

Democracy and Risks to the 2024 Elections

Co-presented with the Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA Law Can the United States conduct a free and fair election in November in which the public will have confide...

01:11:36

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

With rulings on major issues expected by the start of summer 2024, the United States Supreme Court is once again at the center of key legal and policy debates. An all-star panel...

01:36:34

Director Lauren Greenfield on "The Kingmaker"

Post-screening Q&A with director Lauren Greenfield. As the former first lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos is best known for her opulent lifestyle, but it was he...

00:31:52

Director Amei Wallach and art historian Rani Singh discuss "Taking Venice"

Post-screening Q&A with Taking Venice director Amei Wallach and art historian Rani Singh. At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government was determined...

00:35:13

Directors and film participants discuss "War Game"

Post-screening Q&A with directors Jesse Moss & Tony Gerber and film participants former Governor of Montana Steve Bullock, US Senator Heidi Heitkamp, Major General (ret....

01:02:15

Richard L. Hasen & Erwin Chemerinsky on voter disenfranchisement

Throughout history, too many Americans have faced needless barriers to voting. Part of the blame falls on the U.S. Constitution, which does not contain an affirmative right to v...

01:21:59

Why is it So Hard to Build Housing in L.A.?

Journalist Anna Scott, host of the KCRW podcasts Samaritans and City of Tents, is joined by Yasmin Tong, Founding Principal of CTY Housing, Hamid Behdad, PE of Central City Deve...

01:17:27

Books

Forrest Gander reads, October 2024

The delicate, undaunted, disconcerting power of Forrest Gander’s work springs from the view that dimensions of experience, too often neatly segregated, intersect. He reads...

01:06:05

Bloomsday 2024

Now in its 15th year at the Hammer, Bloomsday is a worldwide annual celebration of James Joyce and his landmark book Ulysses. This lively celebration features a cast of veteran...

01:51:52

Fae Myenne Ng reads, May 2024

Best-selling author Fae Myenne Ng’s new memoir, Orphan Bachelors, offers a personal, timely portrait of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a...

01:06:36

Adam Moss reads, May 2024

In Adam Moss’s The Work of Art, the former editor of New York magazine asks “What is the work of art?” Weaving conversations with some of the most acc...

00:59:50

Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects

The book Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects is a project of artist Chris E. Vargas's Museum of Trans Hirstory & Art (MOTHA), a conceptual art project that is "forever und...

01:29:28

Poet Boris Dralyuk reads from his book "My Hollywood and Other Poems"

Poet Boris Dralyuk reads from his most recent volume, My Hollywood and Other Poems, a collection of lyric meditations on the experience of émigrés in Los...

00:56:07

Some Favorite Writers: Joan Silber

Novelist Joan Silber has written nine books of fiction including Improvement (2017), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner A...

01:07:38

50 Years of Ms. Magazine with Dolores Huerta & Eleanor Smeal

Since its founding in 1973, Ms. magazine has been a source for news, analysis, and commentary with a feminist point of view. In this panel, the magazine’s executi...

01:26:05

Bloomsday 2023

Now in its 14th year at the Hammer, Bloomsday is a worldwide annual celebration of James Joyce and his landmark book Ulysses. This lively celebration features a cast of...

01:37:32

Sigrid Nunez reads from "What Are You Going Through"

National Book Award-winning author Sigrid Nunez shares her most recent novel What Are You Going Through, a meditation on friendship, empathy, and what it means to die w...

01:10:31

Music

Panelists on Tod Machover's "Schoenberg in Hollywood"

Copresented with the UCLA Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience and the Schoenberg at 150 FestivalCelebrating Arnold Sc...

00:58:57

Coltrane on Coltrane: An Oral History

Vocalist Michelle Coltrane (daughter of Alice Coltrane) and harpist Brandee Younger come together for a special program that is part conversation, par...

01:45:23

JazzPOP: Dan Rosenboom's Polarity Quintet

Organized by San Francisco Bay Area bassist Lisa Mezzacappa. Dan Rosenboom, trumpets Gavin Templeton, saxophones John Escreet, keyboards Richard...

01:11:01

JazzPOP: Beth Schenck Quintet

Organized by San Francisco Bay Area bassist Lisa Mezzacappa. Beth Schenck, alto saxophone Cory Wright, tenor saxophone and bass clarinet Matt Wrobel, gui...

01:06:08

Director Chris Wilcha on "Flipside"

Post-screening Q&A with director Chris Wilcha. When filmmaker Chris Wilcha revisits the record store he worked at as a teenager in New Jersey, he finds the once-thri...

00:31:42

JazzPOP: Jamael Dean and the Afronauts

Devin Daniels, alto saxophone Aaron Shaw, tenor saxophone Jamael Dean, keyboard Jonathan Richards, bass Lyndon Rochelle, drums Los Angele...

01:10:40

Intersections: Armenian Classical Composers

Celebrate the rich and diverse intersections of Armenian musical heritage with exquisite performances of works by Armenian classical composers in Western and Ottoman music tradi...

01:45:37

Maestro James Conlon discusses work by marginalized composers

01:37:36

Malik Gaines, Alexandro Segade, & Kelci Hahn on "Star Choir"

Post-screening Q&A with artists Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade and vocalist Kelci Hahn, moderated by Assistant Professor of English at UCLA Summer Kim Lee. In thi...

00:29:56

Costume & prothestics designers Mark Bridges & Kazu Hiro on "Maestro"

Post-screening Q&A with costume designer Mark Bridges and prosthetic makeup designer Kazu Hiro, moderated by Museum of Modern Art Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film Rajend...

00:27:23

Social Justice

Author Elie Mystal on "Bad Law"

New York Times bestselling author Elie Mystal discusses his provocative new book Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America. In this sharp and...

01:10:52

Food for Thought: Maggie Baird, Bryant Terry, & Alice Waters

Cosponsored with LULU and Support+Feed.Award-winning chefs and activists Bryant Terry and Alice Waters are in conversation about climate activism grounded in a plant...

01:25:50

Bruce Mau: Humans in Space

Visionary designer, author, educator, and artist Bruce Mau explores groundbreaking ideas in sustainability, creativity, and design. For this talk, Mau delves into his approach t...

01:00:53

Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice trailer

Part of Getty’s region-wide initiative PST ART: Art and Science Collide, the Hammer presents Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, organized by guest co-curators G...

00:00:33

Richard L. Hasen & Erwin Chemerinsky on voter disenfranchisement

Throughout history, too many Americans have faced needless barriers to voting. Part of the blame falls on the U.S. Constitution, which does not contain an affirmative right to v...

01:21:59

The California Reparations Task Force Final Report

Months after the murder of George Floyd, California became the first state in the nation to form a governmental Reparations Task Force to study and develop restitution and recon...

01:32:29

Sarah Schulman & Carolyn Strauss discuss queer representation in film & TV

Novelist, playwright, nonfiction writer, and screenwriter Sarah Schulman joins television producer and former HBO president Carolyn Strauss (Game of Thrones, Treme

01:04:36

Director Chinonye Chukwu & Robin D.G. Kelley discuss "Till"

Director Chinonye Chukwu joins UCLA professor Robin D. G. Kelley in conversation following a screening of Till, which depicts the true story behind the 1955 lynching of...

00:28:24

Bamby Salcedo & Elana Redfield in conversation

In honor of Trans Awareness Week, Latina transgender speaker and activist Bamby Salcedo joins Elana Redfield, Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law, in conversation at the Ha...

01:02:44

Art + Activism: A Collaborative Learning Project 2022

In the summer of 2022, the Hammer Museum's academic programs department launched the second year of Art + Activism: A Collaborative Learning Project, a multigenerational artmaki...

00:03:50

Performance

How I Became A Person, by Page Person

In celebration of Trans Awareness Week, Made in L.A. 2023 artist Page Person presents a sprawling, multi-sensory performance confronting anti-drag and anti-trans hyster...

01:45:01

Nina Beier & Bob Kil: All Fours

All Fours is a performance of synchronized movement that occurs for roughly ten minutes each hour on a stage of marble guardian lions. The dancers may range in number f...

00:04:50

Meg Stuart & Varinia Canto Vila: confirm humanity

"Position your body alongside the outer contours of its skin, and then further past, cross the bounding-line of what it knows, linger in the space of intersecting realms. Conten...

00:04:17

Lifes: Senyawa

“There are many different ways to sing: not only melody or rhythm, but also texture and frequency.” Incorporating homemade instruments and deft vocal explora...

00:02:06

No Humans Involved: Las Nietas de Nonó

00:08:02

Witch Hunt: Renate Lorenz & Pauline Boudry

"We are attempting inter-group, or interstellar, telepathic transmission, following the 1974 score Telepathic Improvisation by Pauline Oliveros," says Marwa Arsainos in...

00:04:28

Witch Hunt: Okwui Okpokwasili

"Being an African-American, having been born here, I feel like I'm always in that middle space and trying to reach, trying to hear, trying to open to a message, a way forward, a...

00:08:52

Ligia Lewis & Mlondi Zondi discuss Lewis's film "deader than dead"

Movement artist and scholar Mlondi Zondi joins Made in L.A. 2020 artist Ligia Lewis in conversation, following a screening of Lewis’s dance performance deader...

01:07:10

Terry Allen & Jo Harvey Allen in conversation

Terry Allen and Jo Harvey Allen hold a conversation interspersed with readings and music excerpts from Terry’s music recordings, radio shows, and theater works. A singer-s...

01:36:24

Choreographer Will Rawls discusses his work

Choreographer, artist, and writer Will Rawls presents his work-in-progress, a hybrid of dance and stop-motion animation, created as part of his residency at the Hammer. His chor...

01:19:13

Poetry

Rosanna Warren reads, April 2025

First an eminent poet, as well as a literary critic, translator, classicist, and painter, Rosanna Warren reminds one of the protean genius of Max Jaco...

01:16:23

Armen Davoudian reads, February 2025

Armen Davoudian, who grew up in Isfahan, Iran, has published his first volume of poems, The Palace of Forty Pillars, which the San Franci...

01:03:15

Forrest Gander reads, October 2024

The delicate, undaunted, disconcerting power of Forrest Gander’s work springs from the view that dimensions of experience, too often neatly segregated, intersect. He reads...

01:06:05

V. Penelope Pelizzon reads, May 2024

Written over a decade while the author lived on four continents, award-winning poet V. Penelope Pelizzon’s latest collection, A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye...

01:27:46

Maureen McLane reads, March 2024

Maureen McLane, poet, literary critic, and connoisseur of both the canon and the experimental tradition, epitomizes Wallace Steven’s dictum that “poetry is the schol...

01:23:46

Poet Boris Dralyuk reads from his book "My Hollywood and Other Poems"

Poet Boris Dralyuk reads from his most recent volume, My Hollywood and Other Poems, a collection of lyric meditations on the experience of émigrés in Los...

00:56:07

Monica Youn reads, January 2024

Monica Youn’s most recent volume is FROM FROM, a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award. Among her many honors are the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundatio...

01:11:59

Vijay Seshadri reads, February 2023

Poet Vijay Seshadri, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning 3 Sections, reads from his work. He is also the author of That Was Now, This Is Then, The L...

00:49:17

Poet Robert Pinsky reads, February 2023

Celebrated poet Robert Pinsky reads from his work, including his new memoir, Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet, which offers a candid, engaging, and wry self-por...

01:03:04

Poet Ange Mlinko reads from her collection "Venice," November 2022

Ange Mlinko reads from her poetry collection Venice (2022). Mlinko is the author of several books of poetry, including Distant Mandate and Marvelous Things...

00:50:32

Environment

Artists and conservationists on "In the Impact Zone"

Developed in partnership with Conservation International.Post-screening Q&A with Breath(e) artist Michael Joo; Scott Atkinson, founder of Conservation I...

01:21:43

Ron Finley & Glenn Kaino in conversation

Self-described “Gangsta Gardener” Ron Finley advocates for a revolutionary revitalization of communities through teaching the fundamental value of growing your own f...

01:22:04

Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg: Rob Reynolds and climate scientists in discussion

Breath(e) artist Rob Reynolds has worked closely with world-renowned oceanographers and glaciologists Dr. David Sutherland and Dr. Twila Moon, who are researching the c...

01:31:53

A, Bee, Cs of Native Bees with Krystle Hickman

Did you know there are over 1,600 species of bees native to California? Most people know relatively little about native bees considering how important they are to the pollinatio...

01:16:39

Food for Thought: Maggie Baird, Bryant Terry, & Alice Waters

Cosponsored with LULU and Support+Feed.Award-winning chefs and activists Bryant Terry and Alice Waters are in conversation about climate activism grounded in a plant...

01:25:50

Bruce Mau: Humans in Space

Visionary designer, author, educator, and artist Bruce Mau explores groundbreaking ideas in sustainability, creativity, and design. For this talk, Mau delves into his approach t...

01:00:53

Breath(e): Yangkura

Artist Yangkura performs as the Forgotten Messenger in his monumental trash costume, accompanied by contemporary musician and composer Kyungso Park playing on the gayageum, a tr...

00:01:25

Art & Ideas: Sylvia Earle

Famed oceanographer and explorer Sylvia Earle shares her journey as a participant in decades of unprecedented ocean discoveries and as a witness to devastating loss, and what ac...

00:04:15

Protecting the Amazon Rainforest: Averting the ecological tipping point

Indigenous leaders and artists lead a conversation on the global significance of the Amazon biome by highlighting how California’s oil imports affect the future of the Ama...

01:38:05

Sylvia Earle & Laura Dern in conversation

In a pre-Earth Day talk, famed oceanographer and explorer Sylvia Earle shares her journey as a participant in decades of unprecedented ocean discoveries and as a witness to deva...

01:44:40