Talks & Conversations

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Artists, curators, scholars, and others share their insights on BAMPFA exhibitions, the arts, and other cultural topics.

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  • Barbara Kasten: Photogenic Painting Untitled 76/7, 1976 © Barbara Kasten. Courtesy the artist, Bortolami Gallery, New York, and Thomas Dane Gallery.

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  • Thursday, March 27, 6:30 PM

    California Live! Enthralled: What Explains Our Unshakeable Fascination with Cults?

    Join 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

  • Saturday, March 15, 3:00 PM

    Artists’ Conversation: Crafting the Self

    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.

  • Saturday, January 25, 2:00 PM

    Artist's Conversation / Jamillah James, Barbara Kasten, and Gloria Sutton: Painting and Technology

    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.

  • Saturday, January 18, 1:00 PM

    Artist’s Talk and Conversation: Tanya Aguiñiga and Anthony Graham

    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.

  • Saturday, January 18, 2:00 PM

    Artist’s Talk and Conversation: Amol K Patil and Victoria Sung

    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.

  • Sunday, January 12, 3:00 PM

    Social Art: The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends Is the Highest Form of Art with Tom Marioni

    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.

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