Devendra Banhart performs at Berkeley Art Museum
Devendra Banhart preformed through the L@TE: Friday Nights series at the Berkeley Art Museum.
Samuel Avishay’s Picks of the Week
Cherry Blossom Festival in Japantown There are only three remaining Japantowns in the United States, and we are lucky to have one in San Francisco. Every year, in each of the three Japantowns, the blooming of the Japanese cherry blossoms, the “sakura,” is celebrated with a festival that attracts hundreds Read More…
Instant Gratification: Berkeley Art Museum features Andy Warhol Polaroids
There are just as many celebrity portraits as enigmas in the Berkeley Art Museum’s latest exhibit, “Andy Warhol: Polaroids / MATRIX 240.” O.J. Simpson clutching a football. A young Diane von Furstenberg, wild-eyed and wild-haired. But also lesser-known faces like the mysterious Frau Buch — dark-haired and clutching a black Read More…
Berkeley Art Museum showcases California’s conceptual artists of the ’70s
There’s something about California that makes people go a little nuts — in a good way. When 19th-century colonists first faced the all-consuming blanket of the Pacific Ocean, customs and ideologies got thrown out the window. Fast forward to the 1970s, when the Golden State served as a haven for Read More…
Pacific Film Archive’s summer exhibition celebrates the divas of Japanese cinema
When one thinks of the Golden Age of American cinema, it’s only natural to associate the period with the host of actresses that defined the Hollywood star system. With titles like “To Catch a Thief” and “Rear Window” one might be inclined to give all attention to Grace Kelly’s luminous Read More…
BAM exhibit creates visual wonder from unlikely sources
Fear is like this: Someone like a woman that you grab ahold of her hand and going down the escalator when of a sudden you happens to be holding a stranger hand not realizing that she isn’t your mother is scary.” This is just one of the many fears in Read More…