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Exhibitions (8) View all

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  Prints by Paul Klee (1946)

  August 07, 2010 - January 16, 2011
  

  SFMOMA has had a longstanding commitment to the art of Paul Klee over its 75-year history. This exhibition re-creates a 1946 show of prints by the Swiss-born modernist held at the…

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  New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape

  July 17 - October 03, 2010
  

  A turning point in the history of photography, the 1975 exhibition New Topographics signaled a radical shift away from traditional depictions of landscape. Pictures of transcendent…

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  Picturing Modernity

  July 17 - October 03, 2010
  

  Organized in conjunction with New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, this installation of the SFMOMA collection explores the concept of place in American…

Talks + Events (1)

• Curator Talk

  Peter Samis on Sigmar Polke's Untitled (Magician)

  Thursday, September 02, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Peter Samis, associate curator of interpretation, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators or specialists shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes.

Film (1)

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  Film Screening

  Daft Punk on Screen

  Thursday, September 02, 2010
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Introduced by Megan Brian, education and public programs coordinator, SFMOMA

  Electroma, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo, 2006, 74 min, 35mm.

  The directorial debut of electronic music duo Daft Punk (Bangalter and De Homem-Christo), Electroma is the cinematographically stunning chronicle of two robots on a quest to become…

Video Screenings (3)

• Video Screening

  Philip Guston: A Life Lived

  Daily (except Wednesdays), 4:00 p.m.

  Michael Blackwood, 1981, 58 min.

  Narrated by the artist, Philip Guston: A Life Lived was filmed as Guston organized what would be his last exhibition, his 1980 retrospective at SFMOMA. Mixing footage shot in San…

• Daily Video Screenings

  American Art in the 1960s

  Daily (except Wednesdays), 2:00 p.m.

  Michael Blackwood, 2007, 60 min.

  This documentary explores a critical decade in American life, when an explosion of artistic energy produced Pop art, Minimalism, Color-field painting, and hard-edged abstraction.…

• Daily Video Screenings

  Art:21: Art in the 21st Century: Ecology

  Daily (except Wednesdays), 3:00 p.m.

  Art:21, 2007, 60 min.

  Artists explore how our understanding of the natural world becomes deeply cultural. Featured artists include Ursula von Rydingsvard, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Mark Dion, and New…

Tours (3)

• Public Tours

  Daily Tours

  Daily (except Wednesdays): 11:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m., and 2:30 p.m.
  Thursdays: 7:15 p.m.

  See the museum from a new perspective. Topics change daily for these free tours led by SFMOMA docents. The 1:30 tour focuses on Calder to Warhol through September 19, 2010.

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  Mobile Tour

  Making Sense of Modern Art Mobile

  Available daily in the Haas Atrium

  Available in English, with selected stops in French, German, and Spanish.

  Explore SFMOMA's extraordinary collection with our handheld multimedia tour. Get up close and personal with the paintings, sculptures, and photographs you thought you knew through…

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  iPhone + Android App

  SFMOMA App for iPhone + Android

  Available daily

  Designed primarily for in-house use over the museum's Wi-Fi network, this unique mobile tour enables visitors to explore the landmark exhibition Calder to Warhol: Introducing the…