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Rendering of the Hammer Museum showing the exterior sign

November 29, 2022

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

Source: UCLA Newsroom

November 30, 2022

Male spiders fight less in female-dominated colonies

Birds do it. Bees do it. Even orb-weaving arachnids do it: cooperate for more peaceful group-living environments

Source: UCLA Newsroom
November 29, 2022

The legacy of Mexican political organizers in the American West

Kelly Lytle Hernández’s book ‘Bad Mexicans’ comes at a time when L.A.’s politics reckon with racism

Source: UCLA Newsroom
November 22, 2022

Why governments fail at curtailing demand for gasoline

UCLA-led study finds world leaders give up too quickly on increasing gas taxes and reducing subsidies to producers

Source: UCLA Newsroom

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Chancellor Quote Block

Chancellor Gene Block stands in front of a blurry background composed of red brick and green trees.

All UCLA students possess a certain set of traits — among them curiosity, optimism, drive, compassion, creativity and a deep desire to improve the world around them.”
— Gene Block, UCLA Chancellor Read more in the UCLA Magazine.

Events

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Friday, December 2, 2022

The Broadcast / Athens, Return to the Acropolis / Reconstruction

7:30 pm to 10:30 pm

Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum

The Broadcast
Ekpompi, Greece, 1968

In the manner of Jean Rouch’s Chronique d'un été (1961), the producers of a pop music television show hit the s…
Saturday, December 3, 2022

The Mermaid

7:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum

In-person:
Julie A. Turnock, associate professor of Media and Cinema Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Digital visual effects technologies…
Sunday, December 4, 2022

The Nightmare Before Christmas

11:00 am to 12:30 pm

Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum

All Family Flicks screenings are free admission and do not require tickets; seating is first come, first served. The Billy Wilder Theater opens 15 minutes before each Family F…
Sunday, December 4, 2022

Didion and the Counterculture

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum

Free admission. No registration needed; first come, first served.

Ringing throughout Joan Didion’s pieces on the counterculture and political militancy of the l…
Tuesday, December 6, 2022

APA December Board Meeting / Annual Holiday Party

7:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Aloha Cafe

APA's last board meeting of the year + annual holiday party.
Thursday, December 8, 2022

VIRTUAL EVENT: KCET-TV Pioneers: Los Angeles Documentary in the 1970s

4:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Zoom

Archive events are in Pacific Time (U.S.). This is a one-time live screening.

Founded in 1964, Los Angeles public television station KCET evolved from its humble …
Thursday, December 8, 2022

VIRTUAL EVENT: KCET-TV Pioneers: Los Angeles Documentary in the 1970s

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum

In-person:
video Q&A with KCET filmmakers Jesús Salvador Treviño, Thandeka, Lynne Littman, moderated by author Joshua Glick.

Archive events are in Pa…
Friday, December 9, 2022

Mondo Hollywood

7:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum

In-person:
filmmaker Robert Carl Cohen.

Mr. Wister, the Time Twister
France, 1956

Produced in France by Robert Carl Cohen when he was pu…
Sunday, December 11, 2022

Inside Red China / Committee On Un-American Activities

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum

In-person:
filmmaker Robert Carl Cohen.

Inside Red China
U.S., 1957

While an observer at the Sixth World Youth Festival in Moscow in 195…

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News and Features

Hammer Museum to mark 2 decades of transformation on March 26

Male spiders fight less in female-dominated colonies

The legacy of Mexican political organizers in the American West

Why governments fail at curtailing demand for gasoline

Chancellor Quote Block

Events

The Broadcast / Athens, Return to the Acropolis / Reconstruction

The Mermaid

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Didion and the Counterculture

APA December Board Meeting / Annual Holiday Party

VIRTUAL EVENT: KCET-TV Pioneers: Los Angeles Documentary in the 1970s

VIRTUAL EVENT: KCET-TV Pioneers: Los Angeles Documentary in the 1970s

Mondo Hollywood

Inside Red China / Committee On Un-American Activities

UCLA

Top Stories

Building bridges between UCLA and Native communities

UCLA Fielding School of Public Health to offer new degree

Three Bruins receive prestigious NIH scholarships

News and Features

Hammer Museum to mark 2 decades of transformation on March 26

Male spiders fight less in female-dominated colonies

The legacy of Mexican political organizers in the American West

Why governments fail at curtailing demand for gasoline

Chancellor Quote Block

Events

The Broadcast / Athens, Return to the Acropolis / Reconstruction

The Mermaid

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Didion and the Counterculture

APA December Board Meeting / Annual Holiday Party

VIRTUAL EVENT: KCET-TV Pioneers: Los Angeles Documentary in the 1970s

VIRTUAL EVENT: KCET-TV Pioneers: Los Angeles Documentary in the 1970s

Mondo Hollywood

Inside Red China / Committee On Un-American Activities

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