January 15, 2012 - August 25, 2013

Come hang out in <b>The Reading Room</b>, a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction. On selected Fridays, <b>The Reading Room</b> becomes the site of readings by poets and writers.<br /><br />

December 5, 2012 - May 26, 2013

The third and final rotation of <b>Himalayan Pilgrimage</b> explores the theme of sacred space with a pair of large mandala paintings representing a cosmology of the deity Hevajra.

May 12, 2013 - December 20, 2015

We invite you to experience <i>Kaleidoscape</i>, our new interactive seating sculpture designed by the San Francisco–based firm Rebar. Come rearrange the modular pieces to create a customized environment for study, relaxation, or socializing, or use the sections to create a crystalline landscape to be viewed from the upper galleries. <br />

May 3, 2013 - July 14, 2013

<b>MATRIX 248</b> showcases the work of New York–based artist Nicole Eisenman, who has been steadfastly expanding dialogues surrounding painting and drawing since the 1990s. Intermixing styles associated with American Regionalism and the Italian Renaissance with German Expressionism, Eisenman brings history to bear in her canvases and drawings, yet twists the imagery to infuse these familiar forms with her own incisive social commentary and aesthetic voice.

May 17, 2013 - August 25, 2013

Taking as its point of departure the work of Nicole Eisenman, on view in <b>MATRIX 248,</b> <b>Ballet of Heads</b> brings together works from the collection that demonstrate the inexhaustible variety and texture of the human form in art.

May 17, 2013 - June 16, 2013

BAM/PFA presents the work of the 2013 M.F.A. graduates of UC Berkeley's Department of Art Practice.

August 21, 2013 - December 8, 2013

This first midcareer survey of the work of Yang Fudong presents films, multichannel videos, and photographs by a leading figure in China’s contemporary art world and independent cinema movement. Yang reflects the ideals and anxieties of the generation that came of age after the Cultural Revolution that is struggling to find its place in the rapidly changing society of the new China.

June 5, 2013 - October 20, 2013

We are delighted to present, for the first time in ten years, a selection of BAM/PFA’s earliest Chinese paintings. These rare works by thirteenth- and fourteenth-century landscape and bird-and-flower painters demonstrate the sophistication and accomplishment of the early Chinese painting tradition.

June 26, 2013 - April 13, 2014

Joyful and sensual sculptural figures of Indian deities and dancers join radiant images of enlightened beings from Tibet and Nepal in <b>Deities, Demons, and Teachers</b>, which presents a rotating display of works by anonymous Indian, Nepalese, and Tibetan artisans.

May 17, 2013 - September 1, 2013

Drawn exclusively from BAM/PFA’s unsurpassed collection of paintings by the tremendously influential Abstract Expressionist artist, <b>Hans Hofmann: Rectangles</b> celebrates the completion of a comprehensive conservation project.

August 2, 2013 - September 29, 2013

<b>MATRIX 249</b> showcases the work of Oakland-based artist Zarouhie Abdalian, whose work often responds to the specific attributes of a given location, architectural setting, or social landscape. For this exhibition, the artist has created new sculptures for Gallery A that explore the interrelated, yet distinct, states of noise, silence, and the absence of sound.

July 21, 2013 - August 16, 2013

We are pleased to welcome Thingamajigs Performance Group as our first-ever L@TE artists-in-residence. With the help of audiences and local collaborators Thingamajigs investigates the meanings of travel, migrations, maps, and labyrinths in a series of linked performances, talks, a workshop, and open rehearsals.

July 21, 2013 - July 21, 2013

Bring the whole family to this midday instrument workshop and learn how to make music with materials found in our everyday environment.

July 26, 2013 - July 26, 2013

Thingamajigs Performance Group partners with other local artists and performers to present a concert of new works and improvisations.

August 9, 2013 - August 9, 2013

New music, readings, and other performances on the subjects of nomadism and dislocation, belonging and disconnection with local artists.

August 16, 2013 - August 16, 2013

The Thingamajigs residency culminates in this new multimedia work inspired by issues in international adoption,<i> </i>labyrinths, travel, and walking meditation. In collaboration with writer Sasha Horn.

August 23, 2013 - August 23, 2013

Come rock at this music/art fest with with experimental punk group No Age, country psych band Devin Gary and Ross (with artist/designer Gary Panter), and feel-good trio Sun Foot.

August 2, 2013 - August 2, 2013

Programmed by <a href="/about/lateprogrammers">Zarouhie Abdalian</a> in conjunction with <a href="/exhibition/249"><b>Zarouhie Abdalian/ MATRIX 249</b></a>. Featuring works by Alvin Lucier, Maryanne Amacher, and others.

September 25, 2013 - December 22, 2013

<b>Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting</b> brings together approximately thirty paintings from public and private collections to investigate a relatively unexamined area of Chinese art history: <i>meiren </i>(beautiful women) paintings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Organized in collaboration with UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus James Cahill, one of the world’s leading scholars of Chinese painting.