Berkeley Art Museum updates status

Laurence Rindler has just returned from the Whitney in NYC and from visiting the DIA in Detroit.  He makes a plea for 2.5 million$ or we will not see him at the opening of the museum.  He gives us the history of the museum, and shows us a Bierstadt that was given when the first Davis Hall was a museum of art for UCB.   He shows us a drawing by Julia Morgan and Maybeck, and tells us that the only realized part of the drawing is the Hearst gymnasium.  The idea was that the Museum and esplanade in one plan encouraged health.  For a while, the galleries were in the Power building, created by Galen Howard, with murals by Helen Bruten and Flora Swift.  Then in 1970, Mario Ciampi made a "rugged major form" museum, which contributed to the creation of museums across the country,   The building "drove" porgrams, with cross over audiences, especially music and art.

 The BAMPF started showing films in Wheeler auditorium in 1968, modelling the program after Cinematique in Paris.  He shows an image of Fritz Lange at the PFA in 1968.  The PFA collects, preserves and fosters dialogue about films as cultural forces.  50% of the collection at BAM is film archives and the only other film series which is analogous is the MOMA, but their film series only accounts for 10% of their programming.  It has the most major collection of Mayzukey the animimation artist from Japan than any other museum outside Japan. It has every film of Nicholas Droskey, a SF film maker.  

 On June 26, BAMPF will honor the UN Charter 70th Anniversary with an event of commemoration as the Charter was printed in the Print building which has been conserved as part of the structure of the new museum.   
BAMPF is taking shape; the roof overlay is now in motion, and the structure is now appearing. 

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