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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Review: ‘Yang Fudong: Estranged Paradise’ at BAM/PFA
Yang Fudong: The Evergreen Nature of Romantic Stories, 1999; chromogenic print; 34.65 x 47.24 in.; courtesy of the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris/New York, and ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai. Yang Fudong: The Evergreen Nature of Romantic Stories, 1999; chromogenic print; 34.65 x 47.24 in.; courtesy of the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris/New York, and ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai. “Estranged […]
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Zarhouie Abdalian: Elegant forms reflect on free speech
Installation view of Zarouhie Abdalian / MATRIX 249, on view at the UC Berkeley Art Museum August 2 through September 29.Photo: Sibila Savage. Although you might not guess it right away, Zarhouie Abdalian’s spare, enigmatic audio-visual sculptural installation at the Berkeley Art Museum has deep roots here. The Free Speech Movement was born at UC […]
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Inspired appropriation redux: Nicole Eisenman in Berkeley
Nicole Eisenman: “Tea Party,” 2011; oil on canvas, 82 × 65 in.; Hort Family Collection. Photo: Robert Wedemeyer, courtesy of Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects Nicole Eisenman: “Tea Party,” 2011; oil on canvas, 82 × 65 in.; Hort Family Collection. Photo: Robert Wedemeyer, courtesy of Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects Try to conjure a pantheon […]
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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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Berkeley Art Center showcases sculpture in new show
Sam Perry, Hand Forged, 2010. Courtesy: Rena Bransten Gallery By Marcia Tanner One of the many aesthetic pleasures of ORIGINS:Elemental Forms in Contemporary Sculpture — a provocative group sculpture exhibition now at the Berkeley Art Center through June 9 — is the installation itself. Walking into the light-filled airy gallery, you’re confronted with an artfully […]