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Hilton Als on the atmosphere of "Joan Didion: What She Means"

Hilton Als, curator of Joan Didion: What She Means (2023), discusses trying to create an atmosphere for the exhibition

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Panel discussion on art historian & curator Karin Higa

Copresented with the AAPI Arts NetworkIn this panel discussion, Kelly Akashi, Karen Ishizuka, Sonia Mak, Anna Sew Hoy, and Mika Yoshitake explore the legacy of the i...

01:32:16

Artist talk: J. Fan

The artist J. Fan lives and works in Hong Kong and Brooklyn. Originally trained in glass making, Fan expanded his practice to encompass diverse mediums and approaches. From vide...

00:47:08

Panel discussion on artist Bob Thompson

Hammer curator Erin Christovale, who organized the Hammer's presentation of Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine, joins writer, artist, and teacher Ashon Crawley and MacArt...

01:53:15

Art + Activism: A Collaborative Learning Project 2022

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...

00:03:50

Hammer Projects: Kiyan Williams

Between Starshine and Clay (2022) marks the first solo museum exhibition for artist Kiyan Williams (b. 1991, Newark, New Jersey) and is an installation that takes its n...

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Andrea Bowers & Connie Butler in conversation

Hammer chief curator Connie Butler joins artist Andrea Bowers for a conversation about the artist's decades long artistic practice and deep engagement with social and political...

01:21:02

Artist talk: Pilar Quinteros

Born in Santiago, Chile, the artist Pilar Quinteros lives and works between places. Quinteros uses inexpensive materials to construct ephemeral, site-specific interventions. Aes...

01:28:40

Lifes: Wayne Koestenbaum

“Why merely visit the exhibition when I can haunt it?” —Wayne KoestenbaumFrom April 19-24, 2022 the writer and artist Wayne Koestenbaum performed a...

00:03:37

Lifes: L. Frank

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...

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Film & TV

Director Chinonye Chukwu & Robin D.G. Kelley discuss "Till"

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...

00:28:24

Guillermo del Toro introduces his "Pinocchio"

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...

00:09:03

Taylor Russell discusses "Bones and All"

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...

00:28:44

Claire Foy & Jessie Buckley discuss "Women Talking"

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...

00:33:04

Brendan Fraser & Samuel D. Hunter discuss "The Whale"

Conversation with actor Brendan Fraser and writer Samuel D. Hunter following a screening of The Whale. Moderated by Jenelle Riley. From director Darren Ar...

00:35:32

Directors Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert on "Everything Everywhere All At Once"

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...

00:35:48

Screenwriter Chung Seo-kyung discusses "Decision to Leave"

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...

00:32:00

Director Halina Reijn & cast members discuss "Bodies Bodies Bodies"

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

00:24:21

Documentarians discuss "Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song"

Post-screening Q&A with KCRW's Chris Douridas and directors Daniel Gellar & Dayna Goldfine.Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song is a definit...

00:34:42

Yuri Ancarani discusses his film "Atlantide"

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...

00:45:06

Society & Culture

Erwin Chemerinsky on recent Supreme Court rulings

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&...

01:24:04

Blaise Agüera y Arcas & Lawrence Weschler discuss AI

Friends and intellectual combatants Lawrence Weschler and Blaise Agüera y Arcas discuss their current, and often divergent, perspectives on the creative potential of artifi...

01:29:24

Griffith Observatory Director E.C. Krupp discusses the moon

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...

01:07:20

WTF NFT?: How Web3 is shifting power in culture

Part of the symposium WTF NFT? Power Shifts: How Web3 is Shifting Power in Culture As blockchain technology continues to grow and advance, every...

01:50:50

WTF NFT?: Introduction to the NFT landscape

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...

00:23:49

WTF NFT?: Reggie Watts keynote

Part of the symposium WTF NFT? Keynote address by Reggie Watts, musician, comedian, writer, actor

01:17:42

WTF NFT?: Artists and the new digital

Part of the symposium WTF NFT? Artists and the New DigitalThe field of digital art has taken a profound shift with the introduction of blockchain...

01:51:09

Buck Ellison & Shamus Khan in conversation

An artist and sociologist discuss their intimate portraits of privilege and power, and implications for American inequalities.Artist Buck Ellison is featured in the...

00:59:24

Practicing trauma-informed pedagogy in the K–12 classroom

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...

00:47:32

Domestic Terrorism Against Communities of Color

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...

01:23:21

Politics

Erwin Chemerinsky on recent Supreme Court rulings

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&...

01:24:04

Candidate Forums: Your Vote, Our Future

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...

01:58:44

Profile: TransLatin@ Coalition

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...

00:03:07

Back to school during COVID: Vaccinating teachers

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...

01:15:40

Constitution Happy Hour: Impeachment

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...

01:22:35

Insurrection at the US Capitol 2021: What’s Next?

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...

01:19:42

This is What Democracy Looks Like: The Battle for Georgia

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...

01:25:03

2020 presidential election recap

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...

01:25:37

Truth, lies & propaganda: disinformation & the 2020 elections

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...

01:15:00

CA Prop 17 & 25: Criminal Justice and Voting Rights

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...

01:21:31

Books

Hilton Als on the atmosphere of "Joan Didion: What She Means"

Hilton Als, curator of Joan Didion: What She Means (2023), discusses trying to create an atmosphere for the exhibition

00:01:46

Literary Death Match, 2022

“The most entertaining reading series ever” (Los Angeles Times), Literary Death Match brings together world-class authors to read their most electric writin...

01:34:37

Bloomsday 2022: actors read from James Joyce's novel

The Hammer’s beloved Bloomsday, a celebration of author James Joyce and his landmark novel Ulysses, returns to the museum! Directed by Elizabeth Dennehy this year...

01:34:08

Geoff Dyer reads from "The Last Days of Roger Federer," May 2022

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...

01:17:10

Danielle Evans reads, April 2022

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...

01:15:27

Justin Beal & Kulapat Yantrasast on architect Minoru Yamasaki

Artist and writer Justin Beal and architect Kulapat Yantrasast discuss American architectural experimentation, utopianism, and architect Minoru Yamasaki. Beal’s book, ...

01:15:52

Maggie Nelson & Hari Kunzru discuss Nelson's "On Freedom"

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...

01:23:26

M as in Maladie: Dodie Bellamy reads from "When the Sick Rule the World"

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...

00:32:03

Race, Identity & Alienation in the American Novel

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...

01:02:11

Can a story save the planet? Storytelling and global catastrophes

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...

01:24:57

Social Justice

Director Chinonye Chukwu & Robin D.G. Kelley discuss "Till"

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...

00:28:24

Bamby Salcedo & Elana Redfield in conversation

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...

01:02:44

Art + Activism: A Collaborative Learning Project 2022

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...

00:03:50

Profile: TransLatin@ Coalition

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...

00:03:07

Protecting the Amazon Rainforest: Averting the ecological tipping point

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...

01:38:05

Artist talk: L. Frank

Tongva-Ajachmem artist, writer, tribal scholar, cartoonist, and community activist L. Frank delivers a lecture.  In conjunction with the exhibition Li...

02:03:36

Domestic Terrorism Against Communities of Color

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...

01:23:21

Systemic Brakes on Black Prosperity

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...

01:14:38

Tulsa on Screen: Damon Lindelof & Cord Jefferson discuss "Watchmen"

In this online program, professor Brenda E. Stevenson joins writer and producer Damon Lindelof, creator of HBO’s Watchmen series, and Watchmen writer Cor...

01:15:47

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Historical Context

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...

01:54:02

Music

JazzPOP: Phillip Greenlief in concert

Phillip Greenlief, alto saxophoneLisa Mezzacappa, bassJason Levis, drumsIt’s hard to overstate the impact multi-reed player and composer Phillip Gr...

01:24:08

JazzPOP: Tina Raymond Trio in concert

Andrew Renfroe, guitarKarl McComas-Reichl, bassTina Raymond, drumsIn her debut album, Left, Right, Left, Los Angeles drummer Tina Raymond explor...

01:05:08

JazzPOP: Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble in concert

Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, 5-string electric violinDevin Daniels, alto saxophoneAlison Bjorkedal, harpJamael Dean, keyboardGabe Noel, electric bassGen...

01:15:13

Documentarians discuss "Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song"

Post-screening Q&A with KCRW's Chris Douridas and directors Daniel Gellar & Dayna Goldfine.Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song is a definit...

00:34:42

Treasures of Armenian Music, 2022

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...

01:40:12

Lifes: Senyawa

“There are many different ways to sing: not only melody or rhythm, but also texture and frequency.” Incorporating homemade instruments and deft vocal explora...

00:02:06

Artists Hedi El Kholti & Reynaldo Rivera discuss the music that made them

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...

01:04:42

Treasures of Armenian Music performance, 2021

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...

01:09:50

Alex Ross: Wagner & Hollywood

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...

01:41:06

Discussing Mos Def's "Black on Both Sides"

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...

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Performance

Nina Beier & Bob Kil: All Fours

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...

00:04:50

Meg Stuart & Varinia Canto Vila: confirm humanity

"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...

00:04:17

Lifes: Senyawa

“There are many different ways to sing: not only melody or rhythm, but also texture and frequency.” Incorporating homemade instruments and deft vocal explora...

00:02:06

No Humans Involved: Las Nietas de Nonó

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Witch Hunt: Renate Lorenz & Pauline Boudry

"We are attempting inter-group, or interstellar, telepathic transmission, following the 1974 score Telepathic Improvisation by Pauline Oliveros," says Marwa Arsainos in...

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Witch Hunt: Okwui Okpokwasili

"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...

00:08:52

Ligia Lewis & Mlondi Zondi discuss Lewis's film "deader than dead"

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...

01:07:10

Terry Allen & Jo Harvey Allen in conversation

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...

01:36:24

Choreographer Will Rawls discusses his work

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...

01:19:13

#SayHerName: Performances about lives that should have been

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...

02:13:55

Poetry

Poet Ange Mlinko reads from her collection "Venice," November 2022

Ange Mlinko reads from her poetry collection Venice (2022). Mlinko is the author of several books of poetry, including Distant Mandate and Marvelous Things...

00:50:32

Poet Harryette Mullen reads, October 2022

Harryette Mullen is the author of several volumes of poetry including Urban Tumbleweed, Blues Baby: Early Poems, and Sleeping with the Dictionary, whi...

00:42:16

Poet Richie Hofmann reads, April 2022

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...

00:45:57

Poet Henri Cole reads, March 2022

Henri Cole has published 10 books of poetry, including Pulitzer Prize finalist Middle Earth and his most recent collection, Blizzard. He also recently publishe...

00:46:32

Sheree Rose & Tosh Berman in conversation

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...

01:01:14

Jack Skelley, David Trinidad & Tosh Berman in conversation

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...

01:03:59

Dennis Cooper, Benjamin Weisman, Amy Gerstler & Tosh Berman in conversation

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...

01:14:50

Jack Skelley & Sabrina Tarasoff discuss the documentary "Fear of Poetry"

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...

00:52:48

Ed Hirsch & James Davis: Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize Reading

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...

00:55:44

Readings by PEN Emerging Voices 2020

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...

01:07:36

Environment

Protecting the Amazon Rainforest: Averting the ecological tipping point

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...

01:38:05

Sylvia Earle & Laura Dern in conversation

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...

01:44:40

Can a story save the planet? Storytelling and global catastrophes

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...

01:24:57

Jane Fonda, Laura Flanders & Janet Valenzuela on environmental justice

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...

01:31:13

Naomi Klein: the case for a Green New Deal

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...

01:37:09

What L.A. can learn about sustainability from Mexico City, Tokyo & Shangai

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...

01:25:24

Solving California's water future

In order to achieve complete sustainability, Los Angeles must contend with serious finance, governance, environmental, and water management challenges. A panel of experts discus...

01:38:44

Discussion of the documentary film "Berta Vive"

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...

01:49:18

Discussing racial and income environmental equality

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...

01:26:23

Decarbonizing transportation in Los Angeles

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...

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