Recent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.
ViewDelectable dinners following screenings of the films that inspired them
ViewHands-on activities, participatory readings, performances, movie matinees, and more events designed for kids and their families.
ViewArt from South Asia and the Himalayan region that celebrates the beauty, fecundity, wisdom, power, and compassion of women within the context of Hindu and Buddhist traditions.
ViewIran’s most influential director, Kiarostami made films that blended fiction and documentary, minimalism and spontaneity, poetic vision and humanist spirit. We present a near-complete retrospective of his work.
ViewThe first US exhibition focused on Sakaki Hyakusen, the founding father of the Nanga school of painting in Japan, this presentation reveals his pivotal role in the history of eighteenth-century Japanese art and highlights the conservation of his masterpiece Mountain Landscape.
ViewTwo of Terry Fox’s video and audio works are being presented at BAMPFA in conjunction with Terry Fox: Resonance, a multivenue celebration organized by Dena Beard and Constance Lewallen.
ViewPhotographs by an affecting social documentarian and explorer of what he calls “a world contained in a frame.”
ViewA Project by Luisa Caldas
Using augmented reality as a medium, BAMPFA AR—Augmented Time tells the story behind the new BAMPFA building by architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
ViewThis career-spanning centenary tribute of Sylvia Fein showcases a wide array of works drawing on both the personal and the fantastical.
ViewEdie Fake’s mural envisions affordable housing for transgender elders, using architecture to celebrate the uniqueness of trans bodies and the possibilities of queer space.
ViewThirty years after the fall of the Ceauşescu regime, this series samples the best in Romanian cinema from the last three decades.
ViewCal Conversations
This student-curated exhibition maps California’s many contradictions as a place of beauty and brutality, prosperity and inequality, sanctuary and exclusion.
ViewVive 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.
ViewRecent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.
ViewMusic, dance, and other creative actions bring the BAMPFA space to life.
ViewExperience the vitality and range of cultural production in the African diaspora through this multidisciplinary event series.
ViewFrom hands-on art making to participatory performance, our workshops will inspire your creativity, engage your senses, and expand your ideas.
ViewArtists, curators, scholars, and others share their insights on BAMPFA exhibitions, the arts, and other cultural topics.
ViewHands-on activities, participatory readings, performances, movie matinees, and more events designed for kids and their families.
ViewMeet the authors of new books and hear poets and other literary lights read their work.
ViewGet a deeper look at the artworks on view by joining an expert-led tour.
ViewDrop by our art study centers on Free First Thursdays for an up-close look at treasures from the BAMPFA collection.
ViewA retrospective of David Lynch’s big-screen work—a journey into a universe both banal and bizarre, incomparably strange and unsettlingly familiar.
ViewLang’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.
ViewRon 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.
ViewLegendary 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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