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SFMOMA

151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94103 map
cross street: between Mission & Howard
district: SoMa


Tel. 4153574000
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Events Calendar
Thu Jul 10 - Sun Jan 04
Exhibit showcases books, posters, furniture and other objects acquired since Henry Urbach joined the museum staff. This unorthodox exhibition showcases 246-plus objects acquired by SFMOMA's Architecture and Design Department since curator Henry Ur... More
Fri Aug 01 - Tue Nov 04
Working in distinct styles and media, Zilvinas Kempinas, Alyson Shotz, and Mary Temple explore the transformative properties of light, underscoring its ability to inform our perception of space. Temple's installation casts trompe l'oeil shadows from ... More
Thu Sep 18 - Sun Jan 04
Exhibit juxtaposes video works by Olivo Barbieri and Stephen Dean. This exhibition presents a complex portrait of America's most spectacular urban environment — and fastest growing city — through the juxtaposition of two recent films: Olivo Barbie... More
Sat Sep 27 - Sun Feb 22
Spanning the artist's entire career, the works in this exhibition illustrate Klee's use of pictorial elements to explore both the practices of art and the theory behind them. In subsequent projects Klee implemented various mark-making styles and colo... More
Sat Oct 11 - Sun Jan 04
Modern science and photography flowered simultaneously in the early 19th century, and photography was adopted as a scientific tool from the first years of its invention. Over the course of the century, scientists made pictures using the microscope an... More
Wed Oct 29
The San Francisco based non-profit organization, The Arts-of-Fashion Foundation presents our annual international fashion showcase at the SFMOMA. Featured in the show: CarteBlance Series Designers: Sandrina Fasoli from Brussels, Cathy Pill from B... More

About SFMOMA

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a private, not-for-profit institution supported by its members, individual contributors to Donor Circle, corporate and foundation support, federal and state government grants and admission revenues. Annual programming is sustained through the generosity of Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund and The James Irvine Foundation. Thursday evening half-priced admission is sponsored by Banana Republic. Reduced admission for seniors is sponsored by Pacific Bell. KidstART free admission for children twelve and under is made possible by The Charles Schwab Corporation Foundation. SFMOMA is easily accessible by MUNI, BART, Golden Gate Transit, SamTrans and Caltrain. Hourly, daily and monthly parking is available at the SFMOMA Garage at 147 Minna Street. For parking information, call 415.348.0971.

ONGOING EXHIBITION
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SFMOMA's world-renowned photography collection includes pictures from the mid-1800s to the present. The current presentation includes a special selection of works by Bay Area photographer and San Francisco State University professor John Gutmann (1905-1998) on the centennial of his birth. A German-born artist who fled the Nazi regime for the United States in 1933, Gutmann intended his photographs as documents of the exotic American culture he saw around him, but they reflect his surrealist tendencies and poetic leanings, as well. Also on view are more than 50 recent acquisitions, pictures that have never been shown at SFMOMA.

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Matisse and Beyond: The Painting and Sculpture Collection Representing movements ranging from Fauvism and Cubism to Pop art and Minimalism, SFMOMA's modern art holdings include paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by some of the 20th century's most celebrated artists. The selection currently on view features works by Josef Albers, Vija Celmins, Bruce Conner, Marcel Duchamp, Philip Guston, Frida Kahlo, Yves Klein, Joan Mitchell, Piet Mondrian, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Diego Rivera, Charles Sheeler, and Wayne Thiebaud.

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Between Art and Life: The Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Collection In 1959 Robert Rauschenberg said, "Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in that gap between the two.)" This presentation of the SFMOMA collection is organized around this philosophy. With works from the last five decades, the exhibition emphasizes special concentrations within SFMOMA's contemporary holdings and includes works by Olafur Eliasson, Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons, Julie Mehretu, Marilyn Minter, Chris Ofili, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Doris Salcedo, Rachel Whiteread, and Christopher Wool. As part of the exhibition, an audio/video walk by artist Janet Cardiff is also available at the information desk in the Haas Atrium.

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The Art of Design: The Architecture and Design Collection SFMOMA's growing architecture and design collection focuses on the areas of architecture, industrial design, and graphic design and features both historical and contemporary works. This broad survey ranges from well-known classics to works by emerging designers, highlighting the collection's strengths in experimental architecture, digital design, and Bay Area innovation. A selection of mid-century modern furnishings designed by Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, and Isamu Noguchi for American furniture manufacturer Herman Miller complements the exhibition Alexander Girard: Vibrant Modern.

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Picturing Modernity: The Photography Collection The exhibition will be temporarily closed November 13 to 17, with a new rotation of works opening November 18. SFMOMA's world-renowned photography collection includes pictures from the mid-1800s to the present that capture key moments in the development of the medium and reflect a wide range of practices. Among the highlights of the new installation are a selection of European modernist photographs from the 1920s and 1930s from the Prentice and Paul Sack Photographic Trust and several works by contemporary photographers such as Mitch Epstein.

PUBLIC TOURS
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Ongoing Spotlight Tours Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays: Noon - 12:30 p.m. Meet in the Haas Atrium. These innovative noontime tours bring artists' voices directly to visitors, beginning with a short video clip of a featured artist, then moving into the galleries for viewing and discussion. Free with Museum admission. In conjunction with Matisse and Beyond ...........

Ongoing Daily Tours Daily (except Wednesdays): 11:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m. Thursday evenings: 6:15 p.m., 7:15 p.m. Meet in the Haas Atrium Topics change daily for these free tours led by SFMOMA docents. Free with Museum admission. In conjunction with The Art of Richard Tuttle ...........

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Ongoing SFMOMA Collection Highlights Available daily In addition to information spotlighting photographs, paintings, and sculptures in the SFMOMA collection, this audio guide includes the musical tour A Few Notes on Modern Art, an exploration of the connections between 20th-century art and music. $3 general. In English or Spanish. Recommended for ages 10 and up. In conjunction with Matisse and Beyond Also in conjunction with Picturing Modernity.


Hours
Sunday: 10am - 7:45pm
Monday: 10am - 5:45pm
Tuesday: 10am - 5:45pm
Wednesday: closed
Thursday: 10am - 9:45pm
Friday: 10am - 5:45pm
Saturday: 10am - 7:45pm
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Editorial Review
The Art of Romare Bearden Image
The Art of Romare Bearden
Creating a Geometry of Experience
By Nirmala Nataraj (04/23/2004)

" Romare Bearden found his calling in collage-making in the 1960s at the age of 51, a venture that led to his indoctrination in the modern canon and boded a half-century of imitations and tributes. His collages present an exercise in attention and intellectual fortitude, placing spectators in a position where they are forced to reconstruct the artist's meandering fragments and convolutions into a coherent whole. "

Editorial Review
Sounds and Sights
Sampling / Christian Marclay
By Ryan Wiederkehr (03/02/2002)

" An examination of the relationship between sight and sound is at the center of SFMOMA's current Christian Marclay exhibit. Marclay, an artist whose career has spanned music and visual arts, seems to be gleefully challenging us to question what we are seeing as opposed to what we are hearing, and vice-versa. "

Editorial Review
Variations by Post Tool Design:  SFMOMA's 1st Experimental Design Award Image
Variations by Post Tool Design: SFMOMA's 1st Experimental Design Award
By Julie Kim
By SFS Staff (03/02/2001)

" It's hard not to like what's showing in the little hallway tucked away in the otherwise expansive Architecture & Design galleries at SFMOMA. It's an intimate space, reminiscent of the corridor connecting the bedroom and kitchen in your Victorian flat. A visit to this gallery provides a much needed respite from rainy-day-museum-overload, where you might find yourself wandering aimlessly from one large white box to the next, unable to really focus on or be enlightened by the art. There's only room enough for a handful of contemporary design pieces, so it's a good place to hide out if you really want to absorb. "

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