Hammer Museum
Create. Inspire. Revolt.
The Hammer was built as a home for bold movements by people with bolder ideas.
We champion art that makes people uncomfortable. We think it can change how people see the world in a matter of brushstrokes. We’re not here to make you pay admission, or scold you for taking photos. We’re here to let you ask the questions and dismiss the answers. To give you the flint to spark new ideas, movements, actions – and, maybe one day, art that demands a place on our walls.
But none of that’s ever going to happen by playing it safe.
Enjoy our museum however you want to – as long as you start dismantling the status quo on your way out.
The Detention Hall of Infamy
Most high schools have only one solution for free thinkers: detention.
At the Hammer, we have a different response for the radicals: we want you here.
We are partnering with the Los Angeles Unified School District to create a new afterschool program - where once you may have landed in detention, you now have the option to shape your artistic future. Each month, we’ll invite different professional artists, whether they’re street artists, performance artists, or media makers, to talk about their work and offer a forum to share yours.
Where others see rebellion, we see potential. We’d love for you to join us to bring your potential to fruition at the Detention Hall of Infamy.
Student work completed for the Book Shop School for Ads.
CW: Conor O’Callaghan & Tim Gagnon