The Hammer Museum has a ton of new exhibitions and spaces to show off this spring, including a new lobby, sculpture garden and a brand-new Wilshire-facing gallery. As for the museum’s existing main gallery, it’s been filled with “Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection,” which features more than 70 works from the likes of John Baldessari, Lee Bontecou, Mark Bradford, Simone Forti, Luchita Hurtado, Mike Kelley and Noah Purifoy, among others.
In addition, look out for “Full Burn: Video from the Hammer Contemporary Collection,” which rotates every two weeks; “Cruel Youth Diary: Chinese Photography and Video from the Haudenschild Collection,” with works from the 1990s and 2000s; a solo show in the Vault gallery by Karon Davis; a monumental sculpture by Sanford Biggers; and a dark chamber punctuated by high-intensity laser beams by Rita McBride.