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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‘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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BAMPFA Chief Curator Larry Rinder talks surrealism, style in ‘Strange’
“The exhibition came together through a process,” said Linder. “In a way, it started with a handful of works that I knew I wanted to include and that formed a kind of a nucleus out of which I built the concept of the exhibition.”
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Buildings your junior media studies friend still does not know
How many times have you texted your media studies friend to meet you somewhere on campus and they respond: “I literally don’t know where that is.”?
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BAMPFA’s ‘The San Quentin Project’ exhibit redefines prisoner narratives, adding dimension to images of incarcerated people
An excellent representation of the prisoners’ humor is a photograph of a man holding a fish as big as himself, subtitled by a prisoner, “Who’s really caught!”
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The ‘Strange’, the funny, the grotesque – BAMPFA unveils surrealist exhibition
“Strange” is an exhibition that combines a diverse range of artistic practices and mediums as a means to evoke the full emotional range of the surrealist movement.
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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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For Berkeley art museum student employee Megan Reel, only more time on the floor could make the job better
The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, or BAMPFA, continues to strive to ensure the satisfaction of its employees, including its many student workers.
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How to enjoy the magic of Berkeley on a tight budget
Being the youthful college students we are, we want to get the most bang for our buck. Here are five ways to enjoy Berkeley on a tight budget.
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‘He thought outside the box’: Peter Selz, 1st director of Berkeley art museum, dies at 100
Peter Selz, an art historian, professor and essayist who was the founding director of the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, or BAMPFA, passed away Friday. He was 100.
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