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The Hammer Museum at UCLA believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world. 🎨 If art + culture give you life, say less, we’ve got you. Visit us in Los Angeles! 🎟️ Admission to the Hammer is always FREE!

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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 02/10/2026
OPENING SOON✨ "Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images," the first major museum survey dedicated to Jamaican-born artist Mavis Pusey (1928–2019) brings together more than sixty works spanning five decades. 🗓️ On view October 11, 2026 – February 28, 2027 hmmr.buzz/pusey
Abstract artwork featuring intersecting black lines and geometric shapes, including circles and rectangles. A prominent red circle is centrally located. The design is composed of various linear patterns and contrasts.
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 29/09/2026
Congratulations to Pablo José Ramírez, curator, & Jessi DiTillio, curatorial assistant, on their ArtNews Awards Best Thematic Museum Exhibition nomination for “Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials” at the Hammer Museum! 🪨✨ hmmr.buzz/ArtNewsAwardSE
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ARTnews Announces Nominees for Third Annual ARTnews Awards
ARTnews revealed the nominees for the 2026 edition of the ARTnews Awards.
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 28/09/2026
On the occasion of the exhibition "Huguette Caland: A Life in a Few Lines," independent curator Aram Moshayedi speaks to Brigitte Caland, who has managed the estate of her mother Huguette Caland since the artist’s death in 2019. Join us for this special conversation, Wednesday, Sep 30, 7:30PM
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 25/09/2026
👀 "Huguette Caland: A Life in a Few Lines" opens to the public this Sunday, September 27! 💖 hmmr.buzz/huguette 🤫 Members can enjoy an exclusive preview on Saturday, September 26 11AM–6PM. Become a member today: hmmr.buzz/hcmemberpreview
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 19/09/2026
👀 OPENING TODAY! Gestures of resistance and subversion peek through artist Gê Viana's work. Deeply shaped by the African diaspora across Brazil, her work—both digital and analog—explores how cultures evolve through exchange. hmmr.buzz/geviana
A person is dancing outdoors on grass with a traditional outfit featuring a white and green dress. Smoke is rising from a fire pit in the background. A tall, colorful sound system made of large speakers is also visible. The setting is lush, with green foliage surrounding the area.
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 11/09/2026
✨ Two women. Two retrospectives. One night celebrating art & abstraction. ✨ Join us for a special night marking the opening of two major retrospectives: "Huguette Caland: A Life in a Few Lines" & "Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images"—plus new Hammer Projects from Vibeke Mascini & Gê Viana! 🗓️Oct 10, 8–10:30PM
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 10/09/2026
Opening Saturday, September 12! ⚡🌿 Artist Vibeke Mascini brings electricity and nature into unexpected connection. For her Hammer Project, Mascini transforms ceiba trees & orchids into carriers of electricity, intertwining roots & electrical cables in a new installation. hmmr.buzz/vibeke
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 04/09/2026
Lebanese by birth, French by marriage, & American by choice, artist Huguette Caland's life and work defied aesthetic, social, and sexual conventions of her time. 💐💖 Opening on September 19, discover a woman subsumed in the form of art in "Huguette Caland: A Life in a Few Lines." hmmr.buzz/HC
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 28/07/2026
🕊️Betye Saar's "Memory of Fire," and "Hot Time" are currently on view in "SPACE IS THE PLACE: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection" now on view through September 6, 2026. hmmr.buzz/SITP
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SPACE IS THE PLACE: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection | Hammer Museum
Taking its title from the 1973 studio album and 1974 film by Sun Ra, the selected works in this group exhibition consider “space” as a conceptual framework, through the themes of afro-futurism, belong...
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 28/07/2026
🕊️Rest in peace, Betye Saar (1926–2026)
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 28/07/2026
As Sandra Jackson-Dumont said in tribute: "You have given us language where there was silence, beauty where there was erasure, and possibility where there was constraint…  You have shown us that truth, when spoken through the right hand of an artist like you, can change everything."
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 28/07/2026
We were honored to celebrate Saar earlier this year at the Hammer's Gala in the Garden, where she captivated audiences with her warmth and wisdom.
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 28/07/2026
A pioneer of the assemblage art movement, her groundbreaking art transformed everyday objects into powerful reflections on race, memory, and resistance.
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 28/07/2026
Known for transforming crude Black stereotypes into potent works of art, activist Angela Davis cited Saar’s “The Liberation of Aunt Jemima” as the beginning of the Black Women’s movement.
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 28/07/2026
One of the most influential artists of the last century, Saar spent more than seven decades creating work that explored African American identity, spirituality, and history.
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 28/07/2026
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Betye Saar, just shy of her 100th birthday.
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 23/07/2026
Both curators have a track record of working closely with artists and creating exhibitions with insightful frameworks that center their ideas.” Read more on Art News: hmmr.buzz/artnewsmila27
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Made in L.A. 2027 to Be Curated by Hammer Chief Curator Michael Wellen and MOCA’s José Luis Blondet
Hammer Museum chief curator Michael Wellen and MOCA senior curator José Luis Blondet will curate the 2027 Made in L.A. biennial.
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 23/07/2026
Zoë Ryan, director of the Hammer Museum, said, “For more than a decade the Made in L.A. biennial has been a convergence point for artists in Los Angeles. I am excited to watch Michael and José Luis develop an exhibition that will draw on the current dynamism and artistic legacies of this city....
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 23/07/2026
Made in L.A 2027 will be the eighth iteration of the biennial series that highlights the practices of artists working throughout the greater Los Angeles area, often recognizing the work of emerging and under-represented artists. Made in L.A 2027 will open at the Hammer in the fall of 2027.
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 23/07/2026
At MOCA, Blondet has organized Olafur Eliasson: OPEN (2024), MOCA Focus: Ana Segovia (2024), and Fictions of Display (2025), with upcoming exhibitions including Alexander Apóstol, Regime: Dramatis Personae, opening in September 2026.
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 23/07/2026
He has also worked closely with artists Takis in 2019 and Lubaina Himid in 2021 on major monographic exhibitions of their work, among other exhibitions.
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 23/07/2026
Previously, Wellen was Senior Curator of International Art at Tate Modern where organized numerous exhibitions, including their major exhibition of works by Ana Mendieta which opened this month.
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 23/07/2026
JUST ANNOUNCED! The next edition of our critically acclaimed biennial, Made in L.A. 2027, will be co-curated by Hammer Chief Curator Michael Wellen and Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles Senior Curator José Luis Blondet.
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 23/07/2026
Join Pulitzer Prize winner Julia Angwin, former White House advisor Ami Fields-Meyer, & journalist Jessica Yellin for a conversation inspired by the N.Y.Times bestselling book "On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear" on Tues, July 28, 7:30PM hmmr.buzz/bedissident
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 14/07/2026
Watch every World Cup match with us on jumbo screens as legacy unfolds! TUESDAY, JULY 14, 12PM 🇫🇷 France vs Spain 🇪🇸 WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 12PM 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿England vs. Argentina 🇦🇷 🔗 Let us know you're coming: hmmr.buzz/world-cup
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Watch @hammer.ucla.edu @law.ucla.edu
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Safeguarding Democracy Project @sdpucla.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Watch the recording of our recent event @hammer.ucla.edu Under the Gavel 2026: The U.S. Supreme Court's Most Recent Term in Review. channel.hammer.ucla.edu/video/2006/u... @law.ucla.edu
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Under the Gavel 2026: The U.S. Supreme Court’s Most Recent Term in Review | Hammer Channel | Hammer Museum
With rulings on major issues expected by the start of summer 2026, the United States Supreme Court is once again at the center of key legal and policy debates. An all-star panel of legal scholars anal...
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UCLA Film & Television Archive @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Sun. July 12, 11 a.m. Family Flicks: “The Secret World of Arrietty” (Japan, 2010) 🌿️ Co-presented by @hammer.ucla.edu Showcasing Studio Ghibli’s signature lush and cozy animation, “Arrietty” is a gentle, awe-inspiring story about bravery, trust and friendship. Free! ucla.in/4gZ9BoM
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Join us tonight for insight into the Supreme Court's just-finished term! @hammer.ucla.edu @law.ucla.edu Panelists: Cary Franklin, @justinlevitt.bsky.social, Kimberly West-Faulcon, and Eugene Volokh (Video of the live event will post after the event)
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 03/07/2026
Artist Paul Sepuya is known for photographs that explore portraiture, collaboration, queer and homoerotic identity, and the conceptual potential of Blackness. ✨ Join us Wednesday, July 8 at 6PM when Sepuya will lead a special after hours tour of "SPACE IS THE PLACE." hmmr.buzz/sepuya-AHT
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 30/06/2026
⭐️ Please note that the Hammer Museum and LULU restaurant will be closed Saturday, July 4 in observance of the holiday. We will be open on Friday, July 3 and Sunday, July 5, 11AM–6PM. For the latest information and to plan your visit, hmmr.buzz/hammer
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 30/06/2026
🇺🇸 Next week, Rick Hasen, Director of Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA, moderates an all-star panel for a special Hammer Forum reviewing the Court's most recent term. Unpack the implications of the latest cases and rulings with us. 🗓️ Tuesday, July 7, 7:30PM hmmr.buzz/gavelforum
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
We have A LOT to talk about @hammer.ucla.edu @law.ucla.edu
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Join us @hammer.ucla.edu @law.ucla.edu !
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 21/06/2026
Today, we celebrate the fathers, grandfathers, mentors, and father figures who inspire us with their wisdom, creativity, and unwavering support. Whether Dad is an art enthusiast or simply loves a meaningful day out, the museum offers the perfect setting to connect and be inspired.
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 19/06/2026
The foreground in Forrest Kirk's @forrestkirk painting, "Harriet Tubman," depicts a group of people walking toward a radiant portal of light that leads them to the future (our present), and their presence reverberates across history. ✨🖤❤️💚 Happy Juneteenth!
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 19/06/2026
🇲🇽🇰🇷🇨🇿 The Hammer is the place to be to see your favorite soccer players kick it into gear! 🇧🇷🇭🇹🇨🇮 Watch on multiple big screens, early afternoon to late night. Indoor/outdoor seating 🍔 Outside food & non-alcoholic beverages are allowed. 🥅 RSVP now hmmr.buzz/world-cup
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 10/06/2026
⚽️ 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 hmmr.buzz/world-cup 🥅
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 07/06/2026
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. Now on view now through October 25, 2026. hmmr.buzz/works-paper-II
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 05/06/2026
Interested? Apply to participate by emailing UCLAmuseumstudy@gmail.com.
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 05/06/2026
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
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 05/06/2026
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.
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 05/06/2026
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.
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 05/06/2026
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.
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 05/06/2026
"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."—ARTnews Read the full article here: lnkd.in/gy7RrDcC
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Time and Material Feel Alive in the Hammer's “Several Eternities in a Day” Exhibition
'Several Eternities in a Day,' on view through August 23 at LA's Hammer Museum, features 22 artists, many of them Indigenous and Latinx.
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 28/05/2026
🗳️ The Hammer Museum at UCLA makes voting easy! We're an official Vote Center for the upcoming California Primary Election. POLLING HOURS Early Voting Period: Saturday, Saturday, May 30 — Monday, June 1, 10AM–7PM Election Day: Tuesday, June 2, 7AM–8PM
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 24/05/2026
🗳️ 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. hmmr.buzz/VotePrimary26
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 15/05/2026
A. E. Stallings brings poetry and scholarship to the debate around the Parthenon Marbles in her book "Frieze Frame". Join us with Stallings on Tuesday, May 19, 7:30PM hmmr.buzz/stallings
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 15/05/2026
The Hammer Classroom Partnership Program—a FREE partnership opportunity for 4th-12th grade classrooms at Title I schools within L.A. County—is returning! Two fully-funded field trips to the museum | Hands-on teacher professional development sessions & more 🗓️Apply by June 1! bit.ly/3Pkxr3a
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 06/05/2026
Ahead of artist Betye Saar's 100th birthday, we were honored to celebrate her at our Gala in the Garden. We are in awe of her enduring artistic legacy and proud to have recently acquired her work Memory of Fire for SPACE IS THE PLACE, now on view at the Hammer. Forbes hmmr.buzz/betyepress
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Prolific Artist, Betye Saar Reflects On Her Legacy And Latest Hammer Museum Honor Ahead Of 100th Birthday
On May 2nd, the Hammer Museum at UCLA welcomed cultural leaders, artists, collectors, and patrons of the arts at the 21st annual Gala in the Garden. During the evening, trailblazing artist Betye Saar was honored for her profound contributions to society through her work.
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