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Check out our new and continuing exhibitions!
NEW:
Echoes of the Past: Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting
Through June
This selection of new acquisitions highlights the ink painters of the Ming and Qing dynasties whose work was inspired by the artists of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Eva Hesse: Studiowork **Guided Tour of This Exhibition at 12:15 p.m.**
Through April 10
Like other artists of the 1960s, sculptor Eva Hesse (1936-1970) pushed the conceptual and technical limits of art. Organized by the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, this exhibition presents rarely seen small-scale works, many from BAM/PFA’s own collection, that illuminate Hesse’s studio practice and capture moments of experimentation.
Indeterminate Stillness: Looking at Whistler
Through April 17
This exhibition, celebrating Sharon and Barclay Simpson’s gift to BAM/PFA of seventy-six prints by James McNeill Whistler, looks at how Whistler subordinated Realism to the Modernist concerns of design, color, and tonal variation.
CONTINUING:
Vuk Ćosić: ASCII History of Moving Images
Closing February 28
Vuk Ćosić created the ASCII History of Moving Images in 1998, just five years after the World Wide Web was introduced to the general public. Rendered online in the visual lingo of early computers, a black screen with green letters and numbers (ASCII characters), the piece presents clips that recall points when film, television, and video were finding their voices as the new media of their day. Online only.
Emily Roysdon
MATRIX 235
Through March 6
Artist and writer Emily Roysdon’s work, often interdisciplinary and collaborative, explores the intersection of social, political, and aesthetic space. Roysdon’s interest in the invisible, collective histories of public space will take shape as two site-specific works for MATRIX, involving performance for camera, inspired by her interest in choreography as organized movement in both an aesthetic and political sense.
Himalayan Pilgrimage: Journey to the Land of Snows
Through April 3
Explore the journey of Buddhism across several centuries and from India into Tibet through exceptionally beautiful objects of sculpture and painting dating from the ninth to the eighteenth centuries.
Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000
The Timeline
Through April 3
With the publication of Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000, BAM/PFA presents the first comprehensive overview of Bay Area avant-garde film and video. The book is accompanied by an exhibition featuring posters, flyers, and rare ephemera.
Nature into Action: Hans Hofmann
Through June
Drawn from BAM/PFA’s extensive Hans Hofmann collection, this installation reveals the relationship between nature as source and action as method in the great abstract painter’s work.
Thom Faulders: BAMscape
Through fall 2011
How often do you get a chance to sit, lounge, or study on a work of art? BAMscape invites you to interact with art—and with the museum—in unexpected ways.
