Talks
The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends Is the Highest Form of Art
Thursday, Nov 13, 2008
5 p.m.
Participants
Tom Marioni, artist
Guest bartenders and performers
Thursday Nights at SFMOMA are sponsored by Banana Republic. Virgin America is the official airline of Thursday Nights at SFMOMA.
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Drink beer, meet people, and hang out with friends at this weekly informal gathering hosted by Marioni, a pioneering Bay Area conceptual artist who has been regularly staging free beer salons as social artworks at his studio, in museums, and in alternative spaces since 1970. A sculptural installation related to Marioni’s 1979 salon at SFMOMA is also on view on the fourth-floor in The Art of Participation.

