This talk on Larry Johnson is led by Lauren Mackler, Made in L.A. 2020 cocurator.In conjunction with the exhibition Made in L.A. 2020: a version.
An artist and sociologist discuss their intimate portraits of privilege and power, and implications for American inequalities.Artist Buck Ellison is featured in the...
Made in L.A. 2020 artists Hedi El Kholti and Reynaldo Rivera play records and discuss music that has had a profound influence in their lives. In conjuncti...
Writer Dodie Bellamy reads from her semi-autobiographical book of stories and essays When the Sick Rule the World.This reading was originally part of an onl...
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...
The first Arab writer/filmmaker to publicly declare his homosexuality, Abdellah Taïa explores sexuality and contemporary Moroccan culture through transgressive, often autob...
This talk on Mathias Poledna is led by Nicholas Barlow, curatorial assistant.In conjunction with the exhibition Made in L.A. 2020: a version.
The 1983 documentary Fear of Poetry is an improvisatory 40-minute foray into a fervent, formative period in the lives of poets such as Dennis Cooper, Benjamin Weissman,...
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...
Professor Brenda E. Stevenson moderates an online conversation with Karlos K. Hill and Hannibal Johnson, both authors and experts on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, in which a whi...
Singer, songwriter, and producer Miguel is joined by artist Christina Quarles for an intimate, online conversation about art, identity, and mental health. Deeply influenced by h...
Afropessimism, Frank B. Wilderson III’s unique work of literature, philosophy, and memoir, asks the question: why does race—in its myriad manifestations&mda...
Jasmin Hernandez’s book We Are Here: Visionaries of Color Transforming the Art World features interviews and photography profiling 50 influential BIPOC artists an...
Hammer Forum is made possible by the Rosenbloom FamilyAmid the push to reopen schools in the United States, how are educators being factored into the vaccination str...
UC Regents’ Lecturer at UCLA in the Department of Comparative Literature Alex Ross, The New Yorker writer and author of the new book Wagnerism: Art and Politi...
In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, Congress created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) as part of the historic Dodd-Frank Act. This new federal agencya signa...
In this online program, professor Brenda E. Stevenson joins writer and producer Damon Lindelof, creator of HBO’s Watchmen series, and Watchmen writer Cor...
Disclosure (2020) producer and director Yance Ford moderates a Q&A with the film's director Sam Feder, producer Amy Scholder, and Emmy Award winner Laverne Cox. An...
A Q&A with the writer and director of Clemency, Chinonye Chukwu, and Hammer Museum curatorial assistant Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi. Clemency features acclaimed a...
Conversation between Los Angeles–based video artist Christopher Richmond and Hammer Museum curatorial assistant Nicholas Barlow following a screening of an extended excerp...
Q&A with actor Moises Arias, moderated by Raj Roy, following a screening of Monos. Monos, Alejandro Landes's intensely thrilling twist on Lord of the Flies, won a Special Jury Awa...
Actor Renee Zellweger discusses the 2019 film Judy with Raj Roy. What becomes a legend most? In this case, a soaring homage by a brilliant actor delivering her best performance...
Actor Laura Dern discusses the film Marriage Story with Raj Roy. “Noah Baumbach’s latest film is about the rapid tangling and gradual untangling of impetuosity, rese...
Q&A with director Scott Z. Burns and actor Annette Bening, moderated by La Frances Hui, following a screening of The Report. Longtime Steven Soderbergh screenwriter...
Post-screening Q&A with director Nanfu Wang, moderated by La Frances Hui, following a screening of One Child Nation. For three and a half decades, China's one-child policy w...
A Q&A with director Lulu Wang is moderated by Roxane Gay. Based on true events that unfolded after Wang's grandmother Nai Nai was diagnosed with cancer, her second feature f...
In the historic second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, the House of Representatives adopted one article of impeachment: incitement of insurrection. Is it con...
On January 6, 2021 rioters breached the US Capitol building. Members of Congress barricaded themselves inside the House chamber and in offices for safety. Those who broke into t...
Learn about how Senate races are run in the wake of the November 2020 elections. Loyola Law School professor Jessica Levinson, New Georgia Project CEO Nsé Ufot, Lincoln P...
The results of the 2020 election will have profound results on our country for years to come. Loyola Law School professor Jessica Levinson is joined by Mo'Kelly, radio and telev...
In the 2020 election cycle, voters face an onslaught of campaign information, much of it disinformation. Campaigns, governments, and others are using both familiar and emerging...
In 2020, California restored voting rights to people convicted of felonies after they have completed their sentences and are no longer on parole. Proposition 17, on the ballot i...
Should public schools and agencies be allowed to consider race when making decisions about hiring, admissions, and government contracts? Almost a quarter century ago, California...
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had a profound impact on American law and life. Her early work as an advocate for gender equality and later her opinions on the Supreme Court changed...
In 1978, California voters passed perhaps the most infamous ballot measure in the state's history. Proposition 13 allowed property to be taxed at the price at which it was purch...
Novelist and Some Favorite Writers host Mona Simpson joins author Danielle Evans and UCLA professor Adam Bradley, biographer of Ralph Ellison and author of the annotated edition...
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...
During this live, online program, writers Damien Belliveau, Megan Dorame, Shannon Gatewood, M. Kiguwa, and Claire Lin read together for the last time as the culmination of their...
"The most entertaining reading series ever" (Los Angeles Times), Literary Death Match makes its online-only debut with four world-class authors reading their most electric writi...
Grab your copy of James Joyce's Ulysses, pour your favorite Irish drink, and join a cast of veteran actors for dramatic readings from the landmark novel interspersed with live s...
One of America's preeminent writers, Tobias Wolff is the author of the memoirs This Boy's Life and In Pharaoh's Army, the novels The Barracks Thief and Old School, and the short...
An all-star lineup reads from the recently-released Intelligence for Dummies: Essays and Other Collected Writings by Glenn O'Brien, an influential writer and editor who captured...
Author and UCLA professor Mona Simpson holds a conversation with journalist and writer Lawrence Weschler, whose new book And How are You, Dr. Sacks? A Biographical Memoir of Oli...
“The most entertaining reading series ever” (Los Angeles Times), Literary Death Match returns to the Hammer for the first-ever Kids Edition. Four children’s bo...
Professor Zakiyyah Iman Jackson’s latest book, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World, brings together Black literature, art and history to rewr...
Artist Patrisse Cullors and Hammer Museum associate curator Erin Christovale discuss the live, online performance of Cullors's performative dance work.Cullors previo...
The fourth installment of the Hammer’s Reimagining the Museum series explores how a museum might authentically center the needs and voices of diverse communities and bette...
There is a growing call for museums to take greater responsibility in attending to the objects and histories that they represent. The traditional Western ethnographic museum con...
Even amidst calls for inclusivity, contemporary feminist discourse tends to prioritize issues historically attributed to white, cis-het women: individual needs, specific reprodu...
Celebrate Armenia’s rich musical heritage with exquisite performances of works spanning more than one thousand years. In commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, the concer...
UCLA musicology professor Shana Redmond is joined by Sohail Daulatzai, film and media studies and African American studies professor at UC Irvine; emcee and comedian Open Mike E...
Internationally acclaimed composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, whose work transcends the bounds of genre or idiom, has exhibited his scores as works of art in Europe and the...
A concert performance by Joshua White 6tet. Steeped in classical, gospel, and modern jazz, Joshua White is one of the most exciting voices in a generation in West Coast jazz. Th...
Los Angeles drummer Alex Cline convenes an all-star nonet to pay tribute to Joseph Jarmanwoodwind player, composer, poet, Buddhist priest, and member of the legendary Art Ensemb...
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...
Tenor saxophonist Hitomi Oba's music dances effortlessly between the uncompromising energy of jazz and the refinement of chamber music. Her meticulously crafted melodies snake arou...
Choreographer and director Wayne McGregor joins visual artist Tacita Dean for a conversation in advance of the world premiere of their collaboration on Inferno at the Music Cent...
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...
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...
This staged reading performance imagines the lives that mothers, daughters, and sisters may have led had some lives not been cut short by violence. Performers celebrate the beau...
An ensemble cast stages a performance that explores the life and legacy of Harriet Tubman—an early 20th-century civic organizer and political activist—through music,...
A performance titled You are mine. I see now, I'm a have to let you go. Artist Suné Woods, award-winning poet Fred Moten, and pianist & composer James Gordon Williams...
Flora Wiegmann's Reduction Burn begins as an intact set of movements, which devolve and deteriorate slightly in each of six iterations, representing a different stage o...
Excerpt of 2-hour performance i believe in echoes on June 17, 2018, at the Hammer Museum, as part of the exhibition Made in L.A. 2018. sound editing: J...
Artist taisha paggett presents a series of solo and duet dances in dialogue with her Made in L.A. 2018 installation. Engaging ideas of race, history, and institutional...
In this provocative performance-lecture, beloved Mexican artist Astrid Hadad explores the relationship between her work and Mexican culture and politics. Known for over-the-top...
The Hammer's long-standing poetry series celebrates Poetry Month 2021 with the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize Reading. The Hecht Prize is sponsored by Waywiser Press, whose founder...
An evening with US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo marks the 50th anniversary of the UCLA poetry series at the Hammer. Joy Harjo, the first Native American to be Poet Laureate, has publ...
Jorie Graham has authored numerous poetry collections, one of which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Her many honors include a MacArthur Fellowship and the Morton Dauwen...
Love, science, and politics collide in Richard Kenney 's collection, Terminator: Poems, 2008–2018, organized around the so-called terminator—the line, perpendicular...
Jana Prikryl's No Matter guides the reader through cities—remembered and imagined—toppling past the point of decline and fall. In reactionary times, these poems say,...
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...
L.A. County’s plan to shift its entire bus fleet to electric by 2030 is leading the way for a decarbonized transportation future. Río Oxas of Multicultural Communit...
Barbara Romero, deputy mayor of Los Angeles, Jill Sourial, The Nature Conservancy urban conservation director, and Richard Ambrose, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health profess...
This panel examines the intersection of the built environment and Los Angeles's natural habitat as the region prepares for a hotter and more populous future that can challenge t...
