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. This series was originally produced by Open Space (2008-2021), SFMOMA's interdisciplinary publishing platform for artists, writers, community members, et al. Browse the full Open Space archives here for features, interdisciplinary projects, and beautiful vestiges of the blogosphere.

75 Reasons to Live: Robert Bechtle on Richard Diebenkorn’s Coffee

75 Reasons to Live: Chad Coerver on Anthony Hernandez’s Oakland #1

75 Reasons to Live: Lisa Sutcliffe on Penelope Umbrico’s 5,377,183 Suns from Flickr (Partial) 4/28/09

75 Reasons to Live: Whitney Chadwick on Ed Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip

75 Reasons to Live: Sarah Roberts on Terry Fox’s Pendulum Spit Bite

75 Reasons to Live: Rebecca Solnit on Jay DeFeo’s The Verónica

75 Reasons to Live: Raelle Myrick-Hodges on John Collier Jr.’s Bureau with Portraits and Mementos (and self-portrait), Picuris Pueblo, NM

75 Reasons to Live: Jennifer Sonderby on Leslie Shows’s Two Ways to Organize

75 Reasons to Live: Gary Garrels on Robert Ryman’s Untitled, 1958

75 Reasons to Live: Ellen Arenson on Clyfford Still’s Untitled, 1951-52

75 Reasons to Live: Bill Fontana on Dan Graham’s Double Cylinder (The Kiss)

75 Reasons to Live: B. Ruby Rich on Edward Weston’s Legs in Hammock, Laguna

75 Reasons to Live: Anne Walsh on Unknown artist’s Untitled [Women Racing]

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