SFMOMA

“There’s a kind of slowness and inefficiency about rendering text in paint. We’re in a world that’s very fast, so things that slow you for a minute—give you pause—are good.”
—Glenn Ligon

Glenn Ligon, our current 100 Artists featured artist, discusses his interest in rendering text in paint. Seen here is opening night of the 2011 Glenn Ligon: AMERICA exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, as featured in the Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 6 episode, History (2012).

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Great sentiments, especially with Slow Art Day just around the corner!

(Also, maybe this will inspire some of you to participate in SFMOMAslow?)

Posted on Tuesday, April 16th 2013

Tags slow art day

Reblogged from Art21 on Tumblr

$Lebbeus Woods, Architect is currently on view at SFMOMA, and throughout the run of the exhibition, we’ll be using Tumblr as a place to sequentially share Woods’s wonderful sketchbooks, since only a fraction of the pages can be on view in the galleries. See all of the pages we’ve shared so far here. Image: Lebbeus Woods, Sketchbook, 2000; Courtesy of Aleksandra Wagner; © Estate of Lebbeus Woods$

Lebbeus Woods, Architect is currently on view at SFMOMA, and throughout the run of the exhibition, we’ll be using Tumblr as a place to sequentially share Woods’s wonderful sketchbooks, since only a fraction of the pages can be on view in the galleries. See all of the pages we’ve shared so far here.

Image: Lebbeus Woods, Sketchbook, 2000; Courtesy of Aleksandra Wagner; © Estate of Lebbeus Woods

Posted on Tuesday, April 16th 2013

Tags lwsketchbooks

sfmomacrowd:

Looking at a long (inches-wise) “artist’s book” with maps & a quote, 10’ !

As you continue

the book slows you down

see Washington, see Wilderness

see Interval 40 and 1:24—

like “music without sound”, you think,

but only after flipping to the end and going back—

it gets quieter, you trace the lines on the map

George Lake a finger print

Raston Virginia a miniature hop-scotch square

which you will

Produced by Control

do, the way

Improved Road; Unimproved Road; Trail

to proceed

off the map into white like a ski jump

Powder River, Goose Creek, Love Ditch

will become

Freemont National Forest, Scale

apparent

A Road Legend

With islands in it and somewhere a myth?

e.g. Robin Hood behind the trees,

tiny target, topographic, 7.5 minutes,

a rake through Zen sand—

(This was made after an earthquake, California had been shaking

all the way to Oregon the map was pulled apart

by an artist’s fingers the pieces were sewn back together

it must have been quiet in the studio, she must have been counting

it must have taken a very long time)

until the last page—

John Cage

Submit your own creative #SFMOMAslow post here!

Posted on Monday, April 15th 2013

Tags sfmomaslow

Reblogged from SFMOMA crowd

$Lebbeus Woods, Architect is currently on view at SFMOMA, and throughout the run of the exhibition, we’ll be using Tumblr as a place to sequentially share Woods’s wonderful sketchbooks, since only a fraction of the pages can be on view in the galleries. See all of the pages we’ve shared so far here. Image: Lebbeus Woods, Sketchbook, 2000; Courtesy of Aleksandra Wagner; © Estate of Lebbeus Woods$

Lebbeus Woods, Architect is currently on view at SFMOMA, and throughout the run of the exhibition, we’ll be using Tumblr as a place to sequentially share Woods’s wonderful sketchbooks, since only a fraction of the pages can be on view in the galleries. See all of the pages we’ve shared so far here.

Image: Lebbeus Woods, Sketchbook, 2000; Courtesy of Aleksandra Wagner; © Estate of Lebbeus Woods

Posted on Monday, April 15th 2013

Tags lwsketchbooks

$Lebbeus Woods, Architect is currently on view at SFMOMA, and throughout the run of the exhibition, we’ll be using Tumblr as a place to sequentially share Woods’s wonderful sketchbooks, since only a fraction of the pages can be on view in the galleries. See all of the pages we’ve shared so far here. Image: Lebbeus Woods, Sketchbook, 2000; Courtesy of Aleksandra Wagner; © Estate of Lebbeus Woods$

Lebbeus Woods, Architect is currently on view at SFMOMA, and throughout the run of the exhibition, we’ll be using Tumblr as a place to sequentially share Woods’s wonderful sketchbooks, since only a fraction of the pages can be on view in the galleries. See all of the pages we’ve shared so far here.

Image: Lebbeus Woods, Sketchbook, 2000; Courtesy of Aleksandra Wagner; © Estate of Lebbeus Woods

Posted on Sunday, April 14th 2013

Tags lwsketchbooks

$Lebbeus Woods, Architect is currently on view at SFMOMA, and throughout the run of the exhibition, we’ll be using Tumblr as a place to sequentially share Woods’s wonderful sketchbooks, since only a fraction of the pages can be on view in the galleries. See all of the pages we’ve shared so far here. Image: Lebbeus Woods, Sketchbook, 2000; Courtesy of Aleksandra Wagner; © Estate of Lebbeus Woods$

Lebbeus Woods, Architect is currently on view at SFMOMA, and throughout the run of the exhibition, we’ll be using Tumblr as a place to sequentially share Woods’s wonderful sketchbooks, since only a fraction of the pages can be on view in the galleries. See all of the pages we’ve shared so far here.

Image: Lebbeus Woods, Sketchbook, 2000; Courtesy of Aleksandra Wagner; © Estate of Lebbeus Woods

Posted on Saturday, April 13th 2013

Tags lwsketchbooks