Hammer Museum

Award-winning chef, restaurateur, and food activist Marcus Samuelsson discusses his singular approach to food, tracing how ancient, "of-the-earth" ingredients—coconut, teff, plantains, acai, rice—carry stories of ancestry, migration, and resilience across the Caribbean, the Americas, the Pacific, Asia, and Africa. Drawing on profiles of chefs and producers worldwide, Samuelsson offers a global meditation on food as sustainability, ritual, and healing, and how these culinary traditions can guide us back to nourishing, soulful cooking at home. Samuelsson will also sign copies of his newest book, Back to Green: Rediscovering a World of Delicious, Healthy Eating, following the talk. Learn more here: https://hmmr.buzz/chefmarcus

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Followed by a conversation with director Dave Green, voice actor Eric Bauza, and producer Chris DeFaria. The midcentury modern aesthetic of Chuck Jones's streamlined Roadrunner cartoons (b. 1949) is fruitfully transported to a 21st century context of rampant legalism and corporate hegemony. Taking off from a clever 1990 New Yorker piece by Ian Frazier, director Dave Green (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows) executes the most satisfying blend of live action and animation since Robert Zemeckis’s 1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Learn more here: https://hmmr.buzz/C26CA

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Auteur director Gregg Araki's film about an LA artist (Olivia Wilde) who introduces her studio assistant ito the world of BDSM is a raucous send-up of the art world, workplace dynamics, and sexual power. Followed by a conversation with Araki. Learn more here: https://hmmr.buzz/C26IWS

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Written, directed, and edited by the perversely clever Curry Barker, Obsession is genuinely shocking, funny, and best served in a cinema packed with horror fans. Learn more here: https://hmmr.buzz/C26O

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Based on the bestseller by Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary stars Ryan Gosling as a high school science teacher thrust quite unwillingly into space as Earth’s last hope for survival. Followed by a conversation with directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Learn more here: https://hmmr.buzz/C26PHM

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Depicting the remarkable chance encounter in Paris of a French nursing home director and a Japanese theater director facing terminal cancer, All of a Sudden is a moving testimony to the power of human empathy. Followed by a conversation with writer-director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi Learn more here: https://hmmr.buzz/C26AOAS

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Join Hannah Feldman, Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Associate Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, for a lecture on Huguette Caland (1931–2019), the subject of the retrospective currently on view at the Hammer until February 28, 2027. In her talk, Feldman–the curator of the exhibition–will trace the artist's relationship to the line, both written and drawn, throughout her life and a career that spanned Beirut, Paris, and Los Angeles. As the line is called upon in Caland's work to express, delineate, define, and sometimes occlude, Feldman follows its curves and undulations to examine Caland's works' relationship to the body and community, as well as to identify the overarching concerns with autonomy and freedom that reverberate across her oeuvre, be it realized in painting, drawing, sculpture, writing, or fashion design. Learn more here: https://hmmr.buzz/HCturns

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