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Exhibitions (29)
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- South Africa in Apartheid and After: David Goldblatt, Ernest Cole, Billy Monk
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December 01, 2012
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March 05, 2013
This exhibition illuminates a vital, difficult, and contested period in the recent history of South Africa from the perspectives of three photographers: David Goldblatt, Ernest…
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- Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective
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November 03, 2012
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February 03, 2013
This retrospective offers a revelatory, in-depth encounter with the work of Jay DeFeo (1929-1989), one of the most important and innovative artists of her generation, but one who…
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- Jasper Johns: Seeing with the Mind's Eye
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November 03, 2012
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February 03, 2013
For nearly 60 years, Jasper Johns has found new ways to explore, as he once put it, "how we see and why we see the way we do." This major exhibition — the artist's…
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- Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art
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September 15
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December 31, 2012
This international group exhibition convenes artists from six cities around the globe that have become burgeoning artistic centers: Beirut, Lebanon; Cali, Colombia; Cluj, Romania;…
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- Field Conditions
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September 01, 2012
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January 06, 2013
Can there be architecture without buildings? What if a wall or a floor went on forever? What happens when people move through a room? From immersive installations to intricate…
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- Naoya Hatakeyama: Natural Stories
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July 28
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November 04, 2012
One of Japan's most prominent photographers, Naoya Hatakeyama is known for austere and beautiful large-scale pictures that capture the extraordinary forces we deploy to shape…
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- Stage Presence: Theatricality in Art and Media
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July 14
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October 08, 2012
Stage Presence shines a spotlight on theatricality in the art of the last 30 years, presenting works in various media that defy the traditional divide between the visual and the…
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- Cindy Sherman
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July 14
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October 08, 2012
One of the most influential artists of our time, Cindy Sherman creates provocative photographs that explore wide-ranging issues of identity and representation. Working as her own…
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- Paul Klee and Josef Albers: Parallel Construction
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June 07
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October 08, 2012
This exhibition demonstrates a long-term dialogue between artists Paul Klee and Josef Albers from their meeting in the early 1920s until Klee's death in 1940, and includes…
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- Contemporary Painting, 1960 to the Present: Selections from the SFMOMA Collection
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May 18
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August 12, 2012
This exhibition of works from the SFMOMA collection explores the richness, diversity, and continuing vitality of painting over the last 50 years. Contemporary Painting showcases the…
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- New Work: Katharina Wulff
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April 13
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September 09, 2012
Imbued with whimsy and gloom, vulnerability and strength, Katharina Wulff's figurative paintings blend myriad art historical styles, depicting imaginary, far-off locales often…
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- Parra: Weirded Out
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March 31
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July 29, 2012
With its vibrant color, curvaceous lines, and eccentric, distinctive imagery, the bold and playful work of Dutch graphic artist Parra has garnered a substantial cult following…
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- The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area
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March 31
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July 29, 2012
The Bay Area has long attracted dreamers, progressives, nonconformists, and designers. Buckminster Fuller was all of these, and although he never lived in San Francisco, his ideas…
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- Photography in Mexico: Selected Works from the Collections of SFMOMA and Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser
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March 10
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July 08, 2012
Presenting a complex synthesis of art and politics, this exhibition explores Mexico's distinctively rich and diverse photography tradition from the 1920s to the present. It begins…
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- Descriptive Acts
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February 18
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June 17, 2012
Language, performativity, and process are preoccupations for many contemporary artists. The works in Descriptive Acts engage with both text and image, foregrounding complex and often…
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- Mark Bradford
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February 18
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June 17, 2012
Crafting abstract paintings from fragments of the urban environment — permanent-wave end papers, billboard paper, posters, newsprint — Mark Bradford has built a body of…
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- Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective
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February 18
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May 28, 2012
In works of classical simplicity and remarkable psychological depth, Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra presents a contemporary take on the genre of portraiture. Whether…
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- ArtGameLab
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January 15
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August 12, 2012
Imagine a selection of crowdsourced games designed by SFMOMA's community, for SFMOMA's community. Last summer the museum put out an open call for inventive but simple and low-cost…
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- Paul Klee: Portraits
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January 14
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June 03, 2012
This exhibition brings together a selection of works that illuminate Paul Klee's reimaginings of the traditional genre of portraiture. Over the course of his career, Klee…
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- Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards
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December 09, 2011
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April 03, 2012
Celebrating the unique and long-standing role of SFMOMA's SECA award program, this presentation brings into dialogue works by a number of past award recipients. In concert with an…
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- 2010 SECA Art Award: Mauricio Ancalmo, Colter Jacobsen, Ruth Laskey, Kamau Amu Patton
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December 09, 2011
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April 03, 2012
This year's SECA Art Award exhibition showcases four Bay Area artists whose innovative works, while diverse in form and subject matter, reflect overlapping affinities. Mauricio…
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- New Work: Richard Aldrich
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November 18, 2011
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April 03, 2012
The latest installation in our New Work series brings together an array of paintings by New York-based artist Richard Aldrich. Aldrich revels in the possibilities of painting, using…
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- The Air We Breathe
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November 05, 2011
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February 20, 2012
In the belief that art can promote dialogue and enable understanding, The Air We Breathe brings together visual artists and poets to reflect on the subject of equal rights for…
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- Francesca Woodman
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November 05, 2011
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February 20, 2012
Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) was an artist decisively of her time, yet her photographs retain an undeniable immediacy. Thirty years after her death, they continue to inspire…
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- Jim Campbell: Exploded Views
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November 05, 2011
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October 23, 2012
This new installation by acclaimed San Francisco-based artist Jim Campbell explodes the moving image into three dimensions, illuminating the Haas Atrium with a flickering grid of…
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- Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective
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October 15, 2011
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January 16, 2012
Richard Serra's massive steel sculptures have made him one of the key figures in contemporary art, but his work also takes another striking form: drawing. This first-ever…
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- Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break
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October 15, 2011
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January 16, 2012
At once formally rigorous and socially perceptive, Sharon Lockhart's complex and careful investigations into the mediums of film and photography probe the limits and intersections…
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- Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams
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August 27, 2011
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February 20, 2012
Widely regarded as one of the most influential industrial designers of our time, Dieter Rams produced iconic works and innovative ideas (in particular his advocacy for "less…
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- Images in Dialogue: Paul Klee and Andrew Schoultz
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August 13, 2011
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January 08, 2012
Creating a visual dialogue across a century, drawings by contemporary Bay Area artist Andrew Schoultz respond to the inventive works of Swiss-born Modernist Paul Klee, which are…
Talks + Events (97)
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Curator TalkKent Roberts on Richard Serra's Gutter Corner Splash: Night Shift
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Thursday, January 05, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Kent Roberts, exhibitions design manager and chief preparator, SFMOMA
Get a singular take on a work of art each Thursday evening as one artist, curator, or specialist shares a perspective on one artwork. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Special EventPop-Up Lunch Break
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Friday, January 06, 2012
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
SFMOMA transforms into a neighborhood lunch break room to celebrate the final weeks of Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break, an exhibition that contemplates workers' activities during their…
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Curator TalkGary Garrels on Richard Serra's Taraval Beach
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Gary Garrels, Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, SFMOMA
Get a singular take on a work of art each Thursday evening as one artist, curator, or specialist shares a perspective on one artwork. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Curator TalkJessica McDonald on Sonia Landy Sheridan's Sonia in Time
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Jessica McDonald, assistant curator of photography, SFMOMA
Get a singular take on a work of art each Thursday evening as one artist, curator, or specialist shares a perspective on one artwork. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Gallery TalkDavid Best on Joan Brown's Noel in the Kitchen
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
6:30 p.m.
David Best, 1977 SECA Art Award winner
Get a singular take on a work of art each Thursday evening as one artist, curator, or specialist shares a perspective on one artwork. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Gallery TalkSqueak Carnwath on Vija Celmins's Blackboard Tableau #1
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Thursday, February 02, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Squeak Carnwath, 1980 SECA Art Award winner
Get a singular take on a work of art each Thursday evening as one artist, curator, or specialist shares a perspective on one artwork. In February and March, past winners of the…
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Phyllis Wattis Distinguished LectureLois Hetland: What Should We Ask of Art Education?
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Thursday, February 02, 2012
7:00 p.m.
SOLD OUT
Simulcast available (see below)Lois Hetland is one of the leading thinkers on teaching, learning, and visual art. She is a key member of Project Zero, the educational…
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Free Tuesday ProgramThe Love Letters of Stieglitz and O'Keeffe
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012
noon
Sarah Greenough, author and curator of photography, National Gallery of Art
Photographer Alfred Stieglitz and painter Georgia O'Keeffe traded more than five thousand letters over the course of their relationship as acquaintances, lovers, and eventually…
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Gallery TalkKathryn VanDyke on Agnes Martin's Falling Blue
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Thursday, February 09, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Kathryn VanDyke, 2000 SECA Art Award winner
Get a singular take on a work of art each Thursday evening as one artist, curator, or specialist shares a perspective on one artwork. In February and March, past winners of the…
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Panel DiscussionFrancesca Woodman Now
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Thursday, February 09, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Julia Bryan-Wilson, associate professor of art history, UC Berkeley
Corey Keller, associate curator of photography, SFMOMA
Amy Lyford, professor of art history and the visual arts, Occidental College
Peggy Phelan, Ann O'Day Maples Chair in the Arts and professor of drama and English, Stanford UniversityThe art of Francesca Woodman has often been seen through the lens of the powerful and distinctive agendas of the 1970s and '80s: feminist theory, Conceptual art, photography's…
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SFMOMA: Now PlayingBUMP Records on Mark Bradford, Rineke Dijkstra in Conversation
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
6:00 p.m. - 9:45 p.m.
7:00 p.m. Artist talk: Rineke Dijkstra and Sandra S. Phillips
9:00 p.m. Performance: BUMP Records live setTo mark the opening of our winter exhibitions, we present an evening of artists' voices and visions. Rineke Dijkstra starts the evening off with a conversation about her work with…
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Gallery TalkMaria Porges on Janine Antoni's Lick and Lather
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Maria Porges, 1992 SECA Art Award winner
Get a singular take on a work of art each Thursday evening as one artist, curator, or specialist shares a perspective on one artwork. In February and March, past winners of the…
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Gallery TalkShaun O'Dell on Kamau Amu Patton
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Shaun O'Dell, 2004 SECA Art Award winner
Get a singular take on a work of art each Thursday evening as one artist, curator, or specialist shares a perspective on one artwork. In February and March, past winners of the…
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Artist TalkStephen Shore
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Stephen Shore, photographer
In 1972 self-taught photographer Stephen Shore set out from his native New York City to Amarillo, Texas, on the first of what would become a decade's worth of road trips across…
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Gallery TalkChris Finley on Vija Celmins's Blackboard Tableau #1
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Thursday, March 01, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Chris Finley, 1998 SECA Art Award winner
Get a singular take on a work of art each Thursday evening as one artist, curator, or specialist shares a perspective on one artwork. In February and March, past winners of the…
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Free Tuesday ProgramRineke Dijkstra Selects
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Tuesday, March 06, 2012
noon
Introduced by Lisa Sutcliffe, assistant curator of photography, SFMOMA
Johan van der Keuken, Blind Kind, 1964, 27 min., 35mm.
Mark Leckey, Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, 1999, 15 min., video
Pierre Huyghe, Blanche-Neige Lucie, 1997, 4 min., 16mm transferred to DVDOne of the most highly regarded photographers of her generation, Dijkstra is best known for psychologically probing portraits of people in states of transition, including her Beach…
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Gallery TalkJosephine Taylor on Mitzi Pederson's Untitled
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Thursday, March 08, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Josephine Taylor, 2006 SECA Art Award winner
Get a singular take on a work of art each Thursday evening as one artist, curator, or specialist shares a perspective on one artwork. In February and March, past winners of the…
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Artists Panel DiscussionPhotography in Mexico
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Thursday, March 08, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Alejandro Cartagena, artist
Pablo Lopez Luz, artist
Daniela Rossell, artist
Dominic Willsdon, Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Programs, SFMOMAIn this panel, three members of the younger generation of artists in the exhibition — Cartagena, Lopez Luz, and Rossell — each explore, in different ways, contemporary…
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Art Sandwiched InFrom Inspiration to Realization, The Curatorial Process
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
noon
Janet Bishop, curator of painting and sculpture, SFMOMA
Gary Garrels, Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, SFMOMA
Jens Hoffmann, director, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, California College of the Arts
Constance Lewallen, adjunct curator, Berkeley Art Museum
Moderator: Ruth Berson, deputy museum director of curatorial affairs, SFMOMAWhen visitors arrive at a museum exhibition, they see the manifestation of months, years, and sometimes decades of curatorial effort. The many steps it has taken to arrive at that…
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SFMOMA: Now PlayingSECA Artists Play SFMOMA: Mauricio Ancalmo, Colter Jacobsen, Ruth Laskey, Kamau Amu Patton
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
On the occasion of the 2010 SECA Art Award, we present an evening animated by the four awardees: Ancalmo, Jacobsen, Laskey, and Patton. Look forward to film- and sound-based…
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Gallery TalkJordan Kantor on On Kawara's March 16, 1993
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Jordan Kantor, 2008 SECA Art Award winner
Get a singular take on a work of art each Thursday evening as one artist, curator, or specialist shares a perspective on one artwork. In February and March, past winners of the…
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Special EventUn Ojo a la FotografÃa: A Latino Night at SFMOMA
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Plan to rendezvous after work at SFMOMA for a special networking mixer in conjunction with Photography in Mexico, an exhibition exploring Mexico's distinctively rich and diverse…
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Gallery TalkRebeca Bollinger on Giorgio Morandi’s Natura Morta (Still Life) (1952)
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Rebeca Bollinger, 1996 SECA Electronic Media Award winner
Get a singular take on a work of art each Thursday evening as one artist, curator, or specialist shares a perspective on one artwork. In February and March, past winners of the…
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Gallery TalkHung Liu on Rosana Castrillo DÃaz's Untitled
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Hung Liu, 1992 SECA Art Award winner
Get a singular take on a work of art each Thursday evening as one artist, curator, or specialist shares a perspective on one artwork. In February and March, past winners of the…
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Free Tuesday ProgramParra in Conversation
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Tuesday, April 03, 2012
noon
Victor Moscoso and Parra, graphic designers
Joseph Becker, assistant curator of architecture and design, SFMOMACelebrating the opening of Dutch graphic designer Parra's mural at SFMOMA, we present the artist in conversation with local graphic designer Moscoso, whose work for the Avalon…
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Book SigningBook Signing with Camille Rose Garcia
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Thursday, April 05, 2012
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Join us and meet Camille Rose Garcia as she signs copies of her new book Snow White, available in the MuseumStore.
This edition of Snow White presents the unabridged version of the…
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Gallery TalkErica Gangsei on ArtGameLab
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Thursday, April 05, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Erica Gangsei, manager of interpretive media, SFMOMA
Get a singular take on a work of art each Thursday evening as one artist, curator, or specialist shares a perspective on one artwork. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Curator TalkJessica S. McDonald on Enrique Metinides's Rescate de un ahogado en Xochimilco con público reflejado en el agua
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Thursday, April 12, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Jessica S. McDonald, assistant curator of photography, SFMOMA
Get a singular take on a work of art each Thursday evening as one artist, curator, or specialist shares a perspective on one artwork. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Critics Panel DiscussionMexican Fugue, Part 1
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Thursday, April 12, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Maria Ines Canal, professor of contemporary theory and social science, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco
Tarek Elhaik, assistant professor of cinema studies, San Francisco State University
Jesse Lerner, professor of media studies, Pitzer College
Rogelio Villarreal, editor-in-chief, Replicante MagazineTaking its title from the late Olivier Debroise's book Fuga Mexicana, this event is a conversation among four colleagues who are passionate about Mexican modernity and visual…
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Rooftop TVMexican Fugue, Part 2
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Friday, April 13, 2012
11:00 a.m.
María Inés Canal, professor of contemporary theory and social science, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco
Alejandro Cartagena, artist
Tarek Elhaik, assistant professor of cinema studies, San Francisco State University
Jesse Lerner, professor of media studies, Pitzer College
Pablo López Luz, artist
Daniela Rossell, artist
Rogelio Villarreal, editor-in-chief, Replicante magazine
Dominic Willsdon, Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Programs, SFMOMA
Rooftop TV presents live encounters with contemporary artists and thinkers who represent a range of critical and artistic perspectives. This Rooftop TV conversation is the…
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Gallery TalkLisa Sutcliffe on Rineke Dijkstra's Beach Portraits
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Lisa Sutcliffe, assistant curator of photography, SFMOMA
Get a singular take on a work of art each Thursday evening as one artist, curator, or specialist shares a perspective on one artwork. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Panel DiscussionMuseum As Game Board
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Mathias Crawford, Lead Game Designer, Natron Baxter Applied Gaming
Ian Kizu-Blair and Sam Lavigne, Situate
Sarah Brin, independent curator and art historian
Tom Russotti, founder, The Institute for Aesthletics
Erica Gangsei, manager of interpretive media, SFMOMAIn conjunction with ArtGameLab, we present a panel discussion on game design, gaming culture, gamification, and the rise of so-called "serious games" — games played…
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Special EventThe Modern Ball 2012
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Save the date!
Three unique experiences. One unforgettable evening.
It's the biggest art bash of the year! Featuring three unique experiences within one unforgettable evening — The Gala…
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Curator TalkRudolf Frieling on Descriptive Acts
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Rudolf Frieling, curator of media arts, SFMOMA
Get a singular take on a work of art each Thursday evening as one artist, curator, or specialist shares a perspective on one artwork. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Gallery TalkDominic Willsdon on Buckminster Fuller
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Thursday, May 03, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Dominic Willsdon, Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Programs, SFMOMA
Each Thursday one artist, curator, or specialist shares a perspective on one artwork. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Artist TalkMark Bradford
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Thursday, May 03, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Mark Bradford, artist
Rescheduled from Thursday, March 1, 2012.
SOLD OUT
Simulcast availableL.A.-based Mark Bradford uses materials retrieved from the street — billboard paper, newsprint, carbon paper — to create often massively scaled collages that resemble…
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Gallery TalkPeter Samis on Rineke Dijkstra's Olivier series
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Peter Samis, associate curator of interpretation, SFMOMA
Each Thursday one artist, curator, or specialist shares a perspective on one artwork. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Gallery TalkJennifer Dunlop Fletcher on Ant Farm's Convention City
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, assistant curator of architecture and design, SFMOMA
Each Thursday one artist, curator, or specialist shares a perspective on one artwork. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Special EventInternational Museum Day
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Friday, May 18, 2012
SFMOMA is proud to participate in International Museum Day on May 18, 2012. For every year since 1977, International Museum Day has been held worldwide, and it now involves more…
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Art Sandwiched InExpanding the Legacy of San Francisco Photography
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
noon
Frish Brandt, director, Fraenkel Gallery
David Mahoney, SFMOMA board member and collector
Nion McEvoy, SFMOMA board member and publisher
Richard Misrach, photographer
Moderator: Corey Keller, SFMOMA associate curator of photographySan Francisco has been a world-class center for photography since the 1850s, mere years after the medium's invention. The city has retained this stature over time, driven by…
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Gallery TalkJessica Brier on Stewart Brand's The Whole Earth Catalog
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Jessica Brier, curatorial assistant, photography, SFMOMA
Each Thursday one artist, curator, or specialist shares a perspective on one artwork. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Special EventsSFMOMA Celebrates the Golden Gate Bridge at 75
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Times to be announced
San Francisco's beloved Golden Gate Bridge marks its 75th anniversary in May. As part of a Bay Area-wide festival celebrating the bridge, SFMOMA presents a collection of tributes to…
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SFMOMA: Now PlayingLos Jaichackers Present Double Grooves and Dirty Menudo with CHUCHA SANTAMARIA, Moises Medina, and Los Master Plus
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Thursday, May 31, 2012
6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Los Jaichackers (Spanglish for hijackers) is a project of artists Julio Cesar Morales and Eamon Ore-Giron, who track down the global DNA of emerging street and club music in…
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Gallery TalkApsara DiQuinzio on Katharina Wulff
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Thursday, May 31, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Apsara DiQuinzio, assistant curator of painting and sculpture, SFMOMA
Each Thursday one artist, curator, or specialist shares a perspective on one artwork. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Free Tuesday ProgramSimon Sadler on Buckminster Fuller
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Tuesday, June 05, 2012
noon
Simon Sadler, professor of architectural and urban history, University of California, Davis
A specialist in post-World War II architecture and urbanism, Sadler offers his insights on the great visionary, inventor, and progressive dreamer Fuller. Sadler's most recent book…
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Gallery TalkFrank Smigiel on Mark Bradford's Pinocchio Is On Fire
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Thursday, June 07, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Frank Smigiel, associate curator of public programs, SFMOMA
Each Thursday one artist, curator, or specialist shares a perspective on one artwork. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Gallery TalkJulie Charles on Kerry James Marshall's Souvenir III
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Thursday, June 14, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Julie Charles, associate curator of education, SFMOMA
Each Thursday one artist, curator, or specialist shares a perspective on one artwork. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Pop-Up LunchUtopian Cookout
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Friday, June 15, 2012
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Join us for a cookout-style lunch break at SFMOMA! In conjunction with The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area, we celebrate Buckminster Fuller, the innovative…
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Gallery TalkJessica McDonald on Daniela Rossell's Untitled (Ricas y Famosas) (Rich and Famous)
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Thursday, June 21, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Jessica McDonald, assistant curator of photography, SFMOMA
Each Thursday one artist, curator, or specialist shares a perspective on one artwork. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Gallery TalkPaula De Cristofaro on Rothko's No. 14
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Paula De Cristofaro, conservator, SFMOMA
Each Thursday one artist, curator, or specialist shares a perspective on one artwork. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Gallery TalkSarah Cowan on Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Air-Ocean World Map
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Thursday, July 05, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Sarah Cowan, research assistant, SFMOMA
Each Thursday in July and August hear from the behind-the-scenes voices of the museum as SFMOMA staff members share perspectives on a single artwork. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Gallery TalkCynthia Kagay on Sigmar Polke's Palmen (Palm Trees)
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Cynthia Kagay, SECA coordinator, SFMOMA
Each Thursday in July and August hear from the behind-the-scenes voices of the museum as SFMOMA staff members share perspectives on a single artwork. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Gallery TalkJohn Morris on Ellsworth Kelly's Red White
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Thursday, July 19, 2012
6:30 p.m.
John Morris, visual resources associate, SFMOMA
Each Thursday in July and August hear from the behind-the-scenes voices of the museum as SFMOMA staff members share perspectives on a single artwork. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Stage Presence Performance SeriesShana Moulton and Nick Hallett: Whispering Pines 10
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Thursday, July 19, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, July 21 and 22, 2012, 3:00 p.m.Shana Moulton, artist
Nick Hallett, composer
Daisy Press, vocalistView excerpts from the performance in our video archive.
Moulton's alternate persona, Cynthia, moves between domestic spaces, technology, and mental (if colorful) breakdown in her ongoing video series. In Whispering Pines 10, she inhabits…
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Gallery TalkChristo Oropeza on Sandow Birk's Scene from the Desolation: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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Thursday, July 26, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Christo Oropeza, information desk assistant, SFMOMA
Each Thursday in July and August hear from the behind-the-scenes voices of the museum as SFMOMA staff members share perspectives on a single artwork. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Stage Presence Performance SeriesMargaret Tedesco: Catalogue #3 and Cameo. Nights, and night
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Thursday, July 26, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, July 28 and 29, 2012, 3:00 p.m.Margaret Tedesco, artist and curator
July 26: Catalogue #3 and Dear Hanna,
July 28 and 29: Cameo. Nights, and night.View excerpts from the performance in our video archive.
Tedesco works across performance, installation, and photography. In her weekend appearances she draws on and restages her 2005 work Cameo, in which a woman translates…
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Special EventGameLab-a-thon
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Saturday, July 28, 2012
10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Got an idea for a game to play at SFMOMA? Invent your own museum game and play it in the galleries — all in one day — at the SFMOMA GameLab-a-thon! Facilitated by …
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Gallery TalkStella Lochman on Elizabeth Peyton's Liam & Noel, Loch Lomond
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Thursday, August 02, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Stella Lochman, education and public programs assistant, SFMOMA
Each Thursday in July and August hear from the behind-the-scenes voices of the museum as SFMOMA staff members share perspectives on a single artwork. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Stage Presence Performance SeriesAnne McGuire: Music Again
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Thursday, August 2, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, August 4 and 5, 2012, 3:00 p.m.Anne McGuire, artist
Wobbly, electronic musicianView excerpts from the performance in our video archive.
Drawing on her earlier video work I Am Crazy and You're Not Wrong (1997), Bay Area artist McGuire develops an in-gallery television special where live, simulcast, and recorded…
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Gallery TalkBrandon Larson on John McLaughlin's #26
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Thursday, August 09, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Brandon Larson, installation manager, SFMOMA
Each Thursday in July and August hear from the behind-the-scenes voices of the museum as SFMOMA staff members share perspectives on a single artwork. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Stage Presence Performance SeriesCliff Hengst: Maybe
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Thursday, August 9, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, August 11 and 12, 2012, 3:00 p.m.Cliff Hengst, artist and musician
Thursday, August 9
Ballimbo, 2004
Incantation to Destroy a Cultural Institution, 2012
with Wayne Smith and Scott HewickerSaturday, August 11
Ballimbo, 2004
Suicide, 1997
Make Me Wanna Holler, 1992
Lines, 2012
In My Room, 1992
Clowny Sadcakes, 1993Sunday, August 12
Ballimbo, 2004
When Life Puts That Juju on Me, 2009
Shout Out to All My Departed Pets, 2001
You Can If You Think You Can, 2012
Maybe, 1999
You, 2004
Stink Bomb, 2005View excerpts from the performance in our video archive.
Hengst is a San Francisco-based painter and performance artist. Here he presents a series of new and revisited solo works, including Stink Bomb, I Am a Tree, and Elvis. Hengst's…
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Gallery TalkMorgan Levey on Franz Marc's Gebirge (Mountains) [formerly Landschaft (Landscape)]
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Thursday, August 16, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Morgan Levey, interpretive media associate, SFMOMA
Each Thursday in July and August hear from the behind-the-scenes voices of the museum as SFMOMA staff members share perspectives on a single artwork. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Stage Presence Performance SeriesMy Barbarian: Broke People's Baroque Peoples' Theater
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Thursday, August 16, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, August 18 and 19, 2012, 3:00 p.m.Malik Gaines, artist
Jade Gordon, artist
Alexandro Segade, artistView excerpts from the performance in our video archive.
My Barbarian animates theatrical styles from Baroque spectacle to camp drag to riff on the absurdities of the American financial crisis. In a performance of wastefulness,…
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Gallery TalkTim Svenonius on Petah Coyne's Untitled #1181 (Dante's Daphne)
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Thursday, August 23, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Tim Svenonius, producer, interpretive media, SFMOMA
Each Thursday in July and August hear from the behind-the-scenes voices of the museum as SFMOMA staff members share perspectives on a single artwork. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Stage Presence Performance SeriesD-L Alvarez and Kevin Killian: The Visitor Owl
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Thursday, August 23, 2012, 7:30 p.m. SOLD OUT
Saturday and Sunday, August 25 and 26, 2012, 3:00 p.m.D-L Alvarez, artist
Kevin Killian, writerView excerpts from the performance in our video archive.
This collaboration between writer Killian, visual artist Alvarez, and the San Francisco Poets Theater features hyperbolic reenactments of two seminal Sidney Poitier films about…
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Gallery TalkChristian Davies on Jean (Hans) Arp’s Tête et Feuille; Tête et Vase/Kopf und Blatt; Kopf und Vase (Head and Leaf; Head and Vase)
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Christian Davies, education associate, family programs, SFMOMA
Each Thursday in July and August hear from the behind-the-scenes voices of the museum as SFMOMA staff members share perspectives on a single artwork. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Stage Presence Performance SeriesRichard T. Walker: the speed and eagerness of meaning (longer longing version)
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Thursday, August 30, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, September 1 and 2, 2012, 3:00 p.m.Richard T. Walker, artist
View excerpts from the performance in our video archive.
Walker's meditative works combine spoken language, original music compositions, video, and photography to focus on the relationships among humans, language, and the environment.…
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Free Tuesday ProgramJulie Lazar on John Cage
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Tuesday, September 04, 2012
noon
Julie Lazar, curator and founding director, International Contemporary Arts Network
Lazar screens Circle of Circuses (1994), a video inspired by Cage's use of chance operations and drawn from source materials associated with the large-scale composition Rolywholyover…
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Curator TalkTanya Zimbardo on Gerard Byrne's Subject
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Thursday, September 06, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator of media arts, SFMOMA
Each Thursday, hear from the people behind the scenes at the museum as SFMOMA curators share perspectives on individual artworks. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Special EventElectronic Music Festival
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Thursday, September 06, 2012
7:00 p.m.
SFMOMA is pleased to host the opening concert of the 13th Annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival. Offerings include versions of Cage's Fontana Mix and Aria performed…
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Curator TalkJoseph Becker on Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's Homographies
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Joseph Becker, assistant curator of architecture and design, SFMOMA
This program has been moved from October 4, 2012.
Each Thursday, hear from the people behind the scenes at the museum as SFMOMA curators share perspectives on individual artworks. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Special EventsfSound Presents: Music of ChAnGEs, Variations VIII
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
7:00 p.m.
As part of their yearlong celebration of Cage's 100th birthday, contemporary music crusaders sfSound present a diverse program of some of Cage's most intriguing works. It centers…
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Curator TalkJennifer Dunlop Fletcher on Lebbeus Woods's Conflict Space series
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, assistant curator of architecture and design, SFMOMA
This program has been moved from September 20, 2012.
Each Thursday, hear from the people behind the scenes at the museum as SFMOMA curators share perspectives on individual artworks. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Free Tuesday ProgramRobert Arneson's Portrait of George
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Tuesday, October 02, 2012
noon
Gary Garrels, Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, SFMOMA
Join Garrels for a discussion of sculptor and ceramicist Arneson's controversial tribute to San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, who was assassinated in 1978.
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Curator TalkCaitlin Haskell on Ciprian Muresan's Untitled (Monks)
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Thursday, October 04, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Caitlin Haskell, assistant curator of painting and sculpture, SFMOMA
Each Thursday, hear from the people behind the scenes at the museum as SFMOMA curators share perspectives on individual artworks. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Artist Panel DiscussionUnidentified Influences: Artists on Cindy Sherman
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Thursday, October 04, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Lynn Hershman Leeson, Katy Grannan, and Desirée Holman, artists
Eva Respini, associate curator of photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New YorkMany of the themes explored by Sherman, such as feminine stereotypes, the plasticity of identity, and fiction and artifice in portraiture, are crucial concerns in contemporary art…
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Stage Presence Performance SeriesRashaad Newsome: Shade Compositions
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Thursday, October 04, 2012
9:00 p.m.
Newsome's Shade Compositions takes up the body language and voice of certain women of color — wondering how a seemingly sassy street expression extends across the globe as an…
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Book SigningBook Signing: Trevor Paglen
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Trevor Paglen, artist/geographer
Paglen signs his new book, The Last Pictures, in the MuseumStore preceding his evening presentation in the Phyllis Wattis Theater.
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Gallery TalkKate Mendillo on Robert Gober’s Untitled
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Kate Mendillo, curatorial project manager, SFMOMA
Each Thursday, hear from the people behind the scenes at the museum as SFMOMA curators share perspectives on individual artworks. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Artist TalkTrevor Paglen
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Trevor Paglen, artist/geographer
Presented in conjunction with Litquake, Creative Time, and the release of artist/geographer Paglen's latest book, The Last Pictures, this multimedia performance/lecture attempts to…
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Curator TalkJenny Gheith on Alessandro Pessoli
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Thursday, October 18, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Jenny Gheith, assistant curator of painting and sculpture, SFMOMA
Each Thursday, hear from the people behind the scenes at the museum as SFMOMA curators share perspectives on individual artworks. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Special Event2012 Bay Area Treasure Award Dinner Honoring Jim Campbell
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Haas Atrium
Doors open at 6:00 p.m.
The St. Regis San Francisco, 125 Third Street
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.Jim Campbell, artist
Rudolf Frieling, curator of media arts, SFMOMA
Scott Snibbe, media artistBenefactor Reception
Hosted in SFMOMA's Haas atrium, this intimate champagne reception will feature a talk and tour with honoree Jim Campbell, and a one-night-only installation in…
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Book SigningBook Signing: Todd Selby, James Freeman, and Caitlin Freeman
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
James Freeman, founder, Blue Bottle Coffee
Caitlin Freeman, pastry chef, Blue Bottle Coffee
Todd Selby, photographer and authorJoin us for a delicious evening with the authors of two new books. A talk and reception follow the signing.
Edible Selby and The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee: Growing, Roasting, and…
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Special EventTodd Selby, James Freeman, and Caitlin Freeman in Conversation
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
6:00 p.m.
James Freeman, founder, Blue Bottle Coffee
Caitlin Freeman, pastry chef, Blue Bottle Coffee
Todd Selby, photographer and authorThis special event brings together the folks behind Blue Bottle Coffee — America's leading artisan roaster — and New York-based photographer and author Selby to…
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Curator TalkLisa Sutcliffe on Naoya Hatakeyama's A BIRD/Blast #130
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Lisa Sutcliffe, assistant curator of photography, SFMOMA
Each Thursday, hear from the people behind the scenes at the museum as SFMOMA curators share perspectives on individual artworks. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Curator TalkRudolf Frieling on Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's Frequency and Volume: Relational Architecture 9
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Thursday, November 01, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Rudolf Frieling, curator of media arts, SFMOMA
Each Thursday, hear from the people behind the scenes at the museum as SFMOMA curators share perspectives on individual artworks. Talks last 20 minutes.
Please note: curator talks…
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Artist TalkRafael Lozano-Hemmer and Seth Horvitz
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Thursday, November 01, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, artist
Seth Horvitz, musicianLozano-Hemmer is internationally recognized for his kinetic sculptures, responsive environments, and photography and video installations. His work is featured at SFMOMA this fall…
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Free Tuesday ProgramBen Kinmont: Into the Archives
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Tuesdays, November 6, and December 4, 2012
11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.Join us for a deeper look into the archives that make up Ben Kinmont: Prospectus. A specialized attendant will be on hand to help surface archival gems that are not on view in the…
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Curator TalkJoseph Becker on Tauba Auerbach's 50/50 Floor
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Thursday, November 08, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Joseph Becker, assistant curator of architecture and design, SFMOMA
Each Thursday, hear from the people behind the scenes at the museum as SFMOMA curators share perspectives on individual artworks. Talks last 20 minutes.
Please note: curator talks…
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PerformanceKevin Killian and Poets' Theater Present Wet Paint
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Thursday, November 08, 2012
7:00 p.m.
THEY INVENTED A NEW KIND OF ART...AND A NEW KIND OF SEX TO GO WITH IT! Killian's Wet Paint tells the story of Jay DeFeo and San Francisco's bohemian underground with a cast of…
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Curator TalkErica Gangsei on Selected Histories
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Erica Gangsei, manager of interpretive media, SFMOMA
Each Thursday, hear from the people behind the scenes at the museum as SFMOMA curators share perspectives on individual artworks. Talks last 20 minutes.
Please note: curator talks…
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PerformanceMorton Subotnick and SUE-C: Silver Apples of the Moon
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Subotnick is hailed as one of the pioneers in the development of electronic music and multimedia performance mixing computer-based compositions with live electronic processing. In…
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PerformanceHelena Producciones Local Proposals
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
6:00 p.m.
Kadist, VISIBLE and Helena Producciones, through an open call for actions and performative gestures that emphasizes visual commentaries on urgent social issues, present 10 selected…
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Curator TalkJulie Charles on Jasper Johns's 0 through 9
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Julie Charles, associate curator of education, SFMOMA
Each Thursday, hear from the people behind the scenes at the museum as SFMOMA curators share perspectives on individual artworks. Talks last 20 minutes.
Please note: curator talks…
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ConversationDavid Goldblatt in Conversation
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
7:00 p.m.
David Goldblatt, photographer
Sandra S. Phillips, senior curator of photography, SFMOMAJoin SFMOMA curator Phillips for a conversation with acclaimed photographer Goldblatt about his work and the exhibition South Africa in Apartheid and After. Goldblatt is the current…
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Curatorial WorkshopExhibiting South Africa
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Friday, November 30, 2012
noon - 2:00 p.m.
Catherine Cole, UC Berkeley, Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies
David Goldblatt, photographer
Betti-Sue Hertz, director of visual arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Kemang Wa Luhlere, artist
Sandra S. Phillips, senior curator of photography, SFMOMA
Dominic Willsdon, Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Programs, SFMOMA
Additional guests to be announcedContemporary photography from South Africa is a growing concentration in the SFMOMA collection. This workshop begins a process that will result in an exhibition in 2014. A…
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Phyllis Wattis Distinguished SymposiumCreating the Periphery: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art
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Saturday, December 01, 2012
noon - 5:30 p.m.
Rolf Abderhalden, artist
Negar Azimi, senior editor, Bidoun magazine
Omar Berrada, writer and translator; director of Dar al-Ma'mûn
Julia Bryan-Wilson, art historian, UC Berkeley
Wilson Díaz, artist; co-founder of Helena Producciones
Apsara DiQuinzio, curator, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Chris Dixon, owner, Explorist International
Cesar Garcia, curator; U.S. Commissioner for the 13th International Cairo Biennale
Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, curator, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
Dinh Q. Lê, artist; co-founder of Sàn Art
Pamela M. Lee, art historian, Stanford University
Kemang Wa Lehulere, artist
Aaron Levy, founding executive director, Slought Foundation
Deirdre Logue, artist; development director at Vtape.org; founder of FAG feminist art gallery, Toronto
Ana María Millán, artist and founding member of Helena Producciones
Allyson Mitchell, artist; social and cultural historian, York University; founder of FAG feminist art gallery, Toronto
Antanas Mockus, mathematician, philosopher, politician
Tuan Andrew Nguyen, artist; co-founder of Sàn Art; member of The Propeller Group
Stefania Pandolfo, anthropologist, UC Berkeley
Ignacio Valero, social and cultural historian, California College of the Arts
Roberto Varea, director, Center for Latino Studies in the Americas (CELASA), University of San Francisco
Dominic Willsdon, Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Programs, SFMOMATime Description noon - 12:50 p.m. Locating the Periphery: Dominic Willsdon, Negar Azimi, and Aaron Levy. Responses from Stefania Pandolfo, Omar Berrada, and Joana Hadjithomas. 1:00 p.m. Cesar Garcia presentation 1:30 p.m. - 2:20 p.m. Institutions at the Periphery: Apsara DiQuinzio, Dinh Q. Lê, and Tuan Andrew Nguyen. Responses from Julia Bryan-Wilson, Sofia Hernández Chong Cuy, Deirdre Logue, and Allyson Mitchell. 2:30 p.m. Kemang Wa Lehulere presentation 3:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. Performance at the Periphery: Roberto Varea, Rolf Abderhalden, and Antanas Mockus. Varea moderates a discussion with Wilson Díaz, Ana María Millán, and others. 4:00 p.m. DJ set by Chris Dixon 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. San Francisco at the Periphery: Responses from Pamela M. Lee and Ignacio Valero. Conversation hosted by Dominic Willsdon. In recent years, the focal point of the art world has shifted from a few major centers to a multiplicity of artistic communities around the globe. Cultural power is still…
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Film (37)
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Free Tuesday ScreeningBay Area Lens: SECA Film Awards
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Tuesday, January 03, 2012
noon
Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator of media arts, SFMOMA
Tanya Zimbardo introduces a program of films culled from the SECA Film as Art Awards, which ran from 1973 to 1998, and discusses the role of the awards in relation to the museum's…
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Film ScreeningSharon Lockhart Films: Program 1
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Thursday, January 05, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Pine Flat, Sharon Lockhart, 2005, 135 min., 16mm
Filmed over the course of three years in the Sierra Nevada foothills, Pine Flat explores the interactions of children with their local surroundings. A quiet intimacy between camera…
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Film ScreeningSharon Lockhart Films: Program 2
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Podworka, Sharon Lockhart, 2009, 31 min., video
No, Sharon Lockhart, 2003, 34 min., 16mmPodworka observes children in Lodz, Poland, as they transform parking lots, storage units, and other abandoned urban structures into centers of play. Views of a cold and…
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Film ScreeningLuminaries: SECA Film Awards
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator of media arts, SFMOMA
VALSE TRISTE, Bruce Conner, 1978, 6 min., 16mm
Testament, James Broughton, 1974, 20 min., 16mm
Vital Signs, Barbara Hammer, 1991, 10 min., 16mm
Decodings, Michael Wallin, 1988, 15 min., 16mm
Frame Line, Gunvor Nelson, 1984, 22 min., 16mm
Total running time: 73 min.In tribute to the Bay Area's role as an epicenter of experimental film, this program centers on constructing autobiography. The selection of films is drawn from SFMOMA's SECA Film…
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San Francisco Cinematheque ScreeningOn Photography: Elisabeth Subrin's The Fancy
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
7:00 p.m.
The Fancy, Elisabeth Subrin, 2000, 36 min., video
In conjunction with the exhibition Francesca Woodman, SF Cinematheque presents Subrin's oblique portrait of the late photographer. Based on explorations of places where the artist…
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Film ScreeningPanorama
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator of media arts, SFMOMA
Mel Henderson (with Joe Hawley and Alfred Young), Yellow Cabs, 1969, 16mm transfer to video, 7:30 min.
Will Rogan, Sweeter as the years roll by (part 3), 2003, video, color, sound, 1:45 min.
Michael Rudnick, Panorama, 1982, 16mm, color, sound, 13 min.
D-L Alvarez, Sentry, 2007, video, b&w, sound, 4:36 min.
William Allan (with Bruce Nauman and Robert Nelson), Fishing for Asian Carp, 1966, 16mm, color, sound, 2:30 min.
Kota Ezawa, Home Video 2, 2010, video, color, sound, 5:57 min.
Shaun O'Dell, Silent Tree Liftoff, 2003, video, color, silent, min.
Dennis "Sky" David Pies, Sonoma, 1974-77, 16mm, color, sound, 6:12 min.
Desirée Holman, Troglodyte, 2005, video, color, sound, 7 min.
This screening brings together short contemporary and historic film and video works by artists affiliated with either SFMOMA's SECA Film As Art Award series or its ongoing SECA Art…
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Film ScreeningUn Banquete en Tetlapayac (A Banquet at Tetlapayac)
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Introduced by Dominic Willsdon, Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Programs, SFMOMA
Olivier Debroise, 2000, 110 min., video
Un Banquete en Tetlapayac is Debroise's contemporary reenactment of the events surrounding the filming of director Sergei Eisenstein's Que Viva Mexico (1931). Eisenstein's…
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San Francisco Cinematheque ScreeningTexts of Light: A Mid-career Retrospective of 14 Films by David Gatten
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Thursday, April 05, 2012
7:00 p.m.
David Gatten, filmmaker
Four Films Toward Part V of Secret History of the Dividing Line, A True Account in Nine Parts
For 15 years David Gatten has explored the intersection of the printed word and the moving image. His work illuminates an array of historical, conceptual, and material concerns…
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SF International Film Festival ScreeningMarina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present
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Saturday, April 21,2012, 4:15 p.m. Kabuki
Saturday, April 28,2012, 3:30 p.m. Kabuki
Sunday, April 29,2012, 5:40 p.m. PFAMatthew Akers, 2011, 105 min.
See the many selves of artist Marina Abramovic, the self-described "grandmother of performance art," in this handsome, persuasive documentary that frames her celebrated…
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Free Tuesday ProgramBuckminster Fuller Meets the Hippies in Golden Gate Park
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Tuesday, May 01, 2012
noon
Sam Green, filmmaker
Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, assistant curator of architecture and design, SFMOMA1967, 44 min., video
This film, by an unknown director, eavesdrops on a conversation between Fuller and a group of people assembled on Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park. Taking place at the height of the…
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Live CinemaThe Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller
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7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.
SOLD OUT
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Sam Green presents the world premiere of his "live documentary" on Buckminster Fuller. The piece is a follow-up to his internationally…
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SF Cinematheque ScreeningGregory J. Markopoulos's Galaxie
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
7:00 p.m.
In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H. Auden, Jasper Johns, Susan…
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Film ScreeningSan Francisco Art Institute MFA Screening
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Friday, May 11, 2012
1:00 p.m.
The San Francisco Art Institute presents a program of films and videos created by students in the master of fine arts film program. Steeped in an avant-garde tradition, SFAI's…
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Film ScreeningAmerican Teacher
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Nínive Calegari, co-producer
Brian McGinn and Vanessa Roth, 2011, 81 min., video
Chronicling the lives and sacrifices of four public school teachers, American Teacher highlights an urgent crisis in the American educational system: how little we value our…
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Film ScreeningViva Photofilm
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Friday, May 18, 2012
4:00 p.m.
Gusztáv Hámos, curator
La Jetée (The Jetty), Chris Marker, 1962, 35mm, 28 min.
Der Fischmarkt und die Fische (The Fishmarket and the Fish), Leonore Mau and Hubert Fichte, 1968, Beta SP, 9 min.
Beshin Lug (Beshin Meadow), Sergei Eisenstein, 1935/67, 35mm, 30 min.
Fremdkörper (Transposed Bodies), Katja Pratschke and Gusztáv Hámos, 2002, 35mm, 28 min.Featuring a wide range of work spanning several decades, Viva Photofilm looks at how photographs, when placed in a cinematic context, can create a filmic experience. Photofilms…
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Film ScreeningDescriptive Acts
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Jeanne C. Finley, artist and filmmaker
Rudolf Frieling, curator of media arts, SFMOMAThis screening adds historic perspective to Descriptive Acts by showcasing seminal narrative experiments made between 1975 and 1992. John Smith's early linguistic research in …
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Film ScreeningTen Minutes Older: The Cello
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Thursday, June 07, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Ten Minutes Older, Herz Frank, 1978, 10 min., video
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello, Bernardo Bertolucci, Claire Denis, Mike Figgis, Jean-Luc Godard, Jirí Menzel, Michael Radford, Volker Schlöndorff, and István Szabó, 2002, 95 min., videoIn 1978 Herz Frank released the now-classic film Ten Minutes Older, which consists of a single shot of a child watching a puppet show. In a short time, viewers witness a dramatic…
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Film ScreeningTen Minutes Older: The Trumpet
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Thursday, June 14, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Ten Minutes Older, Herz Frank, 1978, 10 min., video
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet, Víctor Erice, Werner Herzog, Jim Jarmusch, Kaige Chen, Aki Kaurismäki, Spike Lee, Wim Wenders, 2002, 92 min., videoIn 1978 Herz Frank released the now-classic film Ten Minutes Older, which consists of a single shot of a child watching a puppet show. In a short time, viewers witness a dramatic…
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Film ScreeningFuturist Life Redux and New Skin for the Old Ceremony
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Thursday, June 21, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Futurist Life Redux, Trisha Baga, chameckilerner, Martha Colburn, Ben Coonley, George Kuchar, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Shana Moulton, Shannon Plumb, Aida Ruilova, Matthew Silver and Shoval Zohar, and Michael Smith, 2009, 46 min., video
New Skin for the Old Ceremony, Theo Angell, Peter Coffin, Weston Currie, Alex Da Corte, Brent Green, Christian Holstad, Sylvan and Lily Lanken, Lucky Dragons, Brett Milspaw, Kelly Sears, and Tina Tyrell, 2011, 35 min., videoCreated in 1916 and later lost, Vita Futurista was the only official futurist film ever made. In 2009 Performa, along with SFMOMA and Portland Green Cultural Projects, commissioned…
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Film ScreeningSpirits of the Dead
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, and Roger Vadim, 1968, 121 min., 35mm and video
In English, French, and Italian with English subtitles.Spirits of the Dead is based on three supernatural short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, each interpreted by a major director. In Vadim's Metzengerstein, a medieval countess (Jane…
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Free Tuesday ScreeningSeeking the Monkey King
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Tuesday, July 03, 2012
noon
Ken Jacobs, 2011, 40 min., video
An abstract audiovisual masterpiece, Seeking the Monkey King plays mind-tricks on the viewer, who never quite knows what he or she is seeing: a piece of gold foil being crumpled, a…
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Film ScreeningCleo from 5 to 7
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Thursday, July 05, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Agnès Varda, 1962, 90 min., 35mm
In French with English subtitles.At 5:00 p.m. beautiful French pop star Cléo learns that she will know the results of a stomach cancer test at 7:00 p.m. In the intervening hours she wanders the streets of…
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Film ScreeningThe Beaver Trilogy
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Trent Harris, 2000, 83 min., Beta SP
The Beaver Trilogy comprises three segments shot at different times: in 1979, 1981, and 1985. The first, The Beaver Kid, is a mini-documentary featuring "Groovin' Gary," a…
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Film ScreeningSeconds
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Thursday, July 19, 2012
7:00 p.m.
John Frankenheimer, 1966, 107 min., 35mm
Frankenheimer's riveting film unfolds as a disillusioned middle-aged businessman is given the opportunity to be reborn as someone else through a mysterious organization known only…
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Film ScreeningThe Host
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Thursday, July 26, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Bong Joon-Ho, 2006, 119 min., 35mm
In Korean with English subtitles.One of the best creature features of the last decade, The Host displays Bong's signature blend of horror and dark humor. A mutant creature created by human pollution surfaces from…
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Film ScreeningSuture
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Thursday, August 02, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Scott McGehee and David Siegel, 1993, 96 min., 35mm
In this witty and cerebral murder mystery, Vincent Tower plots to kill his long-lost but nearly identical half-brother Clay and pass the death off as his own. Clay survives…
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Free Tuesday ScreeningLa Jetée and Meshes of the Afternoon
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Tuesday, August 07, 2012
noon
La Jetée, Chris Marker, 1962, 28 min., 35mm
Meshes of the Afternoon, Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943/1959, 14 min., 16mmAs part of our film series selected by Sherman, SFMOMA screens two influential experimental films. Composed almost entirely of still photographs and considered one of the most…
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Film ScreeningWanda
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Thursday, August 09, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Barbara Loden, 1970, 102 min., 35mm
Set in the coal mining region of Pennsylvania, this film follows Wanda, an alcoholic who abandons her husband and children for a life of drinking and sleeping with strange men. Her…
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Film ScreeningThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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Thursday, August 16, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Tobe Hooper, 1974, 83 min., 35mm
The horror film classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre follows a group of young travelers whose car runs out of gas — to their misfortune — while on their way to visit a…
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Film ScreeningShadows
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Thursday, August 23, 2012
7:00 p.m.
John Cassavetes, 1959, 81 min., 35mm
Part documentary, part fiction, Shadows explores race relations during the Beat Generation years in New York City. A model of independent film, it was shot with a 16mm handheld…
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Film ScreeningKick-Ass
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Matthew Vaughn, 2010, 117 min., 35mm
Based on a comic book, Kick-Ass follows the adventures of an average teenager, who, without any real powers or training, dons an Internet-bought green-and-yellow wetsuit and sets…
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Film ScreeningNights and Days: A Decade of Lebanese Short Films
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Lamia Joreige, artist
Apsara DiQuinzio, incoming curator of modern and contemporary art, BAM/PFA, and Phyllis C. Wattis MATRIX CuratorReplay (Bis), Lamia Joreige, Lebanon, 2002, 9 min.
Saving Face, Jalal Toufic, Lebanon, 2003, 8 min.
Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright, Akram Zaatari, Lebanon, 2010, 7 min.
In This House, Akram Zaatari, Lebanon, 2005, 30 min.
Nights and Days, Lamia Joreige, Lebanon, 2007, 17 min.Total running time: 71 min.
Whether depicting a partially remembered dream or collecting elements of a story, Lamia Joreige's Replay (Bis), like all of the films in tonight's program, is concerned with the act…
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Film Screening and DiscussionVideograms of a Revolution and Pipe Dreams
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Adrian Ghenie, Lamia Joreige, Victor Man, Ciprian Muresan, and Mihai Pop, artists
Apsara DiQuinzio, assistant curator of painting and sculpture, SFMOMAVideograms of a Revolution, Harun Farocki, Andrei Ujică, 1992, 106 min., 16mm
In Romanian and English with English subtitles.Pipe Dreams, Ali Cherri, 2012, 6 min., video
Videograms of a Revolution documents the overthrow of Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989. The montage of clips, shot by various filmmakers over the course of the regime's…
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Film Screeningwhiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir
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Thursday, September 27, 2012, 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Friday - Sunday, September 28 - 30, 2012, 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.Eve Sussman, 2009-11, running time variable, digital video
Sussman's whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir becomes a new, unique film with each screening. The overarching narrative remains constant — a geophysicist in "City-A", a…
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Panel Discussionwhiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Kevin Messman, editor
Frank Smigiel, associate curator of public programs, SFMOMA
Eve Sussman, director
Jeff Wood, actorSussman and collaborators from the Rufus Corporation discuss the production of whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir — an ever-changing narrative culled from two years of filming, 3,000…
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San Francisco Cinematheque ScreeningThe Lighted Field: Beings and Relations
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Thursday, October 18, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Like the works in Field Conditions, the films and videos in this program imagine the cinematic frame as a locus of diffuse and vibrant energy, a ground from which figures may (or…
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Free Tuesday ScreeningDemonstrations
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012
noon
Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator of media arts, SFMOMA
This program on Election Day considers performances that have held a mirror to society by adopting the visual language of protest. Radio personality Bob Fass asks New Yorkers to…
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Video Screenings (12)
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Daily Video ScreeningsWer ist Mr. Braun? (Who is Mr. Braun?)
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Daily (except Wednesdays and Sundays), 2:00 p.m.
Susanne Mayer-Hagmann, 2008, 44 min.
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Daily Video ScreeningsBeautiful Losers
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Aaron Rose and Joshua Leonard, 2008, 90 min.
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Daily Video ScreeningsReflections: R. Buckminster Fuller
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Robert Snyder and Jamie Snyder, 1977, 60 min.
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Daily Video ScreeningsArt:21: Art in the 21st Century: Change
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Daily (except Wednesdays and Sundays), 3:00 p.m.
Art:21, 2012, 60 min.
On May 4, 2012, the Koret Visitor Education Center will close at 3:00 p.m. Screenings of Art 21 episodes will resume May 5, 2012.
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Daily Video ScreeningsArt:21: Art in the 21st Century: History
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Daily (except Wednesdays and Sundays), 4:00 p.m.
Art:21, 2012, 60 min.
On May 4, 2012, the Koret Visitor Education Center will close at 3:00 p.m. Screenings of Art 21 episodes will resume May 5, 2012.
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Daily Video ScreeningsArt21: Art in the 21st Century: Transformation
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Daily (except Wednesdays and Sundays), 3:30 p.m.
Art21, 2009, 55 min.
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Daily Video ScreeningsStage Presence: Screenings
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Daily (except Wednesdays)
July 14
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October 08, 2012
10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Daily video screenings begin on the hour. Please note that the gallery will also host weekly live performances in July and August, and as a result the screenings will end early at…
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Daily Video ScreeningsStill
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Daily (except Wednesdays and Sundays), 2:00 p.m.
Amie Knox and Chad Herschberger, 2011, 60 min.
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Daily Video ScreeningsA Tribute to John Cage
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Daily (except Wednesdays and Sundays), 2:30 p.m.
Nam June Paik, 1973/76, 29 min., Collection SFMOMA
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Daily Video ScreeningsTHE WHITE ROSE
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Daily (except Wednesdays and Sundays), 2:15 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
Bruce Conner, 1967, 7 min.
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Daily Video ScreeningsJasper Johns: Ideas in Paint
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Daily (except Wednesdays and Sundays), 2:30 p.m.
Rick Tejada-Flores, 1989, 56 min.
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Daily Video ScreeningsSol LeWitt: Wall Drawings
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Daily (except Wednesdays and Sundays), 4:00 p.m.
Edgar B. Howard and Tom Piper, 2010, 55 min.
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Tours (3)
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Special Exhibition Mobile TourCindy Sherman
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Every
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July 14
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October 08, 2012
All day
This in-depth look at Sherman's work features behind-the-scenes video and insights from the artist.
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Special Exhibition Mobile TourJasper Johns: Seeing with the Mind's Eye
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November 03, 2012
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All day
Hear about Johns's evolution as an artist from scholars who know him well and the artist himself.
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Special Exhibition Mobile TourJay DeFeo: A Retrospective
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November 03, 2012
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February 03, 2013
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Listen to archival audio of DeFeo, mixed with the voices of exhibition curators and personal friends.
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For Families (9)
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Family SundayBack to BASICS
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Sundays, January 8 - March 25, 2012
11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.Lines and colors and shapes, oh my! Discover how these building blocks of art stack up and create your own works of art. The fun will be elemental!
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Free Family DayBack to BASICS
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Sunday, March 04, 2012
11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Welcome to our free open house for families! Take part in inventive art projects, hands-on gallery activities, and loads of family fun. What a way to spend the day!
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Family SundayWhat's the Big IDEA?
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Sundays, April 1 - June 24, 2012
11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.Ideas are one thing, what happens as a result is another. See what can happen when you transform your big ideas into art. Let your imagination run with it. It all starts with an…
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Family DayFree Family Day
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Sunday, June 03, 2012
11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Take part in artful activities and check out our fabulous exhibitions. What's your big IDEA?
Don't miss the 1:00 p.m. screening of Hugo.
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Family ScreeningHugo
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Sunday, June 03, 2012
1:00 p.m.
Martin Scorsese, 127 minutes, 2011, 35mm
An orphaned boy secretly lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station and looks after the clocks. He gets caught up in a mystery adventure when he attempts to repair a…
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Family SundayIt's PERSONal
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Sundays, July 1 - September 20, 2012
11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.Face it, artists love to make art about people. Come and figure it out with our Moderators and hands-on family activities.
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Family SundayARTales
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Sundays, July 1 - August 26, 2012
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.This July and August, start your Family Sunday with ARTales. Join our Moderators in the Koret Visitor Education Center for a special story time designed just for our young visitors…
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Family DayYerba Buena Family Day
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Sunday, September 23, 2012
11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Join us in the neighborhood for a daylong family block party with free admission to SFMOMA, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Museum of the African Diaspora, and Children's…
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Family SundayJust DO It
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Sundays, October, November, and December 2012
11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.As Jasper Johns said, "Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it." Come and see how we DO it at SFMOMA on Family Sunday.
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For Members (23)
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Member EventMember for a Day
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Hours vary by location
SFMOMA joins a selection of Bay Area cultural institutions to host Member for a Day on Saturday, January 21. SFMOMA members can enjoy reciprocal admission and special activities at…
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Member EventContributing and Benefactor Member Preview and Reception
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Contributing-level members and higher
Please see your invitation for event details and RSVP information.
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Member EventMember Preview Day
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
All members
The exhibitions are open exclusively for members on this day. Regular member guest privileges apply.
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Member EventOpening Night Party at YBCA
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Friday, February 17, 2012
8:00 p.m. - midnight
All members
Join YBCA for their Mark Bradford Opening Night Party. SFMOMA members are extended special access at 8:00 p.m. Present your membership card at the door; regular member guest…
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Member EventMember Preview Day
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Thursday, March 08, 2012
11:00 a.m. - 8:45 p.m.
All members
The exhibition is open exclusively for members on this day. Regular member guest privileges apply.
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Member EventMember Party
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Friday, March 16, 2012
7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
All members
Celebrate with live music curated by Tyson Vogel, and enjoy our rooftop Blue Bottle Coffee Bar and regional Mexican food for sale from Nopalito.
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Member EventArtists Gallery Reception
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Contributing level members and higher
SFMOMA members at the Contributing level and higher are invited to attend a private evening reception at the SFMOMA Artists Gallery, celebrating the exhibition Amid A Space Between:…
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Member EventMuseumStore Members-Only Sale
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Saturday, April 14, 2012
9:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
As a thank-you to our members on Member Appreciation Day, the semiannual members-only sale increases your buying power by doubling your discount to 20 percent on all store…
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Special EventJewelry Designer Trunk Show and Sale
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Saturday, April 14, 2012
10:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Meet some of our favorite artists and see their latest designs at the spring trunk show and sale. Local, national, and international designers will be showing fresh new work not…
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Member EventDocent-led Tours
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Saturday, April 14, 2012
11:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m., and 3:30 p.m.Enrich your visit with a docent-led tour. Tour size is limited; participation is on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Member EventReception and Wine Tasting
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Saturday, April 14, 2012
5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Round out the day with a complimentary wine tasting featuring wines from Sonoma and live music.
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Member EventBenefactor Day Tour
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Saturday, May 05, 2012
10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Benefactor members and higher
Members at the Benefactor level can enjoy this annual art excursion with an SFMOMA curator and fellow members. It's a day of art and conversation, with a visit to a private…
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Member EventContributing and Benefactor Preview and Reception
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Contributing-level members and higher
Artist's Circle and Director's Circle members may enter at 5:45 p.m.
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Member EventMember Preview Days
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Thursday, July 12, 2012, 10:00 a.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Friday, July 13, 2012 10:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.All members
Cindy Sherman and Stage Presence are open exclusively for members on these days. Regular member guest privileges apply.
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Member EventMember Party
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Friday, July 13, 2012
7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
All members
Galleries open until 9:45 p.m.
Celebrate Cindy Sherman and Stage Presence with a special performance of Official Welcome by artist Andrea Fraser (intended for mature audiences) and other live performances and…
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Member EventInsider Peek Expansion Presentations
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August 14, 2012
Noon - 2:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.Neal Benezra, director, SFMOMA
SFMOMA members are invited to attend Insider Peek presentations with museum director Neal Benezra.
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Member Private Viewing HoursMember Private Viewing Hours
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Monday, September 17, 2012
6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
SFMOMA members always enjoy special access to our biggest exhibitions. Skip the line and bring a friend to see Cindy Sherman before it closes on October 8!
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Member EventFamily Member Viewing Hours
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Sundays, October 7, November 4, and December 2, 2012
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.Members at the Family level can take advantage of these exclusive monthly viewing hours, then stay for hands-on art activities and family-friendly tours at Family Sunday.
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Member EventArtist's Circle and Director's Circle Preview and Reception
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
For Artist's Circle and Director's Circle members; other membership levels may upgrade to attend
Welcoming remarks by museum director Neal Benezra at 7:00 p.m.
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Member EventContributing and Benefactor Preview and Reception
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Contributing-level members and higher
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Member EventMember Preview Day
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Thursday, November 01, 2012
11:00 a.m. - 8:45 p.m.
All members
Jasper Johns: Seeing with the Mind's Eye and Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective are open exclusively for members on this day. Regular member guest privileges apply.
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Member EventGeneral Member Preview Party
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7:00 p.m. Motown set by DJ Primo, Haas Atrium
8:00 p.m. Allah-las, Rooftop Pavilion
9:00 p.m. Myron & E, The Schwab RoomAll members
Galleries open until 9:45 p.m.
Members are invited to come celebrate the openings of Jasper Johns: Seeing with the Mind's Eye and Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective at SFMOMA!
Highlights of…
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Member EventMuseumStore Members-Only Sale
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SFMOMA: 10:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
SFO: 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.Take care of your holiday shopping while supporting the museum at the semiannual Members-Only Sale. For three days, you can save 20 percent on all MuseumStore merchandise. Come…
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For Educators (11)
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Teacher ProgramVTS Soiree
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
SFMOMA teams up with SF Bay VTS to offer VTS Soirees for educators of all levels. Using the Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) facilitation method, these soirees encourage educators…
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Teacher InstituteCertified Self-Guided Touring Workshop
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Ideal for high school and eighth grade teachers who would like to tour their students without a docent, this workshop acquaints educators with SFMOMA's collections and touring…
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Teacher InstituteMark Bradford
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Saturday, February 25, 2012
9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Mark Bradford is the first museum survey of the work of the Los Angeles-based artist whose work explores the structures of urban society, often defined by race, gender, and class.…
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Teacher ProgramSpecial Saturday for Teachers
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Saturday, March 10, 2012
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Bay Area teachers are invited to spend a special morning in the galleries before the museum opens to the public. Meet museum educators, and enjoy tours of Rineke Dijkstra without…
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Teacher InstitutePhotography in Mexico
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Saturday, April 28, 2012
9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
In conjunction with the exhibition Photography in Mexico, this workshop examines a century of Mexican photography, beginning with works made in the wake of the Mexican Revolution…
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Teacher InstituteDiscovering Connections
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Monday, July 16 - Thursday, July 19, 2012
In this four-day program, teachers will visit and explore the collections of the Asian Art Museum, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern…
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Teacher ProgramSpecial Saturday for Teachers
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Saturday, September 15, 2012
10:00 a.m. - noon
SFMOMA invites Bay Area teachers to spend a special morning in the galleries to view Cindy Sherman before the museum opens to the public. Have coffee and snacks with teachers from…
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Teacher InstituteCertified Self-Guided Touring Workshop
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Ideal for high school and eighth grade teachers who would like to tour their students without a docent, this workshop acquaints educators with SFMOMA's collections and touring…
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Teacher ProgramVTS Soiree
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
SFMOMA teams up with SF Bay VTS to offer VTS Soirees for educators of all levels. Using the Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) facilitation method, these soirees encourage educators…
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Teacher InstituteJay DeFeo: A Retrospective
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Saturday, November 17, 2012
9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
For more than six years, Jay DeFeo explored personal symbolism in a large painting called The Rose (1958-1966). This work is prominently featured in Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective, which…
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Teacher ProgramSpecial Saturday for Teachers
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Saturday, December 01, 2012
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
SFMOMA invites Bay Area teachers to spend a special morning in the galleries to view Jasper Johns: Seeing with the Mind's Eye before the museum opens to the public. Have coffee and…
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Artists Gallery at Ft. Mason (6)
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Artists Gallery Opening ReceptionKim Frohsin, Claire Pasquier, Winni Wintermeyer
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Saturday, January 14, 2012
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Portraits of the Iconic and the Mundane comprises Kim Frohsin's most recent paintings, exploring instantly recognizable numbers, symbols, and commercial packaging for branded…
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Artists Gallery Opening ReceptionAmid A Space Between: Irish Artists in America
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Saturday, March 10, 2012
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
San Francisco-based curators Al Cosio and Monique Delaunay organized this exhibition of work by six Irish artists living in America, whose ambiguous and multifaceted Irish…
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Special Event19th Annual Artists Warehouse Sale
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Thursday, May 10, noon - 8:00 p.m.
Friday, May 11, noon - 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, May 12, noon - 5:30 p.m.
Sunday, May 13, noon - 4:00 p.m.A huge selection of original artworks at a savings of up to 75 percent!
Preview
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Don't miss your first chance to purchase art by more…
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Artists Gallery Opening ReceptionSin and Redemption
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Saturday, July 14, 2012
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
This exhibition of works by more than two dozen artists working in painting, sculpture, installation, and photography explores the transformational themes of sin and redemption.
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Artists Gallery Opening ReceptionReal and True: Janet Delaney, Rachel Kline, James Torlakson, Kendall Waldman
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Saturday, September 08, 2012
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Real and True is an exhibition of new works by Janet Delaney, Rachel Kline, James Torlakson, and Kendall Waldman. New works in two artistic mediums — painting and photography…
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Artists Gallery Opening ReceptionRobert Larson, Terry Thompson, and Paula Moran
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Saturday, November 10, 2012
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
On November 10, the SFMOMA Artists Gallery at Fort Mason Center will open a multimedia exhibition of new works by Robert Larson, Terry Thompson, and Paula Moran.
The lure and…
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