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Sarah Rosado

Title of Image: Tik Tok

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emilymalan:

Daniel outside of SFMOMA

kadist:

Anthony Discenza, Teaser #1, 2009. 

Anthony Discenza was recently interviewed by SFMOMA about architect Lebbeus Woods, whose work is currently on view in the museum. Listen to the interview here.

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

Did you know we’re expanding? And that our building will be closed to the public during construction? 

Artwork Tucker Nichols is helping us spread the word with this official notice posted on our blog, Open Space :)

sfmomacrowd:

I decide to spend some time looking at the work of Michael Bogin at the Davis Gallery here on my school campus.  After wandering the rooms of the gallery, scanning the walls in search of one of Bogin’s pieces that speaks to me, I notice a pattern.  While at first seeming overtly simplistic, upon closer inspection his pieces start to formulate individual stories.  Scanning the room, I am immediately struck by the stunning color schemes that run across the walls.  Done in gouache, watercolor, and colored pencil, the multi-media quality gives the piece a depth that mimics that of the ocean.  For example, upon closely looking at Galapagos #157, focusing at the center of the painting, it becomes difficult to tell if the water sits in the foreground or background.  The sea creatures seem to remain in limbo undulating back and forth between the different layers of the painting and it is this confusion that leads to my intrigue.  The more I look at the painting, the less sure I am of where all the shapes sit in space. The reds and oranges seem to float to the surface in some areas while they seem to recede into the cloudy blue expanse in other sections.  After a while I begin to see the intentionality behind Bogin’s every mark.  You can see, upon closer inspection, where he has laid down a block of color, taken most of it away, and then put down more paint in order to achieve the illusion of depth.  The blues overlap the greens in the top portion and leave behind a shadow of what once was, thereby furthering the magic of his artifice.  It is this ambiguity that endows the painting with such power. 

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parkavenuearmory:

Our thoughts are on Boston today – so we pulled some photos of that fair city from a more positive day in history from our archives. In July 1875, the Seventh Regiment’s members and veterans took the steamer to Newport, RI and then the train to Boston to participate in the celebration of the anniversary of Bunker Hill. On July 17th they gathered at State House Plaza with other civic and military groups and marched on Beacon Street to Columbus Avenue to Charlestown and Bunker Hill. It was described as being a beautiful day, “the weather was charming and everything betokened a delightful day and a successful celebration.”