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The Architecture of Graphics: Design for SCI-Arc from the Permanent Collection of Architecture and Design: November 12, 1999 - February 20, 2000

For the last ten years, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Los Angeles, has commissioned some of the most innovative graphic design in the country. This…

Edge of a City: Work by Steven Holl from the Permanent Collection of Architecture and Design: November 12, 1999 - February 20, 2000

Acclaimed New York architect Steven Holl's Edge of a City project, which investigates how to create recognizable form in urban sprawl, will be the focus of this selection from the…

Far Out: Bay Area Design, 1967-73: November 12, 1999 - February 20, 2000

This exhibition explores the way Bay Area designers tuned in, dropped out and made posters, clothes, objects and structures that merged with technology, nature, craft and commerce.…

Seeing Time: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection of Media Art: October 15, 1999 - January 09, 2000

Showcasing one of the largest private collections of media arts, this exhibition includes works by historical figures, such as Vito Acconci, Dara Birnbaum, Marcel Broodthaers, Dan…

Degas to Picasso: Painters, Sculptors and the Camera: October 02, 1999 - January 02, 2000

This major exhibition explores fourteen European artists at the dawn of the Twentieth century and their complex relationship with photography. Degas to Picasso: Painters, Sculptors…

Jasper Johns: New Paintings and Works on Paper: September 16, 1999 - January 04, 2000

Jasper Johns: New Paintings and Works on Paper features new artwork by Jasper Johns, one of the most influential artists of the last fifty years, introducing the first substantial…

Julia Margaret Cameron's Women: August 27 - November 30, 1999

Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79) is recognized as a pioneer of photography and one of the great portait photographers of all time. This is the first exhibition devoted specifically…

Full Moon: Apollo Mission Photographs of the Lunar Landscape: August 20, 1999 - January 11, 2000

Spectacular, rarely seen scientific images charting the American exploration of the moon have been chosen for their high aesthetic achievement and will be presented in the upcoming…

Jennifer Morla: Selections from the Permanent Collection of Architecture and Design

July 16 - October 26, 1999

Jennifer Morla: Selections from the Permanent Collection of Architecture and Design features approximately fifteen works by this important Bay Area graphic designer.

Morla (b. 1955)…

Tiborcity: Design and Undesign by Tibor Kalman, 1979 - 1999: July 16 - October 26, 1999

This exhibition is the first comprehensive museum presentation of the work of graphic designer and provocateur Tibor Kalman (1949-1999). Tiborocity: Design and Undesign by Tibor…

Paul Klee: Signs of Life: July 16, 1999 - March 14, 2000

Continuing a series of exhibitions of the work of Paul Klee, this exhibition presents a remarkable group of twenty paintings, drawings and prints that explore the artist's close…

Bill Viola: June 25 - September 12, 1999

SFMOMA will present a full-scale overview of the work of California-based media artist Bill Viola, widely recognized as the leading figure in his field. The mid-career survey…

Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception: May 28 - September 07, 1999

SFMOMA presents the first major critical exhibition of the work of Carleton Watkins, considered by many to be the finest American landscape photographer of the nineteenth century.…

Between Two Worlds: Selected Postwar Japanese Films

May 16 - July 25, 1999

Sundays
Screenings at 1:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
Phyllis Wattis Theater
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Admission free with museum ticket

As a compliment to the exhibition Daido…

Daido Moriyama: Stray Dog: May 14 - August 03, 1999

Poignant and beautiful work made in the gritty streets of postwar Tokyo by photographer Daido Moriyama (b. 1938) will be presented at SFMOMA in the first exhibition to survey the…

Robert Rauschenberg: May 05 - September 07, 1999

This exhibition presents a rare look at Robert Rauschenberg's oeuvre. Eighteen important works by Rauschenberg, fourteen of which were acquired by SFMOMA in June 1998 through major…

The Elise S. Haas Collection: Matisse and Other Modern Masters: March 26 - July 06, 1999

The Elise S. Haas Collection: Matisse and Other Modern Masters features thirty-seven paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by important artists of the Modernist era, including…

Archigram: Experimental Architecture, 1961-1974: March 19 - June 15, 1999

Nearly two hundred models, drawings, and photographs documenting the Archigram collective's emphasis on the playful aspects of technology.

Mark Fox: Selections from the Permanent Collection of Architecture and Design: March 19 - June 15, 1999

Bold icons and enigmatic designs by Bay Area artist Mark Fox.

Shake the Nation: San Francisco Experimental Film

March 12 - April 18, 1999

Series premiere: Thursday, March 11, 1999 at 7:00 p.m.
Screenings: March 12 - April 18, 1999 on Fridays and Sundays at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Location: Phyllis Wattis Theater

This…

Inside Out: Chinese Art: February 26 - June 01, 1999

On view simultaneously at SFMOMA and the Asian Art Museum, Inside Out is the first exhibition in the United States exclusively dedicated to presenting works created since 1985 by…

Native Modern: Charles Sheeler and Precisionism: February 18 - April 27, 1999

Charles Sheeler was at the vital center of Precisionism, a movement of painters, photographers, and printmakers who spawned an indigenous American Modernism in the decades preceding…

Unland/Doris Salcedo: New Work: February 18 - April 27, 1999

Unland/Doris Salcedo: New Work features three intricate sculptural tables that serve as memorials to the people of Colombia, Salcedo's homeland. Each of the three works was formed…

Glen McKay: Altered States: February 04 - June 01, 1999

Glenn McKay's projected light installations are a presentation of five distinct artworks from four eras of production. The exhibition charts a course through the artist's…

1998 SECA Art Award: January 22 - May 02, 1999

This exhibition features the work of the four recipients of the 1998 SECA Art Award: Chris Finley, Gay Outlaw, Laurie Reid, and Rigo 98. SECA, one of the Museum's seven…

Kerry James Marshall: Mementos - New Work: January 22 - May 02, 1999

The commemorative art of Kerry James Marshall both pays tribute to the civil rights movement and mourns its lost potential. Kerry James Marshall: Mementos was organized by the…

Roy Lichtenstein: A Tribute: January 16 - April 25, 1999

This tribute to the contemporary artist, who died in September 1997, will highlight the long-term loan of twenty-nine works by Lichtenstein to SFMOMA's permanent collection. It…

Looking at Ourselves: Works by Women Artists from the Logan Collection: January 09 - April 20, 1999

This exhibition features over twenty works made by leading women artists in the past ten years. Artists represented in the exhibition include Jenny Holzer, Cady Noland, Katharina…

Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation: January 09 - April 06, 1999

The self-representational work of three generations of women artists associated with or influenced by the surrealist movement will be presented in this exhibition. Mirror Images…

Sitting on the Edge: Modernist Design from the Collection of Michael and Gabrielle Boyd: November 20, 1998 - February 23, 1999

Over one hundred modernist chairs, other pieces of furniture, and related art objects will be presented in an exhibition of works from the Collection of Michael and Gabrielle Boyd.…

Incandescence: Watercolors by Lauretta Vinciarelli: November 20, 1998 - February 23, 1999

Featuring paintings of luminous spaces by New York-based architect Lauretta Vinciarelli, Incandescence is the latest in a series of commissioned works by SFMOMA's Department of…

New Work: Julia Scher's Predictive Engineering2: October 23, 1998 - January 12, 1999

Julia Scher's most recent installation piece, Predictive Engineering2, is based on a previous installation featured in the 1993 exhibition Thresholds and Enclosures presented in…

Richard Diebenkorn: October 09, 1998 - January 19, 1999

The colorful and complex paintings of Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) are featured in the most complete retrospective to date of the artist's work. Celebrating Diebenkorn's love of…

A Portrait of Our Times: An Introduction to the Logan Collection: September 29, 1998 - January 03, 1999

In December 1997, SFMOMA received an unprecedented fractional gift of approximately 250 works from the collection of Bay Area residents Vicki and Kent Logan, one of the most…

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