Picks of the Week: Hieroglyphs, hot air balloons and hikes to fuel your Thanksgiving break
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On Friday, tie up your tennis shoes and resist the shopping craze of Black Friday by taking a stroll instead.
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At OMCA, ‘No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man’ rejects pretenses of authenticity, embraces creative disambiguation
The establishment of “No Spectators” in the East Bay feels appropriate considering the gathering’s Bay Area roots.
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Picks of the Week: Baroque beats, tubular tunes and objectionable ogres to welcome November
On Wednesday, relax midday with this week’s noon concert in Hertz Hall, presented by the University Baroque Ensemble.
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SWMRS’ ‘Uncool Halloween’ calls for community, right to lighthearted fun amid unease
The festival spoke to SWMRS’ commitment to stubborn joy.
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At BAMPFA, Kader Attia’s ‘MATRIX 274’ posits airing, not erasure, as repair
Broadly, the exhibit is about repair, a concept Attia has chewed over in both his writings and his visual art.
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Picks of the Week: Autumnal oatmeal, outrageous cheekbones and pet parades to ‘spookify’ your Halloween
With Halloween just around the corner, a plethora of Halloween-related festivities are scheduled throughout the Bay.
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Picks of the Week: Sustainable, strange, spooky suggestions for mid-October
Wednesday’s your chance to get a guided tour of the “Strange” at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, or BAMPFA.
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‘Changing and Unchanging’ reaches for far-reaching global implications, finds grounding in simplicity of friendship between 2 artists
While vastly ranging in medium — from paper lanterns to ink paintings — the works included in “Changing and Unchanging” are united by a sense of “groundedness” in the actual world.
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‘The capacity to be almost anything’: An interview with Lawrence Rinder, departing director of BAMPFA
After nearly 25 years of service to BAMPFA, what does Rinder feel most gratified by? In addition to his efforts to tie the museum more closely to the campus and the Berkeley community at large, he pointed to his curatorial work. Each exhibition he’s curated — of which there have been over a hundred — has left its mark on him in one way or another.
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Taking Coleridge at face value is albatross around Z Space’s neck
Any exigency of the current climate catastrophe that the show might have set out to achieve, however, loses potency in the overwhelming cheesiness of its delivery.
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