February 13, 2008 - August 3, 2008

The art of James Lee Byars could be as grand as a global gesture or as intimate and fleeting as a kiss. A new exhibition brings together the delicate and monumental sides of the artist’s work with artist’s books, mail art, performance documentation, and other ephemera from BAM’s Conceptual Art Study Center.

March 12, 2008 - August 3, 2008

Conceptual works by John C. Fernie and Lawrence Weiner from the BAM collection foreground the frame.

June 1, 2008 - August 31, 2008

Media artist Scott Snibbe animates BAM/PFA’s Durant Avenue entrance, making it the backdrop for a silent, dreamlike narrative of mortality, empathy, and whimsy.

May 31, 2008 - August 3, 2008

Jim Campbell’s work manifests a poetics of the digital, upsetting common assumptions about the relationship between technology and humanity, “information” and thought. His LED installation <i>Home Movies</i> “brings us emotionally close, without sentimentality, to the unshareable quotient of memories.”—<i>S.F. Chronicle</i>

June 1, 2008 - September 14, 2008

Trained as both an artist and a geographer, Trevor Paglen uses an array of tactics to map the “black world” of U.S. military and intelligence activities. His MATRIX project scans the heavens for signs of covert activity, visualizing “the other night sky.”

June 4, 2008 - August 3, 2008

Bruce Conner’s photographs from a legendary San Francisco nightclub document the demimonde of three-chord chaos that was the seventies punk scene, when acts like the Avengers, Negative Trend, and the Mutants were in their anarchic heyday. In his images, Conner captured both the outcry and the surrounding silence.

June 14, 2008 - August 3, 2008

For half a century, the Morrison Library’s unique graphic arts loan program has been bringing original art to students. We celebrate the program’s anniversary with prints by masters from Rembrandt to Matisse, once in the loan collection and now held by BAM.

May 3, 2008 - August 3, 2008

A cornerstone of the Berkeley Art Museum collection is an extraordinary group of paintings by Hans Hofmann (1880–1966), the world’s most extensive museum collection of this German-born artist’s work. The exhibition on view draws on this collection to span nearly thirty years of Hofmann’s practice, from the figurative works of the 1930s to the explosive abstraction of the postwar period.