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.”
Tag: SFMOMA
Suzanne Lacy’s Powerful Legacy of Feminist Collaboration
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.
JR’s Digital Mural Features 1,200 San Franciscans, Telling a Story of a Diverse City
The artist says he wants the 107-feet-long mural at SFMOMA to get people to interact with one another.
A Nonjudgmental Look at Our Impulse to Share Images
Although social media has amped up the sharing of photos, the urge behind it is nothing new.
When Vija Celmins Holds the Shifting World Still
Celmins’s images of oceans and galaxies are powerfully personal and intimate, even if they are mysteriously deserted and distant.
A 1960s Sustainable Community Outside San Francisco and Its Struggle to Survive
Designers wanted to create a community that was equitable, affordable, and open-minded. But over the years developers began courting wealthy weekenders, and today units sell at stratospheric prices.
Orientalism Persists in Conversations Around Chinese Contemporary Art
In Art and China after 1989, now at SFMOMA, China’s emergence onto the world stage is eclipsed by persisting Orientalist ideas and Western modes of curation.
René Magritte’s Bad Paintings
When Belgium was occupied by Germany during World War II, René Magritte adopted the style of Pierre-Auguste Renoir and painted images based on popular cartoons.
Photographer Susan Meiselas on the Relationships She’s Built with Her Subjects
Meiselas, whose documentary photography is wide ranging, says the one thing that ties her work together is her “relationships with subjects over time.”
John Akomfrah Discusses Channeling J.M.W. Turner and Disasters at Sea
“The Deluge,” a monumental Turner painting showing a Biblical flood, is currently paired with Akomfrah’s “Vertigo Sea” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Walker Evans’s Eye on the City
While Walker Evans may be best known for his photographs from small towns across the US during the Great Depression, an exhibition at SFMOMA shows him also as a longtime New Yorker fascinated with the particulars of urban life.
Bringing the Theatricality of Magic and Comedy to Art
Lindsey White, a recipient of SFMOMA’s 2017 SECA Art Award, challenges assumptions and orthodoxies in irreverent photographs, sculptures, and installations.