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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.
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75 Reasons to Live: Jens Hoffmann on Felix Gonzalez Torres’s
“Untitled” (America #1)
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75 Reasons to Live: Megan Brian on Marilyn Minter’s
Strut
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75 Reasons to Live: Michelle Tea on Andy Warhol’s
Self-Portrait
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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
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75 Reasons to Live: Leslie Shows on Arthur Dove’s
Silver Ball No. 2
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75 Reasons to Live: Johnny Ray Huston on Diane Arbus’s
Xmas Tree in a Living Room, Levittown, L.I.
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75 Reasons to Live: Sam Green on Unknown artist’s
Untitled
[Women Racing]
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75 Reasons to Live: Chris Perez on Barry McGee’s
Untitled
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75 Reasons to Live: Apsara DiQuinzio on Cady Noland’s
Enquirer Page with Eyes Cut Out
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75 Reasons to Live: Lisa Robertson on Eva Hesse’s
Sans II
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75 Reasons to Live: Jeffrey Fraenkel on Diane Arbus’s
A Young Brooklyn Family Going for a Sunday Outing, N.Y.C.
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75 Reasons to Live: Janet Bishop on Watercolors by schoolboys, ages 10-16, from the Chirodzo Art Centre, Southern Rhodesia, 1957
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75 Reasons to Live: Suzanne Stein on Constant’s
New Babylon
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75 Reasons to Live: Anne McGuire on Anne Bremer’s
Sentinels
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75 Reasons to Live: Lynn Hershman Leeson on Tina Modotti’s
Convent of Tepotzolán, Mexico
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75 Reasons to Live: Mark Jensen on Bruce Nauman’s
Wax Impressions of the Knees of Five Famous Artists
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75 Reasons to Live: Joseph Becker on Giovanni Pintori’s Poster
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75 Reasons to Live: Margaret Tedesco on Claude Cahun’s
Untitled (Self-Portrait)
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75 Reasons to Live: John Zarobell on Bruce Conner’s
LOOKING GLASS
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75 Reasons to Live: Meg Shiffler on Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s
“Untitled” (America #1)
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75 Reasons to Live: Rachel Rosen on Eadweard Muybridge’s
Panorama of Francisco from California Street Hill
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75 Reasons to Live: Michelle Barger on Doris Salcedo’s
Unland: irreversible witness
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75 Reasons to Live: Chip Lord on Terry Fox’s
A Metaphor
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75 Reasons to Live: Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher on J. B. Blunk’s
Invisible Presence
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75 Reasons to Live: Tony Labat on Howard Fried’s
Inside the Harlequin: Approach-Avoidance III and II
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75 Reasons to Live: Sandra Phillips on Alfred Stieglitz’s
Georgia O’Keeffe — Neck
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75 Reasons to Live: Dominic Willsdon on László Moholy-Nagy’s
Vom Funkturm
(From the Radio Tower)
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75 Reasons to Live: Duane R. Deterville on Pablo Picasso’s
Tête de trois quarts
(Head in Three-Quarter View)
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75 Reasons to Live: Beth Lisick on Chris Johanson’s
Untitled (Figures with black presence)
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75 Reasons to Live: Henry Urbach on Ewan Gibbs’s
San Francisco
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75 Reasons to Live: Renny Pritikin on Robert Arneson’s
Harvey
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75 Reasons to Live: Stephanie Hanor on Bruce Conner’s
SOUND OF ONE HAND ANGEL
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75 Reasons to Live: Stephen Hartman on Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s
“Untitled” (Golden)
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75 Reasons to Live: Peter Samis on Wright Morris’s
Storefronts, Western Kansas
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75 Reasons to Live: Julio César Morales on Ansel Adams’s
Diego Rivera Painting the Fresco “Still Life and Blossoming Almond Trees”
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75 Reasons to Live: Lawrence Rinder on Lebbeus Woods’s
Quake City
, from the
San Francisco Project: Inhabiting the Quake
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75 Reasons to Live: Kamau Patton on Nata Piaskowski’s
Untitled
[Playing Handball]
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75 Reasons to Live: Carey Perloff on Robbert Flick’s
Along Ocean Park, Looking West, Summer
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75 Reasons to Live: Catherine Wagner on Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan’s
Untitled
, from the installation
Evidence
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75 Reasons to Live: Craig Baldwin on Wallace Berman’s
Semina 7
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75 Reasons to Live: Martin Venezky on Unknown artist’s
Untitled
[California Rancher/Cowboy in Front of a Backdrop]
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75 Reasons to Live: Kaja Silverman on Robert Rauschenberg’s
Cy + Roman Steps (I-V)
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75 Reasons to Live: Rick Prelinger on Willard E. Worden’s
Observatory in Ruins, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
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75 Reasons to Live: Lori Fogarty on Dorothea Lange’s
Migrant Worker, Coachella Valley, California
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75 Reasons to Live: Rex Ray on Andy Warhol’s
Self-Portrait
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75 Reasons to Live: Chris Sollars on Bruce Nauman’s
Wax Impressions of the Knees of Five Famous Artists
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75 Reasons to Live: Rudolf Frieling on Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s
“Untitled” (Golden)
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75 Reasons to Live: Iain A. Boal on Elaine Mayes’s
Interracial Couple and Baby, Golden Gate Park, August, 1968
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75 Reasons to Live: Yves Béhar on Barry McGee’s
Untitled
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75 Reasons to Live: Stephanie Syjuco on Sherrie Levine’s
La Fortune (After Man Ray)
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75 Reasons to Live: Trevor Paglen on Will Rogan’s
Untitled
, from the series
Public Sculpture
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75 Reasons to Live: B. Ruby Rich on Edward Weston’s
Legs in Hammock, Laguna
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75 Reasons to Live: Kota Ezawa on Jeff Koons’s
Michael Jackson and Bubbles
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75 Reasons to Live: Kevin Killian on Andy Warhol’s
National Velvet
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75 Reasons to Live: Carrie Pilto on Henri Matisse’s
La fille aux yeux verts
(The Girl with Green Eyes)
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75 Reasons to Live: Jennifer Sonderby on Leslie Shows’s
Two Ways to Organize
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75 Reasons to Live: Jennifer A. González on Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s
Untitled
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75 Reasons to Live: Renée Green on On Kawara’s
MAR. 16, 1993
, from the
Today
series
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75 Reasons to Live: Glen Helfand on Ed Ruscha’s
Thirty-four Parking Lots in Los Angeles
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75 Reasons to Live: Pamela Z on Robert Rauschenberg’s
Collection
(formerly
Untitled
)
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75 Reasons to Live: Kenneth Foster on Joanne Leonard’s
Sad Dreams on Cold Mornings
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75 Reasons to Live: Neal Benezra on Clyfford Still’s
Untitled
[formerly Self-Portrait]
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75 Reasons to Live: Allison Smith on J. Wilbur Sandison’s
Quilt
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75 Reasons to Live: Chad Coerver on Anthony Hernandez’s
Oakland #1
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75 Reasons to Live: Lisa Sutcliffe on Penelope Umbrico’s
5,377,183 Suns from Flickr (Partial) 4/28/09
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75 Reasons to Live: Ellen Arenson on Clyfford Still’s
Untitled
, 1951-52
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75 Reasons to Live: Gary Garrels on Robert Ryman’s
Untitled
, 1958
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75 Reasons to Live: Raelle Myrick-Hodges on John Collier Jr.’s
Bureau with Portraits and Mementos (and self-portrait), Picuris Pueblo, NM
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75 Reasons to Live: Bill Fontana on Dan Graham’s
Double Cylinder (The Kiss)
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75 Reasons to Live: Sarah Roberts on Terry Fox’s
Pendulum Spit Bite
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75 Reasons to Live: Anne Walsh on Unknown artist’s
Untitled
[Women Racing]
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75 Reasons to Live: Whitney Chadwick on Ed Ruscha’s
Every Building on the Sunset Strip
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75 Reasons to Live: Robert Bechtle on Richard Diebenkorn’s
Coffee
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75 Reasons to Live: Rebecca Solnit on Jay DeFeo’s
The Verónica