Sonya Rapoport, Bonito Rapoport China, 1978. Drawings and Xerox transfer on continuous-feed computer paper. Installed dimensions variable. Spaces of Life: The Art of Sonya Rapoport, Mills College, Oakland, CA, 2012. Installation view Berkeley has nurtured countless visionaries: makers, thinkers, doers and seers who have expanded our understanding of the world. The late conceptual artist Sonya […]
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Book Review: ‘The Jewish World: 100 Treasures of Art & Culture – The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life’
Al Farrow, Menorah (II), 2005, from The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, The Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley. The menorah is fashioned from guns, bullets, and steel. Photo: Sibila Savage. Last year, when Alla Efimova stepped down as the Jacques and Esther Reutlinger Director of UC Berkeley’s Magnes Collection of Jewish Art […]
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‘Saved by the Bay’ at The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life explores lives of academic refugees
This student ID card belonged to Manfred Bukofzer, who came to the U.S. in 1939 and to UC Berkeley as a musicologist in 1941. His papers are in the campus music library. Image courtesy The Magnes Saved by the Bay: The Intellectual Migration from Fascist Europe to UC Berkeley, the exhibition currently on view at […]
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At Magnes, fictional woman illuminates 20th-century life
Photos and notes used in the Rachel Marker exhibit at the Magnes are spread out on a table at Nabolom Bakery in Berkeley, where Moira Roth spent time composing her piece. Photo: Moira Roth By Marcia Tanner Through the Eyes of Rachel Marker occupies a single gallery in the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and […]
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Berkeley’s new Magnes building to be unveiled on Sunday
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art & Life is housed in a 1920s former printing plant on Allston Way. Photos: Tracey Taylor On Sunday, the doors will open to a new cultural institution in Berkeley. The many thousands of books, paintings, prints, textiles, and photographs that make up The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art & […]