Berkeley Playhouse – 2013 Scholarship Fund Auction
Auction Ends: Jun 8, 2013 01:00 AM PDT

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One Year Family Membership to Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive

Item Number
174
Estimated Value
75 USD
Sold
30 USD to kaufmanland
Number of Bids
2  -  Bid History

Item Description

You can win an annual membership to the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.  

These will entitle you, a guest, and any children under 17 to unlimited free gallery admission, discount film tickets at the PFA Theater, a subscription to their bimonthly Program Guide, discounts at many local resturants, stores, and cultural destinations thourgh their East Bay Discount Club, invitations to exhibition previews, and access to PFA's Film and Video Library.

Current Exhibitions

link image thumbnail Ballet of Heads: The Figure in the Collection
May 17, 2013 - August 25, 2013
Taking as its point of departure the work of Nicole Eisenman, on view in MATRIX 248, Ballet of Heads brings together works from the collection that demonstrate the inexhaustible variety and texture of the human form in art.
link image thumbnail The 43rd Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition
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.
link image thumbnail Hans Hofmann: Rectangles
May 17, 2013 - September 3, 2013
Drawn exclusively from BAM/PFA’s unsurpassed collection of paintings by the tremendously influential Abstract Expressionist artist, Hans Hofmann: Rectangles celebrates the completion of a comprehensive conservation project.
link image thumbnail Rebar: Kaleidoscape
May 12, 2013 - December 20, 2015
We invite you to experience Kaleidoscape, 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. 
link image thumbnail Nicole Eisenman / MATRIX 248
May 3, 2013 - July 14, 2013
MATRIX 248 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.
link image thumbnail Facing Two Directions: A Japanese Painter Looks to China
January 30, 2013 - May 19, 2013
A magnificent pair of screens painted by Sakaki Hyakusen forms the centerpiece of this exhibition. The masterful Hyakusen (1697–1752) was an artist facing two directions: one towards the traditions of China and the other toward the future of Japanese Nanga painting.
link image thumbnail Himalayan Pilgrimage: Sacred Space
December 5, 2012 - May 26, 2013
The third and final rotation of Himalayan Pilgrimage explores the theme of sacred space with a pair of large mandala paintings representing a cosmology of the deity Hevajra.
link image thumbnail The Reading Room
January 15, 2012 - August 25, 2013
Come hang out in The Reading Room, a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction. On selected Fridays,The Reading Room becomes the site of readings by poets and writers.


Upcoming Exhibitions

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Gazing into Nature: Early Chinese Painting
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.
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Deities, Demons, and Teachers of Tibet, Nepal, and India
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 inDeities, Demons, and Teachers, which presents a rotating display of works by anonymous Indian, Nepalese, and Tibetan artisans.
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Thingamajigs: Migrations, Maps & Labyrinths
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.
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Zarouhie Abdalian / MATRIX 249
August 2, 2013 - September 29, 2013
MATRIX 249 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.
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Yang Fudong: Estranged Paradise, Works 1993–2013
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.
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Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting
September 25, 2013 - December 22, 2013
Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting brings together approximately thirty paintings from public and private collections to investigate a relatively unexamined area of Chinese art history: meiren (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.

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