Today's Films
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Current Exhibitions
Through October 14
Through November 18
Through March 3
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Persona
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Greta Garbo in A Woman of Affairs
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In Person
Christina Quarles: Artist's Talk
Thursday, September 20
6 PM
The MATRIX artist discusses her work with curator Apsara DiQuinzio, illuminating the role of ambiguity in her representation of race and sexual identity.
Art Historian Catherine Lusheck
Saturday, September 29
1:30 PM
Why Style Matters—Connoisseurship and the Old Masters delves into intriguing issues about attribution and why an appreciation of the “hand of the artist” truly mattered in the European Renaissance.
Barbara Pollack: Brand New Art from China: A Generation on the Rise
Sunday, October 7
1:30 PM
The author and critic signs copies of her lastest book following this illustrated presentation on China's newest artists.
Tsherin Sherpa: Artist’s Talk
Sunday, October 7
3 PM
The contemporary Tibetan artist, featured in Boundless, discusses themes of displacement and identity in his work.
Olivia Young on Christina Quarles
Wednesday, October 10
5:30 PM
An exploration of the dynamics of excess, visibility, and form as instruments of black queer longing in Quarles's work, now on view in MATRIX 271.
Matti Braun on Vikram Sarabhai
Saturday, October 13
1:30 PM
Artist Matti Braun spins a web of interdisciplinary associations around famed Indian physicist Vikram Sarabhai (1919–1971), the father of India’s space program.
Apsara DiQuinzio on Harvey Quaytman
Wednesday, October 17
12 PM
The curator of Harvey Quaytman: Against the Static offers an overview of the exhibition, tracing the trajectory of the artist’s career.
Hossein Khosrowjah Introduces Two-Legged Horse
Saturday, October 20
5:30 PM
The author and California College of the Arts professor introduces a screening of Samira Makhmalbaf's film.
Erika Stucky
Sunday, October 21
1 PM
The eclectic musian incorporates yodeling, scat singing, and spoken word into her happily subversive art.
The Black Aesthetic
Friday, November 2
4 PM
The creative organization, whose mission is to curate and assemble a collective and distinct understanding of black visual culture, introduces a program of radical shorts.
On View
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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 -
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 -
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–October 21, 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 -
Frederick Wiseman: On Documentary
Wiseman's incisive, wide-ranging explorations of complex institutions have set a new standard for nonfiction filmmaking.
September 13–30, 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 -
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 -
Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen
The artist's first survey exhibition addresses discarded and displaced people, places, and things in a time of global climate change.
July 11–October 14, 2018 -
Limited Engagements & Special Screenings
Recent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.
Ongoing