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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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Family Events
OngoingHands-on activities, participatory readings, performances, movie matinees, and more events designed for kids and their families.
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Divine Women, Divine Wisdom
June 26, 2019–May 24, 2020Art 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.
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Abbas Kiarostami: Life as Art
August 2–December 21, 2019Iran’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.
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Hinges: Sakaki Hyakusen and the Birth of Nanga Painting
October 2, 2019–February 2, 2020The 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.
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Terry Fox: Resonance
October 2–December 15, 2019Two 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.
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Dennis Feldman: Photographs
October 16–December 15, 2019Photographs by an affecting social documentarian and explorer of what he calls “a world contained in a frame.”
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BAMPFA AR—Augmented Time
October 23–December 15, 2019A 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.
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Sylvia Fein / MATRIX 275
November 13, 2019–March 1, 2020This career-spanning centenary tribute of Sylvia Fein showcases a wide array of works drawing on both the personal and the fantastical.
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Art Wall: Edie Fake
November 20, 2019–June 21, 2020Edie Fake’s mural envisions affordable housing for transgender elders, using architecture to celebrate the uniqueness of trans bodies and the possibilities of queer space.
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Perspectives on History: Romanian Cinema Since 1989
December 6, 2019–February 27, 2020Thirty years after the fall of the Ceauşescu regime, this series samples the best in Romanian cinema from the last three decades.
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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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