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Talks + Events (110)

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  Free Tuesday Program

  75 Reasons to Live Revisited

  Tuesday, January 04, 2011
  11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
  

  Remember the end of Manhattan, when Woody Allen asks himself what makes life worth living? Last January, during SFMOMA's three-day 75th anniversary celebration, 75 people from the…

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  Curator Talk

  Julie Charles on Louise Bourgeois's The Nest

  Thursday, January 06, 2011
  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.

• Curator Talk

  Alison Gass on Alyson Shotz's The Structure of Light

  Thursday, January 13, 2011
  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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  Exhibition Spotlight

  New Work: R. H. Quaytman

  Thursday, January 13, 2011
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Apsara DiQuinzio, assistant curator of painting and sculpture, SFMOMA
  Kevin Killian, writer
  R. H. Quaytman, artist

  Quaytman sits down with DiQuinzio to talk about I Love — The Eyelid Clicks / I See / Cold Poetry, Chapter 18, Quaytman's new body of paintings reflecting on the poetry of Jack…

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  Curator Talk

  Gary Garrels on Pae White's Smoke Knows

  Thursday, January 20, 2011
  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.

• Curator Talk

  Peter Samis on Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Thursday, January 27, 2011
  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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  Special Event

  Shadowshop Commission: Imin Yeh

  Workshops: February 1, 5, 8, 15, 19, 21, 22, and 24, 2011
  Noon - 5:00 p.m.
  
  Festival Sale: February 24, 2011
  7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

  At Shadowshop, kick off an alternative Chinese New Year celebration with artist Imin Yeh, whose February project involves museum visitors producing seemingly "auspicious"…

• Curator Talk

  Tanya Zimbardo on Bill Fontana's Sonic Shadows

  Thursday, February 03, 2011
  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 Tom Price's Meltdown Chairs

  Thursday, February 10, 2011
  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

  Lisa Sutcliffe on Simon Norfolk's The BBC World Service Atlantic Relay Station at English Bay

  Thursday, February 17, 2011
  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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  Now Playing

  Anna Parkina and robbinschilds with Kinski

  Thursday, February 24, 2011
  6:00 p.m. - 9:45 p.m.
  

  6:30 p.m. Curator talk
  7:00 p.m. Performance by Anna Parkina
  9:00 p.m. Performance by robbinschilds with Kinski

  New Work artist Anna Parkina explores the legacy of Soviet and other early avant-gardes in a suite of works on paper and in this evening's West Coast performance debut. Then, in…

• Curator Talk

  John Zarobell on Shahzia Sikander's Sinxay: Narrative as Dissolution #2, 2008

  Thursday, February 24, 2011
  6:30 p.m.
  

  John Zarobell, assistant curator, 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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  Free Tuesday Program

  Muybridge and His Legacy

  Tuesday, March 01, 2011
  noon
  

  Lisa Sutcliffe, assistant curator of photography, SFMOMA

  Sutcliffe presents a three short films inspired by Muybridge and his proto-cinematic work including the dazzling Retrospectroscope by acclaimed local filmmaker, Kerry Laitala,…

• Curator Talk

  Sarah Roberts on Agnes Martin's Falling Blue

  Thursday, March 03, 2011
  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.

• Curator Talk

  Carrie Pilto on Nicolas Boulard's Nuancier Finement Boisé and DRC 1946

  Thursday, March 10, 2011
  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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  Live Art

  Shadowshop Commission: Juan Luna-Avin

  Thursday, March 17, 2011
  6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
  

  Join us for the launch of Juan Luna-Avin's boxed music set "In Tepito We Trust," Shadowshop's third and final artist-commissioned project. "In Tepito We Trust"…

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  SFMOMA: Now Playing

  How Wine Became Modern Featuring Pop-Up Magazine

  Thursday, March 17, 2011
  6:00 p.m. - 9:45 p.m.
  

  6:00 p.m. Meatpaper magazine and Blue Bottle Coffee present "Food & Thought"
  6:30 p.m. Curator talk
  7:00 p.m. Screening: Dionysus in 69 (Brian De Palma, 1970)
  9:00 p.m. Pop-Up Magazine presents Sidebar: Wine!

  Pop-Up Magazine is unlike any other magazine. It won't arrive in your mailbox, and you can't buy it from a newsstand or read it online. Why? Because each issue is a live…

• Curator Talk

  Rudolf Frieling on Eija-Liisa Ahtila's Lahja (The Present)

  Thursday, March 17, 2011
  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.

• Special Event

  Caffè Museo Wine Tasting

  Thursday, March 24, 2011
  6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
  

  Join Gloria Ferrer Winery for a wine tasting to celebrate How Wine Became Modern.

• Curator Talk

  Alison Gass on Mark Bradford's Monster

  Thursday, March 24, 2011
  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.

• Open Space Thursdays

  Shop Talk: Part One

  Thursday, March 24, 2011
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Moderated by Suzanne Stein, community producer and managing editor of Open Space, SFMOMA, and Lea Feinstein, artist and writer, Art Practical
  Megan Brian, education and public programs coordinator, SFMOMA
  Christian L. Frock, writer and curator, Invisible Venue
  Amanda Hughen, artist

  This first of three conversations will focus on issues and themes raised by Stephanie Syjuco's collaborative project Shadowshop, on view now as part of the exhibition The More Things…

• Curator Talk

  Erin O'Toole on Eadweard Muybridge

  Thursday, March 31, 2011
  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.

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  Free Tuesday Screening

  Events in the Environment

  Tuesday, April 05, 2011
  noon
  

  Presented by Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator of media arts, SFMOMA

  Lawrence Weiner, Broken Off, 1971, video, black-and-white, sound, 1:30 min.
  General Idea, Double Mirror Video, 1971, video, black-and-white, sound, 5:50 min.
  Anthony McCall, Landscape for Fire, 1972, 16mm film transfer to video, color, optical sound, 7.5 min.
  Mel Henderson (with Joe Hawley and Alfred Young), Yellow Cabs, 1969, 16mm transfer to video, color, silent, 7.5 min.
  Jill Scott, Taped, 1975, video, black-and-white, sound, 2 min.
  Joan Jonas, Songdelay, 1973, 16mm film transfer to video, black-and-white, sound, 18:35 min.

  Zimbardo introduces a range of video works and recorded collaborative performances primarily from the 1970s that engage in various ways with the rural or urban environment. The…

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  Special Event

  Art Auction 2011

  Wednesday, April 06, 2011
  5:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
  

  The Modern Art Council, SFMOMA's premier fundraising auxiliary, presents Art Auction 2011. This fundraising event presents an exciting opportunity to bid on works by established…

• Special Event

  Caffè Museo Wine Tasting

  Thursday, April 07, 2011
  6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
  

  Join Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant for a wine tasting to celebrate How Wine Became Modern.

• Curator Talk

  John Zarobell on Anna Parkina

  Thursday, April 07, 2011
  6:30 p.m.
  

  John Zarobell, assistant curator, 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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  Live Art

  Activating the Medium

  Thursday, April 07, 2011
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Richard Garet, artist
  Jim Haynes, artist
  Allison Holt, artist

  Now in its 14th season, the Activating the Medium festival is an internationally recognized showcase for the most innovative and visionary practitioners of sound art. SFMOMA hosts…

• Special Event

  Caffè Museo Wine Tasting

  Thursday, April 14, 2011
  6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
  

  Join Longboard Vineyards for a wine tasting to celebrate How Wine Became Modern.

• Curator Talk

  Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher on James Welling's 0469

  Thursday, April 14, 2011
  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.

• Open Space Thursdays

  Shop Talk: Part Two

  Thursday, April 14, 2011
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Hosted and moderated by Patricia Maloney, editor in chief, Art Practical, and Suzanne Stein, community producer and managing editor of Open Space, SFMOMA

  This evening's Shop Talk will home in on the most prevailing concerns raised in the March 24 discussion around issues raised by Stephanie Syjuco's collaborative project Shadowshop.…

• Special Event

  Jewelry Trunk Show and Sale

  Saturday, April 16, 2011
  10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
  

  Meet some of our favorite artists and see their latest designs at the jewelry trunk show and sale. Local, national, and international designers will be showing fresh new work not…

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  SFMOMA: Now Playing

  Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards present Electric Party Songs

  Thursday, April 21, 2011
  6:00 p.m. - 9:45 p.m.
  

  6:00 p.m. Meatpaper magazine and Blue Bottle Coffee present "Food & Thought"
  6:30 p.m. Curator talk
  7:00 p.m. Screening: Allen Ginsberg home movies
  9:00 p.m. Performance by Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards

  Drawing from their investigation of Allen Ginsberg's poetry, 11 actors animate SFMOMA with a cycle of song, gesture, and movement that challenges the conventions of theater-based…

• Curator Talk

  Dominic Willsdon on Olivo Barbieri's site specific_MONTREAL 04 [Buckminster Fuller Dome]

  Thursday, April 21, 2011
  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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  Live Art

  Shadowshop Final Days

  Thursday, April 28, 2011
  5:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
  

  5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.: The Shadowshopper Network, a QVC-style performative event hosted by artists Packard Jennings, Steuart Pittman, and Scott Vermiere, will be broadcasting…

• Curator Talk

  Frank Smigiel on Stephanie Syjuco's Shadowshop

  Thursday, April 28, 2011
  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.

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  Live Art

  Last Day of Shadowshop

  Sunday, May 01, 2011
  11:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
  

  May 1 marks the closing of Stephanie Syjuco's Shadowshop, which has operated out of the fifth-floor galleries and has provided a venue for more than 200 Bay Area artists to sell…

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  Free Tuesday Program

  Tobias Wong

  Tuesday, May 03, 2011
  noon
  

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

  Inspired by Marcel Duchamps Fountain (1917), a sculpture made by displacing an industrial design object from its typical mens room context, designer Wong worked in a similarly…

• Curator Talk

  Joseph Becker on Richard Barnes's Murmur

  Thursday, May 05, 2011
  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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  Live Art

  SHOUT! Celebrating Women Veterans Through the Arts

  Thursday, May 05, 2011
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Sandra Keats and Jim Miller, filmmakers
  Frank Smigiel, associate curator, public programs

  My Mom's a Soldier, Sandra Keats, 2009, 27 min., video

  With Arts & Skills Service, Bay Area artist Allison Smith organizes workshops and gatherings examining the intersection of craft and the war effort, reviving a World War II-era…

• Live Art

  Allison Smith: Arts & Skills Service

  Saturday, May 07, 2011
  11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
  

  With Arts & Skills Service, Bay Area artist Allison Smith organizes workshops and gatherings examining the intersection of craft and the war effort, reviving a World War II-era…

• Curator Talk

  Jill Sterrett on An Te Liu's Cloud

  Thursday, May 12, 2011
  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.

• Open Space Thursdays

  Shop Talk: Part Three

  Thursday, May 12, 2011
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Hosted and moderated by Patricia Maloney, editor in chief, Art Practical, and Suzanne Stein, community producer and managing editor of Open Space, SFMOMA
  Lara Durback, poet, letterpress printer, editor
  Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert, artists
  Cheryl Meeker, artist, writer, curator

  Shop Talk has been considering the survival strategies artists develop and adopt to gain recognition and financial viability, utilizing artist Stephanie Syjuco's collaborative…

• Curator Talk

  Rudolf Frieling and David Claerbout on Claerbout

  Thursday, May 19, 2011
  6:00 p.m.
  

  Rudolf Frieling, curator of media arts, SFMOMA
  David Claerbout, artist

  Note special 6:00 p.m. start time.

  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 Panel

  The Steins Collect

  Thursday, May 19, 2011
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Janet Bishop, curator of painting and sculpture, SFMOMA
  Cécile Debray, curator of historical collections, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris
  Rebecca Rabinow, associate curator of 19th-century, modern, and contemporary art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  Gary Tinterow, Engelhard Chairman, Department of 19th-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Reassembling long-dispersed historical collections that had tremendous impacts on the trajectory of modern art, The Steins Collect presents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to…

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  Koret Center Exhibition

  Doodle 4 Google: What I'd Like to Do Someday…

  May 20 - July 19, 2011

  This exhibition features 40 works selected from more than 107,000 designs submitted by K-12 students from all 50 states in Google's annual design competition. Following the theme…

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  Book Signing

  Meet the Artist!

  Saturday, May 21, 2011
  2:00 p.m.
  

  Paul Madonna

  Local favorite Paul Madonna returns with a second collection of stunning drawings and writings, casting his eye beyond his hometown of San Francisco to cities such as Paris, Rome,…

• Curator Talk

  Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher on Tobias Wong's Doorstop

  Thursday, May 26, 2011
  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.

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  Live Art

  Muybridge in Three Movements

  Thursday, May 26, 2011
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Catherine Galasso, choreographer/director
  Steve Polta, artistic director/archivist, San Francisco Cinematheque
  Rebecca Solnit, author

  Mark Wilson, Motion Studies, 1995, 4 min., 16mm
  Hollis Frampton, INGENIVM NOBIS IPSA PVELLA FECIT, 1974, 15 min. excerpt, 16mm
  Ken Jacobs, Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 1888, 2005, 6 min., video
  Bruce Conner, BREAKAWAY, 1966, 5 min., 16mm

  In conjunction with the exhibition Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change, we present an evening of Muybridge-inspired dance choreographed and directed by Catherine Galasso;…

• Curator Talk

  Jared Ledesma on Henri Matisse's Boy with a Butterfly Net

  Thursday, June 02, 2011
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Jared Ledesma, project research assistant, 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

  Wayne Koestenbaum

  Thursday, June 02, 2011
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Wayne Koestenbaum, cultural critic and distinguished professor of English, City University of New York

  Essayist, cultural critic, and poet Koestenbaum is one of the most energetic and original writers working today. With books like The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality and the…

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  Special Event

  Living Room

  Saturday, June 04, 2011
  11:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
  

  Co-organized with Margaret Tedesco.

  The Stein family's Saturday salons in their Paris apartments were the crucible of avant-garde art and writing of the period. In keeping with the spirit of those informal…

• Marathon Reading

  Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans

  Saturday, June 04, 2011
  11:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
  

  Co-organized with Samantha Giles and Small Press Traffic.

  Twenty-six Bay Area poets perform an all-day marathon reading of selections from Gertrude Stein's epic novel, The Making of Americans. Composed during the years of the legendary…

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  Panel Discussion

  Queer Culture and Artists' Circles

  Saturday, June 04, 2011
  4:30 p.m.
  

  Tammy Rae Carland, artist
  Wanda Corn, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History, Stanford University, and curator, Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories, Contemporary Jewish Museum
  Jonathan Katz, chair, Visual Studies Doctoral Program, SUNY, Buffalo
  Wayne Koestenbaum, cultural critic and distinguished professor of English, City University of New York

  Carland, Katz, Corn, and Koestenbaum discuss how artistic circles form and transform visual and literary artistic practices, and the place of such circles in queer histories of…

• Free Tuesday Program

  Gertrude Stein Live!

  Tuesday, June 07, 2011
  noon
  

  Frank Smigiel, associate curator of public programs, SFMOMA

  Smigiel explores the live iterations of Gertrude Stein's work, from poetry readings to performances, as he prepares for SFMOMA's August production of her Four Saints in Three Acts.…

• Curator Talk

  Suzanne Stein on Marie Laurencin's Apollinaire and His Friends…

  Thursday, June 09, 2011
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Suzanne Stein, community producer, 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

  Janet Bishop on Henri Matisse's Portraits of Sarah and Michael Stein

  Thursday, June 16, 2011
  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.

• Curator Talk

  Carrie Pilto on Le Corbusier's Villa Stein-de Monzie

  Thursday, June 23, 2011
  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.

• Curator Talk

  Kate Mendillo on Henri Matisse's Blue Nude: Memory of Biskra

  Thursday, June 30, 2011
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Kate Mendillo, curatorial project manager, 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

  Le Corbusier's Villa Stein-de Monzie: A New Standard for Modern Luxury

  Tuesday, July 05, 2011
  noon
  

  Carrie Pilto, project assistant curator, SFMOMA

  Pilto, assistant curator for The Steins Collect, discusses how Sarah and Michael Stein's 1926 commission of a home by now-legendary architect Le Corbusier ushered in a new era of…

• Poetry Reading

  Ariel Goldberg on Robert Gober's Newspaper

  Thursday, July 07, 2011
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Ariel Goldberg, poet

  Inspired by The Steins Collect, this series of readings honors poet Gertrude Stein and her relationships with the visual artists of her day. Each Thursday evening, a leading…

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  Artist Panel Discussion

  Face of Our Time

  Thursday, July 07, 2011
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Jacob Aue Sobol, artist
  Jim Goldberg, artist
  Richard Misrach, artist
  Daniel Schwartz, artist

  Face of Our Time highlights five fine art photographers working in what Walker Evans called the "documentary style." Four of them, Aue Sobol, Goldberg, Misrach, and…

• Poetry Reading

  Bhanu Kapil on Jim Goldberg's Home of a Boy Who Died Trying to Get to Europe, Senegal

  Thursday, July 14, 2011
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Bhanu Kapil, poet

  Inspired by The Steins Collect, this series of readings honors poet Gertrude Stein and her relationships with the visual artists of her day. Each Thursday evening, a leading…

• Sold Out

  Lecture Series

  Matisse, Picasso, Stein

  Thursday, July 14, 2011
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Janet Bishop, curator of painting and sculpture, SFMOMA
  Carrie Pilto, project assistant curator, SFMOMA

  On this evening, Janet Bishop, SFMOMA curator of painting and sculpture, will examine the relationship between Matisse and Picasso, describing its significance for the origins of…

• Lecture

  Matisse, Picasso, Stein

  Thursday, July 21, 2011
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Renate Stendhal, Stein scholar and editor, Gertrude Stein in Words and Pictures

  Renate Stendhal's Gertrude Stein in Words and Pictures recreates Stein's world. For this talk, Stendhal will focus on the artistic and personal relationship between Stein and…

• Poetry Reading

  Douglas Kearney on Wifredo Lam's The Oracle and the Green Bird

  Thursday, July 21, 2011
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Douglas Kearney, poet

  Inspired by The Steins Collect, this series of readings honors poet Gertrude Stein and her relationships with the visual artists of her day. Each Thursday evening, a leading…

• Lecture

  Matisse, Picasso, Stein

  Thursday, July 28, 2011
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Dara Solomon, curator, Contemporary Jewish Museum

  Contemporary Jewish Museum Curator Dara Solomon will give a brief overview of their current exhibition Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories and discuss Stein's enduring legacy for…

• Poetry Reading

  Arnold J. Kemp on Mary Heilmann's Fire and Ice Remix

  Thursday, July 28, 2011
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Arnold J. Kemp, poet

  Inspired by The Steins Collect, this series of readings honors poet Gertrude Stein and her relationships with the visual artists of her day. Each Thursday evening, a leading…

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  Free Tuesday Program

  Gertrude Stein's Reality

  Tuesday, August 02, 2011
  noon
  

  Lyn Hejinian, poet and professor of English, UC Berkeley

  Poet, essayist, translator, and publisher Hejinian is well known for her landmark collection My Life and many other books of poetry. Her collection of essays, The Language of Inquiry…

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  Sold Out

  Special Event

  An Evening in Gay Paris

  Thursday, August 04, 2011
  5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
  

  Members of the LGBT* community are invited to an evening celebration of the remarkable life and legacy of Gertrude Stein. This special event includes:

  • Entry to Seeing Gertrude Stein:…

• Poetry Reading

  Amber DiPietra on IwamotoScott Architecture's Jellyfish House

  Thursday, August 04, 2011
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Amber DiPietra, poet

  Inspired by The Steins Collect, this series of readings honors poet Gertrude Stein and her relationships with the visual artists of her day. Each Thursday evening, a leading…

• Lecture

  Matisse, Picasso, Stein

  Thursday, August 04, 2011
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Carrie Pilto, project assistant curator, SFMOMA

  This evening Carrie Pilto, SFMOMA project assistant curator, looks at the later period covered by The Steins Collect, after World War I. She explores the relationship of the…

• Lecture

  Matisse, Picasso, Stein

  Thursday, August 11, 2011
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Steven Watson, cultural historian

  Steven Watson is a cultural historian and the author of Prepare for Saints, the key book on Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson's opera Four Saints in Three Acts. He will discuss this…

• Poetry Reading

  Evan Kennedy on Marie Laurencin's Apollinaire and His Friends…

  Thursday, August 11, 2011
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Evan Kennedy, poet

  Inspired by The Steins Collect, this series of readings honors poet Gertrude Stein and her relationships with the visual artists of her day. Each Thursday evening, a leading…

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  Live Art

  Steven Watson Prepares for Saints

  Thursday, August 11, 2011
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Steven Watson, cultural historian
  Special guests to be announced

  In his book Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism, Watson details an engaging and lurid narrative of the circle of early…

• Poetry Reading

  Brent Cunningham on Hanne Darboven's 51 Drawings

  Thursday, August 18, 2011
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Brent Cunningham, poet

  Inspired by The Steins Collect, this series of readings honors poet Gertrude Stein and her relationships with the visual artists of her day. Each Thursday evening, a leading…

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  Live Art

  Four Saints in Three Acts: An Opera Installation

  Thursday, August 18, 2011, 7:30 p.m. (preview)
  Friday - Saturday, August 19 - 20, 2011, 8:00 p.m.
  Sunday, August 21, 2011, 2:00 p.m.

  An Ensemble Parallèle production
  Nicole Paiement, conductor/artistic director
  Brian Staufenbiel, director
  Music by Virgil Thomson and Luciano Chessa
  Libretto by Gertrude Stein
  Featuring Kalup Linzy

  Presented by SFMOMA in association with YBCA.

   

  JUST ANNOUNCED PRE-SHOW TALKS

  Friday - Saturday, August 19 - 20, 2011, 7:00 p.m.

  Cultural historian Steven Watson and principals from the new production will discuss the opera's original 1934 production and how we have adapted it today.

   

   

  "Why did Gertrude Stein and I decide to write an opera about saints? Simply because we viewed a saint's life as related to our own. In all times the consecrated artist has…

• Poetry Reading

  Yedda Morrison on Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson's Swamp

  Thursday, August 25, 2011
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Yedda Morrison, poet

  Inspired by The Steins Collect, this series of readings honors poet Gertrude Stein and her relationships with the visual artists of her day. Each Thursday evening, a leading…

• Curator Talk

  Sarah Roberts on Jasper Johns's Canvas

  Thursday, September 01, 2011
  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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  Panel Discussion

  Six Lines of Flight

  Thursday, September 01, 2011
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Yto Barrada, Cinemathèque de Tanger, Tangier, Morocco
  Amy Franceschini and Michael Swaine, Futurefarmers, San Francisco, USA
  Lamia Joreige, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon
  Oscar Muñoz and Sally Mizrachi, Lugar a Dudas, Cali, Colombia
  Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn, Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
  Mihai Pop and Adrian Ghenie, Plan B and the Paintbrush Factory, Cluj, Romania
  Akram Zaatari, Arab Image Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon

  Six Lines of Flight is an exhibition featuring key artists from around the world who have developed unique artistic organizations and/or collectives in six different cities that…

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  Free Tuesday Program

  The Steins, Matisse, and the Bay Area

  Tuesday, September 06, 2011
  noon
  

  Janet Bishop, curator of painting and sculpture, SFMOMA

  The Steins Collect exhibition curator Bishop explores how Sarah and Michael Stein transformed San Francisco's appreciation for modern art. American expatriates living in Paris, the…

• Curator Talk

  Peter Samis on Richard Misrach's Destroy This Memory

  Thursday, September 08, 2011
  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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  Special Event

  12th Annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival Opening Night

  Thursday, September 08, 2011
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Highlighting Bay Area composers and sound artists working with electronic-based technologies, the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival opening night presents a fixed-media piece…

• Book Reading and Signing

  My Hands Sing the Blues

  Book Reading: 11:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m., Koret Center
  Book Signing: 12:30 p.m., MuseumStore

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  SFMOMA: Now Playing

  Adam Pendleton and Deerhoof Present BAND

  Thursday, September 15, 2011
  6:00 p.m. - 9:45 p.m.
  

  A project of New York-based artist Pendleton with the experimental musicians of Deerhoof, BAND is an unfolding artwork that re-imagines Jean-Luc Godard's film Sympathy for the Devil.

  …

• Special Event

  SF20/21 Preview Gala Benefiting SFMOMA

  Thursday, September 15, 2011
  6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
  

  The fourth annual San Francisco 20th-Century Modernism Show and Sale opens with a dazzling preview gala benefiting SFMOMA. This special event is hosted by Honorary Chairs Gina and…

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  Curator Talk

  Rudolf Frieling on Tacita Dean's Day for Night

  Thursday, September 15, 2011
  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

  Joseph Becker on Dieter Rams's TP1

  Thursday, September 22, 2011
  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

  Julie Charles on Robert Arneson's California Artist

  Thursday, September 29, 2011
  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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  Free Tuesday Program

  Visible Means of Support: A Retrospective View

  Tuesday, October 04, 2011
  noon
  

  John Zarobell, assistant professor of international studies, University of San Francisco, and former assistant curator of painting and sculpture, SFMOMA

  Exhibition curator Zarobell discusses Kerry James Marshall's Art in the Atrium project, which brought two monumental murals of the estates of presidents Washington and Jefferson to…

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  Curator Talk

  Tanya Zimbardo on Jeremy Blake's Winchester Trilogy

  Thursday, October 06, 2011
  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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  Artist Talk

  New Work

  Thursday, October 06, 2011
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Tiago Carneiro da Cunha and Klara Kristalova, artists
  Alison Gass, assistant curator of painting and sculpture, SFMOMA

  New Work artists Carneiro da Cunha and Kristalova discuss the ways a traditional form — in this case, ceramics — can continue to invigorate contemporary art. In small…

• Book Signing

  Book Signing with Richard Serra

  Thursday, October 13, 2011
  6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
  

  Richard Serra, artist

  An artist talk follows the book signing at 7:00 p.m. in the Phyllis Wattis Theater.

• Curator Talk

  Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher on Alex Schweder's A Sac of Rooms All Day Long

  Thursday, October 13, 2011
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, acting department head/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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  Artist Talk

  Richard Serra

  Thursday, October 13, 2011
  7:00 p.m.
  

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

  SOLD OUT
  Simulcast available (see below)
  

  Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective presents the lesser-known practice of one of the most celebrated sculptors of the 20th century.…

• Curator Talk

  Rudolf Frieling and Sharon Lockhart on Lockhart's Lunch Break

  Thursday, October 20, 2011
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Rudolf Frieling, curator of media arts, SFMOMA
  Sharon Lockhart, 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.

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  SFMOMA: Now Playing

  Ann Magnuson Plays David Bowie and Jobriath, or The Rock Star as Witch Doctor, Myth Maker, and Ritual Sacrifice

  Thursday, October 27, 2011
  6:00 p.m. - 9:45 p.m.
  

  Magnuson is a performance artist, musician, and actress who defined 1980s downtown New York, marked college radio with her band Bongwater, and has graced everything from TV to…

• Curator Talk

  Alison Gass on Tiago Carneiro da Cunha and Klara Kristalova

  Thursday, October 27, 2011
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Alison Gass, assistant curator of painting and sculpture, SFMOMA

  Please note that this event has been cancelled.

• Curator Talk

  Dominic Willsdon on Robert Motherwell's Elegy to the Spanish Republic, No. 57

  Thursday, November 03, 2011
  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.

  Please note: curator talks will not…

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  Performance

  Echoes Made Visible

  Thursday, November 3, 2011, 7:00 p.m.
  Friday, November 4 - Sunday, November 6, 2011, 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.

  Deborah Slater, choreographer
  Melissa Caywood, Kelly Kemp, Wendy Rein, dancers

  Bill Fontana's Sonic Shadows has transformed SFMOMA's fifth-floor bridge into an immersive installation using ambient sounds from the museum. As a farewell, Fontana invited Bay Area…

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  Book Signing

  Blek le Rat: The 30 Year Anniversary Retrospective

  Thursday, November 10, 2011
  6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
  

  This publication features private family photos, point and shoot images of graffiti artwork from around the world, and full-color gallery reproductions of prolific stencil graffiti…

• Curator Talk

  Alison Gass on Richard Serra's Taraval Beach

  Thursday, November 10, 2011
  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.

  Please note: curator talks will not…

• Book Signing

  Paul Madonna

  Saturday, November 12, 2011
  2:00 p.m.
  

  Local favorite Paul Madonna turns a keen eye on cities around the world, capturing the lifeblood of streetscapes in pen and ink. The book also includes short stories, commentary,…

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  Special Event

  2011 Bay Area Treasure Award Dinner Honoring Mark di Suvero

  Doors open at 7:00 p.m.

  Neal Benezra, director, SFMOMA
  Mark di Suvero, artist
  Gary Garrels, Elise S. Haas Senior Curator Painting and Sculpture, SFMOMA

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  SFMOMA: Now Playing

  The Air We Breathe with Simon Fujiwara

  Thursday, November 17, 2011
  6:00 p.m. - 9:45 p.m.
  

  7:00 p.m. Poetry readings: George Albon, Dodie Bellamy, and Kevin Killian
  8:00 p.m. Performance of The Boy Who Cried Wolf by Simon Fujiwara (separate ticket required)
  9:00 p.m. Poetry reading: Eileen Myles

  "Equality is in the air we breathe," wrote Langston Hughes in his poem Let America be America Again. For the exhibition The Air We Breathe, SFMOMA invited artists to…

• Curator Talk

  Apsara DiQuinzio on The Air We Breathe

  Thursday, November 17, 2011
  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.

  Please note: curator talks will not…

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  Performance

  Simon Fujiwara's The Boy Who Cried Wolf

  Thursday, November 17 and Friday, November 18, 2011
  8:00 p.m.

  In the exhibition The Air We Breathe, SFMOMA invited artists to respond to the fight for marriage equality. In this performance, Fujiwara will track his own identity and sexuality…

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  Panel Discussion

  The Air We Breathe - Marriage Equality: A Status Update

  Friday, November 18, 2011
  1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
  

  Paul Boneberg, executive director, GLBT Historical Society
  Cleve Jones, GLBT and AIDS activist and founder, NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt
  Jennifer C. Pizer, legal director and Arnold D. Kassoy Senior Scholar of Law, The Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, UCLA School of Law
  Andrea Shorter, marriage and coalitions director, Equality California
  Camilla Taylor, marriage project director, Midwest Regional Office, Lambda Legal
  Thomas Watson, chair, Love Honor Cherish

  Since 1995 SFMOMA has presented annual lectures and major symposia thanks to the support of the Phyllis C. Wattis Distinguished Lecture Series fund. This year we present three…

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  Artist Talk

  Alec Soth

  Tuesday, November 29, 2011
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Alec Soth, artist

  For his acclaimed 2004 series Sleeping by the Mississippi, Soth traveled the length of that iconic waterway, capturing in his photographs the beauty and utter strangeness of the…

• Curator Talk

  Jessica Brier on Francesca Woodman's Some Disordered Interior Geometries

  Thursday, December 01, 2011
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Jessica Brier, photography assistant, 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.

  Please note: curator talks will not…

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  Community Presentation

  Introducing the New SFMOMA

  Thursday, December 01, 2011
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Craig Dykers, principal, Snøhetta

  All advance tickets have been reserved for this event. However, we anticipate releasing a limited number of free tickets at the door of the YBCA theater shortly before the program.…