Hammer Museum

06/14/2026

📖🍀 Bloomsday returns to the Hammer!

Now in its 17th year, our annual celebration of James Joyce's "Ulysses" shines a spotlight on one of literature's most unforgettable characters: Molly Bloom.

Celebrate Bloomsday Tuesday, June 16 at the Hammer with:
🎭 Actors' dramatic readings 🎻 musical performances 👯‍♂️ party in the courtyard 🍺 Guinness on tap

☘️ Join us and say "yes" to Bloomsday. (If you know, you know!)

06/13/2026

Get lost in the details and explore new perspectives in "SPACE IS THE PLACE: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection."

The Hammer is open this weekend 11AM–6PM. 🎟️ Admission is always free!

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SPACE IS THE PLACE: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, installation view. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, April 5—September 6, 2026. Photo: Gabriel Noguez

06/13/2026

"Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials," now on view, asks: If everything that's alive in this world has a life cycle, why shouldn't art?

Curator Pablo José Ramirez describes his integrative approach to an immersive exhibition that brings together 22 artists, all of whom work with living materials across North, Central, and South America.

Come. Witness life cycles represented in artmaking. 💫

Admission to the Hammer Museum is always FREE!

06/11/2026

Arist Arcmanoro Niles works from photographs of his friends and family members to conjure new images that tell stories both personal and universal.

Niles’s mixed-media painting, "Show Me I’m Not Shattered (Try to Ignore the Elephant Somehow)" presents an interior scene of two half-dressed bronze-skinned figures with bright-pink glittered hair.

The bedroom setting is rendered mostly in the artist’s signature jewel-toned palette—and occasional glitter—which references color field canvases as well as Italian and Dutch baroque paintings and make his subjects’ skin and their environments “glow.”

Witness the details up close in "SPACE IS THE PLACE," now on view.

06/10/2026

⚽️ Rep your teams, cheer for every goal, and boo every questionable penalty this summer as the Hammer Museum hosts 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup Watch Parties kicking off Wednesday, June 24.

📺 Watch matches on big screens
🧺 Outside food and non-alcoholic beverages are allowed
📣 Cheer with friends and fellow fanatics in indoor/outdoor seating

Between matches explore our free exhibitions, shop the store , or grab a bite at LULU . Drinks available for select matches.

For the full schedule, visit https://hmmr.buzz/world-cup 🥅

06/07/2026

We're continuing our celebration of 70 years of the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts with a second selection of significant works that reflect the collection’s breadth and diversity.

Celebrate the learning and discovery the center fosters through a sampling of its collection that spans 45,000 prints, drawings, photographs, and artists’ books dating from the Renaissance to the present.

See over 70 works by some of your favorite artists including Albrecht Dürer, Ansel Adams, Henri Matisse, Sonia Delaunay, Julie Mehretu, James Turrell, Alison Saar, Kara Walker and many more!

Now on view now through October 25, 2026. https://hmmr.buzz/works-paper-II
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Richard Earlom, after Frans Snyders, A Concert of Birds, from the series The Houghton Gallery, 1778. Published by John Boydell. Mezzotint. Sheet: 16 ¾ x 23 1/16 in. (42.6 x 58.6 cm). UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum. Purchased with funds provided by the Lottie Talpis Acquisition Fund, 2026

06/06/2026

What happens when the original is gone—and only the copy remains?

In his video installation "Specular fiction," Coleman Collins explores how culture, memory, and identity evolve as they move across generations, geographies, and technologies. Imagining a future where historical artifacts have disappeared and only digital replicas remain, the work asks: What do we preserve, and what do we lose?

Join Collins for a special After Hours Tour of "SPACE IS THE PLACE" on Wednesday, June 10 at 6PM. Hear directly from the artist about "Specular fiction" and the ideas shaping his work, and gain insights into broader themes explored throughout the exhibition.
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🎞️ Coleman Collins, Specular fiction, 2024 (still) HD video. 8 min. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Purchased with funds provided by Karen Hillenburg. Photo by Evan Walsh

06/05/2026

Calling all young storytellers! 🌟

Join us this Sunday for 826LA@Hammer: Worldbuilders: Adventure Architects.

Using Collective Journey Storytelling, participants will build their own interactive journey, where a group comes together to achieve change – and listeners become part of the story.

Led by experience designer Justin Stucey (whose credits include work with Disney Imagineering, Meow Wolf, MTV and more), this hands-on session sparks kids’ imaginations to dream up new worlds and make them real.

Great for curious artists and story-loving families!

https://hmmr.buzz/826-worldbuilders

06/05/2026

Interested in how your brain processes art?

The UCLA Department of Psychology’s Rissman Laboratory is conducting an independent research study exploring how people experience art in museum spaces. The lab is currently seeking voluntary, paid research participants. Participants will receive $20 per hour for their time, and the experiment will last approximately 3 hours.

As part of the study, participants will go on a self-guided tour of an exhibit at the Hammer Museum. Safe, non-invasive devices that measure brain activity, eye movements, and heart rate will help researchers understand the neural and physiological functions underlying art-viewing experience in a natural setting.

Eligibility Requirements
🔹 Ages 18–40
🔹 No neurological or psychiatric illnesses
🔹 No current use of psychoactive medication
🔹 Fluent in English
🔹 Can walk and stand for about 45 minutes
🔹 Have not visited the Hammer Museum in the last 3 months

Interested? Apply to participate by emailing [email protected].

06/05/2026

"There is something primal, almost amniotic, about entering the dim space that makes up the first gallery of “Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials” at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Here, the walls thrum with a muffled sound reminiscent of waves crashing or a creature breathing. The air is heavy with petrichor. In this cave-like space, the past feels briefly palpable in the present."—ARTnews

Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/gy7RrDcC

'Several Eternities in a Day,' on view through August 23 at LA's Hammer Museum, features 22 artists, many of them Indigenous and Latinx.