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    Crafting the Cosmos: Jacob Hashimoto’s Floating Worlds
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    Raven Chacon's Martian Home Movies
  • Two people in a museum gallery: one is walking toward a colorful abstract painting while the other is listening to an audio guide while standing below a sign that says "Joan Mitchell" in large black graphic letters.
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    A More Accessible SFMOMA Font
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    Feel the Beat
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    Matisse's Femme au chapeau: From Scandal to Icon
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    6 Curator’s Picks from Reimagined: The Fisher Collection at 10
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    Angles on Agnes Martin
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    Follow the Lines
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    Reimagining the Fisher Collection
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    The Magic of Transformation
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    What It’s Like to Install a Sol LeWitt: A Q+A
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    Waste Not
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    An Architect of Shadows
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    A Dive Into Filipino American History
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    Suzanne Jackson
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    The Power of a Single Image to (Re)Construct History
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    6 Questions About KAWS Answered
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    A Life of Art
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    The Legacy of Group f.64
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    The Past Is Present
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    Cosmovisión
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    Kunié Sugiura’s Photopainting
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    New Work: Samson Young
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    First Person: David Huffman on His Creative Process
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    A Home for Experimentation
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    Giving Good Face: Behind Disability Portrait Day
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    Way Ahead of Her Time
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    Cold Storage, Explained
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    Quiet Beauty
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    From the Court to the Canvas: Get in the Game at SFMOMA
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    Gene Luen Yang: On Basketball and His First Museum Commission
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    Art of Noise: Design Amplified
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    A Towering Acquisition
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    Artist as Activist
  • William Scott Untitled 1998
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    Painting a Better World
  • Lee Conklin portrait
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    An Interview with Poster Artist Lee Conklin
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    An Interview with Poster Artist David Singer
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    Stay Curious, Stay Naïve
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    A Living Tapestry of Places
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    Artist to Artist: Jarod Lew and Reagan Louie in Conversation
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    Mapping a Life in Paint
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    Personal Library: Frank Bowling’s Books
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    Libations and Spirits for The New Eagle Creek Saloon
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    Meet Nora Aoyagi, the San Francisco SPCA’s Artist-in-Residence
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    An Interview with Raw Material Mixtape Podcaster-in-Residence Alice Wong
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    Celebrating Artist Joan Brown by Plunging into the San Francisco Bay
  • White chairs surround a white table with glue, white rolls of string and broken ceramic pieces atop it.
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    Handle with Care: Getting to the Heart of What Matters
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    Activating Pierre Huyghe’s Singing in the Rain, 1996
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    The Journey of Joan Brown in Six Spectacular Works
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    SFMOMA’s Most Popular Stories of 2022
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    SFMOMA 2022 Holiday Gift Guide
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    Personal Library: Sadie’s Books
    20 Books Selected by Sadie Barnette and Grant Williams-Yackel
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    San Francisco or Nowhere: The Necessity of the Bay to Joan Brown's Art
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    How San Francisco Became the Site of Diego Rivera’s First U.S. Mural
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    Feminist Posters + Activist Graphics
  • A museum visitor looks at a wall of artworks by Diego Rivera in the exhibition "Diego Rivera's America."
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    8 Questions on the Life + Work of Diego Rivera
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    Across Space and Time: An Interview with Sadie Barnette
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    Meditations from "Beyond All Polarities We Are ______"
  • SFMOMA Soapbox Derby 2022 Andrew Sungtaek Ingersoll and Oliver Hawk Holden, Shrimp Car Still Image
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    What’s It Like Soaring Down McLaren Park in a Derby Car? Well…
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    For a Slate of Artists, The Soapbox Derby Treads Familiar Ground
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    From the Top of the Hill, Artists Stare Down the Soapbox Derby
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    Is Art Essential?
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    Nature-Centric Design: An Interview with Neri Oxman
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    The Life Cycle of an Idea
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    Clean Air + Art: They Just Go Together
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    Notes on Getting Better Everyday a Color (2021)
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    Finding Kinship in the Archive: A Conversation with Babette Thomas
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    Essays, Publications, and More
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    Artworks (+ Advice) from SFAI's Class of 2021
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    Mural Stories: The Pan American Unity Guestbook
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    Quick Looks: 8 Vibrant Paintings in Joan Mitchell
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    Timely Lessons: Finding Inspiration in Political Posters
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    Artist Reading List: Cauleen Smith's "Loaner Library"
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    Film Threads: Expressions of LGBTQ+ Identity in Cinema
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    Media Playlist: Queer Portraiture, San Francisco + More
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    Nam June Paik: Exhibition Guide + Curator Picks
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    Film Threads: Our Film Curator's Must-See Flicks on Family Ties
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    Erina Alejo's Mission Street Testimonies
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    3 Can’t-Miss Events at Art Bash 2021
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    It’s Not Not Art: An Interview with the Curators of Nam June Paik
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    COVID Artifacts Chronicles Our Shared Crisis
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    Off the Wall: Photography Beyond the Frame
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    Charles Gaines in Conversation with Eungie Joo
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    Lessons Learned from Nearly 9,000 Art Kits
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    A Conversation About Joan Mitchell
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    A Delicate Dance
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    Curator’s Picks: 7 Films on Closeness + Intimacy
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    Valentine's Day Gift Guide: Artful Presents at Every Price Point
  • Liz Hernández paints her mural, titled <i> Conjuro para la sanación de nuestro futuro (A spell for the healing of our future)</i> at the museum. Photo: Katherine Du Tiel
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    Liz Hernández on Mural Making and Memories of Mexico City
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    Collection Selections: 10 Pivotal Political Posters
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    Behind The Scenes: Curating David Park’s Casual Drawing Sessions
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    Keeping It Creative: Staff Projects During Shelter in Place
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    Surrounded by Historical Gems, SFMOMA Archivists Record Our Present
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    Closer Look: Aaron Siskind’s Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation
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    Art and the Afterlife: Four Works that Explore Loss and Legacy
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    Tamar Avishai on "The Beholder's Share," Stories and Art in the Time of COVID
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    Racial Justice Reading List: Resources For Young Readers (And Caregivers)
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    Aural Fixation: The Many Manifestations of Sound-Based Art
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    Bay Area Inspiration: Artists Reflect on Local Landscapes
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    The Reading List: Bay Area Authors on Racial Justice and Equity
  • John Giorno, poet and organizer of the Dial-A-Poem project, sets up a reel of recorded poetry at the Architectural League in Manhattan.
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    John Giorno's Dial-a-Poem Still Brings Poetry to the Masses
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    Look Back: Pioneers of '90s Mission Arts Scene
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    How Exhibitions Happen: Inside SFMOMA's Miniature Museum
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    Personal Library: Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle’s 21 Must-Reads
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    Between Art and Quarantine: Our Favorite SFMOMA Art Recreations
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    EASTER MORNING: Bruce Conner's Second Coming
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    Behind the Scenes with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
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    Feminist Publishing
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    Redescribing the Periphery
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    Artifacts of Presence: A Common Ungrounding
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    A Conversation with Suzanne Lacy and the Curators Behind Her Retrospective
  • A series of gelatin silver prints with a black background and a white orb in the center
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    In Conversation with Sean McFarland
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    In Conversation with Lindsey White
  • A rainbow striped X against two red, stacked horizontal canvases
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    In Conversation with Alicia McCarthy
  • Wayne Thiebaud Viewing Object Selection
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    Wayne Thiebaud: Hometown Hero
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    Our Research and Publications
  • A colorful painting with impressionistic brush stroke illustrating a coat and the sun, Magritte
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    Painting Under Crisis: Magritte and World War II
  • a grid of images of people posing in front of Penelope Umbrico's Sunsest
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    No Two Sunsets are Alike: Reenvisioning Umbrico’s Suns… Nine Years Later
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    Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.: Queer Takes on Another Girl
  • Three visitors watching a three channel video in a dark screening room
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    An Interview with John Akomfrah
  • Paul Clipson with Bolex camera by Anya Kamenskaya
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    Goodbye, Paul
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    Eye of the Beholder: Paul Clipson (1965–2018)
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    SFMOMA + Net Neutrality
  • Surreal landscape with plants shaped like doves and a dusk street scene with a daytime sky
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    Panoramic Surrealism: The Enchanted Domain at SFMOMA
  • A one panel ink comic: 2 clouds hover above two rocks over the sea. A speech bubble emerging from the rock on the left reads, "You make me feel ominous. In a good way."
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    Ali Fitzgerald’s Five Seasons of Magritte
  • A color photograph of a grassy hill with a tree and a bright blue sky, Parreno
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    The Train: Three Views of Robert F. Kennedy’s Last Journey
  • Curling plant sprouting many different types of brightly colored flowers against an impressionistic sky
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    Finding the Fifth Season: A User’s Guide to Magritte
  • Michael Scott and Rein Jelle Terpstra
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    The People’s View: Constructing History through Collective Memory
  • Installation shot featuring a brightly colored abstract painting and a clear cube on a plinth, Art of California
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    Combing through the Collection: Showcasing the Unexpected in the Art of California Galleries
  • A color photograph of a conference room, ECR, Designed in CA
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    Unpacking the Office: The Information Environments of Charles and Ray Eames
  • A vat of bubbling mud
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    Not a Typical Mud Bath: Robert Rauschenberg’s Love Affair with Technology
  • A poster with a black and white drawn portrait of Chief Justice Rehnquist and the words, "Gag me with a coat hanger. Use your voice! Vote for choice!"
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    The Art of Raging Against the Machine
  • Three Caucasian women and a man wearing glasses stand on a rooftop, LEED
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    Leading the Way to LEED Gold
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    Nam June Paik, A Drawing Notebook, 1996
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    Nam June Paik, A Drawing Notebook Large, 1987
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    Nam June Paik, Untitled Notebook, 1980
  • A group of people flick baseball cards, Mandel
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    Of Art and Baseball: Mike Mandel’s Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards
  • A painting by Henri Matisse and a painting by Richard Diebenkorn
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    Through Diebenkorn’s Eyes: Curators Reflect on Matisse/Diebenkorn
  • Black and white photo of a Caucasian man in a recording studio
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    Bruce and I
  • A Caucasian woman with short brown hair looks at herself in the mirror
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    The Soundtrack of TAKE THE 5:10 TO DREAMLAND
  • A woman stands before a black encaustic painting hanging on a storage wall
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    Conserving Conner: Michelle Barger Prepares for It’s All True
  • A tangle of chords and wires of all kinds
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    Let’s Get Physical: Lucky Dragons and the Art of Conflict Resolution
  • Groups of people seated and standing in front of digital kiosks
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    On Collaboration: SFMOMA and Adobe Rethink the Selfie
  • Screengrab of a webpage showing blue words on the left and a black undulating form on a white background
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    Jürg Lehni and the Poetic Potential of Drawing Machines
  • A shelf containing several antique and vintage typewriters
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    Keeping It Old-School: Resuscitating SFMOMA’s Vintage Selectric Typewriter
  • A hand holds an first generation iPhone against a white background
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    There’s No App for That: Adventures in Conserving Old Tech
  • A man wearing sunglasses stands in front of an artwork, Gatti
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    We Go Way Back: Stanlee Gatti on the Modern Ball and More
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    A Taxonomy of Communication, drawn by Viktor
  • A conservator wearing a mask and touching up a sculpture
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    Optimize, Optimize, Optimize: Museum Conservation in the LEED Era
  • A stylized illustration featuring a bearded face on a yellow background
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    Starting an Artist Interview Program: Hard-Earned Lessons on Best Practices
  • Yellow and orange squares next to a yellow hallway receding into perspective
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    Site Imitates Art
  • A drill is positioned atop an undulating white panel
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    Made in the Bay Area
  • Two women in glasses, hard hats, and bright orange constrction vests stand arm in arm
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    Then and Now: Artist Janet Delaney revisits and rephotographs historic Flag Makers sign
  • A view from above of the construction of SFMOMA's original building on Third Street.
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    Our History
  • Still from a video installation of a man's distorted, inverted face on a reflective surface
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    Matters in Media Art
  • A grid of hundreds of tiny artwork images
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    How Do Institutional Philosophies Manifest in Online Collections?
  • Etel Adnan's black and white illustration from Journey to Mount Tamalpais.
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    Etel Adnan: Excerpt from Journey to Mount Tamalpais

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