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When Vija Celmins Holds the Shifting World Still

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino March 25, 2019March 22, 2019

Celmins’s images of oceans and galaxies are powerfully personal and intimate, even if they are mysteriously deserted and distant.

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A 1960s Sustainable Community Outside San Francisco and Its Struggle to Survive

by Matthew Harrison Tedford January 24, 2019January 24, 2019

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.

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Orientalism Persists in Conversations Around Chinese Contemporary Art

Avatar photo by Harley Wong December 12, 2018December 11, 2018

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.

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René Magritte’s Bad Paintings

by David Carrier November 3, 2018November 2, 2018

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.

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Photographer Susan Meiselas on the Relationships She’s Built with Her Subjects

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson July 30, 2018

Meiselas, whose documentary photography is wide ranging, says the one thing that ties her work together is her “relationships with subjects over time.”

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John Akomfrah Discusses Channeling J.M.W. Turner and Disasters at Sea

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson June 8, 2018June 8, 2018

“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.

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Walker Evans’s Eye on the City

by Matthew Harrison Tedford December 18, 2017December 15, 2017

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.

Lindsey White, "Often Imitated, Never Equaled" (2016)
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Bringing the Theatricality of Magic and Comedy to Art

by Grace-Yvette Gemmell September 13, 2017September 14, 2017

Lindsey White, a recipient of SFMOMA’s 2017 SECA Art Award, challenges assumptions and orthodoxies in irreverent photographs, sculptures, and installations.

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Why Edvard Munch Began Painting Portraits of the Soul

Avatar photo by Bridget Quinn August 8, 2017June 18, 2020

An exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art illustrates how, over time, Munch moved away from observational painting toward something more symbolic and emotional.

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Send a Text to SFMOMA and They’ll Text You Back an Artwork

by Claire Voon July 7, 2017July 13, 2017

You can explore SFMOMA’s collection now with the ease of a text, though you don’t always know what you’re going to get.

Diane Arbus, "Girl with a pointy hood and white schoolbag at the curb, N.Y.C." (1957) (courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; copyright © The Estate of Diane Arbus, LLC; all rights reserved)
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The Evolution of Diane Arbus in 35mm

by Matthew Harrison Tedford April 19, 2017April 18, 2017

The exhibition diane arbus: in the beginning gathers images the photographer shot between 1956 and 1962, when she started using the distinctive Rolleiflex camera with which she captured her most famous photos.

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Diaristic Maps Composed of Tens of Thousands of Photographs

by Maia Nichols February 3, 2017February 4, 2017

Sohei Nishino’s maps are hellish auto-portraits, subjective representations built through fantastic repetition.

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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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