At Hammer Lunchtime Art Talks, museum curators hold brief and insightful 15-minute discussions about works of art on view at the Museum on Wednesdays at 12:30 p.m., leaving plenty of time for lunch.

June 4: Utagawa Hiroshige's The Yahagi Bridge at Okazaki, 1832-33

June 11: Jan Van de Velde's 12 months, 1518

June 18: John Martin's Illustrations for John Milton's Paradise Lost, 1824-27

June 25: David Hockney's Celia Smoking, 1974