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 Concert: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano Saturday, January 28 | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
Photography: Andy Warhol's Polaroids January 27 – May 20, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum
Exhibit: Ray Johnson and Robert Warner "Bob Box" archive January 27 – May 20, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum
Exhibit: Abstract Expressionisms—paintings and drawings from the collection January 18 – June 10, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley Art Museum: The Reading Room January 15 – June 17, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum
Buy tickets by calling 510-642-0808.   Film: A Screaming Man Sunday, January 29 | 4:30 p.m. | Pacific Film Archive Theater
Buy tickets by calling 510-(510) 642-5249.  Lecture: The struggle for Egypt—from Nasser to Tahrir Square Monday, January 30 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Painting: Eva Bovenzi January 17 – May 4, 2012 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. | Townsend Center Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall Stephens Hall
Photography: Valley of Shadows and Dreams January 17 – May 15, 2012 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. | North Gate Hall
 Film: Scarface Tuesday, January 31 | 7 p.m. | Pacific Film Archive Theater
Buy tickets by calling 510-(510) 642-5249. Lecture: Role of higher education in society January 24 – February 7, 2012 every Tuesday | 4-5:30 p.m. | Theater Berkeley Art Museum
 Film: One Way, A Tuareg Journey Wednesday, February 1 | 7 p.m. | Pacific Film Archive Theater
Technology: Open source robotics Wednesday, February 1 | 12-1 p.m. | 310, Banatao Auditorium Sutardja Dai Hall
 Lunch Poems: giovanni singleton Thursday, February 2 | 12:10-12:50 p.m. | Morrison Library, Room 101 Doe Library
Theater: Cordelia Mein Kind February 2 – 5, 2012 every day | 8-10 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Buy tickets online, or by calling 415-282-3055.  Lecture: The three architectures of film music Friday, February 3 | 4:40-6 p.m. | 128 Morrison Hall
Early music: The Polychoral Splendors of Renaissance Florence February 3 – 4, 2012 every day | 8 p.m. | First Congregational Curch, 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley
Botanical Garden: Newts explained Sunday, February 5 | 2-3:30 p.m. | Botanical Garden
Lecture: Indigenous Mexican farmworkers in the U.S. Monday, February 6 | 12 p.m. | 554 Barrows Hall
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Among the UK's finest symphonic ensembles, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra enjoys a reputation for first-class performances across a diverse repertoire. Joining the orchestra's new artistic director and principal conductor Charles Dutoit and these exceptional music makers is French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, who dazzled Cal Performances audiences last season.
From 1970 to 1987 Andy Warhol took scores of Polaroid and black-and-white photographs, the vast majority of which were never seen by the public. These images often served as the basis for his commissioned portraits, silk-screen paintings, drawings, and prints. The photos selected for this exhibit, drawn from a 2007 gift of the Warhol Foundation to the museum, reveals that superstars were not the only figures that Warhol photographed with his Polaroid Big Shot, the distinct plastic camera he used for the majority of his sittings. Over half of those who sat for him were little known or remain unidentified. 
In 1988, New York–based collagist Robert Warner began a correspondence with the enigmatic artist Ray Johnson. Until Johnson’s death in 1995, Ray and Bob continued their exchange, mostly by mail and telephone, and only occasionally in person. Over the course of their relationship Warner received hundred of pieces of mail art from Johnson, ranging from collages to a hand-delivered piece of driftwood. At one of their rare in-person meetings, Johnson gave Warner thirteen cardboard boxes tied with twine, labeled “Bob Box 1,” “Bob Box 2,” and so on. This exhibit displays all thirteen boxes and their contents. 
Spend some time with the work of seminal Abstract Expressionists at the Berkeley Art Museum. Forceful paintings by Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Hans Hofmann, William Baziotes, Asger Jorn, Philip Guston, and others hang in light-filled Gallery A, while Gallery C displays rarely seen works on paper by artists including Sam Francis, Mark Tobey, Antonio Saura, and Norman Bluhm.
Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett, Bill Berkson, and Lewis MacAdams. 
The Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (Daratt; Abouna) is fast becoming African cinema’s premier filmmaker; A Screaming Man solidifies his standing. The graying yet still regal Adam, his days as a swimming champion behind him, works as a pool attendant at a resort hotel, along with his adult son. When new owners lay Adam off, however, and civil war begins to brew, he makes a fateful decision to fight for his job, and possibly lose his son.
The recent revolution in Egypt has shaken the Arab world to its roots; however, this is not the first time that the world has turned its gaze to Egypt. A half-century ago, Egypt under Nasser became the putative leader of the Arab world and a beacon for all developing nations. Yet in the decades prior to the 2011 revolution, it was ruled by a corrupt regime. Steven Cook, fellow for middle eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, will discuss the recent events in Egypt and their historical context.
With their iridescent shapes emerging from blue or red backgrounds, Eva Bovenzi’s paintings at one moment suggest outer space, at another the sea. The forms described are similarly ambiguous: they could be tiny or enormous and seem caught in the ephemeral moment between appearing and disappearing.
With photography by Ken Light, adjunct professor of journalism, and text by Melanie Light, this exhibit, based on their book Valley of Shadows and Dreams, explores the light and dark side of California’s Central Valley, a place whose problems — environmental degradation, a severe real-estate bubble, the abuse of illegal immigrants — are unfortunately relevant nationwide.
Scarface was to be the gangster film to end all gangsters, but instead it produced a genre, and perhaps a few mobsters, inspired by Howard Hawks’s fun-lovin’ criminals riding the crest of a nation’s misery. Hawks’s direction weaves visual tics and humor into the tragic trajectory of Tony Camonte (Paul Muni), the original Italian Stallion doomed by his charged love for his own sister (Ann Dvorak). 
Neil Smelser, professor emeritus of sociology will present a series of lectures on “Higher Education: The Play of Continuity and Crisis.” In the lectures he will discuss a general view of social change, especially in universities, and interpret contemporary problems, controversies, and enigmas. Smelser's most recent book is “Reflections on the University of California: From the Free Speech Movement to the Global University."
A young Tuareg child interviews his own family as well as other residents of his Italian town in this clever documentary about family upheaval, immigration, and hope. Armed with a video camera and a spirit of adventure, young Sidi asks various bemused adults pointed questions about immigration and Italy, but it is the discussions with his father, who came first to the country alone, and with his younger brother, who just arrived from a nomadic life in Niger, that are the most revelatory.
Over the next 10 years, personal robots (as opposed to industrial robots) have the potential to improve people's lives by taking automation to a new level. But robotics is a complex, multidisciplinary field, and creating successful applications requires expertise ranging from hardware (mechanical and electrical) to social science. Steve Cousins, president and CEO of Willow Garage, will show how universities and industry can partner on an open source software platform to accelerate progress in the field.
This reading celebrates the publication of ascension, the first book of poems by giovanni singleton, coordinator of Lunch Poems. She has recently been selected by the Poetry Society of America for its biennial New American Poets series. She is founding editor of nocturnes (re)view, a critically acclaimed journal dedicated to artists and writers of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces.
In this performance, Deborah Leiser-Moore combines original interviews (between a contemporary Cordelia and her father, a Yiddish-speaking Holocaust survivor now living in a Melbourne suburb) and visual imagery inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear.
Music supports the narrative architecture of a movie in the way that columns, archways, and doorways buttress the structure of buildings; music provides its own sonic architecture, constructing pathways for the ear through the unfolding of the film. In this talk, Mark Slobin, professor of music at Wesleyan University, outlines three architectural ways of thinking about film music with examples from the classic era of Hollywood and other cinema systems for comparative purposes.
Written for the 16th-century Medici court and an example of Florentine art at its most spectacular, Alessandro Striggio's Missa sopra Ecco si beato giorno in 40 and 60 parts is the largest known contrapuntal choral work in Western music. The score was long reputed to be lost, but was then rediscovered in France by Berkeley musicologist Davitt Moroney, who also here conducts the musical forces that include His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts and five different Bay Area choirs. 
Visit the newts at the Botanical Garden's Japanese Pool. A docent will be on hand to explain the newt activity and net a newt or two for a close-up look, while explaining the newt's life-cycle and habitat. Registration not required.
Migration, social hierarchies, health disparities, race and medicine intersect along the transit routes between the United States and Mexico. Seth Holmes, assistant professor of health and social behavior at the School of Public Health, spent 18 months conducting in-depth fieldwork while living, working and migrating with indigenous Mexican farmworkers in both the United States and Mexico. In this talk, he will focus on in the ways in which social and health inequalities come to be understood as normal and natural.