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University art museum, movie theatre, and annal

Art museum, film annal in Berkeley, CA

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Motion picture Annal

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Onetime name	University Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive (UAM/PFA)
Established	1963
Location	2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720
Coordinates	37°52′sixteen″N 122°15′59″Westward  /  37.87111°N 122.26639°Westward  / 37.87111; -122.26639
Blazon	art museum, film annal
Director	Julie Rodrigues Widholm
Architect	Mario Ciampi (1970), Diller Scofidio + Renfro (2016)
Website	bampfa.org

The Berkeley Fine art Museum and Pacific Movie Archive (BAMPFA, formerly abbreviated as BAM/PFA) are a combined art museum, repertory movie theater, and annal associated with the University of California, Berkeley. Lawrence Rinder was Manager from 2008, succeeded by Julie Rodrigues Widholm in August, 2020.^{[1] [2]} The museum is a member of the Due north American Reciprocal Museums program.

Collection [edit]

Fine art [edit]

The collection's first object: Flight into Arab republic of egypt.

The University of California art collection began with Flight into Egypt, a 16th-century oil on woods panel by the Schoolhouse of Joachim Patinir gifted to the University by San Francisco banker and financier François Louis Alfred Pioche in 1870.^{[3] [4]} The museum was founded in 1963 afterward a donation was fabricated to the university from creative person and instructor Hans Hofmann of 45 paintings^[5] plus $250,000. A competition to blueprint a edifice was announced in 1964, and the museum, designed by Mario Ciampi, opened in 1970.^[6] Founding Director Peter Selz, formerly of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, served from 1965 to 1973 and played a key part in establishing the museum, championing unorthodox Bay Surface area artists.^[vii]

The drove holds more than than 22,000 works of fine art, including Ming and Qing dynasty Chinese paintings, Mughal dynasty Indian miniature painting, Baroque painting, one-time principal prints and drawings, early American painting, African-American quilts, 19th and 20th century photography, Conceptual art, and international contemporary art.

Sandstone statue of Ganesha, India, tenth century.

The museum has featured works by Albert Bierstadt, Jonathan Borofsky, Joan Brown, Robert Colescott, Jay DeFeo, Helen Frankenthaler, Paul Gauguin, Juan Gris, Ant Farm, Howard Fried, Paul Kos, Robert Mapplethorpe, Knox Martin, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Sebastião Salgado.^[8]

The museum too features the MATRIX Program for Contemporary Art.^[9] MATRIX has featured artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Louise Bourgeois, James Lee Byars, Sophie Calle, Jay DeFeo, Willem de Kooning, Juan Downey, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, Shirin Neshat, Nancy Spero, Cecilia Vicuña, and Andy Warhol.^[ix]

Joan Miró, Metamorphosis, mixed media, 1936, ane of 15 works given to the museum in 2021 from the Richard and Mary L. Grayness Collection.

In 2009, the museum acquired (every bit a gift from the artist) the Abu Ghraib Series^[10] of 56 painting and drawings by Fernando Botero.^[11] Selections from the series have been regularly included in the museum's annual Art for Human Rights exhibitions.^[12]

In 2014, the museum acquired San Francisco collector and dealer Steven Leiber'southward collection of Conceptual art and art materials, too as his library of reference and artists' books related to Conceptualism and the Fluxus movement. Co-ordinate to The New York Times, "with the acquisition…the museum and film archive will become ane of the world's most of import centers for the study of Conceptual art."^[13]

In 2019, as a bequest, the museum acquired the Eli Leon Collection of nigh three,000 works by African-American quilt makers, including more than than 500 works past Rosie Lee Tompkins. The collection now accounts for most 15 percent of the museum'due south fine art collection.^{[14] [15]} Drawing from the Eli Leon Collection, BAMPFA presented Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective in 2020; The New York Times chosen it "a triumphal retrospective" that "confirms her continuing as i of the groovy American artists–transcending craft, challenging painting and reshaping the canon."^{[16] [17]} A subsequent exhibition showcasing the broader Eli Leon Collection is planned for 2022.^[14]

In 2021, a gift from the Richard and Mary Fifty. Grayness Collection added 15 significant works on paper to the drove, by artists including Guercino, Tiepolo, Guardi, Géricault, Juan Gris, Paul Klee, and Miró.^[18]

Film [edit]

The Pacific Film Archive (PFA) was founded by Sheldon Renan, who began screening films on the UC campus in 1966 and was appointed Managing director of the new PFA in 1967.^{[nineteen] [20]} The PFA specializes in programming films "in a theoretical or disquisitional context—exploring, for example, film noir in the context of the postal service-war ethos."^[21] Lectures by motion-picture show scholars and visits from filmmakers further contextualize the programming. The archive houses 16,000 films and videos, including the largest drove of Japanese films outside of Nippon.^[22] The PFA also includes a library and written report center,^[23] and maintains online catalogs of its films and books^[24] and an online database of documentation associated with the films.^[25]

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  BAMPFA's major retrospective in March 2019 of the work of Hans Hofmann, who was instrumental in the cosmos of the museum. Photo by Steven Saylor.

Buildings [edit]

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The former Berkeley Art Museum building was designed by Mario Ciampi and opened in 1970.^[6] The physical Brutalist edifice was deemed seismically unsafe in 1997, and iron braces were added in 2001 to better safety. In 1999, the Pacific Film Annal moved to a temporary edifice beyond the street.^[26]

Interior of the former (seismically unsafe) Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive edifice designed by Mario Ciampi

In 2008, BAMPFA unveiled plans for a new visual arts centre, to be designed past the Japanese architect Toyo Ito and located in downtown Berkeley, across the street from UC Berkeley's principal entrance.^{[27] [28] [29]} In 2009 those plans were cancelled. Citing the weak economic system and problem raising necessary funds, BAMPFA decided to retrofit and enlarge (rather than demolish) the one-time University of California Press printing constitute at that site, a 1939 Fine art Deco building on the California Register of Celebrated Resource and qualified to be on the National Annals of Historic Places.^{[26] [30] [31]}

In 2011, BAMPFA presented the schematic blueprint for the $100 meg transformation of the former printing plant into its new home, designed by the New York firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro.^[32] Located at 2155 Center Street in downtown Berkeley, the edifice combines the existing physical structure with a new metallic-clad, skylighted addition that includes several galleries, a 232-seat theater, a store and a learning center.^[32] Structure began in 2013.^[33] The museum re-opened to the public on January 31, 2016.^[34] The building totals 83,000 square feet, with 25,000 square feet of gallery space.^[35]

The vacated Mario Ciampi building was added to the National Annals of Celebrated Places in 2014.^[36] The building, seismically retrofitted and "reimagined", reopened in late 2021 as the Bakar BioEnginuity Hub, an incubator for biotechnology first-ups,^{[37] [38]} named Woo Hon Fai Hall in honor of the father of a donor, David Woo.^[39]

See as well [edit]

• Listing of film archives

References [edit]

1. ^ "Lawrence Rinder, director and chief curator of BAMPFA, to pace down". news.berkeley.edu.
2. ^ Libbey, Peter (June 25, 2020). "Berkeley Art Museum Names a New Director". The New York Times.
3. ^ Charles A. Fracchia (July 26, 2011). "Francois Louis Alfred Pioche, San Francisco Banker and Financier". www.sfhistoryencyclopedia.com. Archived from the original on July 26, 2011.
4. ^ Flight into Egypt, BAM Collection object 1870.1
5. ^ "Fine art Collection – CollectionSpace". webapps.cspace.berkeley.edu.
6. ^ ^{a b} BAM/PFA Mission & History
7. ^ Karlstrom, Paul J. (2012). Peter Selz: Sketches of a Life in Art. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. ISBN9780520269354.
8. ^ "Exhibition History – BAMPFA". bampfa.org.
9. ^ ^{a b} "Matrix Exhibitions – BAMPFA". bampfa.org.
10. ^ "Art Collection – CollectionSpace". webapps.cspace.berkeley.edu.
11. ^ Lucinda Barnes, "Fernando Botero: The Abu Ghraib Series," September 23, 2009-February 7, 2010 exhibition notes.
12. ^ "Permanent Accusation: Art for Human Rights". bampfa.org.
13. ^ Randy Kennedy (December 18, 2014), A Permanent Home for a Drove of Fine art Ephemera The New York Times.
14. ^ ^{a b} "BAMPFA Receives Historic Bequest of Nearly Three Thousand Quilts past African American Artists". bampfa.org.
15. ^ Libbey, Peter (Oct 16, 2019). "African-American Art Quilts Find a Museum Habitation in California". The New York Times.
16. ^ "Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective". bampfa.org.
17. ^ Smith, Roberta (June 26, 2020). "The Radical Quilting of Rosie Lee Tompkins". The New York Times.
18. ^ "The Enduring Mark: Six Centuries of Drawing from the Grayness Drove". bampfa.org . Retrieved Oct 8, 2021.
19. ^ Amazonas, Lee (Spring 2004). "Guerrilla Cinematheque Comes of Historic period: The Pacific Film Archive" (PDF). Chronicle of the University of California: 147–159.
20. ^ "Sheldon Renan Selects: Light and Time". bampfa.org.
21. ^ "The Pacific Flick Archive". Historical Journal of Picture show, Radio and Television. 16 (one): 39–42. 1996. doi:ten.1080/01439689600260071.
22. ^ bestcollegereviews.org: The 35 All-time College Art Museums
23. ^ "Flick Library & Study Center – BAMPFA". bampfa.org.
24. ^ "Search Film, Video, and Book Catalogs". bampfa.org.
25. ^ "CineFiles Motion-picture show Document Database". bampfa.org.
26. ^ ^{a b} Modenessi, Jennifer (January 29, 2010). "UC Printing Constitute may become new dwelling house of Berkeley Art Museum". Contra Costa Times . Retrieved February 10, 2010.
27. ^ Kino, Ballad (March 28, 2007). "On College Campuses, A Crop of Galleries". The New York Times.
28. ^ DelVecchio, Rick (September xxx, 2006). "Tokyo architect to design Cal's new museum". San Francisco Relate.
29. ^ Ouroussoff, Nicolai (November 24, 2008). "A Berkeley Museum Wrapped in Honeycomb". The New York Times.
30. ^ Lee, Lydia (January 26, 2010). "Berkeley's Moderne Fine art Museum". The Architect's Newspaper. Archived from the original on January 29, 2010. Retrieved February 10, 2010.
31. ^ Bhattacharjee, Riya (January 28, 2010). "University Optics Old UC Printing Plant for New Art Museum". Berkeley Daily Planet . Retrieved February ten, 2010.
32. ^ ^{a b} Pogrebin, Robin (September sixteen, 2011). "Berkeley Museum Unveils New Design". The New York Times.
33. ^ Rosario, Gladys (February xiii, 2013), "Construction begins on UC Berkeley Art Museum", Daily Californian
34. ^ "Community Day – BAMPFA". bampfa.org.
35. ^ "BAMPFA Thrives in its Get-go Few Months in its New Downtown Berkeley Home". bampfa.org.
36. ^ "University Art Museum: 13001034". National Annals Information System . Retrieved December 11, 2021.
37. ^ "Bakar BioEnginuity Hub". Capital Strategies, University of California, Berkeley.
38. ^ Rex, John (December 9, 2021). "A brutalist icon in Berkeley is reborn equally a bioresearch hub". San Francisco Chronicle . Retrieved December eleven, 2021.
39. ^ Rodríguez, José (December xix, 2011). "Hong Kong businessman honors father, Woo Hon Fai, with major gift to UC Berkeley". Berkeley News. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved Dec 11, 2021.

External links [edit]

• Official BAMPFA Website
• Search Art Collection
• Search Pic, Video, and Book Catalogs
• CineFiles Film Document Database (motion-picture show reviews, press kits, programme notes, etc.)

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