Art and Conversation

Friday, October 31, 2003
Not Fully Functional: Design in an Art Context
Ruth Keffer, curatorial associate, architecture and design, SFMOMA

Koret Visitor Education Center
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Does design belong in an art museum? What happens when curators impose ideas of aesthetics, identity, and expression on objects and spaces intended to be practical, pedestrian, or populist? Keffer looks at SFMOMA's architecture and design collection — with its emphasis on experimental work — and discusses the Museum's very deliberate agenda to see design as art.

Free with Museum admission.