On View
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Afterimage: J. Hoberman on Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan
December 11–12, 2019Film critic and historian J. Hoberman presents two films and offers his insights on the intersection between politics and pop culture in Ronald Reagan’s America.
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Lands of Promise and Peril: Geographies of California
December 11, 2019–April 26, 2020Cal Conversations
This student-curated exhibition maps California’s many contradictions as a place of beauty and brutality, prosperity and inequality, sanctuary and exclusion.
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Agnès Varda: An Irresistible Force
December 20, 2019–February 28, 2020Vive la Varda! We pay tribute to a founding mother of the French New Wave, who died at age ninety in 2019—an inspiring and vital artist to the end.
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Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2020
OngoingRecent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.
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Performances 2020
OngoingMusic, dance, and other creative actions bring the BAMPFA space to life.
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Black Life 2020
OngoingExperience the vitality and range of cultural production in the African diaspora through this multidisciplinary event series.
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Workshops 2020
OngoingFrom hands-on art making to participatory performance, our workshops will inspire your creativity, engage your senses, and expand your ideas.
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Gallery Talks, Lectures & Discussions 2020
OngoingArtists, curators, scholars, and others share their insights on BAMPFA exhibitions, the arts, and other cultural topics.
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Family Events 2020
OngoingHands-on activities, participatory readings, performances, movie matinees, and more events designed for kids and their families.
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Readings 2020
OngoingMeet the authors of new books and hear poets and other literary lights read their work.
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Guided Tours 2020
OngoingGet a deeper look at the artworks on view by joining an expert-led tour.
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Five Tables 2020
OngoingDrop by our art study centers on Free First Thursdays for an up-close look at treasures from the BAMPFA collection.
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Next Door to Darkness: The Films of David Lynch
January 10–February 29, 2020A retrospective of David Lynch’s big-screen work—a journey into a universe both banal and bizarre, incomparably strange and unsettlingly familiar.
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Fritz Lang’s Indian Epic
January 11 and 25, 2020Lang’s late-period two-part epic is a fantasia of flamboyant set pieces and exotic colors shown off to full effect in this recent restoration.
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Ron Nagle: Handsome Drifter
January 15–June 14, 2020Ron Nagle’s first Bay Area survey in over twenty-five years showcases his small sculptures, which combine modernism, pop culture, and sensory pleasure in compact, perfect packages.
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Brave Warriors and Fantastic Tales: The World According to Yoshitoshi
January 15–May 31, 2020Legendary warriors and fantastical creatures come to life in the daring prints of Taiso Yoshitoshi, one of the last great ukiyo-e artists of Meiji Japan.
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Federico Fellini at 100
January 16–May 17, 2020A centennial celebration of one of the greats of international art cinema, a master of memory, dreams, fantasy, and desire.
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In Focus: Federico Fellini
January 29–April 1, 2020Lecture/Screening Series
Explore Federico Fellini’s work in depth with this lecture/screening series complementing our Fellini retrospective.
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Documentary Voices 2020
February 5–April 29, 2020Our annual series showcases an international array of recent and historical nonfiction films.
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Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective
February 19–July 19, 2020The largest exhibition of Rosie Lee Tompkins’s work to date, this retrospective reveals her as a brilliantly inventive quiltmaker and an artist of stunning variety, depth, and impact.
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Art for Human Rights: Peace Now!
February 26–July 12, 2020A selection of protest posters made in Berkeley in the sixties and seventies offers a chance to reflect on an era when Americans were at war with one another while waging war abroad.
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