Curator Pablo José Ramírez talks with Lap-See Lam about the artist’s immersive video installation, reflecting on Chinese folklore,...
In an illuminating conversation celebrating the new book LIVING DESIGN: The Writings of Clara Porset, Hammer Museum Director Zoë Ryan is...
Copresented by the UCLA Department of Art From his drawings to his installation works, artist Cosmo Whyte frequently draws upon his Caribbean...
Artist Analia Saban joins Naoko Takahatake, director and chief curator of the Grunwald Center of the Graphic Arts, Case Hudson, master printer at Gemi...
"In a lot of spiritual practices, there’s a transitional space that you have to enter to devote yourself to your practice . . ." GeoVanna Gonzal...
“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...
“I study and work with sound as a frequency, a wave, a vibration . . .” Star Feliz emphasizes human relationships to the earth as both wha...
“Through our art, we can express our opinions.” Colectivo Cherani is a political and artistic initiative organized by an intergenerational...
Copresented by the UCLA Department of ArtUndisciplinary artist and filmmaker Gelare Khoshgozaran engages with the legacies of imperial violenc...
"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,...
Hammer Forum is made possible by the Rosenbloom FamilyPost screening panel featuring: Areva Martin, Attorney; LaToya Baldwin-Clark, Professor...
Post-screening conversation with actor David Dastmalchian, moderated by writer and producer Bryan Fuller.Johnny Carson rival Jack Delroy hosts a syndicated talk show...
Post-screening conversation with writer-director India Donaldson and film critic Beandrea July.A seemingly small incident has monumental implications in the extraord...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Marking its 16th year at the Hammer, Bloomsday 2025 is a worldwide annual celebration of James Joyce and his landmark book Ulysses. This live...
In her innovative anthology The Portable Feminist Reader, acclaimed author and culture critic Roxane Gay explores what feminism looks like in...
James Lasdun has written several books of fiction, memoir and poetry. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Gran...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Copresented with the UCLA Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience and the Schoenberg at 150 FestivalCelebrating Arnold Sc...
Vocalist Michelle Coltrane (daughter of Alice Coltrane) and harpist Brandee Younger come together for a special program that is part conversation, par...
Organized by San Francisco Bay Area bassist Lisa Mezzacappa. Dan Rosenboom, trumpets Gavin Templeton, saxophones John Escreet, keyboards Richard...
Organized by San Francisco Bay Area bassist Lisa Mezzacappa. Beth Schenck, alto saxophone Cory Wright, tenor saxophone and bass clarinet Matt Wrobel, gui...
Devin Daniels, alto saxophone Aaron Shaw, tenor saxophone Jamael Dean, keyboard Jonathan Richards, bass Lyndon Rochelle, drums Los Angele...
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...
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...
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...
Among those fighting the 2025 L.A. fires were incarcerated individuals participating in California’s controversial inmate firefighting program....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Novelist, playwright, nonfiction writer, and screenwriter Sarah Schulman joins television producer and former HBO president Carolyn Strauss (Game of Thrones, Treme
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 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...
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...
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...
Armen Davoudian, who grew up in Isfahan, Iran, has published his first volume of poems, The Palace of Forty Pillars, which the San Franci...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ange Mlinko reads from her poetry collection Venice (2022). Mlinko is the author of several books of poetry, including Distant Mandate and Marvelous Things...
Developed in partnership with Conservation International.Post-screening Q&A with Breath(e) artist Michael Joo; Scott Atkinson, founder of Conservation I...
Self-described “Gangsta Gardener” Ron Finley advocates for a revolutionary revitalization of communities through teaching the fundamental value of growing your own f...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
