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Artists, curators, scholars, and others share their insights on BAMPFA exhibitions, the arts, and other cultural topics.

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  • Selected Wednesday, 12:15 PM; Sundays, 2 PM; First Free Thursday, 1:15 PM

    Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory

    Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.

    BAMPFA
  • Saturday, February 18, 1 PM

    In Conversation with Amalia Mesa-Bains

    Amalia Mesa-Bains’s artworks, spanning a range of formats and media, resonate in contemporary formal terms and in their ties to her Chicana/o community and history. Scholars Jennifer González and Adriana Zavala and artist Sandy Rodriguez join Mesa-Bains for an expanded conversation in response to these themes and other ideas in her work.

    BAMPFA
  • Sundays, January 15, April 9, May 7 & Friday, February 24

    Curator’s Talk: Yi Yi Mon (Rosaline) Kyo on Endless Knot: Struggle and Healing in the Buddhist World

    Guest curator Yi Yi Mon (Rosaline) Kyo offers a series of gallery talks highlighting works by contemporary Asian and Asian American artists.

    BAMPFA
  • Thursday, March 9, 4 PM

    Luis Camnitzer: The Ephemeral and the Permanent: Questioning Public Art

    Complementing his new Art Wall project below/here/above/ahead/was, New York–based Uruguayan artist Luis Camnitzer offers a presentation designed to provoke thought and prompt questions about public art.

    This event will be presented as a Zoom webinar.

  • Sunday, March 19, 1 PM

    Artist's Talk: Amalia Mesa-Bains

    Join us for an engaging, illustrated talk by Amalia Mesa-Bains as she illuminates the sources and stories behind her wide-ranging multimedia practice.

    BAMPFA
  • Saturday, April 15, 1:30 PM

    American Sign Language Guided Tour of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory

    Patricia Lessard offers American Sign Language interpretation for a graduate student–led tour of the exhibition. All visitors are welcome.

    BAMPFA
  • Sunday, April 16, 3 PM

    Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby and Vanessa Jackson on Alexandre Dumas’s Afro: Blackness Caricatured, Erased, and Back Again

    Cocurators of Alexandre Dumas’s Afro, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby and Vanessa Jackson, introduce the exhibition, which examines caricature, race, and the infantilization of Alexandre Dumas, the prolific author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, among many other books. Why, they ask, is Dumas’s work so often celebrated in films, comics, and children’s books yet ignored by scholars?

    BAMPFA
  • Sunday, April 30, 12 PM

    Lijin Lecture: Tsherin Sherpa on Art from the Himalayas: Past into Present, followed by Above and Below, a documentary about the artist

    Noted Tibetan artist Tsherin Sherpa presents BAMPFA’s 2023 endowed Lijin Lecture in conjunction with the exhibition Endless Knot: Struggle and Healing in the Buddhist World. He focuses on present-day Himalayan art and its connections with traditional arts. Followed by Above and Below, a documentary about Sherpa's life and career.

    BAMPFA
  • Friday, May 12, 5:30 PM

    MFA Artists’ Talk

    Meet the 2023 graduates of UC Berkeley’s MFA program as they talk about their recent work at the outset of BAMPFA’s fifty-third annual MFA exhibition. This year’s artists are Irma Barbosa, Gericault De La Rose, Eniloa Fakile, Juniper Harrower, Fei Pan, Tiare Ribeaux, and Samuel Wildman.

    BAMPFA

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