Mindful Awareness Meditation

The Hammer’s Mindful Awareness Meditation is the moment-by-moment process of actively and openly observing one’s physical, mental, and emotional experiences. Mindfulness has scientific support as a means to reduce stress, improve attention, boost the immune system, reduce emotional reactivity, and promote a general sense of health and well-being. These half hour weekly sessions are open to all […]

The Hammer Reopening

The Hammer will reopen on April 17 to welcome visitors to Made in L.A. 2020: a version. Free, advance reservations are required and will be available starting April 6. Members get first access to reservations.

Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize Reading

The Hammer Museum’s long-standing poetry series celebrates Poetry Month with the Virtual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize Reading. The Hecht Prize is sponsored by Waywiser Press, whose founder and editor-in-chief Philip Hoy, along with senior American editor Joseph Harrison, speak briefly about the history of the prestigious award. This year's judge is the distinguished poet Ed Hirsch, […]

Chitra Ganesh In Conversation

Chitra Ganesh’s drawing-based practice brings to light narrative representations of femininity, sexuality, and power typically absent from canons of literature and art. Her wall installations, comics, charcoal drawings, and mixed media works on paper often take historical and mythic texts as inspiration and points of departure to complicate received ideas of iconic female forms. In […]

Mindful Awareness Meditation

The Hammer’s Mindful Awareness Meditation is the moment-by-moment process of actively and openly observing one’s physical, mental, and emotional experiences. Mindfulness has scientific support as a means to reduce stress, improve attention, boost the immune system, reduce emotional reactivity, and promote a general sense of health and well-being. These half hour weekly sessions are open to all […]

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Historical Context

Professor Brenda E. Stevenson moderates an online conversation with Karlos K. Hill and Hannibal Johnson, both authors and experts on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, in which a white mob assaulted residents, looted, and destroyed their homes, churches, schools, and businesses in the predominantly Black neighborhood and business district of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The […]

Mindful Awareness Meditation

The Hammer’s Mindful Awareness Meditation is the moment-by-moment process of actively and openly observing one’s physical, mental, and emotional experiences. Mindfulness has scientific support as a means to reduce stress, improve attention, boost the immune system, reduce emotional reactivity, and promote a general sense of health and well-being. These half hour weekly sessions are open to all […]

Mindful Awareness Meditation

The Hammer’s Mindful Awareness Meditation is the moment-by-moment process of actively and openly observing one’s physical, mental, and emotional experiences. Mindfulness has scientific support as a means to reduce stress, improve attention, boost the immune system, reduce emotional reactivity, and promote a general sense of health and well-being. These half hour weekly sessions are open […]

Mindful Awareness Meditation

The Hammer’s Mindful Awareness Meditation is the moment-by-moment process of actively and openly observing one’s physical, mental, and emotional experiences. Mindfulness has scientific support as a means to reduce stress, improve attention, boost the immune system, reduce emotional reactivity, and promote a general sense of health and well-being. These half hour weekly sessions are open […]

Mindful Awareness Meditation

The Hammer’s Mindful Awareness Meditation is the moment-by-moment process of actively and openly observing one’s physical, mental, and emotional experiences. Mindfulness has scientific support as a means to reduce stress, improve attention, boost the immune system, reduce emotional reactivity, and promote a general sense of health and well-being. These half hour weekly sessions are open […]

Mindful Awareness Meditation

The Hammer’s Mindful Awareness Meditation is the moment-by-moment process of actively and openly observing one’s physical, mental, and emotional experiences. Mindfulness has scientific support as a means to reduce stress, improve attention, boost the immune system, reduce emotional reactivity, and promote a general sense of health and well-being. These half hour weekly sessions are open […]

Mindful Awareness Meditation with Tibetan Singing Bowls

Online Event

In this special edition of the weekly online Mindful Awareness Meditation, session leader Diana Winston is joined by Michael and Jahna Perricone. While Winston leads a guided meditation, Michael will play the Tibetan singing bowls accompanied by Jahna’s ethereal vocal toning. Following the 30-minute session, Winston will discuss her new audio course, Glimpses of Being: […]

Mindful Awareness Meditation

Online Event

Mindful Awareness Meditation is the moment-by-moment process of actively and openly observing one’s physical, mental, and emotional experiences. Mindfulness has scientific support as a means to reduce stress, improve attention, boost the immune system, reduce emotional reactivity, and promote a general sense of health and well-being. These half hour weekly sessions are open to all […]

Mindful Awareness Meditation

Online Event

Mindful Awareness Meditation is the moment-by-moment process of actively and openly observing one’s physical, mental, and emotional experiences. Mindfulness has scientific support as a means to reduce stress, improve attention, boost the immune system, reduce emotional reactivity, and promote a general sense of health and well-being. These half hour weekly sessions are open to all […]

Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber

Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, United States

Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber is a New York–based, multi-generation, multi-gender, and multi-ethnic family that performs around the world, carrying on the mantra of their recently-passed founder, influential Village Voice staff writer, and founding member of the Black Rock Coalition, Greg Tate: “Never play anything the same thing once.” In their live, in-person performances, Burnt […]

Vamba Bility at The Hammer Museum

Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, United States

Vamba Bility is a multidisciplinary artist whose work echoes the experience of the African diaspora. Having journeyed from Côte d’Ivoire to Guinea to the United States, Bility perceives this contested way of living as a blur, albeit one that is deeply intimate. In his hands, this blurred sensibility becomes a fluid movement that draws on […]