Gallery Talks

Saturday, January 16, 2010
75 Reasons to Live: Day 1

Museumwide
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 three days — be sure to catch at least one. 

See the full three-day schedule here. Please note that schedule is subject to change.

Time/Floor Speaker Artwork
11:30 a.m.
Second floor		 Mark Jensen, architect Bruce Nauman, Wax Impressions of the Knees of Five Famous Artists
11:30 a.m.
Third floor		 Lynn Hershman Leeson, artist/filmmaker Tina Modotti, Convent of Tepotzolán Mexico
Noon
Second floor		 Janet Bishop, curator of painting and sculpture, SFMOMA Watercolors by schoolboys, ages 10–16,  from the Chirodzo Art Centre, Southern Rhodesia, 1957
Noon
Fourth floor		 Bill Fontana, artist Dan Graham, Double Cylinder (The Kiss)
12:30 p.m.
Third floor		 Raelle Myrick-Hodges, artistic director, Brava! for Women in the Arts John Collier Jr., Bureau with Portraits and Mementos (and self-portrait), Picuris Pueblo, NM
12:30 p.m.
Fourth floor		 Ellen Arenson, docent, SFMOMA Clyfford Still, Untitled, 1951–52
1:00 p.m.
Fourth floor		 Gary Garrels, Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, SFMOMA Robert Ryman, Untitled, 1958
1:00 p.m.
Second floor		 Robert Bechtle, artist Richard Diebenkorn, Coffee
1:30 p.m.
Third floor		 Whitney Chadwick, art historian Ed Ruscha, Every Building on the Sunset Strip
1:30 p.m.
Second floor		 Catherine Wagner, artist Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan, Untitled, from the installation Evidence
2:00 p.m.
Third floor		 B. Ruby Rich, professor and chair, Community Studies and Social Documentation, UC Santa Cruz Edward Weston, Legs in Hammock, Laguna
2:00 p.m.
Second floor		 Trevor Paglen, artist and geographer Will Rogan, Untitled, from the series Public Sculpture
2:30 p.m.
Second floor		 Stephanie Syjuco, artist Sherrie Levine, La Fortune (After Man Ray)
2:30 p.m.
Third floor		 Lori Fogarty, executive director, Oakland Museum of California Dorothea Lange, Migrant Worker, Coachella Valley, California
3:00 p.m.
Third floor		 Rick Prelinger, archivist/maker Willard E. Worden, Observatory in Ruins, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
3:00 p.m.
Second floor		 Kaja Silverman, writer and professor, UC Berkeley Robert Rauschenberg, Cy + Roman Steps (I, II, III, IV, V)
3:30 p.m.
Third floor		 Martin Venezky, designer, Appetite Engineers, and associate professor of design, California College of the Arts Unknown artist, Untitled [California Rancher/Cowboy in Front of a Backdrop]
3:30 p.m.
Third floor		 Kamau Patton, artist Nata Piaskowski, Untitled [Playing Handball]
4:00 p.m.
Third floor		 Craig Baldwin, filmmaker/curator/publisher Wallace Berman, Semina 7
4:00 p.m.
Second floor		 Renée Green, artist On Kawara, MAR. 16, 1993, from the "Today" Series
4:30 p.m.
Second floor		 Rudolf Frieling, curator of media arts, SFMOMA Felix Gonzalez-Torres, "Untitled" (Golden)
4:30 p.m.
Third floor		 Glen Helfand, writer/educator/curator Ed Ruscha, Thirty-four Parking Lots in Los Angeles
5:00 p.m.
Second floor		 Yves Behar, designer Barry McGee, Untitled
5:00 p.m.
Second floor		 Iain A. Boal, writer and historian Elaine Mayes, Interracial Couple and Baby, Golden State Park, August, 1968
5:30 p.m.
Second floor		 Pamela Z, composer/sound artist Robert Rauschenberg, Collection (formerly Untitled)

Part of 75 Reasons to Live.

Museum and program admission are free.

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