Today's Films
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Current Exhibitions
Through November 18
Through November 18
Through November 25
Through December 16
Through January 27
Through March 3
Through March 3
Through May 26
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Barbara Hepworth: Project for Wood and Strings, Trezion II, 1959.
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12:08 East of Bucharest
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In Person
Abigail Polin and Victoria Xu: Relativity and Quantum Mechanics Made Simple
Wednesday, November 14
6 PM
A lively and accessible explanation of two key concepts in modern physics that inform artworks on view in Dimensionism.
Larry Clark, Ra Malika Imhotep, & Jamal Batts
Wednesday, November 14
7 PM
Members of the Black Aesthetic join Clark in conversation following a screening of his 1973 film As Above, So Below.
Carla Lucero
Thursday, November 15
12 PM
The opera composer delivers a lecture titled Crossings: Facing the Boundaries of Gender, Culture, and Family.
Black Life: Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
Friday, November 16
6 PM
The Oakland-based artist and activist presentsThe Storyteller of the Future Says Welcome!, a performance and talk to help guide us into brightness.
Christina Gerhardt
Saturday, November 17
5:30 PM
The coeditor of the new book 1968 and Global Cinema introduces the film Soleil Ô.
Workshop with Emilia Shaffer-Del Valle
Sunday, November 18
2 PM
Make your own masks inspired by a variety of visual cultures, especially Mexico’s Día de los Muertos.
Marisa Morán Jahn
Monday, November 19
6:30 PM
Daemons Tools Art Tech: the artist and media maker discusses designing technologies with and for underserved communities.
Stephanie Syjuco & Lynn Hershman Leeson with Art21's Tina Kukielski
Monday, November 26
6:30 PM
Two of the featured artists join us for a screening of highlights from the ninth season of Art in the Twenty-First Century.
Jeffrey Skoller
Wednesday, November 28
7 PM
The filmmaker introduces a screening of three films that bear personal witness to collective histories, from Auschwitz to the Japanese internment and postwar Japan.
Arthur Jafa & Stephen Best in Conversation
Wednesday, December 12
6 PM
The MATRIX artist and UC Berkeley professor talk about moving from the cinema screen to the gallery, the politics of aesthetics, and the turn toward “Afropessimism.”
On View
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Peter Hujar: Speed of Life
The first retrospective of this influential artist, who described his own work as “uncomplicated, direct photographs of complicated and difficult subjects,”
June 30–November 18, 2018 -
Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein
Works by Man Ray, Isamu Noguchi, Pablo Picasso, Dorothea Tanning, Yves Tanguy, and others reveal connections between the scientific and artistic revolutions of the early twentieth century.
November 7, 2018–March 3, 2019 -
Harvey Quaytman: Against the Static
Survey the career of an unsung artist whose abstract experiments in form, texture, and color are formally rigorous and rich with sensuality and humor.
October 17, 2018–January 27, 2019 -
Afterimage: Corneliu Porumboiu
The Romanian filmmaker who has been called “one of our great contemporary observers of the human comedy” (Variety) visits BAMPFA to present and discuss his work.
November 8–16, 2018 -
Jean Vigo Regained
New restorations of all four films from the director's brief but remarkable career, which presaged Italian neorealism and inspired the French New Wave.
November 2–23, 2018 -
1968 and Global Cinema
Radical films from around the world that emerged from the political and social upheavals of the late sixties.
October 19–November 29, 2018 -
Luchino Visconti: Cinema of Struggle and Splendor
A retrospective of a key artist of the Italian cinema, whose films are rich in resonance and throbbing with life.
September 14–November 30, 2018 -
Christina Quarles / MATRIX 271
Recent paintings that tussle with culturally prescribed identities and probe the margins where meaning remains unfixed, illegible, and subject to question.
September 19–November 18, 2018 -
Boundless: Contemporary Tibetan Artists at Home and Abroad
Contemporary works alongside the historical pieces that influence them
October 3, 2018–May 26, 2019 -
Old Masters in a New Light: Rediscovering the European Collection
BAMPFA’s outstanding collection of historical European art—including several important new acquisitions—is showcased in this exhibition, the culmination of a major research and conservation effort.
September 19–December 16, 2018 -
Mark Morris Presents: In the Age of Pepperland
The choreographer selects films that inspired his dance work Pepperland.
September 28–November 25, 2018 -
Redacted: Art for Human Rights
A selection of works from BAMPFA's collections that utilize redacted text, spaces, and elements to both illustrate and obscure the precarious nature of truth
September 19–November 25, 2018 -
Alternative Visions
An expansive avant-garde showcase of films from the early twentieth century to the present, with many special guests in person.
September 5–November 28, 2018 -
In Focus: Ingmar Bergman
Explore the director's work in depth with this screening/lecture series, part of a UC Berkeley course and open to the public.
August 29–November 28, 2018 -
Art Wall: Barbara Stauffacher Solomon
A new, site-specific installation by the creator of the 1960s design phenomenon Supergraphics.
August 15, 2018–March 3, 2019