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SFMOMA Official Who Defended Censorship of Black Former Employee Steps Down

Avatar photo by Sam Lefebvre July 1, 2020November 5, 2020

Nan Keeton, Deputy Director of External Relations, resigned weeks after the museum came under public scrutiny for censoring the comments of Taylor Brandon.

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SFMOMA Announces Second Wave of Layoffs, Impacting 55 Additional Workers

by Hakim Bishara June 10, 2020November 5, 2020

This follows March’s announcement that the museum would lay off 131 on-call (contracted or freelance) employees and furlough around 200 regular staffers.

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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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Furloughed SFMOMA Staff Ask Director to Draw Salary of Zero to Retain Workers

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia April 24, 2020April 27, 2020

The museum received a $6.2 million federal loan, lifting its staff furlough through June 30, but the petition’s authors emphasize that management has not yet addressed demands to support staff long-term.

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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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Photography’s Potential as Art and Science in Documenting Ancient Egypt

Avatar photo by Michael Press November 19, 2019November 18, 2019

Signs and Wonders: The Photographs of John Beasley Greene features photographs that focus on ancient monuments and landscapes in Egypt and Algeria from the 1850s, rather than people.

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The Astonishing Discovery of an Artist’s 9,200 Portraits of an Alternate Queer Self

Avatar photo by Bridget Quinn September 30, 2019June 18, 2020

The previously unknown Polaroids of April Dawn Alison were not just snatched from the jaws of oblivion, but are now in an esteemed museum collection.

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Jess, a West Coast Visionary

by John Yau August 24, 2019September 6, 2019

It is clear to me now that seeing Jess’s art was the beginning of my awareness that there was a multitude of what John Ashbery called “other traditions.”

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Suzanne Lacy’s Powerful Legacy of Feminist Collaboration

Avatar photo by Bridget Quinn July 24, 2019June 18, 2020

What struck me most in moving through the arc of Lacy’s career is what varied and thoughtful work she’s produced decade after decade, no doubt the result of her preference for collaboration.

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JR’s Digital Mural Features 1,200 San Franciscans, Telling a Story of a Diverse City

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson July 8, 2019July 9, 2019

The artist says he wants the 107-feet-long mural at SFMOMA to get people to interact with one another.

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A Nonjudgmental Look at Our Impulse to Share Images

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson May 20, 2019May 28, 2019

Although social media has amped up the sharing of photos, the urge behind it is nothing new.

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Our Place: to the moon and back on a rocketship from Rome
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Our Place: to the moon and back on a rocketship from Rome

Tom Osgood’s final sculptures accompany design objects by his daughter Ravenna that celebrate domestic joys. On view at form & concept in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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