75 Reasons to Live

In January 2010, over the course of a three-day weekend, we invited 75 people to give talks of 7.5 minutes or less, each on a single SFMOMA collection work. Watch videos of all of the talks at Open Space.

75 Reasons to Live: Jens Hoffmann on Felix Gonzalez Torres’s “Untitled” (America #1)

75 Reasons to Live: Lynn Hershman Leeson on Tina Modotti’s Convent of Tepotzolán, Mexico

75 Reasons to Live: Megan Brian on Marilyn Minter’s Strut

75 Reasons to Live: Michelle Tea on Andy Warhol’s Self-Portrait

75 Reasons to Live: Mark Jensen on Bruce Nauman’s Wax Impressions of the Knees of Five Famous Artists

75 Reasons to Live: Sanjit Sethi on Augustus William Ericson’s Slab of Redwood for a London Dining Table Designed to Seat Forty Guests—Diameter 15 Feet

75 Reasons to Live: Leslie Shows on Arthur Dove’s Silver Ball No. 2

75 Reasons to Live: Johnny Ray Huston on Diane Arbus’s Xmas Tree in a Living Room, Levittown, L.I.

75 Reasons to Live: Sam Green on Unknown artist’s Untitled [Women Racing]

75 Reasons to Live: Chris Perez on Barry McGee’s Untitled

75 Reasons to Live: Suzanne Stein on Constant’s New Babylon

75 Reasons to Live: Joseph Becker on Giovanni Pintori’s Poster

75 Reasons to Live: Apsara DiQuinzio on Cady Noland’s Enquirer Page with Eyes Cut Out

75 Reasons to Live: Anne McGuire on Anne Bremer’s Sentinels

75 Reasons to Live: Lisa Robertson on Eva Hesse’s Sans II

75 Reasons to Live: Jeffrey Fraenkel on Diane Arbus’s A Young Brooklyn Family Going for a Sunday Outing, N.Y.C.

75 Reasons to Live: Janet Bishop on Watercolors by schoolboys, ages 10-16, from the Chirodzo Art Centre, Southern Rhodesia, 1957

75 Reasons to Live: Meg Shiffler on Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s “Untitled” (America #1)

75 Reasons to Live: Rachel Rosen on Eadweard Muybridge’s Panorama of Francisco from California Street Hill

75 Reasons to Live: Michelle Barger on Doris Salcedo’s Unland: irreversible witness

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