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Talks + Events (79)

• Free Tuesday Program

  The Creation of Annlee

  Tuesday, January 07, 2003
  11:00 a.m.
  

  Nathalie Dubuc, Curatorial Associate, SFMOMA

  Dubuc discusses how the technology-based works in No Ghost Just a Shell call into question notions of representation and aesthetics. The lecture will be repeated on Saturday,…

• Poets in Performance

  Bill Frisell and RICHTER 858

  Saturday, January 11, 2003
  5:30 p.m.
  

  Guitarist Bill Frisell and his Quartet
  Poets Robert Hass, Dean Young, Brenda Hillman, W.S. Di Piero, Paul Hoover, and David Breskin

  The 858 String Quartet — Bill Frisell, Hank Roberts, Jenny Scheinman, and Eyvind Kang — play a suite composed by Frisell in response to Gerhard Richter's 858 painting series for…

• Book Signing

  RICHTER 858 Book Signing

  Saturday, January 11, 2003
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Guitarist Bill Frisell and his Quartet
  Poets Robert Hass, Dean Young, Brenda Hillman, W.S. Di Piero, Paul Hoover, and David Breskin

  Musician Bill Frisell and poets Robert Hass, Dean Young, Brenda Hillman, W. S. Di Piero, Paul Hoover, and David Breskin will be on hand to sign copies of RICHTER 858 between their…

• Book Signing and Lecture

  Epicenter Book Signing

  Thursday, January 16, 2003
  5:00 p.m.
  

  7:00 p.m. Lecture
  The Schwab Room
  Artists featured in Epicenter will sign copies of the book. Book signing is free; lecture is free with Museum admission.

  
  

• Panel Discussion

  Architecture + Water in San Francisco

  Saturday, January 18, 2003
  noon - 3:00 p.m.
  

  Paul Lewis, New York Architect and Exhibition Curator
  Tom Leader, Berkeley Landscape Architect
  John King, Architecture Critic, San Francisco Chronicle
  Mabel O. Wilson, Architect and Professor, California College of Arts and Crafts
  Moderator Joseph Rosa, Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design, SFMOMA

  This distinguished panel of architects, critics, and curators engages in a spirited conversation on waterfront architecture and visionary urban planning in the Bay Area.
  
  $12
  
  …

• Free Tuesday Program

  The Creation of Annlee

  Wednesday, January 22, 2003
  noon
  

  Nathalie Dubuc, Curatorial Associate, SFMOMA

  Dubuc discusses how the technology-based works in No Ghost Just a Shell call into question notions of representation and aesthetics.
  

• Lecture

  Body Design, A Curator's Perspective

  Thursday, January 23, 2003
  6:00 p.m.
  

  Joseph Rosa, Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design, SFMOMA

  Rosa describes the genesis of the exhibition and distinguishes its focus — conceptual interpretations of the body in space and the relationship between physiology and design — from…

• Art Sandwiched In

  The Rebuilding of the New York Skyline

  Monday, January 27, 2003
  11:00 a.m.
  

  Fredric Bell, Architect and Member, New York New Visions
  Stanlee Gatti, President, San Francisco Arts Commission
  Moderator Joseph Rosa, Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design, SFMOMA

  Following the September 11 terrorist attacks, 16 design and planning organizations formed a coalition, New York New Visions, to develop recommendations on the future of the World…

• Art and Conversation

  Reflections on Architecture + Water

  Friday, January 31, 2003
  11:30 a.m.
  

  Ruth Keffer, Curatorial Associate, SFMOMA

  Keffer gives an overview of projects in the exhibition, discusses experimental notions of integrating water and design, and leads visitors through the exhibition.
  
  Free with Museum
  
  …

• Free Tuesday Program

  Body Design and the A+D Collection

  Tuesday, February 04, 2003
  11:00 a.m.
  

  Joseph Rosa, Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design, SFMOMA

  Rosa discusses work in Body Design and elaborates on his plans for the architecture and design collection at SFMOMA.
  

• Interview

  Interview

  Thursday, February 06, 2003
  6:00 p.m.
  

  Yves Béhar, Industrial Designer and Founder, fuseproject
  Joseph Rosa, Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design, SFMOMA

  Béhar, whose San Francisco design studio has worked with Hewlett-Packard, Nissan, Birkenstock, Philou, and others, is interviewed onstage by Rosa.

  $12 general; $10 SFMOMA members,…

• Sound Festival: Installation

  Activating the Medium Festival 2003

  Friday, February 07, 2003
  10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
  

  From spatial-acoustic concerts to site-specific installations, Activating the Medium presents sound artists exploring the expansive dialogue between sound and architecture.
  
  Free with
  
  …

• Sound Festival: Performance

  Activating the Medium Festival 2003

  Friday, February 07, 2003
  7:00 p.m.
  

  From spatial-acoustic concerts to site-specific installations, Activating the Medium presents sound artists exploring the expansive dialogue between sound and architecture.
  
  $12
  
  …

• Teacher Institute

  Connecting History with Visual Art

  Saturday, February 08, 2003
  8:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
  

  Looking at the Museum's photography collection and August Sander, this workshop explores visual responses to historical events and periods, giving teachers methods for integrating…

• Sound Festival: Installation

  Activating the Medium Festival 2003

  Saturday, February 08, 2003
  10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
  

  From spatial-acoustic concerts to site-specific installations, Activating the Medium presents sound artists exploring the expansive dialogue between sound and architecture.
  
  Free with
  
  …

• Sound Festival: Performance

  Activating the Medium Festival 2003

  Saturday, February 08, 2003
  1:00 p.m.
  

  From spatial-acoustic concerts to site-specific installations, Activating the Medium presents sound artists exploring the expansive dialogue between sound and architecture.
  
  Free with
  
  …

• Sound Festival: Panel Discussion

  Activating the Medium Festival 2003

  Saturday, February 08, 2003
  2:00 p.m.
  

  From spatial-acoustic concerts to site-specific installations, Activating the Medium presents sound artists exploring the expansive dialogue between sound and architecture.
  
  Free with
  
  …

• Sound Festival: Installation

  Activating the Medium Festival 2003

  Sunday, February 09, 2003
  10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
  

  From spatial-acoustic concerts to site-specific installations, Activating the Medium presents sound artists exploring the expansive dialogue between sound and architecture.
  
  Free with
  
  …

• Interview

  Interview

  Saturday, February 15, 2003
  1:00 p.m.
  

  Andreas Gursky, Artist
  Peter Galassi, Chief Curator, Department of Photography, Museum of Modern Art

  Galassi interviews Gursky about his life and work, with special emphasis on the body of photographs in the exhibition.

  $8 general; $5 SFMOMA members, students with ID, and seniors.…

• Lecture

  People of the 20th Century: A Concept Emerges

  Thursday, February 20, 2003
  6:00 p.m.
  

  Dr. Susanne Lange, Director, August Sander Archive, Cologne

  Lange reflects on the development of August Sander's People of the 20th Century, tracing the artist's phenomenal work from its beginnings in the 1920s and presenting a comprehensive…

• Interview

  Interview

  Thursday, February 27, 2003
  6:00 p.m.
  

  Dr. Carl Djerassi, Collector
  Janet Bishop, Curator of Painting and Sculpture, SFMOMA

  Bishop speaks with Djerassi about how he started collecting, what it means to collect, and why he has focused on the work of Paul Klee.
  
  $8 general; $5 SFMOMA members, students with
  
  …

• Art and Conversation

  Looking at Gursky

  Friday, February 28, 2003
  11:30 a.m.
  

  Corey Keller, Art Historian

  Keller contextualizes Andreas Gursky's photographs and discusses their implications for contemporary art, answering audience questions and touring visitors through the exhibition.

• Symposium

  Whatever Happened to Installation Art?

  Saturday, March 01, 2003
  9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
  

  Panelists include Shu-Lea Chang, Ann Hamilton, David Ireland, Mike Kelley, and James Turrell

  In conjunction with the Capp Street twentieth-anniversary exhibition at the Wattis Institute of the California College of Arts and Crafts, SFMOMA hosts a symposium on the evolution…

• Free Tuesday Program

  "Four Stars, Worth a Detour"

  Tuesday, March 04, 2003
  11:00 a.m.
  

  John S. Weber, Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Programs, SFMOMA

  Weber, cocurator of Treasures of Modern Art, provides behind-the-scenes background on Phyllis Wattis's collecting in behalf of SFMOMA, focusing on key purchases — how they were…

• Spring 2003 College Night

  Focus on Gursky

  Thursday, March 06, 2003
  5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
  

  SFMOMA welcomes college students, faculty, and staff to view Andreas Gursky, tour the Koret Center, and attend a special program.

• College Night Lecture and Discussion

  Looking at Gursky

  Thursday, March 06, 2003
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Corey Keller, art historian

  Keller contextualizes Andreas Gursky's photographs and discusses their implications for contemporary art and photography.

• Teacher Institute

  Connecting Literacy with Visual Art

  Saturday, March 08, 2003
  8:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
  

  Explores how art objects in SFMOMA's permanent collection can be connected to themes in literature, creative writing, and ESL.
  
  $25 general; $20 SFMOMA members. To register, call the
  
  …

• Teacher Workshop

  Certified Self-Guided Touring Workshop

  Saturday, March 15, 2003
  8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
  

  High school teachers learn to tour their students through SFMOMA's galleries without a docent in this daylong workshop.
  
  $35 general; $30 SFMOMA members. Fee includes slides and
  
  …

• Getting to Know Modern Art

  Andreas Gursky and Contemporary Photography

  Saturday, March 22, 2003
  1:00 p.m.
  

  Pamela Lee, professor of art history, Stanford University

  This lively four-part lecture series provides an introduction to exhibitions currently on view at SFMOMA.
  
  Full series/per class: $50/$15 general; $40/$12 SFMOMA members, students
  
  …

• Artist Talk

  Artist Talk

  Thursday, March 27, 2003
  6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
  

  John Bankston, Andrea Higgins, Chris Johanson, Will Rogan

  Winners of the 2002 SECA Art Award introduce their work and answer audience questions.

• Art and Conversation

  Discovering Connections: Paris and the Wattis Exhibition

  Friday, March 28, 2003
  11:30 a.m.
  

  Sidra Stich, art historian, curator, and author

  In this slide presentation, Stich, author of the art-SITES art book/travel guide series, takes the audience on a unique tour of Paris by linking specific works in Treasures of Modern…

• Free Tuesday Program

  On the Streets and in the Galleries: Contemporary Art in the Bay Area

  Tuesday, April 01, 2003
  11:00 a.m. - noon
  

  Janet Bishop, curator of painting and sculpture, SFMOMA
  René de Guzman, visual arts curator, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
  Laurie Lazer, artistic director, The Luggage Store
  Moderator Clara Kim, curatorial associate, SFMOMA

  This panel discusses art practice and presentation in the Bay Area today.

• Special Event

  A Conversation with Michael Kimmelman

  Saturday, April 05, 2003
  1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
  

  Neal Benezra, director, SFMOMA
  Madeleine Grynsztejn, Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, SFMOMA
  Michael Kimmelman, chief art critic, The New York Times

  Benezra and Grynsztejn join Kimmelman for a wide-ranging discussion of post-minimalist and contemporary art, with ample opportunity for audience dialogue
  
  $12 general; $8 SFMOMA
  
  …

• Interview

  Working in the Gallery: A Dialogue with Atom Egoyan

  Saturday, April 12, 2003
  2:00 p.m.
  

  Nathalie Dubuc, curatorial associate, SFMOMA
  Atom Egoyan, artist

  Mr. Egoyan has cancelled his this appearance, but will be interviewed after the screening of his film Family Viewing on April 10, 2003.

• 2003 San Francisco Design Lecture Series

  2003 San Francisco Design Lecture Series

  Monday, April 14, 2003
  7:30 p.m.
  

  Golan Levin

  An artist, composer, and engineer, Levin focuses on the design of systems for the performance of simultaneous image and sound; his best-known piece, Dialtones, is a concert whose…

• Getting to Know Modern Art

  Considering the Legacy of Phyllis Wattis at SFMOMA: Early Modern Art

  Thursday, April 24, 2003
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Deborah Loft, professor of art history, College of Marin

  This lively four-part lecture series provides an introduction to exhibitions currently on view at SFMOMA.

  Full series/per class: $50/$15 general; $40/$12 SFMOMA members, students…

• Art and Conversation

  How Did They Do That? Exhibition Design and Installation at SFMOMA

  Friday, April 25, 2003
  12:30 p.m.
  

  Kent Roberts, exhibition design manager, SFMOMA

  Get the inside story on the exhibition design and the installation of artworks at SFMOMA. Roberts discusses examples such as Eva Hesse and large-scale works by Sol LeWitt.
  
  Free with
  
  …

• Getting to Know Modern Art

  Considering the Legacy of Phyllis Wattis at SFMOMA:
  Contemporary Art

  Saturday, April 26, 2003
  2:00 p.m.
  

  Deborah Loft, professor of art history, College of Marin

  This lively four-part lecture series provides an introduction to exhibitions currently on view at SFMOMA.

  Full series/per class: $50/$15 general; $40/$12 SFMOMA members, students…

• Getting to Know Modern Art

  The Art of Paul Klee and His Contemporaries

  Thursday, May 01, 2003
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Beth Dungan, art historian

  Dungan discusses many of the works on view in A Passion for Paul Klee, investigating Klee's interest in abstraction and his use of line.
  
  $15 general; $12 SFMOMA members, students
  
  …

• The 2003 San Francisco Design Lecture Series

  The 2003 San Francisco Design Lecture Series

  Monday, May 05, 2003
  7:30 p.m.
  

  Eva Zeisel, ceramics designer

  The annual Design Lecture Series features talks by world-renowned "individuals of design," critical thinkers working in diverse creative fields.
  
  $20 general; $15 students with ID.
  
  …

• Free Tuesday Program

  Lindy Roy's Visionary and Nomadic Architecture

  Tuesday, May 06, 2003
  noon
  

  Joseph Rosa, Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design, SFMOMA
  Darrin Alfred, curatorial associate, SFMOMA

  Rosa considers why Roy's architecture, with its nomadic character, forwardthinking vision, and use of digital technology, is seen as cutting-edge. Alfred provides an overview of…

• The 2003 San Francisco Design Lecture Series

  The 2003 San Francisco Design Lecture Series

  Monday, May 12, 2003
  7:30 p.m.
  

  Jeroen Barendse, Thomas Castro, Dimitri Nieuwenhuizen, partners in the graphic design firm LUST

  The annual Design Lecture Series features talks by world-renowned "individuals of design," critical thinkers working in diverse creative fields.
  
  $20 general; $15 students with ID.
  
  …

• The 2003 San Francisco Design Lecture Series

  The 2003 San Francisco Design Lecture Series

  Monday, May 19, 2003
  7:30 p.m.
  

  Maira Kalman, author and co-owner, M&Co
  Rick Meyerowitz, illustrator

  The annual Design Lecture Series features talks by world-renowned "individuals of design," critical thinkers working in diverse creative fields.
  
  $20 general; $15 students with ID.
  
  …

• Youth Program

  Keeping It Reel: Youth-Made Media Festival

  Friday, May 23, 2003
  3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
  

  Cosponsored by SFMOMA Teen Visionaries and the Youth Leadership
  Institute, Keeping It Reel proudly presents new, cutting-edge films, videos, and performances produced by Bay Area
  …

• Art and Conversation

  Material Presence and the Real World in the Wattis Exhibition

  Friday, May 30, 2003
  12:30 p.m.
  

  John S. Weber, Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education Public Programs, SFMOMA

  From Marcel Duchamp's Fountain to Gordon Matta-Clark's Splitting: Four Corners, modern artists have experimented with new materials to expand the form and content of their work. This…

• Special Music Program

  Visual Sounds: Music and the Art of Paul Klee

  Saturday, May 31, 2003
  1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
  

  K. Porter Aichele, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
  Peter Grundberg, SF Symphony
  Susan Key, SF Symphony

  Join Klee specialist Aichele and musicians from the San Francisco Symphony for a program of images, music, and conversation addressing Klee's musical connections.
  
  $25 general; $20
  
  …

• The 2003 San Francisco Design Lecture Series

  The 2003 San Francisco Design Lecture Series

  Monday, June 02, 2003
  7:30 p.m.
  

  James Dyson, inventor and industrial designer

  The annual Design Lecture Series features talks by world-renowned "individuals of design," critical thinkers working in diverse creative fields.
  
  $20 general; $15 students with ID.
  
  …

• Free Tuesday Program

  Surrealism and the Sacred: Insights into SFMOMA's Permanent Collection

  Tuesday, June 03, 2003
  noon
  

  Celia Rabinovitch, artist, writer, and art historian

  Rabinovitch, author of Surrealism and the Sacred: Power, Eros, and the Occult in Modern Art, shows how surrealist works in SFMOMA's collection illuminate the modernist fascination…

• Artist Talk

  Artist Talk

  Thursday, June 05, 2003
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Lindy Roy

  Roy, winner of the second annual MoMA/P.S. 1 Young Architects Program and designer of projects including a Botswana spa and a Hamptons home, discusses her imaginative solutions to…

• Special Event

  Vertigo

  Saturday, June 21, 2003
  8:00 p.m. - noon
  

  This photo exhibition, auction, and SFMOMA fund-raiser showcases images taken by celebrities using disposable cameras to create unique interpretations of vertigo. The event…

• Art and Conversation

  The Real and the Ideal: Irving Penn's Nudes

  Friday, June 27, 2003
  12:30 p.m.
  

  Erin Garcia, curatorial associate, SFMOMA

  Before leading visitors on a tour of the exhibition, Garcia discusses Penn's representation of the human form in both nudes and fashion photography.
  
  Free with Museum admission.
  
  …

• Opening Day Lecture

  Faith, Hope, and Impossibility: The Art and Life of Philip Guston

  Saturday, June 28, 2003
  2:00 p.m.
  

  Michael Auping, chief curator, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

  Guston's move from symbolic realism to Abstract Expressionism and finally to a bold form of figuration is chronicled in this lecture. Aspects
  of Guston's personal life are woven
  …

• Free Tuesday Program

  Sick and Tired of Purity: Guston's Marlborough Gallery Show

  Tuesday, July 01, 2003
  noon - 1:00 p.m.
  

  Tara McDowell, curatorial associate, SFMOMA

  In 1970 at New York's Marlborough Gallery, Guston surprised the art world by showing figurative paintings with bold social and personal subjects. McDowell talks about the reception…

• Lecture

  Child Development and Art: Refrigerator Art Masterpieces

  Saturday, July 12, 2003
  11:30 a.m.
  

  Miriam de Uriarte, children's art specialist

  De Uriarte talks about the classic evolution of forms and early spatial concepts found in toddlers' scribbles. Parents are invited to bring in artwork by children ages 1 to 7 -…

• Art and Coversation

  The Moving Image as Sculptural Experience

  Friday, July 25, 2003
  12:30 p.m.
  

  Nathalie Dubuc, curatorial associate, SFMOMA

  Dubuc describes how installations heighten the sculptural quality of moving images and how unusual points of view alter the viewer's experience. The program concludes with a visit…

• Opening Day Lecture

  Chagall, An Intimate View

  Saturday, July 26, 2003
  2:00 p.m.
  

  Bella Meyer, art historian

  Meyer, Chagall's granddaughter, lectures worldwide on the work of her grandfather. In this talk she shares memories of Chagall and reflects on the impact of his art and…

• Art and Conversation

  Making and Remaking: Artistic Intention and the Conservation of Art

  Friday, August 29, 2003
  12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
  

  Michelle Barger, associate conservator of objects, SFMOMA

  What happens when an artist wants to change a work made 10, 20, even 30 years ago? In this program, Barger demonstrates how art makers shape the conservation and presentation of…

• Free Tuesday Program

  Reprocessing the Spectacle

  Tuesday, September 02, 2003
  noon - 1:00 p.m.
  

  Anthony Discenza, artist
  Benjamin Weil, curator of media arts, SFMOMA

  Discenza, whose installation November is on view in Reprocessing Information, talks with Weil about the nature of his work and the concerns it raises about information overload, the…

• Lecture

  Algorithmic Foldings: The Architecture of Lindy Roy

  Thursday, September 04, 2003
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Joseph Rosa, Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design, SFMOMA

  Rosa describes how Roy's architecture, with its marked ecological sensitivity and incorporation of elements from the natural sciences and technology, can be seen as an algorithmic…

• Book Signing

  Book Signing

  Thursday, September 18, 2003
  5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
  

  Reagan Louie, artist

  Louie will be on hand to sign copies of his new book, Orientalia, featuring photographs from the series Sex Work in Asia.
  
  Free and open to the public.

  
  

• Artist Talk and Conversation

  Artist Talk and Conversation

  Thursday, September 18, 2003
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Gail Hershatter, professor of history, University of California, Santa Cruz
  Reagan Louie, artist

  Louie speaks about the making and meanings of his photographic series on female workers in the Asian sex industry before a conversation with Hershatter, author of Dangerous…

• Artist Reception

  Artist Reception

  Thursday, September 18, 2003
  7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
  

  Reagan Louie, artist

  Meet the artist at a celebration of The Photographs of Reagan Louie: Sex Work in Asia. View the exhibition, attend the book signing, hear the artist speak at the Artist Talk, and…

• College Night

  Focus on Guston

  Thursday, September 25, 2003
  6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
  

  SFMOMA invites the college community to view Philip Guston Retrospective, learn about upcoming exhibitions and events, and attend the Guston Readings and Conversation.
  
  Museum and
  
  …

• Readings and Conversation

  "I wanted to tell stories!": Guston in His Own (and Others') Words

  Thursday, September 25, 2003
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Bill Berkson, poet and Guston catalogue essay author
  Clark Coolidge, poet and editor of Guston's writings and interviews

  Berkson and Coolidge, both of whom befriended Guston late in his life, read from Guston's writings and interviews, his favorite authors, and their own texts, followed by dialogue…

• Art and Conversation

  Behind the Scenes: Bringing Chagall to San Francisco

  Friday, September 26, 2003
  12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
  

  Ruth Berson, deputy director, collections and programs, SFMOMA

  Berson gives an insider's view of the challenges and rewards of mounting international exhibitions such as Marc Chagall. Who are the stakeholders and how do they shape the…

• Panel Discussion

  CopyArt: The Impact of Copyright on New Media Art

  Thursday, October 02, 2003
  7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
  

  Jennifer Gonzalez, assistant professor of art history, University of California, Santa Cruz
  Lawrence Lessig, professor of law, Stanford University
  Christian Marclay, artist
  Moderator Linda Jacobson, chief officer of Glass House Studio, LLC, and San Francisco Media Arts Council board member

  What is the history of appropriated images, objects, and texts? How are artists and their works protected by law? What changes are ahead in intellectual property rights and the…

• Teacher Institute

  Artist as Messenger

  Saturday, October 04, 2003
  9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  

  In this special program, teachers engage with the paintings of Marc Chagall, whose depictions of Jewish life, folklore, and Bible stories spark a world of imagination. Inventive…

• Free Tuesday Program

  Why Chagall Matters

  Tuesday, October 07, 2003
  noon - 1:00 p.m.
  

  Benjamin Harshav, professor of comparative literature and Hebrew and Slavic languages and literature,Yale University

  Harshav, author of the recently published Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative and Marc Chagall on Art and Culture, considers the contemporary relevance of Chagall's…

• Opening Day Lecture and Conversation

  Diane Arbus: Behind the Image

  Saturday, October 25, 2003
  1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
  

  Sandra S. Phillips, senior curator of photography,
  SFMOMA, and exhibition cocurator
  Elisabeth Sussman, guest exhibition cocurator

  Join the exhibition curators for an afternoon of conversation on the
  work of Diane Arbus. Phillips reflects on the relationship of artist and subject in Arbus's œvre, while
  …

• Special Event

  2003 Bay Area Treasure Award Luncheon Honoring Robert Bechtle

  Wednesday, October 29, 2003
  10:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
  

  Robert Bechtle

  The Modern Art Council (MAC) honors Robert Bechtle as this year's Bay Area Treasure on Wednesday, October 29, 2003. Bechtle is recognized internationally for distinct photo-realist…

• Art and Conversation

  Not Fully Functional: Design in an Art Context

  Friday, October 31, 2003
  11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  

  Ruth Keffer, curatorial associate, architecture and design, SFMOMA

  Does design belong in an art museum? What happens when curators impose ideas of aesthetics, identity, and expression on objects and spaces intended to be practical, pedestrian, or…

• Architecture Lecture Series

  Architecture Lecture Series

  Monday, November 03, 2003
  6:00 p.m.
  

  Peter Eisenman, Louis Kahn Professor of Architecture, Yale University

  Internationally renowned architect Eisenman, whose work ranges from urban design to installation pieces, employs an architectural theory based upon a dialect of oppositions. He is…

• Free Tuesday Program

  Chagall and the Moscow Jewish State Theater

  Tuesday, November 04, 2003
  11:00 a.m. - noon
  

  Mel Gordon, professor of theater, University of California, Berkeley

  Gordon's lecture on the history and artistry of the Moscow Jewish State Theater — one of the proudest achievements of modern Yiddish culture — includes archival film footage from…

• Book Signing

  Bent Ply: The Art of Plywood Furniture

  Thursday, November 06, 2003
  5:00 p.m.
  

  Eric Pfeiffer

  Acclaimed industrial designer Pfeiffer of Offi Design gives an informative lecture on his furniture designs and signs copies of his book Bent Ply (coauthored by Dung Ngo), a history…

• Teacher Program

  Looking Beyond: Diane Arbus

  Saturday, November 08, 2003
  8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
  

  This teacher workshop examines how the photographs of Diane Arbus can offer a window onto life's thorny, compelling, and touching moments, illuminating the diverse ways people see…

• Art Sandwiched In

  The Life and Work of Diane Arbus

  Thursday, November 13, 2003
  11:00 a.m.
  

  Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein, collectors
  Larry Sultan, photographer and professor, California College of the Arts
  Moderator: Sandra S. Phillips, senior curator of photography, SFMOMA

  This panel takes an in-depth look at the life and work of Diane Arbus from the perspectives of a fellow photographer and two collectors, addressing what makes Arbus's pictures so…

• Book Signing

  Alice in Pop-Up Wonderland

  Saturday, November 22, 2003
  1:00 p.m.
  

  J. Otto Seibold

  San Francisco author and illustrator J. Otto signs copies of his latest book, Alice in Pop-Up Wonderland, where he has employed his trademark visual creativity to bring Lewis…

• Panel Discussion

  Intentionality, Ambiguity, and Truth: A Conversation About Reagan Louie, Diane Arbus, and the Elusive Nature of Photographic Meaning

  Saturday, November 22, 2003
  1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
  

  Susan Meiselas, photographer
  Tracy Quan, writer and sex worker
  Sally Stein, associate professor of art history, University of California, Irvine
  Moderator: Sandra S. Phillips, senior curator of photography, SFMOMA

  This diverse panel discusses the elusive nature of photographic meaning and addresses the relationship of photographers to their subjects and audiences. When photographers confront…

• Book Signing

  Carnival Strippers

  Saturday, November 22, 2003
  3:00 p.m.
  

  Susan Meiselas

  Magnum photographer Meiselas signs copies of Carnival Strippers, a revised edition of her 1977 book documenting the lives of women who performed striptease at small-town carnivals.…