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- New Work: Mai-Thu Perret
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November 21, 2008
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March 01, 2009
For nearly a decade, Swiss artist Mai-Thu Perret has been developing The Crystal Frontier, a fictional account of a group of women who found a small utopian community in the desert…
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- The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now
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November 08, 2008
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February 08, 2009
Looking back nearly 60 years across a wide spectrum of genres and media, this exhibition examines how artists have engaged members of the public as essential collaborators in the…
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- Martin Puryear
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November 08, 2008
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January 25, 2009
Made from a variety of natural materials — including wood, tar, rawhide, and stone — Martin Puryear's distinctive sculptures combine modernist geometry with…
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- The 1000 Journals Project
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November 01, 2008
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April 05, 2009
The 1000 Journals Project is a participatory experiment that attempts to follow a thousand journals on their journeys around the world. Beginning as blank books and passing from…
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- Passageworks: Contemporary Art from the Collection
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October 25, 2008
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January 19, 2009
Drawing from SFMOMA's collection, this exhibition considers themes particularly relevant in our world today: belonging and exile, mobility and immobility, and navigation and…
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- Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900
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October 11, 2008
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January 04, 2009
Modern science and photography flowered simultaneously in the early 19th century, and photography was adopted as a scientific tool from the first years of its invention. Over the…
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- Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
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September 27, 2008
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March 01, 2009
In 1921 Paul Klee joined the teaching staff of the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany. There he developed lecture notes that would form the foundation of his teaching methods. These notes…
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- Double Down: Two Visions of Vegas
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September 18, 2008
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January 04, 2009
Half dream, half nightmare, Las Vegas captures a distinctively American mix of gumption and excess. Double Down presents a portrait of the city's spectacular environment through two…
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- New Work: Zilvinas Kempinas, Alyson Shotz, Mary Temple
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August 01
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November 04, 2008
Working in distinct styles and media, Zilvinas Kempinas, Alyson Shotz, and Mary Temple explore the transformative properties of light, underscoring its ability to inform our…
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- Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection
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July 10
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October 05, 2008
This selection of contemporary Chinese art from the Logan Collection reveals a spectrum of individual responses to the utopian dreams that have been driving Chinese society since…
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- Room for Thought: Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer
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July 10
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October 05, 2008
Computer-generated video installations by Swiss artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer reveal a fascination with internal landscapes of the mind. Hahn's interactive Luminous…
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- 246 and Counting: Recent Architecture + Design Acquisitions
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July 10, 2008
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January 04, 2009
This unorthodox exhibition showcases 246-plus objects acquired by SFMOMA's Architecture and Design Department since curator Henry Urbach joined the staff in September 2006.…
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- The Art of Lee Miller
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July 01
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September 14, 2008
One of the most unconventional female artists of the 20th century, Lee Miller was admired for her classical beauty, intelligence, and photographic talent. This retrospective spans…
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- Frida Kahlo
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June 14
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September 28, 2008
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo began painting in 1926, while recovering from a near-fatal bus accident, and soon became captivated by the medium's expressive possibilities. Kahlo's…
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- Modern Masterworks from the Elise S. Haas Collection
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April 24
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August 03, 2008
It would be hard to overestimate the significance of the Elise S. Haas collection for SFMOMA. Made up of some 35 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, this group of stunning…
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- A Rooftop Garden for SFMOMA
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April 03
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October 26, 2008
With construction of the museum's new 14,400-square-foot Rooftop Garden currently under way, this exhibition offers visitors an experiential glimpse of SFMOMA's expansion. A…
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- New Work: Paul Sietsema
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March 28
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June 22, 2008
The latest installment in the New Work series debuts Los Angeles-based Paul Sietsema's most recent body of work, which includes sculptures, drawings, and a 16mm film. A conceptually…
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- In Collaboration: Early Works from the Media Arts Collection
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March 22
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June 08, 2008
One of the first U.S. museums to embrace time-based media artworks, SFMOMA boasts a dynamic collection that spans the history of the genre. This exhibition brings together a number…
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- Friedlander
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February 23
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May 18, 2008
Among photography's most prolific practitioners, Lee Friedlander is also heralded as one of the United States' finest. This retrospective assembles the most comprehensive array of…
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- Cut: Revealing the Section
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February 08
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June 08, 2008
This dynamic selection drawn from the SFMOMA collection highlights the vital architectural concept of the section, a cross section of a building or object that illustrates spatial…
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- Gabriele Basilico: From San Francisco to Silicon Valley
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January 26
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June 15, 2008
Italian photographer Gabriele Basilico creates beautiful, often haunting portraits of urban environments that favor areas of transition and transformation. His pictures are marked…
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- An-My Lê: Small Wars
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January 26
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May 04, 2008
In her recent photographic series Small Wars and 29 Palms, Vietnamese American artist An-My Lê delves into Americans' complicated relationship with war by turning her lens on…
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- New Work: Lucy McKenzie
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November 09, 2007
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February 24, 2008
In the latest installment of the New Work series, Scottish artist Lucy McKenzie blurs the boundary between reality and artificiality with paintings, drawings, and a unique…
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- Jeff Wall
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October 27, 2007
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January 27, 2008
Canadian artist Jeff Wall is widely recognized as an innovative picture-maker whose dynamic photographs, both color and black-and-white, have affinities with painting and cinema.…
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- Douglas Gordon: Pretty Much Every Film and Video Work from about 1992 until Now
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October 27, 2007
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February 24, 2008
This exhibition brings together nearly all of Glasgow-born Douglas Gordon's thought-provoking video works from the last 15 years in an ever-growing installation titled Pretty much…
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- Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination
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October 06, 2007
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January 06, 2008
A self-taught artist, Joseph Cornell relied almost exclusively on found materials. He collected items from books, newspapers, second-hand stores, exploratory walks — even…
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- Abstract Rhythms: Paul Klee and Devendra Banhart
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September 15, 2007
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April 13, 2008
Music was a consistent source of inspiration for Paul Klee, spanning the arc of his career and informing much of his practice. This exhibition features works by Klee that reveal…
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- Your tempo: Olafur Eliasson
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September 08, 2007
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January 13, 2008
Olafur Eliasson has created a new work of art as part of a long-running art car program sponsored by BMW. His work transforms BMW's H2R hydrogen-powered race car, shrouding the…
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- Take your time: Olafur Eliasson
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September 08, 2007
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February 24, 2008
Widely heralded as one of the most important artists of his generation, Olafur Eliasson nimbly merges art, science, and natural phenomena to create extraordinary multisensory…
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- Matisse and Beyond: The Painting and Sculpture Collection
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July 01, 2004
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November 08, 2009
This changing selection of modern and contemporary paintings, sculptures, and works on paper includes artworks by 20th-century masters such as Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp,…
