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Making Sense of Modern Art

To complement the direct experience of artworks in the Museum, SFMOMA offers these online features. Making Sense of Modern Art focuses on various dimensions of making art, artists' lives and philosophies, art history, and art viewing. Our other online programs take an in-depth look at special exhibitions.
Making Sense of Modern Art
 
Ansel Adams at 100
Explore the world of ideas behind Ansel Adams's photography through archival footage of the artist at work, audio commentaries by art historians, and words from Adams himself.
 
Ansel Adams at 100
Bill Viola
Take a close-up look at the work of pioneer multimedia artist Bill Viola through some of his most vivid video/sound installations.
 
Bill Viola
Richard Tuttle
Explore Richard Tuttle's eclectic forty-year career through video of the artist at work, the varied responses of his critics, and artworks that defy art historical tradition.
 
Richard Tuttle
ROY/design series 1
Take an in-depth look at the work of Lindy Roy through streaming video, interviews with the architect, and images of her eclectic and innovative projects.
 
ROY/design series 1
Art as Experiment: Art as Experience
Art as Experiement: Art as Experience
Explore fifteen masterpieces from the Anderson Collection through streaming audio and video clips as well as a zoom function for up-close-and-personal viewing.
 
Eva Hesse
Eva Hesse
Investigate Eva Hesse's working process through archival images, excerpts from her notebooks, and insightful commentaries by the artist and her contemporaries.
 
Robert Bechtle
Robert Bechtle
See Robert Bechtle's life and work through lively videos of the artist in his studio as well as photographs, letters, and newspaper clippings from his personal archive.
 
2x4/design series 3
2x4/design series 3
Experience six diverse projects from the New York-based design group 2x4, whose creations are as lush and colorful as they are intellectual.