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Rebecca Belmore, Tarpaulin No. 1, 2018

The Hand That Holds the Rod

Illusion and Fantasy in Sigmar Polke’s Untitled (2003)

Artist books and exhibition catalogs laid out on a black surface

Our Research and Publications

Mapping a Life in Paint

Artist to Artist: Jarod Lew and Reagan Louie in Conversation

How San Francisco Became the Site of Diego Rivera’s First U.S. Mural

Personal Library: Frank Bowling’s Books

Grace McCann Morley and the Modern Museum

Artist Reading List: Cauleen Smith's "Loaner Library"

Behind The Scenes: Curating David Park’s Casual Drawing Sessions

Erina Alejo's Mission Street Testimonies

COVID Artifacts Chronicles Our Shared Crisis

White chairs surround a white table with glue, white rolls of string and broken ceramic pieces atop it.

Handle with Care: Getting to the Heart of What Matters

Libations and Spirits for The New Eagle Creek Saloon

Three Caucasian women and a man wearing glasses stand on a rooftop, LEED

Leading the Way to LEED Gold

Personal Library: Sadie’s Books
20 Books Selected by Sadie Barnette and Grant Williams-Yackel

joan brown installation shot spiritual journey

The Journey of Joan Brown in Six Spectacular Works

Activating Pierre Huyghe’s Singing in the Rain, 1996

joan brown the night before the alcatraz swim

San Francisco or Nowhere: The Necessity of the Bay to Joan Brown's Art

Celebrating Artist Joan Brown by Plunging into the San Francisco Bay

An Interview with Raw Material Mixtape Podcaster-in-Residence Alice Wong

Meet Nora Aoyagi, the San Francisco SPCA’s Artist-in-Residence

The Reading List: Bay Area Authors on Racial Justice and Equity

A view from above of the construction of SFMOMA's original building on Third Street.

Across Space and Time: An Interview with Sadie Barnette

A hand holds an first generation iPhone against a white background

There’s No App for That: Adventures in Conserving Old Tech

A shelf containing several antique and vintage typewriters

Keeping It Old-School: Resuscitating SFMOMA’s Vintage Selectric Typewriter

SFMOMA’s Most Popular Stories of 2022

SFMOMA 2022 Holiday Gift Guide

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Essays, Publications, and More

Off the Wall: Photography Beyond the Frame

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

Liz Hernández on Mural Making and Memories of Mexico City

An image of a dark landscape made from sand

Keeping It Creative: Staff Projects During Shelter in Place

How Exhibitions Happen: Inside SFMOMA's Miniature Museum

Collection Selections: 10 Pivotal Political Posters

John Giorno, poet and organizer of the Dial-A-Poem project, sets up a reel of recorded poetry at the Architectural League in Manhattan.

John Giorno's Dial-a-Poem Still Brings Poetry to the Masses

Feminist Publishing

Personal Library: Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle’s 21 Must-Reads

Behind the Scenes with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Surrounded by Historical Gems, SFMOMA Archivists Record Our Present

Aural Fixation: The Many Manifestations of Sound-Based Art

A Delicate Dance

Bay Area Inspiration: Artists Reflect on Local Landscapes

Look Back: Pioneers of '90s Mission Arts Scene

EASTER MORNING: Bruce Conner's Second Coming

A rainbow striped X against two red, stacked horizontal canvases

In Conversation with Alicia McCarthy

Wayne Thiebaud Viewing Object Selection

Wayne Thiebaud: Hometown Hero

Installation shot featuring a brightly colored abstract painting and a clear cube on a plinth, Art of California

Combing through the Collection: Showcasing the Unexpected in the Art of California Galleries

A painting by Henri Matisse and a painting by Richard Diebenkorn

Through Diebenkorn’s Eyes: Curators Reflect on Matisse/Diebenkorn

A vat of bubbling mud

Not a Typical Mud Bath: Robert Rauschenberg’s Love Affair with Technology

A group of people flick baseball cards, Mandel

Of Art and Baseball: Mike Mandel’s Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards

A color photograph of a conference room, ECR, Designed in CA

Unpacking the Office: The Information Environments of Charles and Ray Eames

Curling plant sprouting many different types of brightly colored flowers against an impressionistic sky

Finding the Fifth Season: A User’s Guide to Magritte

A color photograph of a grassy hill with a tree and a bright blue sky, Parreno

The Train: Three Views of Robert F. Kennedy’s Last Journey

Michael Scott and Rein Jelle Terpstra

The People’s View: Constructing History through Collective Memory

original selection of Whisper, the Wave, the Wind

A Conversation with Suzanne Lacy and the Curators Behind Her Retrospective

Curator’s Picks: 7 Films on Closeness + Intimacy

Charles Gaines in Conversation with Eungie Joo

A Conversation About Joan Mitchell

Lessons Learned from Nearly 9,000 Art Kits

How to Make a Zine: A Very Bay Area Tutorial

Media Playlist: Queer Portraiture, San Francisco + More

Nam June Paik: Exhibition Guide + Curator Picks

Film Threads: Our Film Curator's Must-See Flicks on Family Ties

3 Can’t-Miss Events at Art Bash 2021

It’s Not Not Art: An Interview with the Curators of Nam June Paik

Film Threads: Expressions of LGBTQ+ Identity in Cinema

Art and the Afterlife: Four Works that Explore Loss and Legacy

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!"

The Art of Raging Against the Machine

Redescribing the Periphery

Three visitors watching a three channel video in a dark screening room

An Interview with John Akomfrah

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SFMOMA + Net Neutrality

Timely Lessons: Finding Inspiration in Political Posters

a grid of images of people posing in front of Penelope Umbrico's Sunsest

No Two Sunsets are Alike: Reenvisioning Umbrico’s Suns… Nine Years Later

Feminist Posters + Activist Graphics

A museum visitor looks at a wall of artworks by Diego Rivera in the exhibition "Diego Rivera's America."

8 Questions on the Life + Work of Diego Rivera

Meditations from "Beyond All Polarities We Are ______"

SFMOMA Soapbox Derby 2022 Andrew Sungtaek Ingersoll and Oliver Hawk Holden, Shrimp Car Still Image

What’s It Like Soaring Down McLaren Park in a Derby Car? Well…

For a Slate of Artists, The Soapbox Derby Treads Familiar Ground

From the Top of the Hill, Artists Stare Down the Soapbox Derby

Is Art Essential?

Nature-Centric Design: An Interview with Neri Oxman

The Life Cycle of an Idea

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Clean Air + Art: They Just Go Together

Notes on Getting Better Everyday a Color (2021)

Finding Kinship in the Archive: A Conversation with Babette Thomas

Merging Feeling and Object in Joan Mitchell’s Poem Pastels

Noah Purifoy, Drum Song, 1966 and Rags and Old Iron II (After Nina Simone), 1989

Artworks (+ Advice) from SFAI's Class of 2021

Mural Stories: The Pan American Unity Guestbook

Quick Looks: 8 Vibrant Paintings in Joan Mitchell

Bright Life and Warm Ground in Joan Mitchell’s Girolata Triptych

Spanning Time and Place in Joan Mitchell’s The Bridge

Valentine's Day Gift Guide: Artful Presents at Every Price Point

Michelle Stuart, Spiral Notebook, 1975

Leonora Carrington, The Kitchen Garden on the Eyot, 1946

Closer Look: Aaron Siskind’s Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation

Frank Smigiel on Today Is Not a Dress Rehearsal (Judith Butler)

Tamar Avishai on "The Beholder's Share," Stories and Art in the Time of COVID

Racial Justice Reading List: Resources For Young Readers (And Caregivers)

Kay Sage, Midnight Street, 1944

Artwork by Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt), Columna (Column) 7l/9.

Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt), Columna (Column), 7l/9, 1971

Between Art and Quarantine: Our Favorite SFMOMA Art Recreations

Behind the Scenes with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Feminist Publishing

Bruce Conner, THUMB PRINT, April 26, 1965

Richard Mayhew's oil painting, Delusions.

Richard Mayhew, Delusions, 2000

Artifacts of Presence: A Common Ungrounding

chair and table with wood grain swirls in a gallery

Richard Artschwager, Table and Chair

Richard Artschwager, Building Riddled with Listening Devices (Alpha) and (Beta)

Triptych composed of three panels of formica on wood

Richard Artschwager, Triptych III

Richard Artschwager, Horizon

Kai Althoff, Untitled, 2013

David Hammons, Untitled (dung), 1983–85

A series of gelatin silver prints with a black background and a white orb in the center

In Conversation with Sean McFarland

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In Conversation with Lindsey White

A colorful painting with impressionistic brush stroke illustrating a coat and the sun, Magritte

Painting Under Crisis: Magritte and World War II

an installation with a cube of tvs mounted on a wall

Nam June Paik: Kinship, Collaboration, and Commemoration

Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. - Still

Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.: Queer Takes on Another Girl

Installation image of Susan Meiselas' 20 dirhams or 1 photo

Exchange Rates: 20 dirhams or 1 photo?

Paul Clipson with Bolex camera by Anya Kamenskaya

Paul Clipson video still

Eye of the Beholder: Paul Clipson (1965–2018)

Surreal landscape with plants shaped like doves and a dusk street scene with a daytime sky

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."

Ali Fitzgerald’s Five Seasons of Magritte

A painting featuring a Caucasian man painting a bird on a canvas, Magritte

Self-Portrait as Anonymous Artist

Charles Eames teleconferencing man

Designing the Digital Self

Black and white portrait of a young Caucasian man with brown hair sitting before a painting of a target, Rauschenberg

Rauschenberg, with Affection

A black and white photograph showing a Caucasian man and woman in a 1940s subway car, Walker Evans

The Art of the Oxymoron: The Vernacular Style of Walker Evans

New Work: Kerry Tribe

Sean McFarland thumbnail

A box with a translucent lid and wire outside on the floor

Liam Everett thumbnail

Lindsey White thumbnail

Interwoven colored stripes against a beige background

Alicia McCarthy

Artwork detail

Wide Open Publics: Tracing Grace McCann Morley’s San Francisco

Archival black and white photograph of a gallery, Potter Morley

Grace McCann Morley: Defending and Diversifying Modern Art

Nam June Paik, A Drawing Notebook, 1996

Nam June Paik, A Drawing Notebook Large, 1987 page 1

Nam June Paik, A Drawing Notebook Large, 1987

Nam June Paik, Untitled, from Untitled Notebook, 1980 page 11

Nam June Paik, Untitled Notebook, 1980

A white gallery space featuring photographs and writing

Desire in Diaspora: Emily Jacir

Artist installation

Rudolf Frieling on The Refusal of Time

Black and white photo of a Caucasian man in a recording studio

A Caucasian woman with short brown hair looks at herself in the mirror

The Soundtrack of TAKE THE 5:10 TO DREAMLAND

A woman stands before a black encaustic painting hanging on a storage wall

Conserving Conner: Michelle Barger Prepares for It’s All True

A tangle of chords and wires of all kinds

Let’s Get Physical: Lucky Dragons and the Art of Conflict Resolution

Groups of people seated and standing in front of digital kiosks

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

Jürg Lehni and the Poetic Potential of Drawing Machines

A man wearing sunglasses stands in front of an artwork, Gatti

We Go Way Back: Stanlee Gatti on the Modern Ball and More

Viktor drawing elements.

A Taxonomy of Communication, drawn by Viktor

A conservator wearing a mask and touching up a sculpture

Optimize, Optimize, Optimize: Museum Conservation in the LEED Era

A stylized illustration featuring a bearded face on a yellow background

Starting an Artist Interview Program: Hard-Earned Lessons on Best Practices

Yellow and orange squares next to a yellow hallway receding into perspective

Site Imitates Art

A drill is positioned atop an undulating white panel

Made in the Bay Area

Two women in glasses, hard hats, and bright orange constrction vests stand arm in arm

Then and Now: Artist Janet Delaney revisits and rephotographs historic Flag Makers sign

Still from a video installation of a man's distorted, inverted face on a reflective surface

Matters in Media Art

A grid of hundreds of tiny artwork images

How Do Institutional Philosophies Manifest in Online Collections?

Etel Adnan's black and white illustration from Journey to Mount Tamalpais.

Etel Adnan: Excerpt from Journey to Mount Tamalpais