Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

YBCA welcomes Bay Area photographer and installation artist Derick Ion to the Room for Big Ideas. His installation transforms the RBI into a meditative and sensual environment rich in symbology, Jainist iconography, and Subcontinental texture. Complementing and contrasting YBCA's large first floor exhibition, The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India, the ephemera and minutiae displayed in Ion's space reflect another contemporary – and timeless – perspective on India.

A compilation of recent videos from The 8th Floor featuring established and emerging artists based in Cuba that explores a dynamic contemporary world through the lens of Cuban culture.

DOUBLE FEATURE
Admission includes both films
By Nicholas Ray
We present a superb restoration of legendary director Nicholas Ray’s (Rebel Without a Cause, In a Lonely Place) until-now-unseen final work, made with his students at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Deeply personal and radically experimental, the film is a meditation on both a divided Vietnam-era America and the artistic process itself. The film records Ray’s groundbreaking use of split-screens and superimpositions as a way of telling more than one story simultaneously, and of colorization as a way to heighten emotional expression. Restored by The Nicholas Ray Foundation with EYE Film Institute Netherlands and the Academy Film Archive. (1972/2011, 94 min, 35mm)

There will be a 10-minute intermission between films.