Revisiting Some Well-Eyed Streets
Works by the photographer Garry Winogrand — more than any museum has mounted at once — are the focus of a retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
View ArticleGarry Winogrand - Nonstop and Unedited
Mr. Winogrand was so prolific that he could hardly be bothered to edit his work. A new retrospective explores the relentless output of a complicated artist.
View ArticleFood Matters | A Sweet Take on Modern Art
A chef’s new cookbook contains 27 painterly confections, from a Warhol gelée to a Matisse parfait, that were inspired by the collection at San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art.
View ArticleShunning One Museum, Artist Heads to Another
Ed Ruscha, who quit the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, is joining the board of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
View ArticleOne Met Isn’t Enough
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be showing William Kentridge’s video “The Refusal of Time” starting on Tuesday.
View ArticleThe iPhone and Its Ilk as Museum Exhibits for Future Generations
A new initiative at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art aims to preserve works made in fast-changing mediums like photography and technology design.
View ArticleIts Art Elsewhere, a Museum Tries to Stay Relevant
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, closed till early 2016 because of expansion construction, is aiming to keep members during the interim.
View ArticleSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art to Expand Photography Center
In 2016, the museum will reopen with one of the country’s largest photography galleries.
View ArticleA Monograph Celebrates the Architecture of Mario Botta
“Mario Botta: Architecture and Memory” focuses on Botta’s public projects, including the iconic San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Church of San Giovanni Battista in his home country of...
View ArticleAs San Francisco Booms, So Does its Gallery Scene
As members of the newly well-heeled tech elite look to invest their money, the city’s small but thriving gallery scene is finding itself the recipient of their attention.
View ArticleHow Four Architects Envision the New SFMOMA — as Jewelry
The museum called on Diana Schimmel, Alice Roche, Marion Cage and Andrea Panico to translate its new Snøhetta-designed façade into necklaces, earrings and more.
View ArticleNew SFMoMA Aims to Be Not Just Giant, but Global
The institution is reopening on May 14 with a striking all-white addition and fresh initiatives promoting visual and cultural diversity.
View ArticleReview: SFMoMA’s Expansion Sets a New Standard for Museums
It’s not just the abundance of art gifts but the continual surprises of the building’s design and details.
View ArticleA Reborn Museum in Berkeley Offers Form as an Essential Fact of Existence
“Architecture of Life,” the first show in the new home of the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive in California, uses its space wisely.
View ArticleIn San Francisco, a Reimagined and (Hugely) Expanded Museum
The reopened San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is drawing crowds, and boosting the profile of its vibrant South-of-Market neighborhood.
View ArticleIs It Art? Eyeglasses on Museum Floor Began as Teenagers’ Prank
During a visit to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the youths wondered if they could do better than some of the real exhibits.
View ArticleThe Museum of the City of New York to Examine a Gay Underground
The Museum of the City of New York scrutinizes a subculture through the prism of 10 creators in its coming exhibition “Gay Gotham.”
View ArticleBruce Conner’s Darkness That Defies Authority
“Bruce Conner: It’s All True,” at MoMA, is the first New York retrospective of this polymathic artist. It features some 250 works in nearly 10 media.
View ArticleA Comprehensive Look at California and the West
“California and the West,” an ambitious survey exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, looks at the state of the region in a city where new money is remaking the landscape.
View ArticleAt In Situ in San Francisco, Originality in Careful Copies
Corey Lee’s new restaurant regards chefs as practitioners of high culture and iconic dishes as works of art, like literature, music or painting.
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