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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Up, up, up, and away!
Posted on Tuesday, May 7th 2013
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
Posted on Tuesday, May 7th 2013
Reblogged from CHRISTIE'S
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.
Posted on Monday, May 6th 2013
“Generally, we use light—we don’t really pay much attention to light itself. That’s my interest: this fascination with light and how we come to light.”
—James TurrellHappy birthday today (May 6) to artist James Turrell.
Seen here is the The Light Inside (1999), commissioned by and installed at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The Light Inside is installed in the underground tunnel that links the museum’s Caroline Wiess Law Building with the Audrey Jones Beck Building.
This scene is featured in the Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 1 episode, Spirituality (2001).
WATCH James Turrell in Spirituality: Preview | Full Segment [available in the U.S. only]
IMAGES: Production stills from the Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 1 episode, Spirituality, 2001. © Art21, Inc. 2001.
Beautiful GIFs and terrific artist quote. Thx for sharing, Art21! Happy birthday to James Turrell.
Posted on Monday, May 6th 2013
Reblogged from Art21 on Tumblr
Doorway by salmorales on Flickr.
Posted on Monday, May 6th 2013
Reblogged from The Library
Are you curious to find out what we’ll be up to while our building is closed for expansion (starting on June 2!)? Watch this video to see San Franciscans react to the news about our SFMOMA On the Go programming!
Posted on Monday, May 6th 2013
“Thinking about a work of art as the culmination of a messy process raises an important question: at what point does art happen?”
Posted on Monday, May 6th 2013


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