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Benjamin Michel

Saturday, May 26
6 PM

The filmmaker's presentation Melanin in Cinema explores the works of African-descended directors, past and present, who challenge the medium through their artistic voices.

Sarah Cahill

Sunday, May 27
1 PM

The renowned pianist performs a solo concert including works by composers Lou Harrison and Ruth Crawford.

Full: Cities

Tuesday, May 29
7 PM

Berkeley Symphony musicians and friends perform six small-ensemble pieces written by living composers from San Francisco, Hamburg, and Shanghai.

Jon Wengström on Greta Garbo

Wednesday, May 30
3 PM

The curator of the archival film collections at the Svenska Filminstitutet, Stockholm introduces a screening of Greta Garbo rarities.

Dick Evans: Reading & Book Signing

Thursday, June 14
7:30 PM

The photographer introduces and signs his new book The Mission, which focuses on the Mission District's quintessential art form, the community mural.

Workshop with Mutual Stores artist collective

Friday, June 15
6 PM

Learn about clay—both as a flexible artistic medium and as a resource that surrounds us in the local landscape—in this workshop with the Mutual Stores artist collective.

Way Bay Days: Tom di Maria, Sandra Phillips, Brett Goodroad, Terry Cannon

Saturday, June 30
1:30 PM

Our four speakers take on four Bay Area artists: Judith Scott, Lew Thomas, Fred Martin, and Sara Kathryn Arledge.

Cecilia Vicuña: Reading & Book Signing

Sunday, July 8
3 PM

The poet and artist reads from and signs her new volume of selected poems in conjuction with her current exhibition.

Curators' Talk: Andrea Andersson & Julia Bryan-Wilson

Wednesday, July 11
6 PM

The curators of Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen discuss lost languages and the politics of ephemerality in this exhibition walkthrough.

Cecilia Vicuña: Performance

Wednesday, July 11
7:30 PM

The artist's poetry performance will be followed by a conversation with exhibition co-curators Julia Bryan-Wilson and Andrea Andersson.

Artist’s Talk: Joanne Leonard

Thursday, July 12
6 PM

In conjunction with her current exhibition, the artist discusses her photographic work and the places and spaces of women’s lives.

Workshop with Maryam Yousif & Nick Makanna

Sunday, July 15
2 PM

Explore the construction of identity, history, and nationhood through the lens of architectural monuments and ruins in this hands-on workshop.

On View

Alicia McCarthy & Ruby Neri / MATRIX 270

New work by two artists who have maintained a strong artistic dialogue since meeting in San Francisco in the 1990s.
May 23–August 26, 2018
Master Traces, Transcultural Visions

Works from second through twentieth-century Asia reveal how Buddhist power was expressed and spread through art.
May 16–September 16, 2018
48th Annual MFA Exhibition

Be the first to see works by UC Berkeley's newest MFA graduates.
May 11–June 17, 2018
Limited Engagements & Special Screenings

Recent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.
Ongoing
Lucrecia Martel: The Anxiety of Identity

Join us for a retrospective of the Argentine director's atmospheric, compelling films.
April 20–May 10, 2018
Al Wong: Lost Sister

Sixty-four portraits of a sister the artist never met form a meditation on displacement and the collision between personal and geopolitical histories.
March 28–June 17, 2018
Agony in Effigy

Art, truth, pain, and the body—works from the BAMPFA collection
February 21–June 17, 2018
Way Bay

A sweeping exploration of two hundred years of Bay Area creative energies.
January 17–June 3, 2018
Art Wall: Karabo Poppy Moletsane

The artist's first US commission presents vibrant, monumental portraits that draw on both traditional African visual culture and Afrofuturism.
November 22, 2017–July 15, 2018