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Play	Lynn Hershman Leeson discusses Agent Ruby (1999-2002) Artist Lynn Hershman Leeson reflects on the origins of her web-based project Agent Ruby, which is related to the character by the same name in her film Teknolust from 2002. The…	April 2013	Lynn Hershman Leeson
Play	Leo Villareal on The Bay Lights Pioneering light sculptor Leo Villareal discusses his latest project, The Bay Lights, an installation celebrating the completion of the bridge's new eastern span. Comprising…	February 2013
Play	Member Stories: November 2012 SFMOMA members celebrating the opening of Jasper Johns: Seeing with the Mind's Eye and Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective on November 2, 2012, share what they love about SFMOMA membership.	December 2012
Play	AA Bronson reflects on sexual themes in the work of General Idea Artist AA Bronson, one of the three members of the Canadian collective General Idea (active 1969-94), discusses the role the group played in developing the language of queer…	December 2012	General Idea
Play	AA Bronson on General Idea's Cornucopia Artist AA Bronson, one of the three members of the Canadian collective General Idea (active 1969-94), discusses the installation Cornucopia: Fragments from the Room of the Unknown…	December 2012	General Idea
Play	Tiffany Chung on her map of Cluj, Romania Artist Tiffany Chung was commissioned to produce maps of the six international cities featured in the exhibition Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art. Here…	December 2012	Tiffany Chung
Play	Building Our Future: SFMOMA Expands Did you know SFMOMA is expanding? We're building our future, with a new expansion to open in early 2016. Open, engaging, welcoming, and embracing, the expansion represents a…	December 2012
Play	Chuck Close explains why he follows a grid Throughout his career as an artist, Chuck Close has relied heavily on grids to create his large-scale portraits. In this discussion of his process Close compares himself to a…	December 2012	Chuck Close
Play	Chuck Close on his physical challenges Artist Chuck Close describes the accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair. The painter discusses the ways he has adapted his art practice…	December 2012	Chuck Close
Play	Chuck Close on the "primordial ooze" that shaped his work and that of his contemporaries Artist Chuck Close discusses the ways his work intersects with that of Richard Serra, Sol LeWitt, and composer Philip Glass, and considers the shared interests that emerged as they…	December 2012	Chuck Close
Play	David Goldblatt on his photographic series In Boksburg David Goldblatt reflects on the ways photography has helped him process the experience of living under apartheid. His series In Boksburg documents life in a South African suburb in…	November 2012	David Goldblatt
Play	Kevin Killian and Poets' Theater Present Wet Paint THEY INVENTED A NEW KIND OF ART...AND A NEW KIND OF SEX TO GO WITH IT! Killian's Wet Paint tells the story of Jay DeFeo and San Francisco's bohemian underground with a cast of…	November 2012
Play	David Goldblatt describes the world of Billy Monk Billy Monk had no formal training in photography when he began taking pictures of the patrons at the Catacombs, a seedy nightclub in Cape Town, South Africa, where he worked as a…	November 2012	Billy Monk, David Goldblatt
Play	David Goldblatt tells the story of Ernest Cole Under apartheid, the system of racial segregation that shaped South African society from 1928 until 1994, photographer Ernest Cole was able to change his classification from…	November 2012	David Goldblatt
Play	David Goldblatt on his photographic series Ex-Offenders David Goldblatt discusses his series Ex-Offenders, for which he photographed former criminals or ex-offenders on parole, often at the sites where their crimes occurred. Moved by the…	November 2012	David Goldblatt
Play	Jim Campbell: Transmitted in light San Francisco-based artist Jim Campbell has been creating video and multimedia art for the past three decades. His installation Exploded Views, which has been on view in…	October 2012	Jim Campbell
Play	Naoya Hatakeyama on his series Ciel Tombé (Fallen Sky) Naoya Hatakeyama discusses his photographic series Ciel Tombé, which captures the collapsed ceilings of the limestone tunnels below Paris. His fascination with the…	October 2012	Naoya Hatakeyama
Play	Naoya Hatakeyama on the sublime Photographer Naoya Hatakeyama explains his approach to landscape photography in relation to the aesthetic concepts the beautiful and the sublime. For Hatakeyama, the sublime, which…	October 2012	Naoya Hatakeyama
Play	Tiffany Chung on the maps she created for Six Lines of Flight Artist Tiffany Chung was commissioned to produce maps of the six international cities featured in the exhibition Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art. Here…	September 2012	Tiffany Chung
Play	Futurefarmers on artistic collaboration and the Bay Area Artists Amy Franceschini and Michael Swaine discuss the collaborative nature of their San Francisco-based artist collective Futurefarmers and explain the ways the unique culture of…	September 2012	Futurefarmers
Play	Futurefarmers make A Variation on the Powers of Ten Futurefarmers discuss A Variation on the Powers of Ten, a project that draws inspiration from the 1968 documentary Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames. The Eames film opens with…	September 2012	Futurefarmers
Play	Akram Zaatari considers Hashem el Madani's influence on his practice Artist Akram Zaatari is one of the founders of the Arab Image Foundation, an organization dedicated to the collection and preservation of photographs taken in the Middle East that…	September 2012
Play	Lamia Joreige on disappearance and the memories of war Artist Lamia Joreige is deeply interested in exploring the cultural impact of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-90). Here she discusses the making of Here and Perhaps Elsewhere, a film…	September 2012	Lamia Joreige
Play	Lamia Joreige describes life in Beirut, Lebanon To create Beirut, Autopsy of a City artist Lamia Joreige researched the sieges, relics, occupations, and natural disasters of Beirut, Lebanon, beginning in 1200 BC and ending in AD…	September 2012	Lamia Joreige
Play	Yto Barrada on life in Tangier, home to "a population that wants to leave" Artist Yto Barrada discusses life in Tangier, a city poised on the northern coast of Morocco along the Strait of Gibraltar, the waterway separating Africa and Europe. Her series A…	September 2012	Yto Barrada
Play	Adrian Ghenie on his artistic schooling in Cluj, "the San Francisco of Transylvania" Artist Adrian Ghenie talks about the curriculum at the Universitatea de Artă și Design Cluj-Napoca (Cluj-Napoca Art and Design University), which many artists in the city attended,…	September 2012	Adrian Ghenie
Play	Adrian Ghenie on painting Nicolae Ceausescu Nicolae Ceausescu, the last Communist leader in Romania, was in power from 1967 to 1989. Artist Adrian Ghenie discusses the challenges of painting a dictator and considers his work …	September 2012	Adrian Ghenie
Play	Adrian Ghenie on gallery Plan B and what to do when things fall apart Artist Adrian Ghenie discusses the origins of Plan B, the art gallery based in Cluj and Berlin that he cofounded with fellow artist Mihai Pop in 2005. This video is part of Story…	September 2012	Adrian Ghenie
Play	Oscar Muñoz on the art scene in Cali, Colombia Artist Oscar Muñoz discusses the artistic climate in Cali, Colombia. In 2005 he cofounded Cali's Lugar a Dudas (A Place to Doubt), an experimental art space and research…	September 2012
Play	Oscar Muñoz on memory and disappearance Artist Oscar Muñoz's work explores the relationship between images and memory. Often using materials that are ephemeral in nature — such as charcoal powder and water…	September 2012

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