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Talks + Events (108)

• Curator Talk

  Dominic Willsdon on Robert Rauschenberg's Untitled (Glossy Black Painting)

  Thursday, January 07, 2010
  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 or specialists shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes.

• Curator Talk

  Gary Garrels on Doris Salcedo's Unland: irreversible witness

  Thursday, January 14, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Gary Garrels, Elise S. Haas Senior 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.

• SFMOMA Artists Gallery Mobile Exhibition

  The Mike Shine Show

  January 16 - January 17, 2010
  11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

  Artist Mike Shine's street-inspired built environment — temporarily installed in a tent and a borrowed delivery truck — comes to SFMOMA for a two-day stop. On Sunday,…

• Sound Installation

  Bill Fontana: Sound Sculptures through the Golden Gate

  Saturday, January 16, 2010
  11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
  

  On the 50th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge in 1987, San Francisco–based sound art pioneer Bill Fontana debuted his SFMOMA-commissioned Sound Sculptures through the…

• Special Event

  Art Supply Drive

  Ongoing Throughout the Anniversary Weekend
  Extended through Friday, January 22, 2010

  Support the next generation of artists! Bring in new art supplies to be donated to San Francisco public schools. Drop them in the donation bins in the Haas Atrium. Accepted items…

• Gallery Talks

  75 Reasons to Live: Day 1

  Saturday, January 16, 2010
  11:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
  

  We invited 75 people from the Bay Area creative community with a passion for artworks in SFMOMA's collection to tell us about their favorites in 75 7.5-minute talks spread over…

• Live Art

  Allison Smith: SMITHS: Fancy Work and Arts & Skills Service

  Saturday, January 16, 2010
  noon - 10:00 p.m.
  

  An ongoing project by artist Allison Smith, SMITHS gathers makers from tinsmiths to tunesmiths to share skills and stories. During the anniversary weekend, we feature two…

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  Special Event

  Saturday Evening Celebration

  Saturday, January 16, 2010
  6:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
  

  Performances by Zoë Keating at 7:00 p.m.
  Loop!Station at 8:00 p.m.
  Matmos at 9:30 p.m.

  The atrium comes alive after dark with performances by avant-cellist Zoë Keating and cello/vocals duo Loop!Station, both of whom created original music in response…

• Gallery Talks

  75 Reasons to Live: Day 2

  Sunday, January 17, 2010
  11:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
  

  Everyone has his or her personal list. We invited 75 people from the Bay Area creative community with a passion for artworks in SFMOMA's collection to tell us about their favorites…

• Live Art

  Allison Smith: SMITHS: Fancy Work and Arts & Skills Service

  Sunday, January 17, 2010
  noon - 5:45 p.m.
  

  SMITHS continues with Arts & Skills Service, an investigation of SFMOMA's World War II collaboration with the Red Cross to create a series of arts workshops for wounded…

• Gallery Talks

  75 Reasons to Live: Day 3

  Monday, January 18, 2010
  11:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
  

  We invited 75 people from the Bay Area creative community with a passion for artworks in SFMOMA's collection to tell us about their favorites in 75 7.5-minute talks spread over…

• Live Art

  Allison Smith: SMITHS: Fancy Work and Arts & Skills Service

  Monday, January 18, 2010
  noon - 5:45 p.m.
  

  Arts & Skills Service continues with a look at art activities for soldiers and artists exploring military subjects and themes. Smith's project continues at the museum in…

• Special Event

  Looking Ahead to Preserve and Promote Community Arts in San Francisco

  Monday, January 18, 2010
  2:00 p.m.
  

  The spirit of SFMOMA's anniversary celebration extends far beyond the museum walls. In 2009 SFMOMA commissioned murals for its Haas Atrium and sponsored a response mural by Oakland…

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  Curator Talk

  Rudolf Frieling on Bruce Conner's THREE SCREEN RAY

  Thursday, January 21, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Rudolf Frieling, curator of media arts, 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.

• Curator Talk

  Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher on Ewan Gibbs's San Francisco

  Thursday, January 28, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, assistant 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.

• Free Tuesday Program

  1935: Modern Art Takes Flight in San Francisco

  Tuesday, February 02, 2010
  noon
  

  Sarah Roberts, associate curator of collections and research, SFMOMA

  SFMOMA celebrates its 75th anniversary based on the 1935 opening of its previous home on Van Ness Avenue, but the museum actually has roots reaching back to the 1915 Panama Pacific…

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  Curator Talk

  Tanya Zimbardo on Howard Fried's Inside the Harlequin: Approach-Avoidance III and II

  Thursday, February 04, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator of media arts, 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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  Sold Out

  Exhibition Spotlight

  Luc Tuymans in Conversation

  Thursday, February 04, 2010
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Luc Tuymans, artist
  Helen Molesworth, Chief Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

  Writing in The New Yorker about Tuymans's first retrospective, Peter Schjeldahl described the artist as "the most challenging painter in the recent history of art." What…

• Book Signing

  Luc Tuymans

  Thursday, February 04, 2010
  8:30 p.m.
  

  Luc Tuymans, artist

  Considered by many to be the most significant painter working today, Tuymans's distinctive visual style and approach to history have influenced an entire generation of younger…

• Curator Talk

  Lisa Sutcliffe on Jim Goldberg's The Orchard

  Thursday, February 11, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Lisa Sutcliffe, assistant curator of 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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  Curator Talk

  Apsara DiQuinzio on Matthew Barney's Transexualis

  Thursday, February 18, 2010
  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: Spring 2010

  Courses take place between February 22 and May 30, 2010.

  The Pickpocket Almanack is an experimental school-without-walls.  Each season, a temporary faculty of artists, curators, writers and filmmakers create courses by selecting…

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  Art Sandwiched In

  Printmaking at the Heart of the Creative Process

  Tuesday, February 23, 2010
  noon
  

  Kathan Brown, founder, Crown Point Press
  Laura Owens, artist
  Griff Williams, owner, Gallery 16/Urban Digital Color
  Darren Waterston, artist
  Moderator: Janet Bishop, curator of painting and sculpture, SFMOMA

  Many prominent artists consider printmaking to be an integral part of their creative output. Not simply a way of making their work more accessible to collectors, working with a…

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  Curator Talk

  Corey Keller on Penelope Umbrico's 5,377,183 Suns from Flickr

  Thursday, February 25, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Corey Keller, associate curator of 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.

• Live Art

  SMITHS: Arts & Skills Service: On the Homefront: Rolling Bandages, Care Packages, and other “War Efforts”

  Thursday, February 25, 2010
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Elissa Auther, art historian and independent curator
  Summer Brenner, poet and novelist
  Amy Franceschini, artist
  Allison Smith, artist

  Examining intersections of art-making and war efforts from the "trench art" practices of World War I to the Art and Skills Service program designed by SFMOMA and the Red…

• Live Art

  SMITHS: Arts & Skills Service: On the Homefront: Rolling Bandages, Care Packages, and other “War Efforts”

  Friday, February 26, 2010
  11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
  

  Joshua Muscat and Adriane Bovone, Western herbal-medicine practitioners

  Examining intersections of art-making and war efforts from the "trench art" practices of World War I to the Art and Skills Service program designed by SFMOMA and the Red…

• Live Art

  SMITHS: Arts & Skills Service: On the Homefront: Rolling Bandages, Care Packages, and other “War Efforts”

  Saturday, February 27, 2010
  1:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
  

  Examining intersections of art-making and war efforts from the "trench art" practices of World War I to the Art and Skills Service program designed by SFMOMA and the Red…

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  Curator Talk

  Carrie Pilto on Henri Matisse's La fille aux yeux verts (The Girl with Green Eyes)

  Thursday, March 04, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Carrie Pilto, project assistant curator, 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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  Curator Talk

  Janet Bishop on Jeff Koons's Michael Jackson and Bubbles

  Thursday, March 11, 2010
  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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  SFMOMA: Now Playing

  My Barbarian

  Thursday, March 18, 2010
  6:00 p.m. - 9:45 p.m.
  

  7:00 p.m. Screening of Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection
  9:00 p.m. Performance by My Barbarian

  Experience the museum animated by artists and luminaries. Tonight: whether re-establishing pagan rites in the desert, creating a song cycle for cross-dressing sailors and sequined…

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  Curator Talk

  John Zarobell on Kara Walker's No mere words can Adequately reflect the Remorse this Negress feels...

  Thursday, March 18, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

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

  14th Annual Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam Semifinals

  Friday and Saturday, March 19 and 20, 2010
  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…

• Curator Talk

  Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher on Constant's New Babylon

  Thursday, March 25, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

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

  SFMOMA regrets that Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher's talk has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.

  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.

• Live Art

  SMITHS: Arts & Skills Service: On the Front Lines, or Quaker Guns, Camouflage, and Queer Craft

  Thursday, March 25, 2010
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Julia Bryan-Wilson, director, Visual Studies, UC Irvine
  Sanjit Sethi, chair, Community Arts, California College of the Arts

  In a Thursday evening conversation, Bryan-Wilson and Sethi take up the relationship between artistic innovation and military technology. Musing on camouflage and the Quaker Gun, a…

• Live Art

  SMITHS: Arts & Skills Service: On the Front Lines, or Quaker Guns, Camouflage, and Queer Craft

  Friday, March 26, 2010
  11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
  

  Julia Bryan-Wilson, director, Visual Studies, UC Irvine
  Sanjit Sethi, chair, Community Arts, California College of the Arts

  In a Thursday evening conversation, Bryan-Wilson and Sethi take up the relationship between artistic innovation and military technology. Musing on camouflage and the Quaker Gun, a…

• Live Art

  SMITHS: Arts & Skills Service: On the Front Lines, or Quaker Guns, Camouflage, and Queer Craft

  Saturday, March 27, 2010
  1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
  

  Julia Bryan-Wilson, director, Visual Studies, UC Irvine
  Sanjit Sethi, chair, Community Arts, California College of the Arts

  In a Thursday evening conversation, Bryan-Wilson and Sethi take up the relationship between artistic innovation and military technology. Musing on camouflage and the Quaker Gun, a…

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  Curator Talk

  Erica Gangsei on Jasper Johns's Land's End

  Thursday, April 01, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Erica Gangsei, interpretation coodinator, 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

  On Ewan Gibbs's Urban Portraiture

  Tuesday, April 06, 2010
  noon
  

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

  British artist Ewan Gibbs has created an urban portrait of San Francisco in 18 drawings, currently on view on the third-floor landing. Using only pencil marks of slashes or circles…

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  Curator Talk

  Julie Charles on Brice Marden's Cold Mountain 6 (Bridge)

  Thursday, April 08, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Julie Charles, associate curator of education, 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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  SFMOMA: Now Playing

  Laetitia Sonami and SUE-C

  Thursday, April 15, 2010
  6:00 p.m. - 9:45 p.m.
  

  7:00 p.m. Screening of Douglas Gordon's Feature Film
  9:00 p.m. Performance by Laetitia Sonami and SUE-C

  Experience the museum animated by artists and luminaries. Tonight: the collaborative work of Bay Area-based Laetitia Sonami and SUE-C focuses on the real-time creation of film-like…

• Curator Talk

  Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher on Zaha Hadid's Metropolis

  Thursday, April 15, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, assistant 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.

• Curator Talk

  Apsara DiQuinzio on Bruce Conner's LOOKING GLASS

  Thursday, April 22, 2010
  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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  Symposium

  Is Photography Over?

  Thursday, April 22, 7:00 p.m.
  Friday, April 23, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.

  Photography has almost always been in crisis. In the beginning, the terms of this crisis were cast as dichotomies: is photography science or art? Nature or technology?…

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  Art Sandwiched In

  New Partnerships: SFMOMA and the Fisher Collection

  Tuesday, April 27, 2010
  noon
  

  Neal Benezra, director, SFMOMA
  Robert J. Fisher, trustee, SFMOMA
  Gary Garrels, Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, SFMOMA

  With the addition of the Fisher Collection from Gap founders Doris and Don Fisher, an expanded SFMOMA will become home to one of the world's foremost contemporary art collections.…

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  Curator Talk

  Apsara DiQuinzio on Gerhard Richter's Lesende

  Thursday, April 29, 2010
  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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  Live Art

  SMITHS: Arts & Skills Service: On Ammunition and Ornament

  Thursday, April 29, 2010
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Jane Kimball, historian

  Highlighting the historical relationship of art-making and the war effort both at home and on the battlefield, this iteration of Arts & Skills Service considers trench art of…

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  Live Art

  SMITHS: Arts & Skills Service: On Ammunition and Ornament

  11:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
  The Schwab Room
  2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
  Koret Visitor Education Center

  Allison Smith's Arts & Skills Service has examined the relationship of art-making and war efforts both at home and on the battlefield, from knitting and bandage rolling to…

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  Live Art

  SMITHS: Arts & Skills Service: On Ammunition and Ornament

  Saturday, May 01, 2010
  4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
  

  Tia Christopher, Swords to Plowshares
  Nan Rohan, straw & wheat weaver
  Allison Smith, artist

  With Jane Kimball's Thursday night lecture on trench art in mind, we turn to arts and objects made by soldiers. Allison Smith hands over her own trench art collection for…

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  Free Tuesday Program

  Dispatches from Dispatches

  Tuesday, May 04, 2010
  noon
  

  Stephanie Pau, manager of interpretation, SFMOMA

  In this noontime program, Pau talks about several of the works on view in the Koret Center anniversary exhibition Dispatches from the Archives. The exhibition features design…

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  Book Signing

  Further

  Thursday, May 06, 2010
  6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
  

  Further presents the symbiotic relationship between seven artists and friends who share a visual dialogue: MARS-1, NoMe Edonna, Oliver Vernon, Tomokazu Matsuyama, Damon Soule,…

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  Curator Talk

  Corey Keller on Alfred Stieglitz's Georgia O'Keeffe — Hands and Thimble

  Thursday, May 06, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Corey Keller, associate curator of photography, SFMOMA

  SFMOMA regrets that Corey Keller's talk has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.

  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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  Curator Talk

  Alison Gass on Adaline Kent's Presence

  Thursday, May 13, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Alison Gass, 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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  Special Event

  75th Birthday Party

  Birthday Party Rooftop Dinner: 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
  Birthday Bash: 9:00 p.m. - midnight

  We invite you to join us at the museum for a once-in-a-lifetime gala celebration in honor of 75 years of groundbreaking art. On May 14, artists, patrons, and art enthusiasts will…

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  Curator Talk

  Henry Urbach on Ewan Gibbs's San Francisco

  Thursday, May 20, 2010
  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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  Curator Talk

  Rudolf Frieling on Felix Gonzalez-Torres's "Untitled" (Golden)

  Thursday, May 27, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Rudolf Frieling, curator of media arts, 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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  Live Art

  Smiths: Arts & Skills Service

  Saturday, May 29, 2010
  noon - 7:00 p.m.
  

  Allison Smith, artist
  Suellen Semekoski, art therapist, National Veterans Art Museum
  Plus artists, civilians, crafters, makers, reenactors, soldiers, and veterans
  Justin Nash on piano and Chris Skebo on trumpet

  Remarks by Allison Smith and Suellen Semekoski at noon and 6:00 p.m.

  "Here in San Francisco over fifteen hundred men a month are being sent out from our three military hospitals with a new weapon in their hands: a skill or craft with which to…

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  Curator Talk

  Gary Garrels on Bruce Nauman's Wax Impressions of the Knees of Five Famous Artists

  Thursday, June 03, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Gary Garrels, Elise S. Haas Senior 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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  Curator Talk

  Tanya Zimbardo on Catherine Wagner's Definitely Not Sterile from the series Art & Science: Investigating Matter

  Thursday, June 10, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator of media arts, 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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  SFMOMA: Now Playing

  Chris Johanson

  Thursday, June 17, 2010
  6:00 p.m. - 9:45 p.m.
  

  7:00 p.m. Screening of Bay Area art documents, early 1990s to early 2000s
  9:00 p.m. Chris Johanson presents the Mission supergroup The 17th & Capps

  Experience the museum animated by artists and luminaries. Tonight: Johanson, a key figure who emerged among San Francisco's Mission School artists, returns to the Bay Area to…

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  Curator Talk

  Julie Charles on Robert Rauschenberg's Erased de Kooning Drawing

  Thursday, June 17, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Julie Charles, associate curator of education, 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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  Curator Talk

  Jill Sterrett on Eva Hesse's Sans II

  Thursday, June 24, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Jill Sterrett, director of collections and 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.

• Curator Talk

  Frank Smigiel on David Hockney's Shirley Goldfarb and Gregory Masurovsky

  Thursday, July 01, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Frank Smigiel, associate curator of public programs, 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.

• Free Tuesday Program

  Introducing the Fisher Collection: Collecting History

  Tuesday, July 06, 2010
  noon
  

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

  Zarobell traces the history and formation of the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection, which has just found a new home at SFMOMA. He discusses the significance of this extensive…

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  Curator Talk

  Joseph Becker on Maarten Baas's Where There's Smoke Zig Zag chair (Reitveld)

  Thursday, July 08, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Joseph Becker, assistant 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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  Curator Talk

  Alison Gass on Mika Rottenberg's Squeeze

  Thursday, July 15, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Alison Gass, 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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  Live Art

  Infinite City: Monarchs and Queens

  Thursday, July 15, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
  Saturday, July 17, 2010, 11:00 a.m.

  With art by Mona Caron and an essay by Aaron Shurin, this broadside map juxtaposes the habitats of local butterflies with the shifting locations of queer public space. By…

• Curator Talk

  Erin O'Toole on Frank Gohlke's Landscape, Albuquerque, New Mexico

  Thursday, July 22, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Erin O'Toole, assistant curator of 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.

• Curator Talk

  Henry Urbach on Full Circle: 75 Years of Wood Chairs

  Thursday, July 29, 2010
  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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  Book Signing

  David Choe

  Thursday, July 29, 2010
  6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
  

  This dynamic monograph captures the frenetic raw energy and gorgeous, intense work of gallery and street artist David Choe. From dropping out of art school to a stint in Japanese…

• Free Tuesday Program

  Revisiting New Topographics

  Tuesday, August 03, 2010
  noon
  

  Erin O'Toole, assistant curator of photography, SFMOMA

  Widely considered a seminal event in the history of photography, the 1975 exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape featured the work of 10 photographers…

• Curator Talk

  Gary Garrels on Andy Warhol's Triple Elvis

  Thursday, August 05, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Gary Garrels, Elise S. Haas Senior 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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  Curator Talk

  John Zarobell on Paul Klee's Der Verliebte (Man in Love)

  Thursday, August 12, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  John Zarobell, assistant curator of collections, exhibitions, and commissions, 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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  Book Signing

  Mark Ryden

  Thursday, August 12, 2010
  6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
  

  Traverse Mark Ryden's vast wintry landscapes into the frigid domain of the majestic Snow Yak. Images from the artist's acclaimed Japanese Snow Yak Show are reproduced in large…

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  Live Art

  Infinite City: Right Wing of the Dove

  Thursday, August 12, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
  Saturday, August 14, 2010, 3:15 p.m.

  Upending the image of the Bay Area as a liberal safe haven, "Right Wing of the Dove" documents the muscular history of military centers and corporate-military…

• Curator Talk

  Tanya Zimbardo on Sophie Calle's Autobiographical Stories (The Bed)

  Thursday, August 19, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator of media arts, 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.

• Curator Talk

  Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher on Lewis Baltz's Industrial Parks series

  Thursday, August 26, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, assistant 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.

• Curator Talk

  Peter Samis on Sigmar Polke's Untitled (Magician)

  Thursday, September 02, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Peter Samis, associate curator of interpretation, 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

  Where Was the Home Place? Wright Morris at 100

  Tuesday, September 07, 2010
  noon
  

  Stephen Arkin, professor emeritus, San Francisco State University

  Wright Morris (1910-1998) made his mark on the fields of both writing and photography — a multimedia man avant la lettre — and left a strong imprint in the Bay Area…

• Curator Talk

  Julie Charles on Chuck Close's Agnes

  Thursday, September 09, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Julie Charles, associate curator of education, 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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  Live Art

  Infinite City: Cinema City

  Thursday, September 9, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
  Saturday, September 11, 2010, various times

  September's "Cinema City" map charts the genesis of cinema at the hands of Eadweard Muybridge in 1870s San Francisco; the making of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo here in…

• Special Event

  SF20 Preview Gala Benefiting SFMOMA

  Thursday, September 16, 2010
  6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
  

  The third annual San Francisco 20th Century Modernism Show & Sale (SF20) returns to Fort Mason this September. SF20 opens with a preview gala benefiting SFMOMA on September 16,…

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  SFMOMA: Now Playing

  MEN

  Thursday, September 16, 2010
  6:00 p.m. - 9:45 p.m.
  

  7:00 p.m. Screening by Ridykeulous
  9:00 p.m. Performance by MEN

  MEN's performance will feature ASL interpretation by Jennie Batchelder.

  Brooklyn-based artist JD Samson has dubbed this evening her SFMOMA "takeover." In MEN, Samson (Le Tigre, Hirsute) joins Ginger Brooks Takahashi (LTTR, The Ballet) and…

• Curator Talk

  Jill Sterrett on Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes Bild (Abstract Picture)

  Thursday, September 16, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Jill Sterrett, director of conservation and collections, 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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  Curator Talk

  Sarah Roberts on Robert Rauschenberg's White Painting (Three Panel)

  Thursday, September 23, 2010
  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.

• Open Space Thursdays

  Suzanne Stein and Dominic Willsdon Host Art Writing in the Bay Area

  Thursday, September 23, 2010
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Suzanne Stein, community producer and managing editor of Open Space, SFMOMA
  Dominic Willsdon, curator of education and public programs, SFMOMA, host
  Brandon Brown, poet, translator, publisher, and Open Space columnist
  Patricia Maloney, editor of Art Practical
  Renny Pritikin, director and curator of the Nelson Gallery and Fine Art Collection at UC Davis, and Open Space columnist
  Erin O'Toole, associate curator of photography, SFMOMA
  Meg Shiffler, gallery director, San Francisco Arts Commission

  On this first evening, Renny Pritikin, Patricia Maloney, Brandon Brown, Meg Shiffler and Erin O'Toole join Dominic Willsdon and Suzanne Stein in conversation about art writing in…

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  Live Art

  SFMOMA Presents SCULPTURE L.A.

  Thursdays, September 30, and October 7, 14, and 21, 2010
  6:15 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

  A New Work by Muistardeaux Collective

  On Thursdays from September 30 to October 21, 2010, Muistardeaux Collective creates SCULPTURE L.A., a multimedia lecture and performance series. SCULPTURE L.A. features…

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  Curator Talk

  Frank Smigiel on Robert Rauschenberg's Cy + Roman Steps (I-V)

  Thursday, September 30, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Frank Smigiel, associate curator of public programs, 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.

• Open Space Thursdays

  Jessica Tully Hosts The Brain in Her Arms: Octopus in Space

  Thursday, September 30, 2010
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Jessica Tully, artist
  Richard Ross, biologist, Steinhart Aquarium at the California Academy of Sciences
  Adam Werbach, environmental activist

  This Thursday Jessica Tully asks us to consider the possible civic implications of the myths and metaphors surrounding the other-worldly octopus. The Brain in Her Ams: Octopus in…

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  Courses

  Pickpocket Almanack: Fall 2010

  Courses take place between October 01 and December 15, 2010

  Enrollment for the fall season begins September 20, 2010.

  The Pickpocket Almanack is an experimental school-without-walls. Each season, a temporary faculty of artists, curators, writers and filmmakers create courses by selecting from…

• Curator Talk

  Joseph Becker on Bruce Nauman's Life Death/ Knows Doesn't Know

  Thursday, October 07, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Joseph Becker, assistant 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.

• Special Event

  Pickpocket Almanack: Addenda

  Thursdays, October 7 and 14, November 4, and December 16, 2010
  7:00 p.m.

  An experimental school-without-walls. A set of journeys through Bay Area cultural life. A series of encounters with artists, writers, and performers. Pickpocket Almanack is at…

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  Live Art

  Infinite City: All Identity Is Local

  Thursday, October 7, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
  Saturday, October 9, 2010, 8:30 p.m.

  Two maps about identity are featured in October. A joint project by Rebecca Solnit and artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña responds to the question "Who am I…

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  Curator Talk

  Janet Bishop on Henri Matisse's sketch for Le bonheur de vivre (The Joy of Life)

  Thursday, October 14, 2010
  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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  SFMOMA: Now Playing

  Beth Custer Ensemble

  Thursday, October 21, 2010
  6:00 p.m. - 9:45 p.m.
  

  7:00 p.m. Films by Alexander Hammid with music by Beth Custer Ensemble
  9:00 p.m. My Grandmother with music by Beth Custer Ensemble

  While the galleries await the installation of our fall exhibitions, roam the museum's open spaces recharged by artists. In the Phyllis Wattis Theater, San Francisco Cinematheque…

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  Curator Talk

  Dominic Willsdon on On Kawara's MAR. 16, 1993, from the Today series

  Thursday, October 21, 2010
  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 or specialists shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes.

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  Open Space Thursdays

  Eric Heiman Hosts Design is Dead! (Long Live Design!)

  Thursday, October 21, 2010
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Eric Heiman, founder of Volume Inc, CCA design professor, Open Space contributor
  Shawn Allen, Partner and Design Director, Stamen
  Bob Aufuldish, Aufuldish & Warriner, Professor of Design, CCA
  Guthrie Dolin, Odopod
  Mike Simonian & Maaike Evers, Mike and Maaike
  Joshua To, founder, Brute Labs
  With Melina Jones, Hip-Hop (M)istress of (C)eremonies

  Technology is evolving more quickly than ever. The planet can't sustain our consuming ways anymore. We're still in a deep economic recession. And 40,000 design students are…

• Curator Talk

  Apsara DiQuinzio on R. H. Quaytman

  Thursday, October 28, 2010
  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.

• Open Space Thursdays

  Joseph del Pesco Hosts Everything Is Dangerous

  Thursday, October 28, 2010
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Jeff Khonsary, Fillip magazine
  Kristina Lee Podesva, Fillip magazine
  Hosted by Joseph del Pesco, program director, ArtNow/Kadist

  Del Pesco hosts Fillip magazine's Podesva and Khonsary, who will discuss their new pamphlet series within the context of Fillip's magazine and publication projects. Discussing the…

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  Free Tuesday Program

  Looking at Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870

  Tuesday, November 02, 2010
  noon
  

  Lisa Sutcliffe, assistant curator of photography, SFMOMA

  Examining Exposed, Sutcliffe takes us through the show's major themes and discusses how the history and pervasiveness of voyeurism have shaped and been shaped by the camera.

• Curator Talk

  Carrie Pilto on Guy Bourdin's Charles Jourdan Advertisement, Spring 1975

  Thursday, November 04, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Carrie Pilto, project 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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  Book Signing

  Hi-Fructose Collected Edition Volume 2

  The Schwab Room
  6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
  
  After Party at Temple Nightclub, 540 Howard St.
  9:00pm

  Camille Rose Garcia, artist
  Audrey Kawasaki, artist
  Mars-1, artist
  Ferris Plock, artist
  Amy Sol, artist
  Annie Owens and Attaboy, Hi- Fructose founders/editors

  Join us to meet several of the artists featured in Hi-Fructose Magazine as they sign copies of Hi-Fructose Collected Edition Volume 2, featuring the best features, articles, and…

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  Phyllis Wattis Distinguished Lecture

  Susan Meiselas on the Ethics of Seeing

  Thursday, November 04, 2010
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Susan Meiselas, photographer
  Sandra Philips, senior curator of photography, SFMOMA

  Founded in 1995 through the generosity of Phyllis Wattis, this lecture series brings innovative thinkers to SFMOMA. Best known for her coverage of the insurrection in Nicaragua and…

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  Symposium

  Exposed Roundtable: The Future of Investigative Reporting

  Friday, November 05, 2010
  3:00 p.m.
  

  David Cohn, founder, Spot.us
  Susan Meiselas, photographer
  Robert Rosenthal, executive director, Center for Investigative Reporting
  A. C. Thompson, reporter, ProPublica
  Lola Vollen, cofounder, Voices of Witness, and founder, Life After Exoneration Program

  Meiselas, whose documentary photographs are on view in Exposed, joins a group of journalistic innovators to discuss new forms of investigative journalism. As traditional,…

• Special Event

  2010 Bay Area Treasure Award Luncheon Honoring William T. Wiley

  Wednesday, November 10, 2010
  noon - 2:00 p.m.
  

  Neal Benezra, director, SFMOMA
  Gary Garrels, Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, SFMOMA
  William T. Wiley, artist

  Reserve your tickets today for the annual Bay Area Treasure Luncheon.

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  Curator Talk

  Lisa Sutcliffe on Walker Evans's Subway Passengers, New York series

  Thursday, November 11, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Lisa Sutcliffe, assistant curator of 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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  Live Art

  Infinite City: Poison/Palate and OPENwater

  Thursday, November 11, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
  Saturday, November 13, 2010, 3:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
  Sunday, November 14, 2010, 11:30 a.m. - 11:00 p.m.

  November's "Poison/Palate" map traces the Bay Area as an ecosystem of paired opposites: Napa vineyards versus Silicon Valley interiors, Chez Panisse abutting Chevron, San…

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  Special Event

  SFMOMA Wishes Happy Birthday to Wayne Thiebaud

  Monday, November 15, 2010
  11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
  

  Treat yourself to a sweet break and join us to celebrate artist Wayne Thiebaud's 90th birthday! In honor of this special occasion, Blue Bottle Coffee Co. will serve their…

• Curator Talk

  Erin O'Toole on Weegee's Their First Murder

  Thursday, November 18, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Erin O'Toole, assistant curator of 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.