Big Ideas: Beat Notes: From the Rat Bastards to the Mission School with Natasha Boas
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94720
January 25, 12 pm
 

50 Artists: Chip Lord on Tomás Saraceno
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
January 27, 12 pm
 

Ana Mendieta, Volcán (still), 1979. Super 8 film; color, silent. © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Courtesy of Galerie Lelong and UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

B. Ruby Rich, Karen Fiss, Laura Pérez, and Raquel Cecilia
The Films of Ana Mendieta: Panel Discussion
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94720
January 28, 1 pm
 

Arts + Design Mondays: Gender, Identity, Memoir: Judith Butler and Maggie Nelson in Conversation
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94720
January 30, 6:30 pm
 

California Countercultures: On the Left Edge: California’s Renegade Tradition with Iain Boal
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94720
February 1, 12 pm
 

Karthik Pandian, Cahokia Byōbu (detail), 2011. Courtesy of Mills College.

Karthik Pandian: Language as Sneeze
Mills College (Danforth Lecture Hall)
5000 MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland, CA 94613
February 1, 7 pm
 

Photograph by Don Ross. Courtesy of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

50 Artists: Steve Dye on William Kentridge
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
February 3, 12 pm
 

Hank Willis Thomas, Amelia Falling, 2014. Glass mirror and silver, 65.125 x 53.125 x 1.5 inches. Courtesy of the artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, and the Contemporary Jewish Museum.

Binta Ayofemi on Afrofuturism
The Contemporary Jewish Museum
736 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
February 3, 12:30-1 pm
 

Cliff Hengst, Dollar Bill My Ass, 2016. Ink and acrylic paint on posterboard, 60 x 120 inches. Courtesy of San Francisco Art Institute.

Cliff Hengst: I Hope I See It in My Lifetime
San Francisco Art Institute (Lecture Hall)
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
February 3, 4:30-6 pm
 

Sita Kuratomi Bhaumikf
California College of the Arts (B Building, Room 7)
5212 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94618
February 6, 3-4 pm
 

Pamela and Richard Kramlich
Collecting the Uncollectible
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Osher Auditorium)
2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94720
February 6, 6:30-8 pm
 

California Countercultures: North Beach Beat Generation with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Jack Hirschman
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94720
February 8, 12 pm
 

Ceremonial cloth (tampan), 2nd half of the 19th century, Indonesia, Sumatra. Cotton; supplementary-weft weave, 41 x 35 inches. Gift of Wells Fargo Bank, 1987.37.1. Courtesy of the de Young Museum.

Lissant Bolton, Dennis Carr, Benny Gratha, and Elena Phipps
Coastal Connections: A Mini-Symposium
de Young Museum (Koret Auditorium)
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA 94118
February 9, 10 am-12:30 pm
 

Andrea Geyer, Research Sketch (Grace Morley/The Ladder), Title title llama. Courtesy of the artist and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Andrea Geyer
Traced: Grace McCann Morley’s Museum
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
February 9, 7 pm
 

50 Artists: Shinichi Iova-Koga on Eikoh Hosoe
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
February 10, 12 pm
 

Community Memory terminal at Leopold’s Records, Berkeley, California, c. 1974. Courtesy of the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA.

Hippie Modernism Forum: Counterculture / Cyberculture
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94720
February 11, 1 pm
 

Danny Lyon, Clifford Vaughs, another SNCC photographer, is arrested by the National Guard, Cambridge, Maryland, 1964. Gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches. Collection of the Corcoran/National Gallery of Art, CGA1994.3.3 © Danny Lyon. Courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery (New York) and the de Young Museum.

Julian Cox, Chude Allen, Ron Bridgeforth, and Bruce Hartford
Bearing Witness: An Afternoon with Bay Area Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement
de Young Museum (Koret Auditorium)
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA 94118
February 11, 2-3 pm
 

Jennifer West, Flashlight Filmstrip Projections, 2016. 35 and 70mm filmstrips, ink, dye, plexiglas, flashlights. Tramway, Glasgow. Photograph by Keith Hunter. Courtesy of Mills College.

Jennifer West: Media Archeology
Mills College (Danforth Lecture Hall)
5000 MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland, CA 94613
February 15, 5:30 pm
 

Édouard Manet, At the Milliner’s, 1881. Oil on canvas. Collection of FAMSF, Museum purchase, Mildred Anna Williams Collection, 1957.3. Courtesy of the de Young Museum.

Guest Lecture: Past Present. Manet and Painting Across Time, by Jordan Kantor
de Young Museum (Koret Auditorium)
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA 94118
February 16, 10:30 am-12 pm
 

Changing the Shape of Film: An Evening with Barbara Hammer
The Exploratorium
Pier 15 (Embarcadero at Green Street), San Francisco, CA 94111
February 16, 7:30 pm
 

Fabio Morais, Bandeira, 2012. Digital print by sublimation on polyester fabric, eyelets, and stitching, 85 x 130 centimeters. Edition of 3 + 1 A.P. Courtesy of the Contemporary Jewish Museum.

Duwenavue Sante Johnson on Flags
The Contemporary Jewish Museum
736 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
February 17, 12:30-1 pm
 

Lindsey White, HAHA, 2016. C-print, 40 x 50 inches. Courtesy of San Francisco Art Institute.

Lindsey White
San Francisco Art Institute (Lecture Hall)
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
February 17, 4:30-6 pm
 

Diana Al-Hadid, Nolli’s Orders, 2012. Steel, polymer gypsum, fiberglass, wood, foam, paint; 264 x 228 x 122 inches. Photograph by Dennis Harvey and Art Evans and Jason Wyche. © Diana Al-Hadid. Courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery and Mills College Art Museum.

Diana Al-Hadid
Mills College Art Museum
5000 MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland, CA 94613
February 22, 7 pm
 

Pete Pin, Cambodian Diaspora series, 2013. Print photograph, 6.59 x 10 inches. Courtesy of San Francisco Art Institute.

Boreth Ly: Of Borders and Burdens of (Un)Belonging: Contemporary Cambodian-American Art and Identity
San Francisco Art Institute (Lecture Hall)
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
February 24, 4:30-6 pm
 

Postcommodity
San Francisco Art Institute (Lecture Hall)
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
February 28, 7 pm