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  • Video Gu Wenda describes his artistic process
    Gu Wenda describes his artistic process

    Chinese artist Gu Wenda explains how he uses human hair and Elmer's Glue to create the translucent panels that compose his installation united nations—babel of the…

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  • Audio SFMOMA Artcast May 2013: The Clock
    SFMOMA Artcast May 2013: The Clock

    Our May Artcast examines Christian Marclay's The Clock, a twenty-four-hour masterpiece of appropriation. In this episode we hear from curator of media arts Rudolf Frieling,…

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Visitor taking the MSOMA Mobile tour

Explore SFMOMA's extraordinary collection with Making Sense of Modern Art Mobile, our handheld multimedia tour.

What am I looking at? How was it made? What was the artist thinking?

Get inside the minds of artists and scholars with our wide range of educational multimedia:

  • Videos let you see and hear artists firsthand as they talk about their work, their influences, and their creative processes.
  • Podcasts bring you illuminating audio and video interviews with artists, curators, and visitors as they respond to the works on view and in the museum's collection.
  • Audio commentaries drawn from our mobile tours, interviews, and other recordings offer unique takes on SFMOMA artworks and the artists who made them.
  • Interactive features tell the stories behind the art through zoomable images, texts, and interviews with artists and art historians.

 

Interactive educational technologies are made possible by generous support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and The James Irvine Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Kadima Foundation.

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