On View
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Five Tables
OngoingDrop by our art study centers on Free First Thursdays for an up-close look at treasures from the BAMPFA collections.
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Film to Table Dinners at Babette
OngoingDelectable dinners following screenings of the films that inspired them.
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Black Life
OngoingExperience the vitality and range of cultural production in the African diaspora through this exciting, multidisciplinary event series.
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Limited Engagements & Special Screenings
OngoingRecent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.
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Family Events
OngoingHands-on activities, participatory readings, performances, movie matinees, and more events designed for kids and their families.
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Gallery Talks, Lectures & Discussions
OngoingArtists, curators, scholars, and others share their insights on BAMPFA exhibitions, the arts, and other cultural topics.
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Sunday Summer Cinema: Dancing in the Streets
June 10–October 14, 2018This series of family-friendly dance films on our outdoor LED screen will have you moving and grooving all summer!
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Peter Hujar: Speed of Life
June 30–November 18, 2018The first retrospective of an enormously influential artist whose photographs capture the creative subcultures of downtown New York in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen
July 11–October 14, 2018This first survey of Vicuña’s work stages a conversation about discarded and displaced people, places, and things in a time of global climate change.
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Art Wall: Barbara Stauffacher Solomon
August 15, 2018–March 3, 2019The pioneer of the 1960s design phenomenon Supergraphics creates a new piece for BAMPFA’s Art Wall.
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In Focus: Ingmar Bergman
August 29–November 28, 2018Lecture/Screening Series
Explore Ingmar Bergman’s work in depth with this series featuring an expert lecture and discussion at each screening.
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Arts + Design Thursdays @ BAMPFA
August 30–November 15, 2018Creativity, Migration, Transformation
This lecture series explores connections among creative works, the experiences of migration, and the possibilities of personal and social transformation.
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Bergman 100: Discoveries & Rarities
September 1–November 4, 2018This installment in our yearlong centennial tribute to Ingmar Bergman highlights diverse facets of his remarkable cinematic output, from his documentaries about the island of Fårö to his international productions of the 1970s.
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Between Politics and Poetry: Makhmalbaf Film House
September 1–October 20, 2018This series focuses on Iran’s Makhmalbaf family of filmmakers—Mohsen; his wife, Marziyeh Meshkini; and their daughters Samira and Hana—whose works offer thoughtful portraits of life on the margins, whether in Tehran, Tajikistan, Kurdistan, or post-Taliban Afghanistan.
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Alternative Visions 2018
September 5–November 28, 2018This expansive season of our avant-garde showcase extends from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, with many filmmakers and other luminaries in person.
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Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA
September 10–December 3, 2018Fact and Fiction
Distinguished speakers bring new approaches to age-old questions: How do we distinguish fact from fiction, the real from the artificial, truth from lies?
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Frederick Wiseman: On Documentary
September 13–October 12, 2018BAMPFA is honored by a visit from Wiseman, whose incisive, wide-ranging explorations of complex institutions have set a standard for nonfiction filmmaking.
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Luchino Visconti: Cinema of Struggle and Splendor
September 14–November 30, 2018A retrospective of a key artist of the Italian cinema, who combined the profound humanism of neorealism with the drama, beauty, and epic sweep of opera to create films rich in resonance and throbbing with life.
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Old Masters in a New Light: Rediscovering the European Collection
September 19–December 16BAMPFA’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.
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Christina Quarles / MATRIX 271
September 19–November 18, 2018A gathering of paintings by Quarles, whose work tussles with culturally prescribed identities and probes the margins where meaning remains unfixed, illegible, and subject to question.
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Redacted: Art for Human Rights
September 19–November 25, 2018A selection of works from the BAMPFA collection that use redacted content to question the relationships between power, information, and censorship and consider the precarious nature of truth.
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