Multimedia

Video

Fernando Botero in Conversation with Berkeley professor and poet Robert Hass
January 29, 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uLgyJEoUwo

"Art and Violence"
Panel discussion with Berkeley professors T.J. Clark, Francine Masiello and Thomas Laqueur
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdUa9PRMtCg

Torture, Human Rights and Terrorism
Panel discussion with Aryeh Neier, José Zalaquett, Jenny Martinez and Philip Zimbardo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcwtPFhUdxI

Fernando Botero in conversation with Berkeley Art Museum director
Lawrence Rinder, September 23, 2009
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/podcasts/art/botero_rinder

Juan Carlos Botero, "The Art of Fernando Botero"
September 26, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE6WRPhHjq8

Audio podcasts

Gallery talk by Berkeley professor Peter Selz on the Abu Ghraib series
October 4, 2009
www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/podcasts/art/selz_on_botero

¡Presente! Next-Generation Latin American Art and Literature
Daniel Alarcón and Carlos Motta
October 10, 2009
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/podcasts/art/alarcon_motta

ARTICLES ON THE CLAS WEBSITE

From the Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies, Spring 2009

• Thomas Laqueur, "Berkeley Bears Witness"
• Selections from Fernando Botero's "Circus," his work immediately following the Abu Ghraib series

From the Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies, Fall 2007

• The Art of Fernando Botero
  UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus and founding director of the Berkeley Art Museum Peter Selz discusses Fernando Botero's artistic trajectory.
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From the Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies, Spring 2007

• A Conversation with the Artist
  Fernando Botero in conversation with UC Berkeley Professor and former Poet Laureate Robert Hass.
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• Fernando Botero: Abu Ghraib
  Selections from the paintings and drawings in the exhibit.
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• Art and Violence
  Three UC Berkeley professors, Francine Masiello, Tom Laqueur and T.J. Clark, place Fernando Botero’s “Abu Ghraib” series in historical and artistic context.
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• Torture in a Time of Terrorism
  Representatives from the fields of human rights, law, art and psychology discuss the role of torture from the Middle Ages to the present.
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• Figures in Light and Shadow
  Colombian journalist Daniel Coronell interviews Fernando Botero.
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• Bringing Botero to Berkeley
  Jean Spencer reveals the inside story of how this remarkable exhibition and series of events came about.
  Download this article (122 KB .pdf)

Web Articles About Botero's 2007 exhibition of Abu Ghraib at Berkeley

• Exhibition Information
• A Conversation with the Artist
• Opening of the Art Exhibit
• Mr. Botero at Berkeley
• Art and Violence panel
• Torture, Human Rights and Terrorism Panel