Museum Monday 2026/31

 

detail of Interlock by Maren Hassinger, seen at BAM/PFA as part of the special exhibit Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing

Museum Monday 2026/12

 

detail of some of the "documentation and ephemera" of the performance piece A Ble Wail by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, seen as part of the special exhibit Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings at BAM/PFA

Friday Photo 2026/11

 

stairwell at BAM/PFA

Museum Monday 2026/7

 

detail of Researching and Remembering by Charlene Tan, seen at BAM/PFA as part of the special exhibit Object Oriented: Abstraction and Design in the BAMPFA Collection

Museum Monday 2025/49

 

detail of Proscenium by Sargent Claude Johnson, currently at BAM/PFA & on view as part of the exhibit Object Oriented: Abstraction and Design in the BAMPFA Collection

Museum Monday 2025/38

 

detail of Legend by Lee ShinJa, currently on view at BAM/PFA as part of Lee ShinJa: Drawing with Thread

(the label gives the title as Legend, but this tapestry is hung so that the back is visible, exposing a label giving the title as Myth, so I guess the viewer can make the call)

Museum Monday 2025/26

 

detail of Untitled (Cross and Circles), pieced by Warren Wise & quilted by Willia Ete Graham, currently on display at BAM/PFA as part of Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California

Museum Monday 2024/48

 

detail of a quilt in the Joseph's Coat pattern, made by the Freedom Quilting Bee of Alberta, Alabama (piecers: Lucy Mingo & Nell Hall Williams; quilters: Ella Mae Irby, Doll James, & Sam Square), currently on view at BAM/PFA as part of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection

Museum Monday 2024/46

 

detail of Light Falling Like a Broken Chain; Paradise by Mary Weatherford, currently on view at BAM/PFA as part of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection

On 14 November, the museum presents a Conversation with Artists Mary Weatherford and Aria Dean: Gut Punch – Reenvisioning Abstract Expressionism, moderated by Katy Siegel of SFMOMA

Museum Monday 2024/37

 

Dust by Nayland Blake, displayed as part of BAM/PFA's special exhibit To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)permanent Collection

Museum Monday 2024/36

 

detail of Vasanta ragini (apparently the title means something like Spring Melody) by an unknown 18th century Indian artist, on view as part of To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)permanent Collection at BAM/PFA

Museum Monday 2022/36

 

a detail of A Change of Seasons by Alison Knowles, seen at the special exhibit by Alison Knowles: A Retrospective (1960–2022) at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive