SFMOMA

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Los Angeles County Museum of Art curator Britt Salvesen and artist Catherine Opie on the occasion of LACMA’s presentation of three Robert Mapplethorpe portfolios: The ‘X Portfolio,’ which features sadomasochistic imagery; the ‘Y Portfolio’ of floral still-lifes and the ‘Z Portfolio’ of nude portraits African-American men.

These two Mapplethorpes, both titled Pictures/Self Portrait (1977), aren’t in the X, Y or Z Portfolio and thus aren’t in LACMA’s show. They were included in a 2004 exhibition Opie selected from the holdings of the Mapplethorpe Foundation. On this week’s MAN Podcast, Opie and I discussed these two pictures — and both Opie and I and Salvesen discussed whether Mapplethorpe’s experience with Catholicism helped motivate them.

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Posted on Tuesday, May 7th 2013

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Posted on Tuesday, May 7th 2013

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Installation of Mark di Suvero at Crissy Field is well under way! Dog walkers, runners, cyclists, and egrets all seem interested in observing these massive steel sculptures being moved into place.

Posted on Tuesday, May 7th 2013

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Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)
Number 19, 1948

Post-War & Contemporary Evening Sale

Posted on Tuesday, May 7th 2013

Reblogged from CHRISTIE'S

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Greatly influenced by Surrealism, Kansuke Yamamoto made innovative photographs, collages, and poems and was a key figure in the Japanese avant-garde.

His work is featured in Japan’s Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto.

Stapled Flesh, 1949, Kansuke Yamamoto. From the Collection of Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck. © Toshio Yamamoto

Posted on Tuesday, May 7th 2013

Reblogged from The Getty

For our LAST Free Tuesday before our building closes for expansion construction, we’re presenting daylong screenings of Al Wong’s Twin Peaks (1977). Over the course of a year the SF native shot this contemplative journey, winding around the distinctive hills in the city. Twin Peaks was featured at SFMOMA in a spotlight screening of his work in 1977, and last publicly shown in 1980.