BERKELEY — Telegraph Avenue was at the center of Bay Area events that changed the country 50 years ago. One of those events, the Summer of Love, will be celebrated on April 29, when four blocks of the iconic avenue, from Bancroft Way to Dwight Way, will be closed to cars and open to art, music, political action and a far-out 1960s vibe. Learn More →

“Free the Love” AR App from BAMPFA and Adobe Fills the Air with Messages of Love Augmented-reality app compliments BAMPFA’s new exhibition Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia with a Bay Area “Love Tour” Users can release personalized messages of love into the air Courtesy of Goodby Silverstein & Partners (Berkeley, CA) February 8, 2017—To celebrate the 50th... Learn More →

San Francisco’s Human Be-In of January 1967 announced the emergence of a counterculture that came to define its decade. Peace protests, utopian social experiments, environmental activism, and civil rights struggles generated the equally radical forms of art, architecture, and design explored in Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) through May 21. Learn More →