Event Description
What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection inaugurates a year-long presentation of the BAMPFA collection, bringing a contemporary perspective to the museum’s global art holdings. What Has Been and What Could Be showcases seventeenth-century Japanese scrolls, eighteenth-century European paintings by women artists, and American landscapes and folk art of the nineteenth century, alongside mid-century abstract painting, feminist art, African-American art, quilts, and conceptual art. The works are arranged thematically across time periods. This exhibition strives to connect this expansive past to the urgent ideas and issues of our present. Bringing together works from disparate times and locales, it foregrounds the gallery as a space for questioning and expanding art historical narratives.

Attendance
General public

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Contact
John Alexander
john.alexander@berkeley.edu

Organization
Berkeley Art Museum and Film Archive
https://bampfa.org/

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