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Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The museum provides the UC Berkeley and Bay Area communities with a schedule of exhibitions exploring international art, both historical and contemporary. Each year, the museum presents temporary exhibitions that range from classical Asian art to challenging work by contemporary artists. The exhibition program also includes the MATRIX Program for Contemporary Art, presenting recent avant-garde work. BAM has mounted major exhibitions of the works of Juan Gris, Jay DeFeo, Robert Colescott, Joan Brown, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sebastião Salgado, Paul Kos, and many others. The museum is well known for such thematic exhibitions as Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art; Made in U.S.A.: An Americanization in Modern Art, the ’50s & ’60s; The Here and the Hereafter: Images of Paradise in Islamic Art; Hogarth and His Times: Serious Comedy; and Masterworks of Chinese Painting: In Pursuit of Mists and Clouds.[1]
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