Brave New Voices Slam coming to Berkeley on Friday
Warriors.com/Courtesy
One of the world’s most powerful and unique events will be coming to Berkeley this week.
Read More…
UC Berkeley MFA graduates exhibit innovative explorations of identity, change at BAMPFA
This month, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) is collaborating with UC Berkeley’s Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program in a celebration of the works of this year’s six graduates. Each of these graduates offers unique ways to explore their own backgrounds and identities and in turn gives us great insight into not only their personal stories, but some of the greater cultural narratives that make up our society.
Read More…
An unofficial guide to getting through a semester at UC Berkeley
As fellow UC Berkeley students, we at the Clog understand it’s easy to get lost in the commotion of life, the drama of friends, the fear of the future and the stress that comes with the thought that “GPA is forever.” But there is so much Berkeley has to offer,
Read More…
BAM’s ‘Seeing Things Invisible’ explores work of obscure visionary artist
The expansive gray space of the Berkeley Art Museum nearly trumps the small paintings of Forrest Bess that line a section of its walls. Don’t let that description fool you — “Seeing Things Invisible” requires exactly that of the viewer. These are works in conversation with each other, evoking Bess’
Read More…
Multimedia exhibit is a channel into Chinese life
It is exactly this that makes Yang Fudong such an outstanding artist and this exhibition so exemplary: He is able to express the overarching questions of a whole society, a whole historical moment — his context — in a personal and understandable way.
Read More…
Downtown Shattuck: shaped by buses, ferries and trains
Downtown Shattuck Avenue has undergone several generations of mass transit, the relics and pieces of which are integrated into the restaurants there today. In the pioneering days, the mile-long pier that once docked ferries to and from San Francisco dropped off passengers at Center and Shattuck. Now Center Street is
Read More…
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…
Devendra Banhart performs at Berkeley Art Museum
Devendra Banhart preformed through the [email protected]: Friday Nights series at the Berkeley Art Museum.
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…
