We're excited to announce that Blue Star Museums season starts on Armed Forces Day, May 18, 2024 and runs through Labor Day, September 2, 2024.

Visit arts.gov/bluestarmuseums for details and to find a participating art museum, children's museum, botanical garden & more near you!

🔔 Please note that the museum will close early tomorrow, Friday, May 3 at 6pm and remain closed all day on Saturday, May 4 for a private event. We look forward to welcoming you again on Sunday, May 5, 11am–6pm.
🍽️ Lulu is closed through Monday, and will reopen on Tuesday, May 7.

🎥 Rozema—an UCLA adjunct lecturer— joins the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and the UCLA Film & Television Archive in-person for trip through her playful outlook on art-making.🎞️ Be inspired! Join us and the Academy Museum April 26–30 bit.ly/3W9t4Zv 🖥️

🎬🧜🏼‍♀️ Patricia Rozema earned the Prix de la Jeunesse at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival for her debut movie, 'I've Heard the Mermaids Singing.' Her subsequent work as a director and writer maintains her cheerful irreverence, magical realism, and queer sensibility 🤩💫

🇦🇲🎻🌟Join us this Wednesday night as we celebrate the rich and diverse legacy of Armenian music and heritage brought to you by the UCLA Armenian Music Program in observance of the Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. 🔗 hmmr.buzz/intersection

We are pleased to announce our summer 2024 exhibition season, led by 'Refashioning: CFGNY & Wataru Tominaga' and 'David Medalla: In Conversation with the Cosmos.' Also opening: a Hammer Project by Jordan Strafer, an exhibition curated by EJ Hill, and more! hmmr.buzz/summer2024

Join us and UCLA Film & Television Archive on April 6 for a free screening of SLAM (1998) at the 21st UCLA Festival of Preservation. The festival will showcase 10 features, 4 TV programs, over a dozen short films — all newly preserved and restored. Free! cinema.ucla.edu/festival

🎨Explore the innovative approaches artists are taking to leave their impact on the world!✨Join Creating Impact: Legacies in the 21st Century this Tuesday night for a dynamic conversation on the landscape of contemporary art foundations & stewardship!
🖥️ hmmr.buzz/creatingimpact

Thursday at 7:30pm! Join us at the Hammer Museum for a night of #poetry with National Book Award finalist Maureen McLane. McLane will read from her new collection, What You Want, a book of core landscapes, mindscapes, and shifting moods.😀hammer.ucla.edu/programs-event…

The Korean Moment: A flurry of museum and gallery exhibitions flags a surge of interest in #KoreanArt . The most compelling is Hammer Museum’s Only the Young

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📺Experience Banu Cennetoglu’s visual narrative, a compilation of 127hours of footage collected over a decade 📽️️Delve into this unique video experience for a glimpse the socio-cultural tapestry of recent history as seen through the lens of the artist📲 hmmr.buzz/banu

💐 Happy International Women's Day! 🙌🏽 Today we'd like to uplift artist Roksana Pirouzmand who creates sculptural objects and installations that reflect her life as an immigrant Iranian woman living in the United States. 💪Share this post with an influential woman in your life 💖

🤨These ladies are totally judging you if you don't vote today... Just sayin'!

🗳️The Hammer's a vote center for today's Presidential Primary Election! Polls are open until 8PM and Parking is free for voters in the lot underneath the museum hmmr.buzz/voteprimary24 🚗🇺🇸🚙

⚡️FINAL WEEKEND!⚡️Come see why The Art Newspaper calls Rita McBride's 'Particulates' at the Hammer Museum a show you should see during #FriezeLA !
💚🕳️Take a trip through the wormhole and catch this exhibition before it closes Sunday, Mar 3!⏳
📲 hmmr.buzz/rita

🇰🇷To curb individuality & personal freedom, the Korean government standardized outfits in 1962—including the woman's 'uniform,' a long skirt💪💖Starting #WomensHistoryMonth by celebrating the Korean women who dared to wear miniskirts as an act of rebellion hmmr.buzz/oty

👩🏽‍🎨 Spend Saturday afternoon at the Hammer for Voices of the Diaspora featuring special conversations with creatives of color across the arts and culture industries. 🎨🤎

💻Find the full schedule and impressive list of panelists by visiting hmmr.buzz/diaspora

🤸🏾‍♀️ Artist Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi's 'Gymnasium' (2019-22) series portrays the often overlooked emotional & tender moments of gymnasts—bodies stretching and embracing between floor exercises. 👩🏽‍🎨🎨See this work today adorning the Hammer's main lobby entrance. 📲 hmmr.buzz/thenjiwe

🇺🇸🗳️⭐️ The Hammer is an official Vote Center for the Presidential Primary Election!

Vote early Saturday, Mar 2–Monday, Mar 4, 10AM–7PM
Election Day is Tuesday, Mar 5, 7AM–8PM

✅ For ease, you can simply drop off your vote ballot here! 🚙 Plan your trip: hmmr.buzz/voteprimary24

⚡️💚See Rita McBride's 'Particulates' a multi-helix, hyperboloid structure that is ephemeral and made visible when ambient dust and water molecules encounter the laser beam in our Bank Gallery. ❇️
⏳ Hurry and see it before it closes Sunday, March 3. 🏃🏽‍♀️
🔗 hmmr.buzz/rita

Take part in the Getty's region-wide initiative PST ART: 'Art and Science Collide.' 🌏🎨
🤯 Share your phenomena, vision, or ship in the sky stories by visiting interpretationofvision.com 🛸👽
⏰ Don't wait! Send Mel Chin your submission before the portal closes on March 30, 2024