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The artist Fernando Botero based his Abu Ghraib series not on photographs, but on an article he read in The New Yorker by Seymour Hersh.
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BAM/PFA members, staff and colleagues chit-chat in the museum lobby prior to heading up into the galleries, September 22, 2009.
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The Abu Ghraib Series—56 paintings and drawings—is one of BAM/PFA’s largest gifts to its permanent collection.
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Botero was asked during his visit to BAM/PFA why American artists have been so silent in creating work responding to Iraq. He said it was likely because American art tends to be more conceptual in nature.
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The Fall Celebration was a chance for members to preview the anticipated new fall exhibitions, including Ari Marcopoulos: Within Arm’s Reach.
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Within Arm’s Reach is a mid-career survey of the Sonoma-based photographer Ari Marcopoulos’s work and includes photographs, Xerox transfers, ‘zines, and videos by the artist.
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Professional skateboarder Keith Hufnagel (plaid shirt) collaborated with Ari Marcopoulos to produce an artist-designed exhibition T-shirt on his Huf label. The guy pictured on the bike is artist Barry McGee…check out the t-shirt.