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Hammer Museum Events

Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024

Here is what is coming up at Hammer Museum, and what has already happened there. Concerts, games, festivals and the smaller nights that never surface in a generic search — no account needed.

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Fall Exhibitions Celebration
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Fall Exhibitions Celebration
In 3 days · Oct 10 Free Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd…

A museum at nine at night, with a drink in your hand and the galleries still unlocked, is a completely different building. It stops being homework. The courtyard has music, the rooms stay unlocked late, and the two shows being opened are retrospectives of women who spent their careers making abstraction and getting written out of the story for it - Huguette Caland and Mavis Pusey, both finally getting the wall space. The crowd at these is the actual Los Angeles art world plus everyone who follows it: studio assistants, grad students, people who came for the party and end up standing quietly in front of something. It is free, which is the whole reason it works - a free opening is the only kind where the room is not sorted by who could afford to be in it. Pusey was a Jamaican-born printmaker who built her abstraction out of demolition sites and scaffolding in New York, and almost nobody on the west coast has seen a room of it. Doors at eight, Saturday October 10. The exhibitions stay up for months afterward, and the galleries around here are free on the same afternoons.

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After-Hours Tour: Phil Chang on Five Centuries of Works on Paper
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After-Hours Tour: Phil Chang on Five Centuries of Works on Paper
Oct 1, 2026 Free Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd…

Museums are different after closing. The light changes, the guards relax, and the rooms stop feeling like a place you are visiting and start feeling like somewhere you were let into. That is most of why an after-hours tour is worth rearranging a Thursday for. The other reason is who is leading it: Phil Chang is an artist whose whole practice is about photographic materials failing on purpose - images that fade, paper that refuses to hold the picture - which makes him a genuinely strange and good choice to walk a group through five hundred years of drawings and prints. Expect him to talk about surfaces and decay rather than subjects and dates. Chang teaches at Art Center and shows with Praz-Delavallade, and he is the rare artist who can talk about a Rembrandt etching and a bleached-out C-print as the same problem. The group size is whatever fits comfortably in a gallery, so it is worth being early rather than on time. Free admission, six o'clock, Thursday October 1, at the Hammer in Westwood.

Brigitte Caland & Aram Moshayedi on Huguette Caland
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Brigitte Caland & Aram Moshayedi on Huguette Caland
Sep 30, 2026 Free Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd…

Being somebody's daughter and being the person who explains them to the world are two different jobs, and doing both at once in public is a peculiar thing to watch. Huguette Caland left Beirut and a political family behind to make some of the most frankly physical painting of the last century - bodies rendered as landscape, erotic and funny and completely unbothered - and spent decades being undervalued for it. Her daughter Brigitte has spent years since making sure that stopped, and she is sitting down with an independent curator to talk about the work and the person at the same time. This is the kind of evening a museum does when it is not trying to fill seats: no ticket, no pitch, a room of maybe a hundred people who came because they actually wanted to hear it. Free, and free means the crowd skews younger and stranger than a paid lecture would. Wednesday September 30 at 7:30pm in Westwood.

Hammer Summer Concert 2026 — Open Mike Eagle (August 19)
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Hammer Summer Concert 2026 — Open Mike Eagle (August 19)
Aug 19, 2026 Free Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd…

Rap that makes you lean in instead of back is rarer than it ought to be. His records have been called art rap since the first one — introspective, literary, frequently surreal, moving between music and visual art without ever announcing which one it is being. Which makes a museum courtyard exactly the right room. The live show is quiet in a way that forces attention; it does not work as background and it is not trying to. A crowd standing on stone at dusk in Westwood with the galleries still open behind them is the environment that material was built for, even if it took an art museum to notice. Happy hour first, main set after, outdoors on Wilshire, free and first-come. Bring the friend who keeps saying nobody is writing anything interesting anymore, and let him answer it in person.

Hammer Summer Concert 2026 — Very Be Careful (July 31)
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Hammer Summer Concert 2026 — Very Be Careful (July 31)
Jul 31, 2026 Free Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd…

You cannot explain Colombian vallenato to someone in a paragraph - you have to stand in a courtyard at sunset while a seven-piece band drives it home on an accordion, and then they understand it in their body before their brain catches up. That is the whole gift of this night. Very Be Careful, the Los Angeles-based Colombian vallenato group that has been carrying the accordion-centered sound of Colombia's Caribbean coast to Southern California since the early 2000s, plays the Hammer courtyard in Westwood. They have filled venues twice this size; here it will be intimate. Vallenato is not salsa, and not cumbia as most Americans know it - it is older, more accordion-centered, rooted in the Colombian Caribbean coast, and this band is one of the best introductions to it anywhere in LA. Happy hour 6:30-7:30 PM. Concert at 7:30 PM. After-hours gallery access throughout the evening. Free admission, first-come, first-served. July 31, 2026 - 6:30 PM. Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024.

Hammer Summer Concert 2026 — Dummy (July 17)
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Hammer Summer Concert 2026 — Dummy (July 17)
Jul 17, 2026 Free Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd…

The most underused space on the Westside might be a museum courtyard on a summer evening — an institution built on free admission, sitting quiet when it could be where the city's most interesting music converges. On July 17, the Hammer Summer Concerts series opens its 2026 season with Dummy, the Los Angeles rock band whose catalog crosses dream pop and guitar noise in a way that sounds exactly like it was made for a museum courtyard at dusk. The evening begins with a happy hour from 6:30 to 7:30 PM, with cocktails available and discounted drinks before the concert. The main set begins at 7:30 PM. After-hours gallery access runs through the evening — the Hammer's current exhibitions stay open, which means you can move between the music outside and the art inside. This is what free admission actually enables when the programming is committed. Free. First-come, first-served. RSVP encouraged but not required. Arrive by 7 PM to secure a good spot in the courtyard. July 17, 2026 — 6:30 PM. Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024.

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