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2024
Hammer Museum Announces Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal First Museum Exhibition Dedicated to the Legacy of Alice Coltrane, November 14, 2024
Hammer Museum Announces Lineup for MoMA Contenders 2024 with Screenings and Exclusive In-Person Q&A’s, November 12, 2024
Hammer Museum Names Zoë Ryan as its New Director, September 30, 2024
Hammer Museum Celebrates the 15th Annual K.A.M.P with Chrissy Teigen, Henry Winkler, Kelly Yang, and Crystal Kung Minkoff, September 29, 2024
Hammer Museum Presents Christina Ramberg: A Retrospective, September 17, 2024
Hammer Museum, LACMA, and MOCA Establish MAC3, Joint Collection of Contemporary Art by Los Angeles Artists through Gift from Jarl and Pamela Mohn, August 24, 2024
Hammer Online Collections Offers 50,000 Artworks Expanding the Museum’s Ever-Growing Digital Presence, August 18, 2024
Hammer Museum Presents Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, Part of Region-wide Initiative PST ART: Art & Science Collide, June 13, 2024
Hammer Museum Honors Ann Philbin in Celebration of Her 25 Years of Leadership at 19th Annual Gala in the Garden, May 6, 2024
Hammer Museum Presents Summer Exhibitions Refashioning: CFGNY & Wataru Tominaga and David Medalla: In Conversation with the Cosmos, March 28, 2024
Hammer Museum Names Essence Harden and Paulina Pobocha as Curators for Made in L.A. 2025, February 13, 2024
2023
Akinsanya Kambon Receives 2023 Mohn Award, December 7, 2023
Hammer Museum Presents West Coast Premiere of Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s, November 14, 2023
Hammer Museum Announces Lineup for MoMA Contenders 2023 with Screenings and Exclusive In-Person Q&A's, November 6, 2023
Ann Philbin, Transformational Director of the Hammer Museum, to Retire from the Museum in 2024 After 25 Years of Visionary Leadership, October 18, 2023
Hammer Museum's Signature Biennial Made in L.A. Returns October 1, September 29, 2023
Hammer Museum Appoints Naoko Takahatake and Paulina Pobocha to Key Curatorial Positions, September 6, 2023
Hammer Museum Presents Becoming Van Leo, June 26, 2023
Hammer Museum Celebrates 14th Annual K.A.M.P. With Gal Gadot, James Corden, Curtis Stone & Lindsay Price, May 23, 2023
Hammer Museum Announces New Curator Pablo José Ramírez, May 8, 2023
Hammer Museum Announces 39 Artists for Upcoming Biennial Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living, April 20, 2023
A Transformed Hammer Museum Announces Inaugural Exhibitions for Spring 2023 in the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Cultural Center, February 8, 2023
2022
Hammer Museum Presents Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist's Studio, December 6, 2022
On March 26, 2023, Hammer Museum to Mark Completion of Two Decades of Transformation, November 29, 2022
Hammer Museum Announces Lineup for MoMA Contenders 2022, November 9, 2022
Hammer Museum Honors Charles Gaines and Chase Strangio at Annual Gala in the Garden, October 9, 2022
Hammer Museum Presents Picasso Cut Papers, August 2, 2022
Hammer Museum Presents Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine, July 28, 2022
Hammer Museum Presents Joan Didion: What She Means, July 20, 2022
Hammer Museum Presents Andrea Bowers, May 23, 2022
Hammer Museum Presents Drawing Down the Moon, May 23, 2022
Hammer Museum Celebrates 13th Annual K.A.M.P. (Kids Art Museum Project), May 17, 2022
Hammer Museum to Honor Charles Gaines and Chase Strangio
at Annual Gala in the Garden, October 8, May 9, 2022
Hammer Museum Presents Andrea Fraser: This meeting is being recorded, April 19, 2022
Hammer Museum Announces Diana Nawi and Pablo José Ramírez as Curators for Next Made in L.A. Opening Fall 2023, February 17, 2022
Hammer Museum Appoints Miky Lee to Board of Directors, Vinny Dotolo Joins Board of Advisors, January 11, 2022
Hammer Museum Presents Lifes, on view February 13–May 8, 2022, January 6, 2022
2021
Hammer Museum Announces Lineup for MoMA Contenders 2021, December 14, 2021
Hammer Museum Presents Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation, on view February 6–May 15, 2022, December 8, 2021
Hammer Museum and ICA LA Present Witch Hunt, on view October 10, 2021–January 9, 2022, September 13, 2021
Venice Biennale Top Prize-Winning Sun & Sea Launches Nationwide Tour, August 17, 2021
Hammer Museum Presents No Humans Involved, on view October 10, 2021–January 9, 2022, July 22, 2021
Kandis Williams Receives 2020 Mohn Award, Monica Majoli and MR. WASH Receive Career Achievement and Public Recognition Awards, July 15, 2021
Hammer Museum Launches Hammer Channel, May 5, 2021
F*ck White Supremacy, Let’s Get Free: Patrisse Cullors’s worldwide electric slide online March 15, 2021
ARCHIVE
Hammer Museum Appoints Larry Jackson to Board of Directors, Carla Emil and Joel Lubin to Board of Overseers December 11, 2019
Hammer Museum Presents Paul McCarthy: Head Space, Drawings 1963–2019 November 13, 2019
Hammer Museum Announces Lineup for MoMA Contenders 2019 November 6, 2019
Hammer Museum Honors Judy Chicago and Jordan Peele and Annual Gala in the Garden October 13, 2019
Hammer Museum presents Tishan Hsu: Liquid Circuit September 18, 2019
Hammer Museum and The Huntington Announce Made in L.A. 2020 Partnership September 5, 2019
Hammer Museum Presents Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence
July 17, 2019
Hammer Museum to Honor Judy Chicago and Jordan Peele at Annual Gala in the Garden, October 12
May 31, 2019
Hammer Museum Presents Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel
May 2, 2019
K.A.M.P. (Kids Art Museum Project): 10th Anniversary of Annual Kids Benefit at the Hammer Museum, Sunday May 20, 2019 | 10AM–2PM
March 27, 2019
Hammer Museum Presents Major Retrospective Allen Ruppersberg: Intellectual Property 1968-2018
December 20, 2018
Hammer Museum Appoints Jay Brown and Cindy Miscikowski
to Board of Directors, Bill Block and Darren Star to Board of Overseers
December 14, 2018
Hammer Museum Appoints Myriam Ben Salah and Lauren Mackler as Curators for Made in L.A. 2020
December 6, 2018
Hammer Museum Announces Lineup for MoMA Contenders 2018
November 14, 2018
Hammer Museum Honors Margaret Atwood and Glenn Ligon at Annual Gala in the Garden
October 14, 2018
Hammer Museum Announces Details of Newly Named Spaces
October 9, 2018
Hammer Museum Presents Adrian Piper: Concepts and Intuitions, 1965-2016
September 11, 2018
Leon Bridges to Perform at the 2018 Hammer Museum Gala in the Garden; Solange Ferguson, Elizabeth Segerstrom, and Darren Star to Serve as Gala Co-Chairs
September 6, 2018
Lauren Halsey Receives 2018 Mohn Award
August 22, 2018
Hammer Museum to Honor Margaret Atwood and Glenn Ligon at Annual Gala in the Garden, October 14
May 10, 2018
Hammer Museum Appoints New Artist Council Members, Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Rafa Esparza
May 3, 2018
A-Z West Works at Hammer Store
April 27, 2018
Hammer Museum Presents Stones to Stains: The Drawings of Victor Hugo
April 9, 2018
Hammer Museum Announces $180 Million Capital Campaign with Lead Gift from Lynda and Stewart Resnick
February 22, 2018
Hammer Museum Announces 32 Artists for Upcoming Biennial Made in L.A. 2018
February 13, 2018
Hammer Museum Presents Stories of Almost Everyone
December 14, 2017
Hammer Museum Receives $200,000 Grant from Ford Foundation
December 6, 2017
Hammer Museum Announces Lineup for The Contenders
November 17, 2017
Hammer Museum Appoints Linda Janger to Board of Directors, Glenn Kaino and Dean Valentine to Board of Overseers
August 28, 2017
Hammer Museum Announces Curatorial Appointment of Allegra Pesenti
August 21, 2017
Hammer Museum Honors Ava DuVernay and Hilton Als at 15th Annual Gala in the Garden, October 14
July 7, 2017
Hammer Museum Announces New Curator Erin Christovale
June 28, 2017
Hammer Museum Presents Marisa Merz: The Sky Is a Great Space
May 2, 2017
Hammer Museum Announces Curators for Made in L.A. 2018
February 13, 2017
Hammer Museum Announces Major Multiyear Transformation Plan
January 26, 2017
Advance Exhibition Schedule, Fall 2016–Fall 2017
December 1, 2016
Hammer Museum Presents Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World
December 1, 2016
Hammer Museum Presents Dubuffet Drawings, 1935-1962
December 1, 2016
Hammer Museum Announces Lineup for The Contenders
November 16, 2016
Hammer Museum Honors Laurie Anderson and Todd Haynes at the Gala in the Garden with Support from Bottega Veneta
October 10, 2016
Hammer Museum Presents Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960‐1985
September 28, 2016
El Hammer Museum presenta: Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985 (Mujeres radicales: arte latinoamericano, 1960-1985)
el 28 de septiembre del 2016
O Hammer Museum apresenta Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985 (Mulheres radicais: arte latino-americana, 1960 a 1985)
28 de setembro de 2016
Hammer Museum Presents In Real Life, 100 Days of Film and Performance
August 18, 2016
Hammer Museum Announces Recipients of Mohn Awards
August 16, 2016
Art + Practice and The Hammer Museum Present Alex Da Corte: A Season in He'll
June 16, 2016
Hammer Museum Honors Laurie Anderson and Todd Haynes
at 14th Annual Gala in the Garden, October 8, Partners with Bottega Veneta
April 28, 2016
Art + Practice and the Hammer Museum Present A Shape That Stands Up
March 8, 2016
Hammer Museum Announces 26 Artists for Upcoming Biennial Made in L.A. 2016: a, the, though, only
January 20, 2016
Hammer Museum Announces AIX Scent Fair, May 6–8, 2016
January 15, 2016
Art + Practice and the Hammer Museum Present John Outterbridge: Rag Man
December 2, 2015
Hammer Museum Presents Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957
December 1, 2015
Hammer Museum Announces Advance Exhibition Schedule through Spring 2016
November 20, 2015
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Hammer Museum Present Two Solo Exhibitions on L.A. Based Artist Catherine Opie
November 18, 2015
Hammer Museum Announces 99-Year Lease and Gallery Expansion
October 26, 2015
The Hammer Museum Presents UH-OH: Frances Stark 1991–2015
August 31, 2015
Hammer Museum Presents First Major U.S. Exhibition of Canadian Artist Lawren Harris, Curated by Steve Martin
August 31, 2015
Hammer Museum and Art + Practice Present Los Angeles Exhibition Debut of Njideka Akunyili Crosby
August 31, 2015
Hammer Museum Presents ALL THE INSTRUMENTS AGREE: an exhibition or a concert, September 26–27, 2015
July 23, 2015
Hammer Museum Exhibits Hand-Woven Carpets Made by Afghan Weavers and Designed by Six Contemporary L.A. Artists
June 8, 2015
The Hammer Museum Presents Mark Bradford: Scorched Earth
June 1, 2015
Hammer Museum and Bottega Veneta Honor Paul McCarthy and Diane Keaton at 13th Annual Gala in the Garden, October 10
May 18, 2015
The Hammer Museum Presents Perfect Likeness: Photography and Composition
May 13, 2015
Hammer Museum Announces Advance Exhibition Schedule through Fall 2015
March 26, 2015
Hammer Museum Presents 6th Annual K.A.M.P. (Kids’ Art Museum Project)
March 16, 2015
Hammer Museum Announces Curators for Made in L.A. 2016
December 18, 2014
Hammer Museum Announces Public Engagement Partnership with Art + Practice
December 16, 2014
Hammer Museum Presents Provocations: The Architecture and
Design of Heatherwick Studio
December 8, 2014
Hammer Museum Presents Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now
December 3, 2014
Hammer Museum Presents Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974-1989
December 3, 2014
Hammer Museum Announces Lineup for The Contenders
November 18, 2014
Advanced Exhibition Schedule, Winter 2014 to Spring 2015
November 12, 2014
Hammer Museum Honors Mark Bradford & Joni Mitchell at the Gala in the Garden with Bottega Veneta
October 14, 2014
The Hammer Museum Presents Mandala of Compassion
September 11, 2014
The Hammer Museum Presents Jim Hodges: Give More Than You Take
September 3, 2014
The Hammer Museum presents Robert Heinecken: Object Matter
September 3, 2014
The Hammer Museum Announces Recipients of Made in L.A. 2014 Mohn Awards
August 19, 2014
Hammer Projects: Francis Upritchard opens October 25, 2014
August 7, 2014
Hammer Projects: Yuri Ancarani opens September 27, 2014
August 7, 2014
Hammer Projects: Mario Garcia Torres opens September 13, 2014
August 7, 2014
Hammer Projects: N. Dash opens September 13, 2014
August 7, 2014
Hammer Museum Launches Redesigned Website
June 10, 2014
Hammer Projects: Andra Ursuta opens March 7, 2014
February 26, 2014
Sabrosonico: All-ages courtyard concert featuring Toy Selectah, Sonidero Travesura, DJ Chucuchu & More
February 25, 2014
Hammer Museum Announces Made in L.A. 2014 Artists
February 19, 2014
Hammer Museum Will Present Three Awards in Conjunction with Made in L.A. 2014
January 30, 2014
Curator Aram Moshayedi Receives Grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
January 22, 2014
Terry Riley: In C, a Performance Installation by The Industry
January 16, 2014
Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology
January 8, 2014
Hammer Projects: Nathaniel Mellors
December 16, 2013
Tea and Morphine: Women in Paris, 1880 to 1914 Opens January 26, 2014
December 11, 2013
Opening Soon: JG, a film by Tacita Dean & Kelly Nipper: Black Forest
December 9, 2013
A Trip to Japan in Sixteen Minutes, Revisited
November 18, 2013
Hammer Museum to Offer Free Admission for All Exhibitions
October 7, 2013
Hammer Museum Honored Robert Gober & Tony Kushner at the Gala in the Garden
October 5, 2013
Hammer Museum Launches Arts ReSTORE LA: Westwood in November
September 23, 2013
Hammer Announces Major Gift from The Anthony & Jeanne Pritzker Family Foundation
September 16, 2013
Jim Welling & Forrest Bess Exhibitions Open September 29
September 9, 2013
KCHUNG RADIO at the Hammer Museum this fall
August 22, 2013
Richard Artschwager's blps in Los Angeles and Las Vegas
August 6, 2013
Generationalpictomusicapolis featuring No Age, Sun Foot, and Devin Gary & Ross with Kramer
July 28, 2013
Free JazzPOP Courtyard Concerts This August
July 25, 2013
Bottega Veneta Generously Supports Hammer Museum Gala in the Garden October 5, 2013
July 11, 2013
Hammer & KCRW Present Music For Better Living Concert Series
June 25, 2013
Olga Koumoundouros's Dream Home Resource Center
June 3, 2013
Major Retrospective Richard Artschwager! Opens June 15
May 29, 2013
Curatorial Announcement
May 16, 2013
Houseguest: William E. Jones
May 13, 2013
Hammer Celebrated 4th Annual K.A.M.P. (Kids' Art Museum Project)
May 6, 2013
K.A.M.P. 'Zine
May 5, 2013
A. Quincy Jones: Building for Better Living (May 25 - September 8, 2013)
April 24, 2013
Upcoming Hammer Projects: Cyprien Gaillard & Neil Beloufa
April 2, 2013
4th Annual K.A.M.P. (Kids' Art Museum Project)
March 27, 2013
Family Flicks & Sunday Afternoons for Kids at the Hammer
March 6, 2013
Upcoming Readings at the Hammer
February 25, 2013
Fritz Haeg's Domestic Integrities
February 5, 2013
Hammer Museum partners with CAP UCLA to present Trisha Brown's Floor of the Forest
February 4, 2013
Selections from the Grunwald Center & the Hammer Contemporary Collection
January 14, 2013
Upcoming Poetry Readings at the Hammer
January 9, 2013
Upcoming Hammer Projects: Enrico David, Dara Friedman, and Latifa Echakhch
January 7, 2013
Tehran: An Urban History of Revolutions - Lecture by Prof. Talinn Grigor
December 12, 2012
LLYN FOULKES Retrospective Opens February 3, 2013
November 28, 2012
Cage at UCLA - Sunday, December 2, 2012
November 14, 2012
Game Room opens December 1, 2012
October 29, 2012
Hammer Museum Announces Curators for Made in L.A. 2014
September 21, 2012
Your Land / My Land: Election '12 on view Sept. 30 - Nov. 18, 2012
September 20, 2012
10th Annual Gala in the Garden Honors Barbara Kruger & Cindy Sherman
September 18, 2012
Free admission to the Hammer during Carmageddon II (Sept. 29-30)
September 14, 2012
Ai Weiwei Screenings
September 4, 2012
Hammer Forums This Fall
August 17, 2012
Meleko Mokgosi to Receive the Mohn Award
August 16, 2012
JazzPOP Courtyard Concerts in September
August 15, 2012
Hammer Projects: Sun Yuan & Peng Yu
July 30, 2012
Upcoming Fall Exhibitions
July 18, 2012
Zarina: Paper Like Skin
July 18, 2012
Graphic Design: Now in Production
July 18, 2012
A Strange Magic: Gustave Moreau's Salome
July 18, 2012
Hammer Projects: Lucy Raven
July 16, 2012
Orchestra-in-residence wild Up
July 9, 2012
Mohn Award Finalists
June 28, 2012
Venice Beach Biennial
June 18, 2012
Made in L.A. Music Presented by the Hammer and KCRW
June 14, 2012
Made in L.A. 2012 Performances and Public Programs Guide
May 23, 2012
Hammer Conversation Atom Egoyan & Serj Tankian
April 22, 2012
Made in L.A. 2012 Press Kit
June 2 - September 2, 2012
Made in L.A. 2012 Artist List
June 2 - September 2, 2012
March Readings at the Hammer
February 23, 2012
Libros Schmibros Book Club
February 21, 2012
Intimate Immensity: The Susan and Larry Marx Collection
February 14, 2012
Valentine’s Day at the Hammer--Dirty Looks: Long Distance Love Affairs
February 14, 2012
Hammer Projects Opening Soon: Antony & Alex Hubbard
January 19, 2012
Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival Events at the Hammer Museum
January 26 and January 29, 2012
Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955-1972
February 5 - April 29, 2012
Made in L.A. 2012
November 17, 2011
Gala in the Garden
September 24, 2011
Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980
October 2, 2011 - January 8, 2012
Jorge Pardo Creates Special Edition Lanterns for the Hammer Museum
September 24, 2011 - October 14, 2011
Libros Schmibros at the Hammer Museum
August 27 - October 9, 2011
Free Museum Admission During I-405 Closure
July 16-17, 2011
Summer Sound and Performance Works
June 21, 2011
Hammer Museum Mobile App Release
May 19, 2011
ALSO I LIKE TO ROCK
July, 2011
Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf at UCLA
May 4, 2011
Ed Ruscha: On the Road
June 11 - October 2, 2011
Paul Thek: Diver
May 22 - August 28, 2011
Bike Night at the Hammer!
April 14, 2011
Greeting Committee
April 7 - 10, 2011
Richard Hawkins: Third Mind
February 12 - May 20, 2011
Charles Burchfield Honored by the U.S. Art Critics Association
January 27, 2011
Autobiography of Mark Twain Celebration
February 8, 2011
All of this and nothing
January 30 - April 24, 2011
75 Years of DC Comics
December 14, 2010
Hammer @20, Free Admission
November 26 - December 18, 2010
Special Program for Military Families
November 10, 2010
Gala in the Garden
October 9, 2010
Eva Hesse Spectres 1960
September 25, 2010 - January 2, 2011
Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrences/Documented Assignments
September 25, 2010 - January 2, 2011
Los Angeles Biennial
LAXART & The Hammer Musuem, 2012
The Mandala Project
October 25 - November 7, 2010
Gala in the Garden
October 9, 2010
New Hammer Appointment: Brooke Hodge
July 15, 2010
Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection
July 3, 2010 - January 30, 2011
Outside the Box: Edition Jacob Samuel, 1988 - 2010
May 23 - August 29, 2010
The Red Book of C. G. Jung: Creation of a New Cosmology
April 11 - June 6, 2010
Rachel Whiteread Drawings
January 31 - May 3, 2010
The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb's Book of Genesis
October 24 - February 7, 2010
Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield
October 4, 2009 - January 3, 2010
Second Nature: The Valentine-Adelson Collection at the Hammer
July 19 - October 4, 2009
Larry Johnson
June 21 - September 6, 2009
Hammer Museum: New Curatorial Appointments
February 26, 2009
Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from L.A.
March 8 - May 31, 2009
Houseguest: Gabbiani
February 15 - May 24, 2009
Oranges and Sardines: Conversations on Abstract Painting
November 9 - February 8, 2009
Gouge: The Modern Woodcut 1870 to Now
November 9 - February 8, 2009
Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner
July 13 - October 12, 2008
Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love
March 2 - June 8, 2008
Francis Alÿs: Politics of Rehearsal
September 30, 2007 - February 10, 2008
Eden's Edge: Fifteen LA Artists
May 13 - Sep 2, 2007