Hammer Museum

Hammer Museum Art + ideas for a more just world. Exhibitions of contemporary and historical art plus weekly programs on current social issues. Always free.

Check hammer.ucla.edu to see what’s on view.

05/28/2026

🗳️ The Hammer Museum at UCLA makes voting easy! We're an official Vote Center for the upcoming California Primary Election, including primaries for the state’s governor, U.S. Senate, and other races. Come cast your ballot in the heart of .

HOW TO PARTICIPATE
🚶🏼‍♀️Vote in-person
📩 Drop off your vote by mail ballot during polling hours
✍️ Register to vote
🗳️ Use accessible voting equipment

POLLING HOURS
Early Voting Period: Saturday, Saturday, May 30 — Monday, June 1, 10AM–7PM
Election Day: Tuesday, June 2, 7AM–8PM

🚙 Parking is free for voters in the lot underneath the museum (entrance on Westwood Boulevard).

🗳️ Exercise your right to vote at the Hammer Museum at UCLA an official Vote Center for the upcoming California Primary ...
05/23/2026

🗳️ Exercise your right to vote at the Hammer Museum at UCLA an official Vote Center for the upcoming California Primary Election, including primaries for the state’s governor, U.S. Senate, and other races.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE
🚶🏼‍♀️Vote in-person
📩 Drop off your vote by mail ballot during polling hours
✍️ Register to vote
🗳️ Use accessible voting equipment

POLLING HOURS
Early Voting Period: Saturday, Saturday, May 30 — Monday, June 1, 10AM–7PM
Election Day: Tuesday, June 2, 7AM–8PM

🚙 Parking is free for voters in the lot underneath the museum (entrance on Westwood Boulevard).

Join the millions of Angelenos making their voices heard! Plan your vote today!

https://hmmr.buzz/VotePrimary26

In "Hammer Projects: Mike Cloud," the artist turns a critical eye toward consumer culture and childhood.These detail sho...
05/21/2026

In "Hammer Projects: Mike Cloud," the artist turns a critical eye toward consumer culture and childhood.

These detail shots from Cloud's "Painted Clothing (2007–08)" are made from children’s garments, layered with symbols like dragons, fairies, and rainbows—images that feel magical, but are often mass-produced and marketed.

Cloud builds each work using stretcher bars, embedded materials, and thick oil paint, blurring painting and sculpture while asking how identity is shaped from the start.

Save this + tell us: what images defined your childhood?

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📸 Hammer Projects: Mike Cloud, March 28, 2026–January 7, 2027, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Photo: ashley kruythoff and Sarah Golonka

Artist Naomi Gamarra explores migration, memory, and cultural inheritance through sculptures that bring together ceramic...
05/19/2026

Artist Naomi Gamarra explores migration, memory, and cultural inheritance through sculptures that bring together ceramic, textiles, seeds, salt, and found materials.

Techniques like crochet—learned from her grandmother—become a way of holding onto memory.

Working with materials such as ceramic, textiles, seeds, and salt, she brings together personal memory and broader histories shaped by colonization.

Her work asks: how do we remember, adapt, and carry home with us? 🏡🧳🧵

🏷️ Save this + share something you’ve carried across generations.

05/18/2026

Through our exhibitions, conversations, film series, readings, and performances, the Hammer Museum at UCLA is here to be a vibrant intellectual and creative nexus for you.

Located in the heart of Westwood Village, we welcome you and yours to enjoy our galleries, courtyard, and spaces.

We are open Tuesdays through Sundays, 11AM–6PM, and open late to 8PM on Fridays.

Admission to the Hammer is always free.

This Thursday May 21, join us at the Hammer Museum for an afternoon and evening exploring the hidden histories beneath S...
05/17/2026

This Thursday May 21, join us at the Hammer Museum for an afternoon and evening exploring the hidden histories beneath Southern California’s waters. 🌊

🕒 3–5:30PM — The Sea Within Us: Caring for the Deep
An interdisciplinary panel featuring Indigenous leaders, scientists, artists, and investigative journalist Rosanna Xia—on ocean stewardship, contamination, and collective paths toward healing.

🎬 7:30PM—"Out of Plain Sight" screening
A powerful documentary from Los Angeles Times investigative journalist Rosanna Xia, uncovering the dumping of up to 500,000 barrels of toxic waste off the SoCal coast and its lasting impact. Followed by a conversation with Xia, UCLA English Professor Elizabeth DeLoughrey, and UCLA Design Media Arts Professor Rebeca Méndez, and the film’s co-director.

Co-presented with the UCLA Department of Media Arts and the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.

Multimedia artist and professor of art Cauleen Smith builds what she calls a “cornucopia of future histories.” Working ...
05/16/2026

Multimedia artist and professor of art Cauleen Smith builds what she calls a “cornucopia of future histories.”

Working across film, installation, and multimedia, she draws from experimental cinema, and science fiction, to imagine new ways of seeing and being.

Join us on Wednesday, May 20 at 7:30PM for a special conversation with Smith, copresented by the UCLA Department of Art.

Before the program, see her work in person now on view in "SPACE IS THE PLACE: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection"

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Photo of Cauleen Smith

SPACE IS THE PLACE: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, April 5—September 6, 2026. Photo: Sarah Golonka

Cauleen Smith, The Warden (detail), 2025. Installation view MONUMENTS, The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, October 23,2025–May 3, 2026. Courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) and The Brick. Photo by Fredrik Nilsen

How have poets and artists shaped one of oldest debates in art history?A. E. Stallings—Oxford Professor of Poetry and Ma...
05/15/2026

How have poets and artists shaped one of oldest debates in art history?

A. E. Stallings—Oxford Professor of Poetry and MacArthur Fellow—explores this question in her new book "Frieze Frame," which examines how creative voices have framed the discussion around the Parthenon Marbles over time.

With a practice that spans poetry and translation of classical texts, Stallings work invites us to consider how storytelling influences what we value and why we do.

Join us with for a special reading and conversation with Stallings on Tuesday May 19, 7:30 PM https://hmmr.buzz/stallings

The Hammer is excited for the return of the Hammer Classroom Partnership Program, a FREE, yearlong partnership opportuni...
05/15/2026

The Hammer is excited for the return of the Hammer Classroom Partnership Program, a FREE, yearlong partnership opportunity for 4th-12th grade classrooms at Title I schools within L.A. County.

This program cultivates students’ visual literacy and critical analysis skills through sustained engagement with artworks by Los Angeles-based artists.

The program includes two fully-funded field trips to the Hammer Museum, hands-on teacher professional development sessions, a classroom curriculum, and opportunities for further museum engagement for your school’s community.

🗓️ Apply by June 1! https://bit.ly/3Pkxr3a

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📸Photos by ashley kruythoff and Ruby Tull

05/14/2026

Time is winding down to see Part I of "Five Centuries of Works on Paper: The Grunwald Center at 70."

Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Ansel Adams, Elizabeth Catlett, Charles White, Corita Kent, Bridget Riley, David Hockney, and Ed Ruscha are just a few of over 90 artists in this selection that reflects the collection's breath and diversity.

Enjoy nearly 100 works on paper and mark the 70th anniversary of the Grunwald Center with us! 🗓️ Part I closes this Sunday, May 17.

UCLA Distinguished Professor of Law Kimberlé Crenshaw has shaped national conversations around race, gender, and justice...
05/14/2026

UCLA Distinguished Professor of Law Kimberlé Crenshaw has shaped national conversations around race, gender, and justice through her coining terms like "intersectionality" and "critical race theory."

Tomorrow, join us at the Hammer Museum for a special conversation and reading from her new memoir, "Backtalker: An American Memoir."

The book traces Crenshaw’s journey—from early experiences of speaking up, to her role supporting Anita Hill, to her leadership in advancing gender-inclusive racial justice and initiatives like .

This program offers a rare opportunity to hear directly from a scholar whose work continues to influence law, policy, and public discourse.

Join us:
📅 Thursday, May 14, 2026 • 7:30 PM
📍 Hammer Museum

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