Five Tables
Ongoing
Drop by our art study centers on Free First Thursdays for an up-close look at treasures from the BAMPFA collection.
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Films - Past
Films - Past
Events
Past Events
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Thursday, December 5, 4–7 PMFive Tables of the Indian Ocean
Works from the collection reveal global histories of the Indian Ocean in culture, commerce, and myth.
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Thursday, November 7, 4–7 PMFive Tables of the Corporeal Woman
Curated by the BAMPFA Student Committee, this edition of Five Tables explores representations of the female figure in art across media and cultures.
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Wednesday, October 30, 4–7 PMFive Tables of Science in Art
In conjunction with this year’s Bay Area Science Festival, the BAMPFA art study centers present a special Five Tables viewing of art with a scientific bent.
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Thursday, October 3, 4–7 PMFive Tables of Paris and Kyoto
This viewing session is an idiosyncratic celebration of two of the world’s most beautiful cities.
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Thursday, September 5, 4–7 PMFive Tables of Honest Work
Slow down—men and women at work! Rubbernecking is encouraged in this study center viewing.
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Thursday, August 1, 4–7 PMFive Tables of Earth, Rock, Sand, and Dirt
If the meek shall inherit the earth, the works on view in the study center show what a grand—also rocky, sandy, and dirty—inheritance this might be.
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Thursday, July 4, 4–7 PMFive Tables of Collaboration
Independence may have its advantages, but the works on view in the study center this month show what artists can get done when they work together.
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Thursday, June 6, 4–7 PMFive Tables of Blackness and Belonging
Extending the conversation on blackness and belonging articulated in About Things Loved, works on view this month explore the multiplicity of black art and its dialogue with dispossession, institutional collecting practices, black radical thought, and everyday life.
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Thursday, May 2, 4–7 PMFive Tables of Amusing Moral Critique
This month, we spotlight social critique as both entertainment and expression of outrage: works by Daumier, Goya, Hogarth, and more.
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Thursday, April 4, 4–7 PMFive Tables of Fashion
The BAMPFA study tables transform into a catwalk this month as we showcase art dressed to the nines.
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Thursday, March 7, 4–7 PMFive Tables of Cities
Explore cities across the globe through a new lens with this selection of works from the BAMPFA collection.
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Thursday, February 7, 4–7 PMFive Tables of Fire
An incendiary selection from the collection, from Asian scrolls to Ant Farm’s Media Burn.
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Thursday, January 3, 4–7 PMFive Tables of the Sea
Set sail from China to India and from Gauguin’s Brittany to the Golden Gate with this selection of oceanic artworks.