Known for promoting the avant-garde since its inception in the early sixties, the Magnes also launched the REVISIONS series of installations, including such artists as Ann Chamberlain, Naomie Kremer, Larry Abramson, Jonathon Keats, Amy Berk, and Shahrokh Yadegari, as guest-curated by Lawrence Rinder.
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Beginning as one room above the Parkway Movie Theater off Lake Merritt in downtown Oakland, the Museum eventually expanded to its present site in the former Burke Mansion (architect: Daniel J. Patterson) down the road from the Claremont Resort and Spa in Berkeley.
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With Barbara's encouragement, Mayer taught himself to paint as a septuagenarian and produced sixty-five paintings chronicling life in the Polish town of Opatów before the Holocaust.
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