One year in, arts collaborative MAC3 is building a civic collection for Los Angeles
The joint initiative advances shared acquisitions and long-term stewardship for area artists.
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Hammer Museum welcomes key leadership additions
Michael Wellen has been named chief curator and Regan Pro will assume the newly created role of chief of learning, engagement and research.
The Hammer celebrates Grunwald Center at 70 with works on paper from Rembrandt, Cézanne, Klimt and more
The two-part exhibition begins Dec. 20.
Hammer Museum’s 2025 biennial illustrates Los Angeles’ creative DNA
From freeway murals to contemporary performance, Made in L.A. 2025 reveals how artists across generations influence the cultural heartbeat of Los Angeles.
Generating geniuses: UCLA alums awarded prestigious MacArthur Fellowships
With graduates Gala Porras-Kim and Garrett Bradley being honored, Bruins have accounted for 1 in 10 'genius grant' recipients over the past 3 years.
Fowler Museum at UCLA returns Larrakia cultural objects to Australia
The repatriated items include ceremonial glass spearheads and a kangaroo tooth headband worn by a revered elder.
Fowler Museum at UCLA presents ‘Construction, Occupation,’ exploring art, activism and housing justice
The exhibition, which runs from May 4 through Jan. 11, 2026, invites visitors to reflect on how urban spaces can be reimagined through collective action.
Hammer Museum names Zoë Ryan as its new director
Ryan will take over on Jan. 1, 2025, succeeding Ann Philbin, who is retiring in November after leading the museum for 25 years.
Hammer Museum, LACMA, MOCA launch joint collection of contemporary L.A. art
The collection, dubbed MAC3, was made possible by a gift of 260 works from philanthropists Jarl and Pamela Mohn.
Fowler Museum at UCLA permanently returns cultural objects to Australia’s Warumungu community
The repatriated objects — including clubs, picks, knives, sheaths, adzes and a boomerang — will go back to their Aboriginal owners in the Northern Territory.
Fowler Museum at UCLA permanently returns objects to Asante kingdom in Ghana
The items from the museum’s collections were personally handed over to Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asante king, in Ghana on Feb. 5.
Weavings preserve artist’s Navajo heritage as cultural erasures loom
Works from Melissa Cody are on display as part of the “Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living” exhibition at the Hammer Museum.
Hammer Museum director Ann Philbin to retire in 2024 after 25 years of visionary leadership
Philbin has helped transform the Hammer into one of the city’s landmark institutions and a leading museum of contemporary art for the nation and the world.
UCLA alumna Gala Porras-Kim on how museums interpret – and preserve – the past
The artist’s exhibition, “The weight of a patina of time,” is on display at the Fowler Museum through Oct. 29.
Artist lineup set for ‘Made in L.A. 2023’ at Hammer Museum
The sixth iteration of the biennial exhibition begins Oct. 1.
Classroom-in-residence program returns to Hammer Museum
Sixth-graders from the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools learn about art, themselves and each other.
Hammer Museum at UCLA celebrates long-awaited expansion and transformation
A weekend of gala events kicked off a new era for the renewed hub of the arts.
Spring 2023 exhibition lineup will highlight a transformed Hammer Museum
“Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection” will anchor a new suite of exhibitions.
Fowler Museum showcases work focused on cultural inheritance, identity
“Amir H. Fallah: The Fallacy of Borders,” which features more than 25 works from the UCLA alumnus, opens Jan 29.
Hammer Museum presents ‘Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist’s Studio’
The exhibition will be the first and most extensive American museum show in half a century dedicated exclusively to Riley’s drawing.
Hammer Museum to mark 2 decades of transformation on March 26
The new Lynda and Stewart Resnick Cultural Center will present exhibitions and collections in spaces designed by Michael Maltzan Architecture.
Silvia Forni named director of the Fowler Museum at UCLA
Forni comes to the Fowler after an accomplished tenure at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada.
Fowler Museum exhibition sheds new light on African objects collected during the colonial era
“Particular Histories: Provenance Research in African Arts” is based on the findings of an initiative to trace the movement of objects collected during an exploitative colonial era.
Hammer Museum presents ‘Joan Didion: What She Means’
The exhibition, which was was curated by Hilton Als, runs from Oct. 11 through Jan. 22, 2023.