Talks & Conversations
Ongoing
Artists, curators, scholars, and others share their insights on BAMPFA exhibitions, the arts, and other cultural topics.
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Artist’s Talk and Conversation: Lauren Rose D’Amato
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Upcoming Events
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Thursday, December 5, 6:30 PMBerkeleyside Idea Makers: Beyond the Headlines
In celebration of Berkeleyside’s fifteenth anniversary, this episode of the noted Idea Makers series focuses on local journalism and the role it plays in our democracy.
A BAMPFA and Berkeleyside partnership
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Sunday, January 12, 3:00 PMSocial 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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Saturday, January 18, 1:00 PMArtist’s Talk and Conversation: Tanya Aguiñiga and Anthony Graham
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Saturday, January 18, 2:00 PMArtist’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.
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Saturday, January 25, 2:00 PMArtists’ Conversation: Painting and Technology
Featuring artists whose work is included in Making Their Mark, this discussion explores the innovative ways artists have transformed the language of painting as technologies evolve.
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Thursday, November 14, 6:30 PMArtists' Conversation: Mary Weatherford and Aria Dean: Gut Punch—Reenvisioning Gestural Abstraction
Two artists whose work is included in Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection—Aria Dean and Mary Weatherford—discuss the ways they approach and reenvision the genre of gestural abstraction.
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Sunday, October 27, 4:00 PMKomal Shah and Cecilia Alemani with Margot Norton on Making Their Mark
To mark the opening day of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection, art collector and philanthropist Komal Shah and Cecilia Alemani, Director and Chief Curator of High Line Art in New York, sit down with BAMPFA Chief Curator Margot Norton to discuss their journey organizing the exhibition.
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Saturday, September 21, 1:30 PMA Movement in Every Direction: Artist and Curator Roundtable
This roundtable discussion convenes the cocurators of A Movement in Every Direction, Jessica Bell Brown and Ryan N. Dennis, and artists Torkwase Dyson and Carrie Mae Weems. Moderated by Anthony Graham, BAMPFA Senior Curator, the program offers reflections on the exhibition, from its planning and development to the impact of its ongoing national tour.
Presented in partnership with UC Berkeley's Townsend Center for the Humanities
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Thursday, September 5, 6:30 PMCalifornia Live!: What If Seeing Is No Longer Believing?: Democracy and Disinformation in the Age of Deep Fakes
As the 2024 election season approaches, a rising tide of conspiracy theories, deep fakes, and misinformation poses a serious threat to the democratic process. Join California magazine’s Pat Joseph in conversation with UC Berkeley Professor Hany Farid, whose lab has pioneered the field of digital forensics to authenticate media in the age of increasingly credible fake news.
Copresented by California magazine and the Cal Alumni Association
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Wednesday, August 7, 5:00 PMArtist’s Talk and Conversation: Rose D’Amato
San Francisco–based artist Rose D’Amato addresses her newly commissioned Art Wall with Claire Frost, former BAMPFA Curatorial Associate.
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Wednesday, August 7, 6:00 PMArtist’s Talk and Conversation: Young Joon Kwak
Los Angeles–based artist Young Joon Kwak talks about their new sculptural installation, commissioned for MATRIX 285 / Young Joon Kwak: Resistance Pleasure, with Anthony Graham, Senior Curator.
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Saturday, June 15, 1:30 PMFilm Screening and Conversation: Akea Brionne and Jamea Richmond-Edwards
A screening of films by Akea Brionne and Jamea Richmond-Edwards, two of the artists featured in A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, followed by a conversation with both artists and Senior Curator Anthony Graham.
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Friday, May 10, 6:00 PMMFA Artists’ Talk
Meet the 2024 graduates of UC Berkeley’s Master of Fine Arts program as they talk about their recent work at the outset of BAMPFA’s fifty-fourth annual MFA exhibition. This year’s artists are Salimatu Amabebe, Anamaya Farthing-Kohl, Valencia James, and Nivedita Madigubba.
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Wednesday, May 8, 6:30–8:00 PMBerkeleyside Idea Makers: Fungi, Foraging and the Promise of Plant-based Meats
Join us for an immersive, lively conversation on plant-based meats, foraging adventures, and the captivating world of fungi.
Presented by Berkeleyside in partnership with BAMPFA
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Saturday, April 6, 1 PMLijin Lecture: Yee I-Lann on TIKAR/MEJA/PLASTIK and Art and Film from Borneo
Artist Yee I-Lann presents BAMPFA’s 2024 endowed Lijin Lecture in conjunction with her Art Wall project, TIKAR/MEJA/PLASTIK. The Borneo-based multidisciplinary artist addresses this work in the context of her wider practice, and in relation to the art and film landscape in Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on issues of climate crisis, precarious ecologies, and the creation of resilient communities. The lecture will be followed by a screening of short films from Borneo.
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Friday, April 5, 5 PMReading: Ocean Vuong
Ocean Vuong presents a poetry reading focusing on Time Is a Mother. In this latest poetry collection, he searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother’s death and—in concert with the themes of his novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous—contends with loss and the meaning of family.
Presented by the Townsend Center for the Humanities in partnership with BAMPFA
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Thursday, April 24, 5 PMOcean Vuong in Conversation with Cathy Park Hong
Join writer and UC Berkeley professor of English Cathy Park Hong in conversation with Ocean Vuong, 2023–24 Avenali Chair in the Humanities, and the author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, named one of the top ten books of 2019 by the Washington Post and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
Presented by UC Berkeley’s Townsend Center for the Humanities in partnership with BAMPFA
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Thursday, March 28, 6:30 PMCalifornia Live!: Will AI Be Humanity’s Last Act?
UC Berkeley computer science professor Stuart Russell, one of the world’s leading AI researchers, converses with California magazine’s editor-in-chief, Pat Joseph, about the perils and potential promise of the AI revolution.
Special thanks to our event sponsor, Pepsi, the official beverage partner of UC Berkeley.
Copresented by California magazine and BAMPFA
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Sunday, March 17, 3 PMArtists’ Talks: Sadie Barnette & David Huffman
Artists Sadie Barnette and David Huffman speak informally about their own work on view in the galleries and touch on the thematic section of the exhibition in which their work is included.
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Saturday, February 10, 2024, 11 AM–1 PMMorning Program: Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism
The morning program of Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism: Race and Gender in Our Times features Debarati Sanyal, Judith Butler, and Claudia Rankine.
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Saturday, February 10, 2024, 2PM–5PMAfternoon Program: Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism
The afternoon program of Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism: Race and Gender in Our Times features Amir Aziz, Lisa Armstrong, Ronald Rael, and Luanne Redeye.
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Saturday, January 27, 3 PMDuane Linklater: mymothersside Roundtable on Indigenous Knowledge
Join us for a roundtable conversation on the occasion of the exhibition Duane Linklater: mymothersside focusing on Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing that inform the artist’s practice. The discussion explores topics such as language revitalization, basket weaving, and food sovereignty.
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