- Thursday, May 19, 2011
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The Steins Collect
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 ArtPhyllis Wattis Theater
7:00 p.m.
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 experience and understand a central moment in the history of art. This panel explores the exhibition's intertwining stories with the four curators who collaborated for four years to produce it.
$10 general; $7 SFMOMA members, students, seniors. Gallery access requires a separate museum admission ticket.
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Image: Henri Matisse, Woman with a Hat, 1905; oil on canvas; Collection SFMOMA, bequest of Elise S. Haas; © Succession H. Matisse, Paris/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; photo: Ben Blackwell
