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.
watch
75 Reasons to Live: Trevor Paglen on Will Rogan’s Untitled, from the series Public Sculpture
watch
75 Reasons to Live: B. Ruby Rich on Edward Weston’s Legs in Hammock, Laguna
watch
75 Reasons to Live: Renée Green on On Kawara’s MAR. 16, 1993, from the Today series
watch
75 Reasons to Live: Ellen Arenson on Clyfford Still’s Untitled, 1951-52
watch
75 Reasons to Live: Gary Garrels on Robert Ryman’s Untitled, 1958
watch
75 Reasons to Live: Chad Coerver on Anthony Hernandez’s Oakland #1
watch
75 Reasons to Live: Raelle Myrick-Hodges on John Collier Jr.’s Bureau with Portraits and Mementos (and self-portrait), Picuris Pueblo, NM
watch
75 Reasons to Live: Lisa Sutcliffe on Penelope Umbrico’s 5,377,183 Suns from Flickr (Partial) 4/28/09
watch
75 Reasons to Live: Bill Fontana on Dan Graham’s Double Cylinder (The Kiss)
watch
75 Reasons to Live: Sarah Roberts on Terry Fox’s Pendulum Spit Bite
watch
75 Reasons to Live: Robert Bechtle on Richard Diebenkorn’s Coffee
watch
75 Reasons to Live: Anne Walsh on Unknown artist’s Untitled [Women Racing]
watch
75 Reasons to Live: Rebecca Solnit on Jay DeFeo’s The Verónica
watch
75 Reasons to Live: Whitney Chadwick on Ed Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip
See All