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I totally don’t know what this one is called.

It’s Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s “Untitled” (America #1)! Come hear a gallery talk on this piece on Thursday.

Via Receipt of Delivery series on Open Space:

Adrian Piper staged a number of collaborative performance events entitled Funk Lessons (1982–84) in which participants were invited to get down and party together. In the process of learning to discuss, dance, and listen to Funk music, the events opened up individual awareness of the complex personal associations of this popular dance form with racial and cultural boundaries. Read more →

Image: Adrian Piper, Funk Lessons with Adrian Piper (Bootsy Poster), 1984. Poster advertisement for Adrian Piper’s Funk Lessons Performance on Friday, March 23, 1984 at New Langton Arts, San Francisco. 18 x 24 in. (46.5 x 61.5 cm). Collection of the Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation Berlin. © APRA Foundation Berlin. Photocredit: Phillip Dixon. [quarter-folded poster copy in SFMOMA Research Library]

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. Featured here is the 8th page from a sketchbook he worked on in NYC from 1995-1998.

Image: Lebbeus Woods, Sketchbook (30 July 1995, NYC - 23 May 1998, NYC), 1995; Collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund purchase; © Estate of Lebbeus Woods (2001.153 A-Y)

Announcing: DELECTABLE NEW BLUE BOTTLE TREATS! 

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. Featured here is the 7th page from a sketchbook he worked on in NYC from 1995-1998.

Image: Lebbeus Woods, Sketchbook (30 July 1995, NYC - 23 May 1998, NYC), 1995; Collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund purchase; © Estate of Lebbeus Woods (2001.153 A-Y)

From filmmaker Kerry Laitala’s collection rotation on Open Space:  

Their bodies are fused together as if melting into one another and one of the forms is being carried with lifeless arms and hands that defy normal human symmetry. The crest of foam swirls in the background as though the figures arose from a primordial ocean…

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Image: Raoul Ubac, Untitled (Variation of Les vases communicants), 1937/1980s

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. Featured here is the 6th page from a sketchbook he worked on in NYC from 1995-1998.

Image: Lebbeus Woods, Sketchbook (30 July 1995, NYC - 23 May 1998, NYC), 1995; Collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund purchase; © Estate of Lebbeus Woods (2001.153 A-Y)

Great news! Although tomorrow’s Lebbeus Woods conversation with Thom Mayne and Neil M. Denari is sold out, we’ll be streaming it live from our theater so that as many people as possible can tune in. Watch it tomorrow at 7pm!

Image: Lebbeus Woods, Conflict Space 4, 2006; crayon and acrylic on linen; Collection SFMOMA, purchase through a gift of anonymous donors and the Accessions Committee Fund; © Estate of Lebbeus Woods

Happy President’s Day! To celebrate, may we present this 1918 photograph of 21,000 soldiers standing in the formation of Woodrow Wilson’s face.

Image: Mole & Thomas, Woodrow Wilson (21,000 Officers and Men, Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio), 1918; photograph; Collection SFMOMA, Purchase through a gift of the Alfred William Pye and Mabel Johnston Pye Endowment Fund.

Unlikely as it sounds, former president George W. Bush is apparently a Sunday painter. Several of his works were recently brought to light when a hacker broke into the Bush’s family email account…

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A love letter to Matisse’s La Conversation (The Conversation)

Hafiz says “Art is a conversation between lovers”
You are definitely talking to me. When I see you, there is a little gasp inside me and sometimes when I turn a corner you stop my in my track, and I gasp out loud.
I love you.

See more love letters to works of art and write one yourself!