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  2. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive - Wikipedia

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    The former Berkeley Art Museum building was designed by Mario Ciampi and associates Ronald E. Wagner and Richard Jurasch and opened in 1970. [6] The concrete Brutalist structure—one of the most inventive buildings in that style, with its fan-shaped procession down a spiral of semi-open galleries—was deemed seismically unsafe in 1997, and ...

  3. Berkeley Art Center - Wikipedia

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    The rotary club donated the space to the city, and it was run by the Berkeley Parks and Recreation Department until 1979 when the Berkeley Art Center Association nonprofit was founded. [ 5 ] Many of the exhibits at BAC have referenced issues such as California history, social movements, beauty, identity, equity, and community.

  4. 1923 Berkeley, California, fire - Wikipedia

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    The 1923 Berkeley, California, fire was a conflagration that consumed some 640 structures, including 584 houses in the densely built neighborhoods north of the campus of the University of California in Berkeley, California, on September 17, 1923.

  5. Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Selected historical image ...

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    lounge furniture commissioned by the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum as a permanent installation by the artist Stephen De Staebler. The furniture is made of clay and was executed by the artist in 1969-1970. This is at the former museum location, now defunct.

  6. Category:Museums in Berkeley, California - Wikipedia

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    Category: Museums in Berkeley, California. 1 language. ... Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Berkeley Historical Society; E. Essig Museum of Entomology; L.

  7. Campus of the University of California, Berkeley - Wikipedia

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    In 1970, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive opened on Bancroft Way across from the Hearst Gymnasium in a building designed by Mario J. Ciampi. In 2011, the building was named Woo Hon Fai Hall in 2011 in honor of the father of David Woo, a Hong Kong–based businessman and Berkeley alumnus who began his career as an architect on ...

  8. Bay Area Figurative Movement - Wikipedia

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    The Bay Area Figurative Movement (also known as the Bay Area Figurative School, Bay Area Figurative Art, Bay Area Figuration, and similar variations) was a mid-20th-century art movement made up of a group of artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who abandoned working in the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism in favor of a return to figuration in painting during the 1950s and onward ...

  9. CineFiles - Wikipedia

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    CineFiles is a database of digitized film documents, containing more than 50,000 documents on film history, compiled at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, at the University of California, Berkeley, and supported by the Museum Informatics Project.