At Berkeley gallery, student photos of Hong Kong protests get rare showing
Organizers of the ‘Echoes of Defiance’ exhibition at Fourth Street Fine Art say it’s the first time student photos of the 2019 street protests have been shown overseas.
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‘Pencils are my weapons’: Lava Thomas tackles lack of art by Black women in BAMPFA collection
The Berkeley artist was asked to sort through the museum’s holdings for a new show. She sought a way to hang erasure on the walls.
A day of music and dancing at the Asian Cultural Festival: Photos
The Asian Cultural Festival drew dancers and musicians to Downtown Berkeley Saturday.
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Taller than 1 inch? You won’t fit into this Berkeley art gallery.
Andrea Scharff’s Art & Lit Gallery, opened in April 2021, rotates its selection every few weeks, showing miniature photographs, hand drawings, a Frida Kahlo exhibit and more.
Berkeley Art Center show asks what it means to be suspended in space and time
“Suspended Matter,” a Berkeley Art Center group show on view through Jan. 15, explores notions of being adrift and afloat.
City-funded art installations aim to buck up spirits after pandemic
Berkeley has given artists and performers $200,000 in grants to create public displays that will enliven the city’s spirits.
New BAMPFA chief curator returns to Berkeley
Christina Yang returns to the city, where she found her love for the arts as an intern at the museum in the ’80s.
Berkeley artist paints serpentine mermaid and a gargoyle insurrection
Karima Cammell’s first exhibit confronts her struggles as an artist and the change she needed to make to evolve.
Surface Tension: Tabitha Soren’s photographs touch on politics, culture and the natural world
Showing now through Dec. 12 at the Mills College Art Museum in Oakland, this is Soren’s first solo museum exhibit in the Bay Area.
From hysteria to utopia: BAMPFA’s gutsy attempt to show the breadth of feminist art
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s latest exhibition, “New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century,” explores evolving notions of feminism and gender.
BAMPFA show exploring half century of feminist art opens Saturday
The exhibition, one of the largest in the museum’s history, will present over 140 works by 76 artists and art collectives.
Remembering Gary Carson, connoisseur of fine art, good books and the hunt
Gary Carson, an art advisor and appraiser in the Bay Area, was the agent for artists Bruce Conner and Stephen De Staebler and the representative of the Wally Hedrick estate. He loved bird hunting and Montana literature.
