We invited 75 people from the Bay Area creative community with a passion for artworks in SFMOMA’s collection to tell us about their favorites in 75 7.5-minute talks spread over three days — be sure to catch at least one.
See the full three-day schedule here. Please note that schedule is subject to change.
| Time/Floor | Speaker | Artwork |
|---|---|---|
| 11:30 a.m. Second floor |
Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, assistant curator, architecture and design, SFMOMA | J. B. Blunk, Invisible Presence |
| 11:30 a.m. Second floor |
Chip Lord, artist | Terry Fox, A Metaphor |
| Noon Fourth floor |
Michelle Barger, deputy head of conservation, SFMOMA | Doris Salcedo, Unland: irreversible witness |
| Noon Third floor |
Carey Perloff, theater director/artistic, director, American Conservatory Theater | Robbert Flick, Along Ocean Park Looking West, Summer |
| 12:30 p.m. Third floor |
Rachel Rosen, director of programming, San San Francisco Film Society | Eadweard Muybridge, Panorama of Francisco from California Street Hill |
| 12:30 p.m. Second floor |
Margaret Tedesco, artist and curator, [2nd floor projects] | Claude Cahun, Untitled (Self-Portrait) |
| 1:00 p.m. Second floor |
Meg Shiffler, director/curator, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery | Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled” (America #1) |
| 1:00 p.m. Second floor |
John Zarobell, assistant curator, collections, exhibitions, and commissions, SFMOMA | Bruce Conner, LOOKING GLASS |
| 1:30 p.m. Second floor |
Dominic Willsdon, Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Programs, SFMOMA | László Moholy-Nagy, Vom Funkturm (From the Radio Tower) |
| 1:30 p.m. Second floor |
Suzanne Stein, community producer, SFMOMA | Constant, New Babylon |
| 2:00 p.m. Fourth floor |
Jeffrey Fraenkel, gallerist | Diane Arbus, A Young Brooklyn Family Going for a Sunday Outing, N.Y.C. |
| 2:00 p.m. Second floor |
Anne McGuire, artist | Anne Bremer, Sentinels |
| 2:30 p.m. Second floor |
Jens Hoffmann, director, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, California College of the Arts | Felix Gonzalez Torres, “Untitled” (America #1) |
| 2:30 p.m. Second floor |
Lisa Robertson, writer | Eva Hesse, Sans II |
| 3:00 p.m. Second floor |
Apsara DiQuinzio, assistant curator of painting and sculpture, SFMOMA | Cady Noland, Enquirer Page with Eyes Cut Out |
| 3:00 p.m. Second floor |
Ari Marcopoulos, artist | Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, Zig-zag chair |
| 3:30 p.m. Second floor |
Chris Perez, owner/director, Ratio 3 | Barry McGee, Untitled |
| 3:30 p.m. Second floor |
Sam Green, filmmaker | Unknown artist, Untitled [Women Racing] |
| 4:00 p.m. Second floor |
Joseph Becker, assistant curator of architecture and design, SFMOMA | Giovanni Pintori, Poster |
| 4:00 p.m. Fourth floor |
Johnny Ray Huston, arts and entertainment editor, San Francisco Bay Guardian | Diane Arbus, Xmas Tree in a Living Room, Levittown, L.I. |
| 4:30 p.m. Second floor |
Leslie Shows, artist | Arthur Dove, Silver Ball No. 2 |
| 4:30 p.m. Third floor |
Sanjit Sethi, artist/codirector, Center for Art and Public Life, California College of the Arts | Augustus William Ericson, Slab of Redwood for a London Dining Table Designed to Seat Forty Guests—Diameter 15 Feet |
| 5:00 p.m. Fourth floor |
Michelle Tea, writer and executive director, RADAR Productions | Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait |
| 5:00 p.m. Second floor |
Hou Hanru, director of exhibitions and public programs and chair, Exhibitions and Museum Studies, San Francisco Art Institute | Constant, New Babylon |
| 5:30 p.m. Second floor |
Lawrence Rinder, director, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive | Lebbeus Woods, San Francisco Project: Inhabiting the Quake, Quake City |