Stay updated with breaking news from Berkeley Art. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
MOVE NETWORK'S SIGNING WITH MOTION PICTURE EXECUTIVE AND PRODUCER IS SET TO EXPAND THE SCOPE OF AVAILABLE FILM INDUSTRY IP IN EMERGING CRYPTO NFT MARKETPLACE Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - May 29
The artist William T. Wiley in 1997 Jack Fulton William T. Wiley, a beloved Bay Area artist and teacher and one of the founders of the Funk Art movement—which included Peter Saul, Robert Arneson, Ed Kienholz, Bruce Conner, Jim Nutt and others—has died, aged 83. His son Ethan Wiley confirmed to that Wiley died from complications related to Parkinson’s disease, which the artist had lived with since 2014. Wiley was born in Bedford, Indiana, in 1937. His father was a construction foreman who frequently moved the family around the country, and they ultimately settl...
Letha Ch’ien April 16, 2021Updated: April 16, 2021, 7:19 am The “Legends From Los Angeles” exhibition is in what is essentially a hallway at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. Photo: Letha Ch’ien Museums all over the country may have been scrambling to demonstrate their diversity bona fides, but “Legends From Los Angeles” at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento is not an exhibition of tokenism. Featuring 23 works by legendary Black artist Betye Saar and her two daughters, Lezley and Alison, the exhibit is steeped in African American culture with witty nods to Europ...
BAMPFA will reopen May 2. Photo: Iwan Baan/courtesy Diller Scofidio + Renfro and BAMPFA In a sign that COVID-19 is lessening its grip, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) announced today that it is reopening Sunday, May 2, 13 months after it shut its doors. The museum will be open three days a week — Friday, Saturday and Sunday — and will reduce its ticket prices from $14 to $10, implement a timed-ticket system, require face masks, and limit occupancy to 25% capacity, among other safety measures. “As BAMPFA begins the process of safely reopening this spring, we’l...
Sam Whiting January 21, 2021Updated: January 24, 2021, 11:53 am Gertrud Parker at the 2006 Museum of Craft and Folk Art gala in San Francisco. Photo: Parker family The San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum opened in 1982 in a small Richmond District home owned by its founder Gertrud Parker — a fiber artist with a belief that ceramics and wood carvings were as legitimate a form as fine art painting. Parker had no fear of failure, or anything else. As a teenager, she’d narrowly escaped the Nazis by train out of her native Vienna. She trusted her hunch about folk art and she w...