Featured in Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living, Roksana Pirouzmand creates sculptural objects and installations that perform in tandem with the artist’s body. Her...
For the past several years, Vincent Enrique Hernandez has been working on an ongoing project, called Valley Tours, an expansive multimedia artwork that, as the title suggests, c...
The history of Los Angeles is one of diasporic communities and migration. More than one-third of the city’s population is composed of Angelenos who have come here from all...
Featured in Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living, artist Joey Terrill’s intimate, stylized figurative works, many of which were made amid the devastations of the AID...
In their sculptural practice, Young Joon Kwak frequently constructs works from cast bodies that are abstracted through cropping, bold color, and texture. Kwak’s object-bas...
Featured in Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living, artist collective AMBOS was founded in 2016 by Tanya Aguiñiga as a platform to engage with the reality of the US-M...
Featured in Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living, artist Akinsanya Kambon's ceramics are visual entries into narratives of the Black diaspora, including African histories...
Artist Willie Birch, whose work Johnny Makes the Nightly News (1988) is on view in the Hammer’s Together in Time exhibition, shares insights into his exp...
Video artists Mariah Garnett and Gelare Khoshgozaran, whose works–Full Burn (2014) and Medina Wasl: Connecting Town (2018), respectively–are in the...
Artist Roberto Gil de Montes, whose work El olvido (2001) is on view in the Hammer’s Together in Time exhibition, joins curator Pablo José Ram&iac...
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
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-person intro by director Guillermo del Toro before a screening of his Pinocchio. “From my many wanderings on this Earth, I had so much to say about...
Conversation with actor Taylor Russell following a screening of Bones and All. Moderated by Rajendra Roy, The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, The Museum of Modern...
Conversation with Claire Foy & Jessie Buckley following a screening of Women Talking. Moderated by Rajendra Roy, The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, The Museu...
Conversation with actor Brendan Fraser and writer Samuel D. Hunter following a screening of The Whale. Moderated by Jenelle Riley. From director Darren Ar...
Conversation with directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert following a screening of Everything Everywhere All at Once. A smash hit at the box office, Ever...
Q&A with co-writer Chung Seo-kyung following a screening of Decision to Leave. Moderated by Katie Walsh. Director Park Chan-wook took home the Best Director...
Q&A with DJ Tyler Boudreaux, director Halina Reijn, and actors Myha’la Herrold, Maria Bakalova, Chase Sui Wonders, and Rachel Sennott following a screning of Reijn's
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...
Part of the symposium WTF NFT? NFT Primer: Introduction to the NFT landscape WTF is an NFT? Hear from event organizers Esther Park, Miami-based...
Part of the symposium WTF NFT? Keynote address by Reggie Watts, musician, comedian, writer, actor
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...
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...
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...
Hilton Als, curator of Joan Didion: What She Means (2023), discusses trying to create an atmosphere for the exhibition
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...
In this online program, professor Brenda E. Stevenson joins writer and producer Damon Lindelof, creator of HBO’s Watchmen series, and Watchmen writer Cor...
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...
Maestro James Conlon, world-renowned conductor and music director of the Los Angeles Opera, shares his passion for the legacy of French composer Claude Debussy in conjunction wi...
Phillip Greenlief, alto saxophoneLisa Mezzacappa, bassJason Levis, drumsIt’s hard to overstate the impact multi-reed player and composer Phillip Gr...
Andrew Renfroe, guitarKarl McComas-Reichl, bassTina Raymond, drumsIn her debut album, Left, Right, Left, Los Angeles drummer Tina Raymond explor...
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, 5-string electric violinDevin Daniels, alto saxophoneAlison Bjorkedal, harpJamael Dean, keyboardGabe Noel, electric bassGen...
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...
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...
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...
