Art
The Interplay Between Art and Sports
An exhibition animates new scripts for both art-making and sport, positing their languages of rhythmic choreography as sites of possibility and reclamation.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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Museum Acquires Iconic Japanese "Business Capsule"
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art now owns a housing micro-unit salvaged from the demolished Nakagin Capsule Tower that once stood in Tokyo.
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The Art World "Darling" Who Went Rogue
Joan Brown resented the easy commodification of her work, and the incessant demand for her to create something just so others could own it.
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Bay Area Artists Put Together an A-Z Guide for Forming a Museum Union
The artists released the risograph-printed booklet series Organizing Power to assist in the arduous process of assembling a bargaining unit and negotiating.
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The Tricky Role of Humor in Activist Art and Design
An SFMOMA exhibition raises questions about what it means when museum board members have ties to politicians who support border wall policies.
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Joan Mitchell, a Brilliant Painter and Contrarian at Heart
If painting was Mitchell’s sickness, it was also her salvation.
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SFMOMA Director to Step Down After a Tumultuous Year at Museum
The museum has been criticized for its sweeping layoffs and furloughs during the coronavirus pandemic and accused of fostering a culture of racism and structural inequities.
Art
Tauba Auerbach's Sculptural Art Books
Much like her bookworks, Auerbach's catalogue S v Z deserves to be examined as a sculptural object before we unfold its cover and consider its contents.
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SFMOMA Workers Call for Major Reform During Public Board Meeting
“My experiences at SFMOMA made me never want to work at a museum ever again,” a former worker said in a meeting with the museum’s trustees.
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After SFMOMA Cuts Salaries by 20%, Employees Call Out Major Loans Granted to Executives
Many SFMOMA salaries have barely kept pace with the city’s minimum wage, while executive salaries have multiplied.
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Former SFMOMA Staffers Demand “Radical Reexamination” of Board of Trustees
Former workers published a letter asserting that the 75 museum trustees are responsible for “the continued development of a white supremacist exhibition and collecting program.”
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Senior SFMOMA Curator Resigns Amid Reckoning With Institutional Racism
The announcement on Saturday came less than 24 hours after a petition launched calling for Gary Garrels’s resignation.