Co-presented with the UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies Artist and retired Director of Global Advocacy & Partne...
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...
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...
Technotitlan is visual and sonic experience, archiving and weaving together house and techno records into an electromagnetic mural curated from Garay's personal archive of recor...
Panel discussion with Mas Exitos artist Gary "Ganas" Garay and special guests: Gerard Meraz of Power Tools, Chris "Curator" Gutierrez, and moderator Adrian Rivas.Tec...
The artist collective AMBOS: Art Made Between Opposite Sides documents and engages with the communities at the US/Mexico border. In conjunction with the exhibition M...
Artist Sanford Biggers, whose sculpture Oracle (2021) inaugurates the Hammer’s new sculpture terrace on Wilshire Boulevard, is joined by UCLA assistant professor...
In the fourth of a four-part lecture series, art historian and curator John Walsh discusses the career of the pioneer abstractionist Piet Mondrian (1892–1944). Mon...
As artists who work between performance and object-making, Marcel Alcalá, Jibz Cameron, and Young Joon Kwak will speak to their work blurring the distinctions between the...
Made in L.A. artist Akinsanya Kambon speaks with Dr. Bridget Cooks, professor of Art History and African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine, about his prac...
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...
Post-screening Q&A with costume designer Stacey Battat and producer Youree Henley.
Post-screening Q&A with actors Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller, cinematographer Łukasz Żal, sound designer Johnnie Burn, composer Mica Levi, editor Paul Watts, and...
Post-screening Q&A with director Trần Anh Hùng moderated by chef Evan Kleiman. Time is one the most precious th...
Oppenheimer (2023) cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema discusses the film in a post-screening conversation moderated by Jenelle Riley. Brought to cinematic life b...
A suspenseful look at the lengths people will go to gain freedom, Beyond Utopia follows various individuals as they attempt to flee North Korea, one of the mo...
Q&A with Frank Gehry, Ed Ruscha, and director Leslie Buchbinder, moderated by Rani Singh, following a screening of Buchbinder's Wester...
Director Pratibha Parmar discusses her hybrid feature documentary My Name is Andrea with Karen Tongson, Chair of USC’s Department of Gender & Sexuality Studie...
Director Ava DuVernay introduces her 2008 documentary This is the Life. The film chronicles L.A.’s groundbreaking alternative hip hop movement crystalized in Leim...
Novelist, playwright, nonfiction writer, and screenwriter Sarah Schulman joins television producer and former HBO president Carolyn Strauss (Game of Thrones, Treme
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...
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...
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&...
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...
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...
Friends and intellectual combatants Lawrence Weschler and Blaise Agüera y Arcas discuss their current, and often divergent, perspectives on the creative potential of artifi...
However we manage to draw down the moon and incorporate it into our affairs, it inevitably draws us up to the celestial realm. Although distant, the moon has influence. The moon...
Part of the symposium WTF NFT? Power Shifts: How Web3 is Shifting Power in Culture As blockchain technology continues to grow and advance, every...
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...
In the fourth and final installment in the Hammer’s series of deep dives into L.A.’s housing crisis, Anna Scott, journalist and creator of the KCRW podcasts Sama...
In 2016, L.A. voters overwhelmingly voted in support of Proposition HHH, a bond measure designed to generate more than $1 billion over ten years to create affordable housing for...
Two separate and critical crises—mental health and homelessness—often reveal their urgency most when they intersect. How does L.A.’s housing shortage exacerbat...
Anna Scott, journalist and creator of the KCRW podcasts Samaritans and City of Tents, convenes a panel of experts to drill down to the roots of the current hou...
LA City Council District 5 and LA County Board of Supervisors District 3 Presented by UCLA in partnership with the North Westwood Neighborhood Council, Spectrum News, We...
Translatin@ Coalition is a nationally recognized organization whose mission is "to advocate for the specific needs of the Trans Latin@ community that resides in the U.S.A. and t...
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...
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...
Author Mona Simpson reads from her latest release, Commitment, a masterful novel about a single mother’s collapse and the fate of her family after she enters a Ca...
Authors Mona Simpson, Manuel Muñoz, Alejandro Varela, and Justin Torres discuss the foundational work of Chicano literature Bless Me Ultima by the late Rudolfo A...
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...
On the heels of his most recent book, Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta, James Hannaham joins fellow author Jonathan Lethem in conversation. Hannaham...
The award-winning writer Alice Elliott Dark reads from her work, including her most recent novel Fellowship Point. Dark is also the author of the novel Think of Eng...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Tongva-Ajachmem artist, writer, tribal scholar, cartoonist, and community activist L. Frank delivers a lecture. In conjunction with the exhibition Li...
This online panel covers the racist terrorism, including by police and military forces, that permeates the history of the United States, and how Tulsa is one brick in a continuo...
Professor Brenda E. Stevenson moderates an online panel on Black entrepreneurship and wealth-building, and the systemic issues that constrain Black economic development in the U...
Filmmakers Joyce Garcia and Alvaro Parra and DJ/artists Eamon Ore Giron (aka Lengua) , Gary Garay (aka Ganas), and Roman Zepeda (aka Turbo Sonidero) talk about the evolution of...
Ruben Molina, author of Chicano Soul: Recordings and History of American Culture and The Old Barrio Guide to Low Rider Music, joins Made in L.A. artist Gary "Ganas" Garay for a...
Eric Revis, bassJoshua White, keyboardTina Raymond, drumsA musical chameleon equally at home in Branford Marsalis’ hard-swinging quartet as he is i...
Steph Richards, trumpet Brian Walsh, bass clarinet Eric KM Clark, violin Joshua White, keyboard
Hafez Modirzadeh, saxophonesTim Volpicella, guitarStan Poplin, bassKeshav Batish, drumsCommanding saxophonist and expansive musical thinker Hafez M...
Composer and producer Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah is joined in conversation by Dr. Joshua Myers, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Howard University and author of...
Commemorate the Armenian Genocide by honoring the breadth and depth of Armenian musical heritage. The Lernazang Ensemble (Լեռնազանգ Համույթ), UCLA’s Armenian Music Program...
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...
"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...
“There are many different ways to sing: not only melody or rhythm, but also texture and frequency.” Incorporating homemade instruments and deft vocal explora...
"We are attempting inter-group, or interstellar, telepathic transmission, following the 1974 score Telepathic Improvisation by Pauline Oliveros," says Marwa Arsainos in...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ange Mlinko reads from her poetry collection Venice (2022). Mlinko is the author of several books of poetry, including Distant Mandate and Marvelous Things...
Harryette Mullen is the author of several volumes of poetry including Urban Tumbleweed, Blues Baby: Early Poems, and Sleeping with the Dictionary, whi...
Richie Hofmann, the author of A Hundred Lovers (2022) and Second Empire (2015), reads from his work. He is winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award and a recipient...
Henri Cole has published 10 books of poetry, including Pulitzer Prize finalist Middle Earth and his most recent collection, Blizzard. He also recently publishe...
A reunion of figures from the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center’s haunted hallways of the 1980s and 90s. Performer and photographer Sheree Rose freaks forth with thought...
A reunion of figures from the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center’s haunted hallways of the 1980s and 90s. Poets Jack Skelley and David Trinidad gather to chit-chat about...
A reunion of figures from the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center’s haunted hallways of the 1980s and 90s. This tête-à-tête between Tosh Berman&nbs...
Jack Skelley and Made in L.A. 2020 artist Sabrina Tarasoff discuss the 1983 documentary Fear of Poetry. Fear of Poetry is an improvisatory 40-minute f...
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...
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...
Celebrated writers Scott Z. Burns, Amitav Ghosh, and Elizabeth Kolbert discuss how the art of storytelling has failed to take on the climate crisis and its attendant catastrophe...
Actor and activist Jane Fonda recently said: "We are the last generation who can make the difference between life and death of the planet." Fonda's activism has spanned decades...
Naomi Klein champions a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its center. One of the foremost chroniclers of the economic war waged on both people and planet, Klein's bo...
Mexico City, Tokyo, and Shanghai—megacities with populations of more than 20 million and with unique infrastructures—have in recent years all made pledges toward tot...
In order to achieve complete sustainability, Los Angeles must contend with serious finance, governance, environmental, and water management challenges. A panel of experts discus...
Artist Carolina Caycedo joins journalist Silvio Carrillo and UC Berkeley law professor Roxanna Altholz to discuss the short documentary Berta Vive and indigenous environmental a...
Angelo Logan, cofounder of Eastside Yard Communities for Environmental Justice and the campaign director of the Moving Forward Network; Gladys Limoón, executive director of the...
