Picks of the Week: Sustainable, strange, spooky suggestions for mid-October
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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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2nd annual San Francisco Bay International Photography Exhibition honors hoofed, winged, human subjects
The exhibition held its opening reception Friday and had a turnout of artists and local art enthusiasts that granted the intimate venue the attendance that it deserves.
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Picks of the week: Get informed, get relaxed and get cookin’
Everybody’s favorite Canadian avocado-loving heartthrob is making a stop at the Castro Theatre on Wednesday to celebrate his first cookbook: “Antoni in the Kitchen.”
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‘Where is the Friend’s Home?’ showcases echoes of magical realism through normalcy, a child’s eyes
Yet for all the simplicity of this premise, Abbas Kiarostami, in classic fashion, never allows the viewer to settle into a sense of complacent comfort.
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Picks of the Week: Postcards, poetry and pedal boats to propel you through the week
On Tuesday, brave the steep UC Berkeley gradient and head over to Stephens Hall at 5 p.m. for a postcard talk from San Francisco-based historian Omar Khan.
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At the Greek Theatre, Kamasi Washington and Herbie Hancock maintain urgency, relevance of jazz
The set was captivating in a nerve-tingling, mouth-hanging-shape sort of way; you didn’t realize how still you’d been sitting or that the night had become chilly until brief interims between 10-minute-plus-long numbers.
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50 (or so) ways to leave your mark: Outside Lands 2019 is congested, cloudy and captivating
To borrow some terminology from the Carters, this year’s Outside Lands “was a fucking zoo.”
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