Pantone everything! Nearly everyone who works at SFMOMA seems to have a Pantone mug or two from our MuseumStore. Simple design with a burst of color… what’s not to love?
Posted on Thursday, July 12th 2012
Reblogged from Laughing Squid Links
As part of our Cindy Sherman Selects film series, we’re screening “The Beaver Trilogy” tonight! Featuring a young Sean Penn and Crispin Glover in drag as Olivia Newton John, this could be one of the weirdest films you’ll see all year :)
But also, there’s icing on the cake: filmmaker Trent Harris will be here in person, giving a Q&A session following the film.
Posted on Thursday, July 12th 2012
Legibility
Nice photograph of a large Cy Twombly work, now on view in our 5th-floor Contemporary Painting exhibition.
Posted on Thursday, July 12th 2012
Reblogged from Valencia & 23rd
Today marks the 117th birthday of Bucky Fuller! An architect, engineer, designer, inventor, and idealist, Buckminster Fuller developed numerous inventions, and is probably best known for creating the geodesic dome.
I just invent. Then I wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
― Richard Buckminster Fuller
On a related note, don’t forget to check out The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area at SFMOMA (which features Fuller’s Dymaxion map printed on the cake pictured above)… the show closes July 29!
Photo via The Buckminster Fuller Institute.
Posted on Thursday, July 12th 2012
If you missed Ann Magnuson’s Halloween show at SFMOMA, well, she’s back!
With her musical director and accompanist Kristian Hoffman, she’s taking a break from prepping her “The Jobriath Medley” tour to play SFMOMA’s Member Party for Cindy Sherman and Stage Presence: Theatricality in Art and Media. Friday at 9pm, she’ll deliver a specially-designed-for-us tribute to The Mudd Club, the famous downtown club where artists like Magnuson played & artists like Cindy Sherman could see everything from punk to performance art, new wave to No Wave, the B-52’s to The Talking Heads. The early 80’s avant-garde lives again!
Learn more about Friday’s Member Party + RSVP here.
Photo: Austin Young
Posted on Thursday, July 12th 2012
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast spotlights a new exhibition at New York’s apexart titled “The Permanent Way.” The show looks at the continuing impact of the railroads on the way American artists look at landscape. The exhibition is on view through July 28.
My guests are Brian Sholis, who curated the show, and Mark Ruwedel, a photographer who is included in the exhibition and whose “Westward the Course of Empire” series spotlighted the continuing physical presence of the railroad in the West. Sholis’s essay for “The Permanent Way” is available (for free) here.
This picture of Ruwedel’s, Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul and Pacific #17 is not in “The Permanent Way,” but is on view now at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, in the museum’s third-floor, permanent collection photography galleries. Ruwedel and I discuss images such as this one on this week’s program, including where the heck the railroad tracks — which would have run across the top of these bridge supports — disappeared to. (You can see a larger version of the picture here and more of Ruwedel’s work in SFMOMA’s collection here.)
When Ruwedel and I discuss this picture on the program, he explains the origins of his attraction to 19th-century railway cuts and how they helped instigate his interest in the series that would become “Westward the Course of Empire.”
Ruwedel is a California-based photographer whose work frequently examines the ways in which Americans have impacted the land in the American West. His work is in the permanent collections of the Tate Modern, the National Gallery of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, LACMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and more. The book related to the project discussed on this week’s show,“Westward the Course of Empire,” was published in 2008 by the Yale University Press.
To download the program directly to your PC or mobile device, click here. To download or subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, click here. To subscribe to The MAN Podcast’s RSS feed, click here. You can see images of the artworks discussed on this week’s program here.
Posted on Wednesday, July 11th 2012
Reblogged from The Modern Art Notes Podcast
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Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #13 [1978] Photograph Gelatin Silver Print
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art July 14 - October 8, 2012
One of the most influential artists of our time, Cindy Sherman creates provocative artworks that explore wide-ranging issues of identity and representation. Working as her own model, she deftly transforms her appearance using wigs, costumes, makeup, prosthetics, and props to create intriguing tableaux and characters inspired by movies, TV, magazines, and art history. The first major exhibition of Sherman’s work ever presented in San Francisco, this retrospective brings together more than 150 photographs made from the mid-1970s to the present.
Learn more about Cindy Sherman, the most anticipated show of the summer, here!](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m70dgyOcVG1qb9e4po1_250.png)
Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #13 [1978] Photograph Gelatin Silver Print
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art July 14 - October 8, 2012
One of the most influential artists of our time, Cindy Sherman creates provocative artworks that explore wide-ranging issues of identity and representation. Working as her own model, she deftly transforms her appearance using wigs, costumes, makeup, prosthetics, and props to create intriguing tableaux and characters inspired by movies, TV, magazines, and art history. The first major exhibition of Sherman’s work ever presented in San Francisco, this retrospective brings together more than 150 photographs made from the mid-1970s to the present.
Learn more about Cindy Sherman, the most anticipated show of the summer, here!
Philip Guston: The Studio (1969) via Artchive
Posted on Wednesday, July 11th 2012
Reblogged from Peira's blog
Members of the press will have the chance to preview Cindy Sherman this morning! Stay tuned for more photos from the media event…
For now, here’s a sneak peek inside the show taken during installation :)
Posted on Wednesday, July 11th 2012
“…to take part in nature’s reforming of her own environment…”
A rare 1979 interview with Buckminster Fuller.
Posted on Tuesday, July 10th 2012
Reblogged from Explore
AMAZING.Warhol - Pay de Menta
Not sure how our curators will feel about this…
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