Marcel Duchamp

A reflexive, tactile quality characterizes all of Knowles’ work, carrying back to her earliest ventures as an abstract expressionist painter and experimental screen printer in the late ’50s.

This summer, my imagination has arrived, like the truncating tick of a Technicolor pinwheel, at the following isosceles triangle: I want a man to play me in a naked game of chess.

The existence of protest art means that there’s something to learn about, something to reconsider, to tear down and to rebuild.

Now that it’s relocated at Downtown Berkeley, the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive is doing its best to remind us how lucky we are to have such a great museum within walking distance. Not only is BAMPFA having a weeklong roster of events to celebrate its grand opening — including a space-themed opening party for students, the museum has put together an impressive collection of pieces for its inaugural exhibition, “Architecture of Life.” The exhibition explores “architecture” as a fluid metaphor for all sorts of ideas. Out of the dozen of artists on display, here are three incredibly influential artists whose pieces are part of the collection. We explain why they’re influential, and why you should be excited to see their work at “Architecture of Life.”