Peter Selz, founding director of the Berkeley Art Museum, was astounded to see the paintings, most of which are by Sylvia Ludins.
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Berkeley Art Museum’s iconic home closes after 44 years
Hundreds of people came to the Berkeley Art Museum on its final day on Sunday, Dec. 21, 2014. Photo: Tracey Taylor On Sunday, hundreds of people swarmed through every nook and cranny, every cantilevered balcony and ramp, within the concrete hulk of the Berkeley Art Museum at 2626 Bancroft Way. They came to say goodbye to a building that […]
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Gabrielle Selz’s ‘Unstill Life’ provides peek into the modern art world with its glamour, ambition, heartbreak
Gabrielle Selz and Peter Selz. Photo: Courtesy of Gabrielle Selz When Gabrielle Selz was growing up in New York in the 1960s, her house was filled with artists who have become icons of the time: Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, and Alberto Giacometti. Selz’s father was Peter Selz – then a curator of […]
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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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Inspired appropriation: Enrique Chagoya at Kala
“Freedom of Expression: The Work of Enrique Chagoya” is at the Kala Art Institute through July 6. Photo: Eric Hoffman “Freedom of Expression: The Work of Enrique Chagoya” is at the Kala Art Institute through July 6. Photo: Eric Hoffman In our wired era of ubiquitous information and perpetual image bombardment, all of human history, […]
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Book explores impact of Berkeley Art Museum’s Peter Selz
When Peter Selz arrived in Berkeley in 1965, the university only had a small art gallery to display its modest collection of art. Selz had been recruited from the Museum of Modern Art in New York City to oversee the construction of a new, contemporary museum, the Berkeley Art Museum on Bancroft Way. He did […]
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Panel to discuss whether abstract art refutes digital age
Blue #6 by Eva Bovenzi The Berkeley Art Center is celebrating the centennial of abstract painting with an exhibit curated by Peter Selz, one of the founders of the Berkeley Art Museum and an expert in German Expressionism. On Saturday at 4 p.m., Selz will moderate a panel with several of the artists featured in […]
