Our Enduring Hippie Sensibility, Explained

San Francisco Magazine Ian A. Stewart Gerald Zugman, © Haus-Rucker-Co A new exhibition in Berkeley builds bridges between flower children and techies. With all the Silicon Valley corporate-speak, it can feel increasingly hard to draw a straight line from the Bay Area’s utopian Whole Earth Catalog types to today’s moneyed technocrats. But the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is doing its best to underscore the connections in Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia(Feb. 8–May ...