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Hammer Announces Joey Terrill Show

Joey Terrill, Robert Resting After Work, 1988-89. Private collection
 The Hammer Museum is organizing a Joey Terrill retrospective for 2027. "Joey Terrill: Homeboy Beautiful" (Apr. 4–Sep. 5, 2027) will cover 50 years of production by the influential artist who has drawn on Corita Kent, the AIDS epidemic, the queer Chicanx movement, and high and low visual culture. The show's subtitle, Homeboy Beautiful, refers to Terrill's satirical zine of the late 1970s.

Also on view at the Hammer will be "Michelle Stuart: The Memory of Paper," the artist's first solo museum show in Los Angeles (Apr. 4–Aug. 22, 2027). 
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Terrill's work shows both technical and aesthetic skill. But the other special exhibitions at the Hammer right now are more typical of shows at MOCA, the Broad or the Marciano. Or since the artists are generally obscure, the Hammer is more like Hauser and Wirth.


hammer.ucla. edu:
On View
Huguette Caland: A Life in a Few Lines
Sep 27, 2026 – Feb 28, 2027
...challenging the aesthetic and social conventions of her time in each place her diasporic migrations brought her.

Abstract geometric print with striking black lines
Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images
Oct 11, 2026 – Feb 28, 2027
...Jamaican-born artist Mavis Pusey created rich abstract paintings and works on paper...

Hammer Projects: Gê Viana
Sep 19, 2026 – Feb 7, 2027
...a visual artist working in collage, sound, video, and installation to explore material culture, oral history, and syncretism within the African diaspora across Brazil.

Hammer Projects: Vibeke Mascini
Sep 12, 2026 – Jan 17, 2027
...a new installation in which electrical cables and aerial root systems intermingle by electroforming plants including ceiba trees and orchids...

Hammer Projects: Mike Cloud
Mar 28, 2026 – Jan 3, 2027
...mixed-media assemblages that are typically composed of stretcher bars configured into geometric shapes and universal forms with objects embedded in thick oil paint.

Armand Hammer Collection
....collection of European and American paintings and drawings reflects the interests and passion of the museum’s founder, Armand Hammer. [End quote]


That roster gives the Hammer a regional or municipal-gallery quality. It's more like all the contemporary art museums throughout the US and world. Which is why even certain people based outside LA who are hipsters into the au courant may make an effort to visit the Lucas instead of the Hammer.

If the Hammer were either at least larger or contained more of an Armand Hammer collection instead of abstract/contemporary, it wouldn't be as much like MOCA on Grand Ave. The Hammer might be more of a place that more people will make an effort to visit.

However, even the more crowd-pleasing nature of the Simon Museum isn't necessarily SRO either.

Meanwhile, the Lucas across town is more artistically middle-brow but it at least has more square footage and also (right now) attracts a larger and wider variety of people.
November 13, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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