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Refashioning: CFGNY & Wataru Tominaga

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Refashioning presents two project spaces from transdisciplinary artists and fashion designers Concept Foreign Garments New York (CFGNY) and Wataru Tominaga, featuring garments, accessories, and textile works.
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David Medalla: In Conversation with the Cosmos

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An exhibition that contextualizes the elusive and experimental practice of David Medalla, an artist whose pioneering work spanned kinetic, performance, and participatory art movements.
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Sum of the Parts: Serial Imagery in Printmaking, 1500 to Now

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An exhibition highlighting serial format artworks by 20 artists across five centuries.
A man leans over a woman on the witness stand, as if about to kiss her. A tear appears on the woman's cheek.

Hammer Projects: Jordan Strafer

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Pulling from the genre of erotic thrillers and televised court cases from the period, Strafer presents two videos set against the backdrop of a fictionalized high-profile rape trial in 1990s-era Florida.
An artwork of a man in a cloak looking up at a pink rose

Houseguest: Mute Flesh

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Artist EJ Hill selects from the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts Collection.
Hammer lobby wall installation depicting a group of abstracted figures, young gymnasts in leotards and high buns, which red architectural lines painted on white

Hammer Projects: Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi

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For her site-specific Hammer Project, Nkosi unveils a multimedia installation in the museum lobby, delving into the architecture of the gymnastics arena, which serves as a vessel for narratives of identity, performance, patriarchy, and power.

Upcoming Programs

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Summer Night Cinema: True Stories

This year’s edition of Summer Night Cinema celebrates some of the best and latest documentary features and shorts from across the globe, delving deep into the worlds of art, politics, technology and more.
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JazzPOP 2024

JazzPOP returns with leading lights of West Coast jazz and improvised music in the Hammer courtyard.
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Conversations

Refashioned Lecture

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Artist collective CFGNY present a fashion show and a discussion of their work, moderated by curator Erin Christovale.
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Music & Performance

Jamael Dean and the Afronauts

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Los Angeles keyboardist Jamael Dean convenes a quintet of longtime collaborators to navigate his shapeshifting original compositions and fresh takes on jazz standards.
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Screenings

Eat Drink Man Woman

Chef Alice Waters will be in person to introduce director Ang Lee's heartwarming portrait of a family which uses food and cooking to communicate with as they navigate the ever-shifting course of love and relationships in their lives.

Watch on Hammer Channel

Politics

Under the Gavel: The U.S. Supreme Court’s Term in Review

An all-star panel of legal scholars analyzes the meaning and implications of the latest Supreme Court cases
Art

Wataru Tominaga on "Refashioning"

"How I see them is similar to how I see paintings." Wataru Tominaga discusses his work in the exhibition Refashioning: CFGNY & Wataru Tominaga.
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