Born in Santiago, Chile, the artist Pilar Quinteros lives and works between places. Quinteros uses inexpensive materials to construct ephemeral, site-specific interventions. Aes...
“Why merely visit the exhibition when I can haunt it?” —Wayne KoestenbaumFrom April 19-24, 2022 the writer and artist Wayne Koestenbaum performed a...
Excerpt from a lecture by Tongva-Ajachmem artist, writer, tribal scholar, cartoonist, and community activist L. Frank on MArch 22, 2022. In conjunction with the exhibiti...
Artist Olivia Mole discusses her work for the exhibition Lifes, a group of ten hand-drawn, mischievous characters.
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...
Huma Bhabha’s work addresses themes of memory, war, displacement, and colonialism. Using found materials, the artist creates haunting human figures that hover between abst...
Q&A with artist Yuri Ancarani, moderated by Fabrizio DiMaio, following a screening of his film Atlantide (2021). A young man from Sant’Erasmo, an island on th...
In this documentary short, filmmaker JJ Anderson traces the life and career of Ulysses Jenkins, a pivotal influence in contemporary art of the last 50 years. The film follows Je...
Tongva-Ajachmem artist, writer, tribal scholar, cartoonist, and community activist L. Frank delivers a lecture. In conjunction with the exhibition Li...
An artist and sociologist discuss their intimate portraits of privilege and power, and implications for American inequalities.Artist Buck Ellison is featured in the...
Strategies for using art to process a year of individual and collective trauma are shared by Dr. Andrea Aebersold. Dr. Aebersold is Director, Faculty Instructional Development a...
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...
Q&A with Andrew Garfield following a screening of tick, tick...BOOM! (2021).Remaking the early 1990s musical by and about Jonathon Larson into a fe...
Q&A with Denis Villeneuve following a screening of Dune (2021). An epic saga that has become a cultural phenomenon, Villeneuve’s adaptation of the fir...
An evening of videos, music, and conversation organized by BlackStar, with filmmakers and artists Sophia Nahli Allison, Kevin Jerome Everson, Rashid Zakat, and Cauleen Smith. Pa...
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...
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...
Celebrated writer Geoff Dyer returns with The Last Days of Roger Federer, an extended meditation on late style and last works. Here Dyer reads from this latest collecti...
Danielle Evans is the author of the story collections The Office of Historical Corrections and Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, winner of the 2021 Joyc...
Artist and writer Justin Beal and architect Kulapat Yantrasast discuss American architectural experimentation, utopianism, and architect Minoru Yamasaki. Beal’s book, ...
Author Maggie Nelson returns with On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint, a boundary-pushing, provocative work that explores the notion of freedom through four l...
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...
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...
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...
Celebrate Armenia’s rich musical history with performances of works by celebrated Armenian composers, plus a world premiere by Martin Ulikhanyan. Performed by the UCLA VEM...
“There are many different ways to sing: not only melody or rhythm, but also texture and frequency.” Incorporating homemade instruments and deft vocal explora...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
