Artists, curators, scholars, and others share their insights on BAMPFA exhibitions, the arts, and other cultural topics.
Read full descriptionJoin California Magazine’s Pat Joseph in conversation with Poulomi Saha, who teaches the highly popular course Cults in Popular Culture and is currently working on a book entitled Enthralled, to discuss America’s long obsession with “communities and philosophies that offer total belief and total enthrallment—even and especially as we might claim that we would never ourselves join.”
Copresented by California Magazine and the Cal Alumni Association
Artists Melissa Cody and Tau Lewis join curator Jenelle Porter to discuss the ways their works express identity, power, lineage, and the self through materials, making, portraiture, and abstraction.
Featuring artist Barbara Kasten whose work is included in Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection, this discussion explores the innovative ways artists have transformed the language of painting as technologies evolve. Barbara Kasten will be joined in conversation by Jamillah James, Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Gloria Sutton, Associate professor of Contemporary Art History and New Media at Northeastern University and catalogue contributor for Making Their Mark.
This conversation will be followed by a tour of the exhibition at 3:30 PM.
Join artist Tanya Aguiñiga and Senior Curator Anthony Graham for a conversation on Aguiñiga’s new Art Wall installation, her first solo presentation in the Bay Area.
Join Amol K Patil and Phyllis C. Wattis Senior Curator Victoria Sung for a conversation on Patil’s newly commissioned body of work.
This event is cosponsored by BAMPFA, the Institute for South Asia Studies, and the South Asia Art Initiative at UC Berkeley.
Legendary Bay Area conceptual artist Tom Marioni, whose work is featured in To Exalt the Ephemeral, introduces his book Social Art, an updated consideration of his ongoing and best-known work, the performance installation The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends Is the Highest Form of Art.