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Talks + Events (91)

• Performance

  4'33" by John Cage

  Daily (except Wednesdays), noon

  Guest performers

  Guest performers execute Cage's famous "silent" musical score 4'33" daily at a piano. Without instrumentation for 4 minutes and 33 seconds, the piece shifts attention…

• Performance

  The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends Is the Highest Form of Art

  Thursdays through February 05, 2009 (except December 25, 2008, and January 01, 2009)
  5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

  Tom Marioni, artist
  Guest bartenders and performers

  Drink beer, meet people, and hang out with friends at this weekly informal gathering hosted by Marioni, a pioneering Bay Area conceptual artist who has been regularly staging free…

• Free Tuesday Artist Talk

  The 1000 Journals Project

  Tuesday, January 06, 2009
  noon
  

  Stephanie Pau, manager of interpretation, SFMOMA
  Someguy, project creator

  The 1000 Journals Project creator, "Someguy," joins exhibition curator Pau to take a closer look at the project.

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  Screening

  Tasks of the Translator

  Thursday, January 08, 2009
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Tara McDowell, Passageworks exhibition curator
  Filipa César

  Held in conjunction with Passageworks, this program organized by McDowell expands upon the show's central concepts of "the passage" and contemporary art that traverses…

• Screening

  Entrance Strategies

  Thursday, January 15, 2009
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Melissa Pellico, curatorial assistant, media arts, SFMOMA
  Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator, media arts, SFMOMA

  In conjunction with The Art of Participation, this selection of video shorts presents a range of documented interventions by contemporary artists and activists. From subtle gestures…

• Poetry Reading

  Joinery: Poems on the Occasion of Martin Puryear

  Sunday, January 25, 2009
  3:00 p.m.
  

  David Levi Strauss, Michael Palmer, Aaron Shurin, Norma Cole, and Susan Thackrey, poets

  Interviewing Martin Puryear last year, Levi Strauss described the sculptor's work in terms of poetry: "I was taught poetics … as the study of how things are made, and I…

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  Art Sandwiched In

  Collecting in Today's Market

  Thursday, January 29, 2009
  noon
  

  Gretchen Berggruen, owner, John Berggruen Gallery
  Laura King Pfaff, chairman, Bonhams & Butterfields
  Mary Zlot, art advisor
  Peter Michael, collector
  Moderator: Janet Bishop, curator of painting and sculpture, SFMOMA

  Collecting contemporary art can certainly be a good investment. But given the current financial environment, is an art collection a sound asset, a pleasure, or both? In addition to…

• Closing Ceremony

  Ant Farm Media Van v.08 (Time Capsule)

  Thursday, January 29, 2009
  7:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
  

  Chip Lord, artist
  Curtis Schreier, artist
  Bruce Tomb, artist

  During the exhibition The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now, museum visitors have been plugging in their own personal electronic devices (such as cell phones, cameras, MP3 players,…

• Book Signing

  J. MAYER H.

  Thursday, February 05, 2009
  6:00 p.m.
  

  Jürgen Mayer H.

  J. MAYER H. Architects has won a number of awards for its extraordinary work, creating a furor with attention-getting buildings such as Seville's Metropol Parasol.

• Artist Talk

  Mai-Thu Perret

  Thursday, February 05, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Apsara DiQuinzio, assistant curator, painting and sculpture, SFMOMA
  Mai-Thu Perret, artist

  Perret, whose new sculptures are featured in the latest New Work exhibition, is joined by exhibition curator DiQuinzio for a discussion of her work.

• Performance

  Automatic for the People: ( )

  Saturday, February 07, 2009
  noon
  

  MTAA (M.River & T.Whid Art Associates)

  Since the opening of The Art of Participation in November, museum and website visitors have taken part in the creation of this performance piece by voting in the museum and online.…

• Panel Discussion

  Social Practice West

  Saturday, February 07, 2009
  2:00 p.m.
  

  Ted Purves, chair and assistant professor, Graduate Program in Fine Arts, California College of the Arts
  Jen Delos Reyes, adjunct Assistant Professor, Portland State University
  Randall Szott, writer

  In the last year, graduate programs in public or social practice were launched at Otis College of Art and Design and Portland State University. The social practice concentration at…

• Special Event

  Jochen Gerz, The Gift

  Sunday, February 08, 2009
  noon - 5:45 p.m.
  

  Jochen Gerz, artist

  During the run of The Art of Participation, more than a thousand SFMOMA visitors will have their portraits taken as part of Gerz's The Gift. A number of portraits will be exhibited…

• Lecture

  Caroline A. Jones on the 2008 SECA Art Award Exhibition

  Thursday, February 19, 2009
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Caroline A. Jones, Professor of History, Theory and Criticism, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Administered by SECA (Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art), an SFMOMA art interest group, this biennial award honors local artists of exceptional promise with an…

• Free Tuesday Program

  Face of Our Time

  Tuesday, March 03, 2009
  noon
  

  Lisa Sutcliffe, assistant curator, photography, SFMOMA

  Face of Our Time presents four artists who use photography to capture a world in crisis. Yto Barrada looks at the impact of tourism in Northern Morocco, while Guy Tillim examines…

• Curator Talk

  Sandra S. Phillips on Judith Joy Ross in Face of Our Time

  Thursday, March 05, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Sandra S. Phillips, curator, photography, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators shares a perspective on a single artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes and take place in the galleries.

• Curator Talk

  Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher on Simon Ungers's Silent Architecture

  Thursday, March 12, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, assistant curator, architecture and design, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators shares a perspective on a single artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes and take place in the galleries.

  Check our blog, Open Space,…

• Sold Out

  Performance/Lecture

  I am not me, the horse is not mine

  Saturday, March 14, 2009
  4:00 p.m.
  

  William Kentridge, artist

  In a special opening-day event for William Kentridge: Five Themes, the artist presents a lecture-format solo performance. I am not me, the horse is not mine premiered at the 16th…

• Book Signing

  William Kentridge: Five Themes

  Saturday, March 14, 2009
  5:00 p.m.
  

  William Kentridge, artist

  Rich in content and illustration, William Kentridge: Five Themes chronicles the full arc of Kentridge's career, with special emphasis on recent work. His films, drawings, prints,…

• Curator Talk

  Rudolf Frieling on William Kentridge's What Will Come (Has Already Come)

  Thursday, March 19, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Rudolf Frieling, curator, media arts, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators shares a perspective on a single artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes and take place in the galleries.

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  Live Art Performance

  The Return of Ulysses

  Tuesday, March 24 - Saturday, March 28, 2009
  Performance begins promptly at 8:00 p.m.
  Late seating will not be permitted.
  
  Opening Night Benefit Performance
  Wednesday, March 25, 2009
  5:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
  
  Project Artaud Theater
  450 Florida Street
  San Francisco

  An opera by Claudio Monteverdi
  Directed by William Kentridge

  Revival directed by Luc de Wit
  Produced by Pacific Operaworks, Seattle
  Musical direction by Stephen Stubbs
  Featuring the Handspring Puppet Company of South Africa

  A superb tale is always worth the retelling. A story from Homer's Odyssey was brought to vivid life by Claudio Monteverdi in 1640 with The Return of Ulysses (Il Ritorno d'Ulisse),…

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  Special Event

  The Return of Ulysses Opening Night Benefit Performance

  5:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
  Performance begins promptly at 8:00 p.m.
  Late seating will not be permitted.
  

  The Return of Ulysses (Il Ritorno d'Ulisse)
  An opera by Claudio Monteverdi
  Directed by William Kentridge
  Revival directed by Luc de Wit
  Produced by Pacific Operaworks, Seattle
  Musical direction by Stephen Stubbs
  Featuring the Handspring Puppet Company of South Africa

  The Modern Art Council, SFMOMA's primary fund-raising auxiliary, hosts the highly anticipated opening night benefit performance of Monteverdi's opera The Return of Ulysses (Il…

• Curator Talk

  Apsara DiQuinzio on Trevor Paglen's Symbology III

  Thursday, March 26, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Apsara DiQuinzio, assistant curator, painting and sculpture, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators shares a perspective on a single artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes and take place in the galleries.

• Special Event

  13th Annual Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam Semifinals

  Friday and Saturday, March 27 and 28, 2009
  7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

  This eagerly anticipated event spotlights the Bay Area's best young poets. Participating poets have overcome numerous challenges on the road to the semifinals, where they will vie…

• Live Art Spotlight

  Panel Discussion: The Return of Ulysses

  Saturday, March 28, 2009
  2:00 p.m.
  

  Stephen Stubbs, Pacific Operaworks
  Musicians and performers from The Return of Ulysses

  Join members of the San Francisco production of William Kentridge's The Return of Ulysses for this behind-the-scenes look at making and performing this celebrated restaging of…

• Panel Discussion

  The State of the Art Fair

  Wednesday, April 01, 2009
  6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
  

  Claudia Altman-Siegel, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, and former director of Luhring Augustine, New York
  Janet Bishop, curator of painting and sculpture, SFMOMA
  Todd Hosfelt, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco and New York
  Marianna Stark, executive director of the San Francisco Art Dealers Association, publisher of thestarkguide.com, and SECA co-chair

  SFMOMA's art interest group SECA (Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art) presents a panel discussion on the state of the art fair. SFMOMA curator Janet Bishop leads a…

• Curator Talk

  Henry Urbach on J. MAYER H. in Patterns of Speculation

  Thursday, April 02, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Henry Urbach, curator, architecture and design, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators shares a perspective on a single artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes and take place in the galleries.

  Check our blog, Open Space,…

• Free Tuesday Program

  2008 SECA Art Award

  Tuesday, April 07, 2009
  noon
  

  Apsara DiQuinzio, assistant curator, painting and sculpture, SFMOMA
  Alison Gass, assistant curator, painting and sculpture, SFMOMA

  The SECA Art Award distinguishes outstanding Bay Area artists whose work has not yet received substantial recognition. This year, SFMOMA considered more than 200 artists, who were…

• Curator Talk

  Lisa Sutcliffe on Guy Tillim in Face of Our Time

  Thursday, April 09, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Lisa Sutcliffe, assistant curator, photography, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators shares a perspective on a single artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes and take place in the galleries.

  Check our blog, Open Space,…

• Curator Talk

  Elizabeth Gand on Leo Rubinfien in Face of Our Time

  Thursday, April 16, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Elizabeth Gand, assistant curator, photography, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators shares a perspective on a single artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes and take place in the galleries.

  Check our blog, Open Space,…

• Curator Talk

  Sarah Roberts on Robert Rauschenberg in Matisse and Beyond

  Thursday, April 23, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Sarah Roberts, associate curator of collections and research, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators shares a perspective on a single artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes and take place in the galleries.

• Film Screening and Panel Discussion

  Pirkle Jones: Seven Decades Photographed

  Tuesday, April 28, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Jane Reed, film director
  Tim Wride, curator and author of Pirkle Jones, California Photographs
  Sandra S. Phillips, senior curator of photography, SFMOMA

  Total running time: 28 min.

  The passing of Pirkle Jones on March 15, 2009, marks the end of an era. His work helped to define the Bay Area's photographic traditions of elegant landscapes and biting social…

• Curator Talk

  John Zarobell on Sargent Johnson's Forever Free

  Thursday, April 30, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  John Zarobell, assistant curator, collections, exhibitions, and commissions, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators shares a perspective on a single artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes and take place in the galleries.

  Check our blog, Open Space,…

• Phyllis Wattis Distinguished Lecture

  Kerry James Marshall

  Thursday, April 30, 2009
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Kerry James Marshall, artist
  Annette Gordon-Reed, professor of law, New York University Law School and professor of history, Rutgers University

  Founded in 1995 through the generosity of Phyllis Wattis, this lecture series brings innovative writers, critics, and artists to SFMOMA. Marshall is the first recipient of SFMOMA's…

• Free Tuesday Program

  So This Is Live Art

  Tuesday, May 05, 2009
  noon
  

  Frank Smigiel, associate curator, public programs, SFMOMA

  SFMOMA's Live Art series has transformed the nature of the museum's public programming, embracing the event-driven, performance-based aspect of much contemporary art. Encompassing…

• Curator Talk

  Joseph Becker on Otl Aicher

  Thursday, May 07, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Joseph Becker, assistant curator of architecture and design, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators shares a perspective on a single artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes and take place in the galleries.

  Check our blog, Open Space,…

• Live Art Installation and Performance

  New Humans: Today Is Not a Dress Rehearsal

  May 10 - May 12, 2009
  11:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.

  Mika Tajima/New Humans
  Charles Atlas, filmmaker

  For three days, SFMOMA's Schwab Room will be transformed into an installation/film set by artist Mika Tajima (who often works collaboratively under the name New Humans), creating a…

• Special Event

  Koret Museum Day

  Sunday, May 10, 2009
  11:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.
  

  Please join us to celebrate the outstanding legacy of the Koret Foundation: admission to SFMOMA will be free in honor of the foundation's 30th anniversary.

• Artist Talk

  Rosana Castrillo Díaz

  Sunday, May 10, 2009
  2:00 p.m.
  

  Rosana Castrillo Díaz, artist

  A 2004 SECA Art Award winner, San Francisco-based Castrillo Díaz has created an SFMOMA-commissioned mural for the Rooftop Garden bridge. Ninety feet long, the evocative…

• Artist Talk

  Ranjani Shettar

  Sunday, May 10, 2009
  3:00 p.m.
  

  Ranjani Shettar, artist

  A recent addition to the SFMOMA collection, Shettar's group of basketlike sculptural forms, entitled Me, no, not me, buy me, eat me, wear me, have me, me, no, not me graces the…

• Live Art Installation and Performance

  Evening Performance: Today Is Not a Dress Rehearsal

  Monday, May 11, 2009
  7:30 p.m.
  

  Mika Tajima/New Humans
  Charles Atlas, filmmaker
  Judith Butler, philosopher

  For three days, SFMOMA's Schwab Room will be transformed into an installation/film set by artist Mika Tajima (who often works collaboratively under the name New Humans), creating a…

• Live Art Installation and Performance

  Evening Performance: Today Is Not a Dress Rehearsal

  Tuesday, May 12, 2009
  7:30 p.m.
  

  Mika Tajima/New Humans
  Charles Atlas, filmmaker

  For three days, SFMOMA's Schwab Room will be transformed into an installation/film set by artist Mika Tajima (who often works collaboratively under the name New Humans), creating a…

• Curator Talk

  Julie Charles on Jasper Johns, Land’s End

  Thursday, May 14, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Julie Charles, associate curator of education, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators shares a perspective on a single artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes and take place in the galleries.

  Check our blog, Open Space,…

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  Art Sandwiched In

  SoMa as a Cultural Magnet

  Thursday, May 21, 2009
  noon
  

  Jill Manton, director, Public Art Program, San Francisco Arts Commission
  John S. Rahaim, planning director, San Francisco Planning Department
  Rigo 23, artist
  Mitchell Schwarzer, professor, California College of the Arts
  Moderator: Henry Urbach, Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design, SFMOMA

  In the last 15 years, museums, galleries, and public art projects have proliferated in San Francisco's South of Market district, along with a considerable number of hotels,…

• Curator Talk

  Gary Garrels on Ernesto Neto, My Little Castle . . . Blue (two times for infinity)

  Thursday, May 21, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Gary Garrels, Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators shares a perspective on a single artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes and take place in the galleries.

• Curator Talk

  Peter Samis on Ranjani Shettar, Sing Along

  Thursday, May 28, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Peter Samis, associate curator of interpretation, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes and take place in the galleries.

  Check our blog,…

• Free Tuesday Program

  Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams

  Tuesday, June 02, 2009
  noon
  

  Erin O'Toole, assistant curator, photography, SFMOMA

  In conjunction with the exhibition Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities, O'Toole explores congruities between the work of the two lifelong friends. Inspired in part…

• Curator Talk

  Janet Bishop on Sherrie Levine, La Fortune: After Man Ray 1

  Thursday, June 04, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Janet Bishop, curator of painting and sculpture, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes and take place in the galleries.

  Check our blog,…

• Curator Talk

  Corey Keller on Robert Frank, Trolley—New Orleans

  Thursday, June 11, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Corey Keller, associate curator of photography, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes and take place in the galleries.

• Curator Talk

  Erin O'Toole on Ansel Adams, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico

  Thursday, June 18, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Erin O'Toole, assistant curator of photography, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes and take place in the galleries.

• Curator Talk

  Alison Gass on Kiki Smith, Lilith

  Thursday, June 25, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Alison Gass, assistant curator of painting and sculpture, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes and take place in the galleries.

  Check our blog,…

• Curator Talk

  Dominic Willsdon on Jasper Johns, Flag

  Thursday, July 02, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Dominic Willsdon, Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Programs, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes and take place in the galleries.

  Check our blog,…

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  Free Tuesday Program

  The Real Thing: Artist and Double

  Tuesday, July 07, 2009
  noon
  

  Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator of media arts, SFMOMA

  In The Studio Sessions, a video installation by Kevin Atherton brings into dialogue two recordings of the artist projected simultaneously: one of him in 2006 answering questions…

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  Book Signing

  Ed Hardy

  Thursday, July 09, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  At the age of 10, Don Ed Hardy recognized the unique force of tattoo art. Growing up in the center of 1950s and early 1960s California pop culture, he went on to earn an art school…

• Curator Talk

  Sandra S. Phillips on Ansel Adams, Frozen Lake and Cliffs

  Thursday, July 09, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Sandra S. Phillips, senior curator of photography, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes and take place in the galleries.

• Curator Talk

  Alison Gass on Julie Mehretu, Stadia I

  Thursday, July 16, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Alison Gass, assistant curator of painting and sculpture, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes and take place in the galleries.

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  Curator Talk

  Apsara DiQuinzio on Andrea Zittel's A to Z 1995 Travel Trailer Unit

  Thursday, July 23, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Apsara DiQuinzio, assistant curator of painting and sculpture, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes and take place in the galleries.

  Check our blog,…

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  Curator Talk

  John Zarobell on Mario Merz's Lens of Rotterdam

  Thursday, July 30, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  John Zarobell, assistant curator of painting and sculpture, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes and take place in the galleries.

• Free Tuesday Program

  Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities

  Tuesday, August 04, 2009
  noon
  

  Erin O'Toole, assistant curator, photography, SFMOMA
  Sandra S. Phillips, senior curator of photography, SFMOMA
  William Turnage, managing trustee, Ansel Adams Trust

  Note: this replaces Paul Clipson Presents Subversive Documentaries which has been rescheduled to Tuesday, September 1 at Noon.

  The exhibition Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities highlights both the friendship and the shared aesthetics of two of America's most celebrated artists. In this…

• Curator Talk

  Tanya Zimbardo on Lawrence Weiner's Pearls Rolled Across the Floor ...

  Thursday, August 06, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator of media arts, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes and take place in the galleries.

• Curator Talk

  Frank Smigiel on Jim Hodges's Even Here 1-12

  Thursday, August 13, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Frank Smigiel, associate curator of public programs, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes and take place in the galleries.

• Curator Talk

  Sarah Roberts on Robert Rauschenberg's Port of Entry

  Thursday, August 20, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Sarah Roberts, associate curator of collections and research, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes and take place in the galleries.

  Check our blog,…

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  Curator Talk

  Joseph Becker on Andrew Kudless's P_Wall

  Thursday, August 27, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Joseph Becker, assistant curator of architecture and design, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes and take place in the galleries.

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  Curator Talk

  Neal Benezra on Clyfford Still's 1947-H-No. 3

  Thursday, September 03, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Neal Benezra, SFMOMA director

  Don't miss SFMOMA Director Neal Benezra's take on Clyfford Still's 1947-H-No. 3 — the painting that first prompted Benezra to ponder a career in art.

  Each Thursday evening, one…

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  Curator Talk

  Michelle Barger on Robert Arneson's No Pain

  Thursday, September 10, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Michelle Barger, deputy head of conservation, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators or specialists shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes.

• Memorial

  SFMOMA Remembers David Ireland

  4:00 p.m. Remarks
  Phyllis Wattis Theater
  5:00 p.m. Public remembrance
  The Schwab Room

  This memorial service honors Bay Area sculptor and conceptual artist David Ireland, who passed away last spring. Ireland was a central figure in conceptual art in the Bay Area and…

• Curator Talk

  Henry Urbach on Alex Schweder's A Sac of Rooms All Day Long

  Thursday, September 17, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Henry Urbach, Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators or specialists shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes.

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  Exhibition Spotlight and Performance

  Sensate: Bodies and Design

  Thursday, September 17, 2009
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Andrew Kudless, artist
  Alex Schweder, artist
  Henry Urbach, Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design
  Bompas & Parr, jellymongers

  The exhibition Sensate looks at the body as a model for architecture and design. This talk brings architects Kudless and Schweder, whose large-scale installations have been…

• Reading and Book Signing

  Guadalupe Rivera Marín

  Sunday, September 20, 2009
  2:00 p.m.
  

  Guadalupe Rivera Marín

  The artist Diego Rivera was a larger-than-life figure who created unforgettable images of working people and life in Mexico. But Rivera also loved to paint children, and you'll…

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  Special Event

  SF20 Preview Gala Benefiting SFMOMA

  Thursday, September 24, 2009
  6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
  

  The San Francisco 20th Century Modernism Show and Sale (SF20) returns to Fort Mason Center this year from September 24 through 27, 2009. SF20 presents decorative and fine arts…

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  Curator Talk

  Apsara DiQuinzio on Lynda Benglis's Lambda

  Thursday, September 24, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Apsara DiQuinzio, assistant curator of painting and sculpture, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators or specialists shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes.

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  Courses

  Pickpocket Almanack: Fall 2009

  Courses take place between October 1 and December 11, 2009.

  Pickpocket Almanack is an experimental school without walls. Each season, under the direction of independent curator Joseph del Pesco, a temporary faculty comprised of artists,…

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  Curator Talk

  Lisa Sutcliffe on Daido Moriyama's Stray Dog, Misawa, Aomori

  Thursday, October 01, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Lisa Sutcliffe, assistant curator, photography, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators or specialists shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes.

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  Free Tuesday Program

  Holding Up What's Falling Down: Ephemeral Materials and Contemporary Art

  Tuesday, October 06, 2009
  noon
  

  Michelle Barger, deputy head of conservation, SFMOMA

  In Not New Work: Vincent Fecteau Selects from the Collection, an artist has mined SFMOMA's collection for artworks rarely — and, in some cases, never before — seen by…

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  Curator Talk

  Sarah Roberts on Philip Guston's Back View

  Thursday, October 08, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Sarah Roberts, associate curator of collections and research, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators or specialists shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes.

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  Exhibition Opening and Weekend Kickoff

  Fortunato Depero 50

  Wednesday, October 14, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  
  Organized by art critic Maurizio Scudiero, this exhibition celebrates the work of Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), the Italian futurist designer perhaps best known for his iconic…

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  Printmaking Event

  "Let me have my fun": Aldo Palazzeschi on the Press

  Thursday and Friday, October 15 and 16, 2009
  2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (drop-in hours)

  Kathleen Burch, cofounder, The San Francisco Center for the Book
  John McBride, editor, Invisible City
  Paul Vangelisti, translator and poet

  As part of this open-house printing, the public may help create and take home a free poster of Aldo Palazzeschi's poem "Let me have my fun" (1910), an early futurist text…

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  Curator Talk

  Janet Bishop on David Ireland's Broom Collection with Boom

  Thursday, October 15, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Janet Bishop, curator of painting and sculpture, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators or specialists shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes.

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  Phyllis Wattis Distinguished Lecture

  Marjorie Perloff on the Futurist Moment

  Thursday, October 15, 2009
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Marjorie Perloff, literary critic
  Johanna Drucker, Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor of Information Studies, UCLA

  Founded in 1995 through the generosity of Phyllis Wattis, this SFMOMA lecture series brings innovative thinkers to the Bay Area. Known for her seminal text The Futurist Moment:…

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  Performa 09 Preview Performance

  Music for 16 Futurist Noise Intoners

  Friday, October 16, 2009
  8:00 p.m.
  

  New compositions by Blixa Bargeld; John Butcher; Luciano Chessa; James Fei; Ellen Fullman; Carla Kihlstedt and Mattias Bossi; Ulrich Krieger; Pablo Ortiz; Mike Patton; the sfSoundGroup; Elliott Sharp; Text of Light; and Theresa Wong.

  Performances by John Butcher and Gino Robair; Luciano Chessa; Ellen Fullman; Carla Kihlstedt and Mattias Bossi; Ulrich Krieger; ensemble players from Magik*Magik Orchestra; the sfSoundGroup; Text of Light; and Theresa Wong.

  Futurist sound artist Luigi Russolo constructed special hand-cranked instruments to realize an expanded field of orchestral sound. Called intonarumori (noise intoners), these…

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  Symposium

  Poetry + Painting + Politics × Professors = Futurism Past

  Saturday, October 17, 2009
  1:00 p.m.
  

  Luigi Ballerini, UCLA
  Claudio Fogu, UC Santa Barbara
  Laura Wittman, Stanford University
  Benjamin Martin, San Francisco State University
  Jennifer Bethke, independent scholar
  Barbara Spackman, UC Berkeley
  Harsha Ram, UC Berkeley

  Futurism's 1909 founding manifesto called for the destruction of museums and libraries. The 1910 manifesto "Against Professors" deplored the "professorial passion…

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  Banquet

  OPENfuture: Spinning Marinetti's Wheels

  Saturday, October 17, 2009
  8:00 p.m.
  

  OPENrestaurant, artist group
  Luciano Chessa, composer
  Chris Sollars, visual artist
  Matt Volla, sound artist

  Feeding on Futurism's appetite for destruction, OPENrestaurant revisits F. T. Marinetti's provocative Futurist Cookbook from 1932 — which combined polemics with actual recipes…

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  Performa 09 Preview Screening and Reception

  Action! Futurism Projected + Performed

  Sunday, October 18, 2009
  4:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

  In their manifesto "The Futurist Cinema" (1916), Marinetti and his cohorts sought an integration of art forms through the following equation: "painting + sculpture +…

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  Curator Talk

  Rudolf Frieling and artist Candice Breitz on Breitz's Working Class Hero (A Portrait of John Lennon)

  Thursday, October 22, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Rudolf Frieling, curator of media arts, SFMOMA
  Candice Breitz, artist

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators or specialists shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes.

  Check our blog, Open Space, for…

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  Exhibition Spotlight

  More About Pictures, or Appropriation Now

  Thursday, October 22, 2009
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Candice Breitz, artist
  Rudolf Frieling, curator of media arts, SFMOMA
  Ken Goldberg, artist and craigslist Distinguished Professor of New Media
  Anne Wagner, professor of modern and contemporary art and Class of 1936 Chair, Department of History of Art, UC Berkeley

  Using SFMOMA's Candice Breitz exhibition and the 2008 conference "Takeovers and Makeovers: Artistic Appropriation, Fair Use, and Copyright in the Digital Age" at UC…

• Curator Talk

  Michelle Barger on Robert Overby's Hall painting, first floor

  Thursday, October 29, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Michelle Barger, deputy head of conservation, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators or specialists shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes.

• Special Event

  2009 Bay Area Treasure Award Luncheon Honoring Bill Fontana

  Tuesday, November 03, 2009
  noon - 2:00 p.m.
  

  Neal Benezra, director, SFMOMA
  Bill Fontana, artist
  Gary Garrels, Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, SFMOMA
  Rudolf Frieling, curator of media arts, SFMOMA

  Reserve your tickets today for the annual Bay Area Treasure luncheon, this year honoring sound artist Fontana. Grand Benefactor tickets are $750 each; Benefactor tickets are $500…

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  Free Tuesday Program

  Photography Now: China, Japan, Korea

  Tuesday, November 03, 2009
  noon
  

  Lisa Sutcliffe, assistant curator of photography, SFMOMA

  Photography Now: China, Japan, Korea explores the diverse styles of contemporary artists working in Asia. Citing examples that range from the birds-eye urban landscapes of Naoya…

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  Curator Talk

  Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher on Robert Overby's Hall painting, first floor

  Thursday, November 05, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, assistant curator of architecture and design, SFMOMA

  Hear the backstory on your favorite artworks. Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators or specialists shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last…

• Curator Talk

  Lisa Sutcliffe on Naoya Hatakeyama's Untitled, Osaka

  Thursday, November 12, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Lisa Sutcliffe, assistant curator of photography, SFMOMA

  Hear the backstory on your favorite artworks. Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators or specialists shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last…

• Curator Talk

  Peter Samis on Mario Merz's The Lens of Rotterdam

  Thursday, November 19, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Peter Samis, associate curator of interpretation, SFMOMA

  Hear the backstory on your favorite artworks. Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators or specialists shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last…