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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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Limited Engagements & Special Screenings
OngoingRecent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.
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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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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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Master Traces, Transcultural Visions
May 16–September 16, 2018Works dating from the second century through the twentieth reveal how Buddhist power was visually expressed and transmitted throughout Asia.
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Alicia McCarthy and Ruby Neri / MATRIX 270
May 23–August 26, 2018New work by two artists who got their start in San Francisco in the 1990s and have maintained a strong artistic dialogue ever since.
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Color, Form, Unicorn: Recent Acquisitions
June 6-August 19, 2018Recent additions to the BAMPFA collection feature unusual approaches to color and form—plus a unicorn.
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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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Michelangelo Antonioni
June 15–August 31, 2018This comprehensive retrospective is a rare chance to explore the full range of an Italian modernist master’s formally dazzling work.
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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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Joanne Leonard: Intimate Documentary
July 4-September 2, 2018Leonard’s photographs are rare, intimate documents of life in Oakland in the 1960s and 1970s.
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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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Jacques Becker
July 12–August 31, 2018From hardboiled crime sagas to breezy portraits of postwar Parisian life, the films of this classic French director are ripe for rediscovery.
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Bergman 100: An Emerging Style
July 20–August 19, 2018Salon Screenings in Theater 2
Enjoy rarely screened works by Ingmar Bergman in an intimate, salon-style setting.
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Subtle Subversion: The Films of Alain Tanner
July 26–August 19, 2018Championing dreamers and dropouts, political radicals and disaffected youth, Tanner’s films from the late 1960s to the early 1980s feel just as urgent today.
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Andrei Tarkovsky: Sculpting in Time
August 4–30, 2018A tribute to the revered Russian director whose visionary films infuse images of the world with metaphysical mystery.
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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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