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Bay Area Artists Put Together an A-Z Guide for Forming a Museum Union

by Hakim Bishara October 26, 2021October 26, 2021

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

Avatar photo by Elizabeth S. Hawley October 25, 2021October 25, 2021

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

Avatar photo by Bridget Quinn October 11, 2021October 14, 2021

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

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia February 9, 2021February 10, 2021

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.

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Tauba Auerbach’s Sculptural Art Books

Avatar photo by Megan N. Liberty September 12, 2020November 5, 2020

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

by Hakim Bishara September 4, 2020November 5, 2020

“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

Avatar photo by Sam Lefebvre September 3, 2020November 5, 2020

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

Avatar photo by Sam Lefebvre July 16, 2020November 5, 2020

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

Avatar photo by Sam Lefebvre July 13, 2020November 5, 2020

The announcement on Saturday came less than 24 hours after a petition launched calling for Gary Garrels’s resignation.

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SFMOMA Accused of Censoring Black Voices After Removing Comment by Former Employee

by Hakim Bishara June 2, 2020November 5, 2020

Taylor Brandon commented under the museum’s Instagram post in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and said, “Having black people on your homepage/feed is not enough.” Artists and SFMOMA employees have spoken out in agreement.

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Four Decades of Dawoud Bey

Avatar photo by Zoe Samudzi March 4, 2020March 11, 2020

Bey does not simply document Black life, but Black existence in a nation-state built upon the creation and maintenance of our subjugation.

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An Art Film Created With Middle Schoolers in Mind

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson December 2, 2019

Artist Nicole Miller sees her film To the Stars as being about potential: “I want the kids to feel like they are part of the narrative of what it means to be an astronaut or a brilliant thinker.”

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