Bampfa.org Website Review

DECEMBER 8—Come create art inspired by DIMENISONISM: MODERN ART IN THE AGE OF EINSTEIN DECEMBER 7–9—This weekend, members enjoy a 20-percent discount in the BAMPFA Store. Save on great gifts for your entire list Readings by two poets whose work weaves together ritual, performance, and collaborative experimentation. The Academy Award winner and former Pixar animator introduces Jiří Trnka's stop-motion adaptation of Shakespeare. The MATRIX artist and UC Berkeley professor talk about moving from the cinema screen to the gallery, the politics of aesthetics, and the turn Take an expert tour of INK, PAPER, SILK with a visiting scholar from UC Berkeley’s Center for Japanese Studies. A multimedia presentation on the intersection of blackness, comedy, the Internet, and politics. Enchanting stop-motion films by a Czech puppeteer with the heart of a poet. Enthralling films by the essential director and his peers. December 7, 2018–February 23, 2019 The final installment in our yearlong celebration of the films of Ingmar Bergman features some of his greatest works. Survey the career of an unsung artist whose abstract experiments in form, texture, and color are formally rigorous and rich with Works by Man Ray, Isamu Noguchi, Pablo Picas*o, Dorothea Tanning, Yves Tanguy, and others reveal connections between the scientific and artistic revolutions of the early twentieth century. November 7, 2018–March 3, 2019 BAMPFA’s outstanding collection of historical European art—including several important new acquisitions—is showcased in this exhibition, the culmination of a major research and conservation effort. A selection of works from BAMPFAs collections that utilize redacted text, spaces, and elements to both illustrate and obscure the precarious nature of truth September 19–December 10, 2018 Contemporary works alongside the historical pieces that influence them October 3, 2018–May 26, 2019 A new, site-specific installation by the creator of the 1960s design phenomenon Supergraphics.