East Bay artist takes a musical look at Oakland

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Zarouhie Abdalian, recipient of the 2012 Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art Award from SF MOMA, has her first solo exhibition with the Berkeley Art Museum’s MATRIX Program, presenting three pieces that show the subtle and dynamic relationship between sight and sound and interior and exterior spaces. Her SECA Read More…

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BAM/PFA showcases work of Oakland-based artist Zarouhie Abdalian

MATRIX 249 is artist's first solo exhibition

Peter Seeger and Lee Hays wrote “If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)” in 1949 as a simple folk song backing the U.S. progressive movement. However, the song’s political message was considered so threatening that Seeger was assaulted for playing the song at a concert. Over the years, it Read More…

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T Rex at Museum of Vertebrate Biology

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Still from Nam June Paik's silent film, 'Zen for Film,' a work featured in the 'Silence' exhibit at the BAM/PFA.

BAM/PFA exhibition explores paradox of silence

The first “moment of silence” on the radio was in 1919 for victims of World War I. But even a mere moment of so-called nothingness was so alarming that many people thought they had an apocalyptic takeover on their hands, or at least a malfunctioning radio. There is a sort Read More…

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