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American Teacher screens tomorrow night at SFMOMA, 7pm.

From our website: Chronicling the lives and sacrifices of four public school teachers, American Teacher highlights an urgent crisis in the American educational system: how little we value our strongest, most committed, and most effective teachers, and the effect that has on how children learn. The documentary tells the deeper story of the teaching profession in America today, and what we can do to invest in it for tomorrow.

Ready for a dose of virtual art? Explore Mark Bradford’s large-scale (yet incredibly detailed) works with this great interactive website.

Ready for a dose of virtual art? Explore Mark Bradford’s large-scale (yet incredibly detailed) works with this great interactive website.

From our conservation department’s artist materials archive: color swatches with paint descriptions for David Cannon Dashiell’s monumental mural, “Queer Mysteries.” 

From our conservation department’s artist materials archive: color swatches with paint descriptions for David Cannon Dashiell’s monumental mural, “Queer Mysteries.” 

Happy 82nd birthday to Jasper Johns! From our website: In the 1950s Jasper Johns developed a distinctive painting style that would help lead American art away from the then-dominant movement of Abstract Expressionism. The exact correspondence of figure and ground in his work challenged the traditional distinction between an object and its depiction. At the same time, variations on each theme dissolved the “natural” link between the symbol and its meaning. Johns thus questioned the basic underpinnings of our representational system, and specifically the mechanisms of fine art. Pictured: Jasper Johns, Flag (1960-1969) 

Happy 82nd birthday to Jasper Johns!

From our website: In the 1950s Jasper Johns developed a distinctive painting style that would help lead American art away from the then-dominant movement of Abstract Expressionism. The exact correspondence of figure and ground in his work challenged the traditional distinction between an object and its depiction. At the same time, variations on each theme dissolved the “natural” link between the symbol and its meaning. Johns thus questioned the basic underpinnings of our representational system, and specifically the mechanisms of fine art.

Pictured: Jasper Johns, Flag (1960-1969) 

Happy 80th birthday Robert Bechtle!  Pictured: Bechtle’s Alameda Gran Torino (1974) From our website: For more than 40 years Robert Bechtle has pursued a quiet realism, working from photographs of familiar subjects to depict precise moments in time. Despite their photographic origins, however, his canvases are resolutely and finally about painting. Underneath the smooth sheen of their surfaces lies a textured web of strokes and dabs, where abstract shapes meet edges to form an intricate, layered view of our environment. Learn more here.

Happy 80th birthday Robert Bechtle! 

Pictured: Bechtle’s Alameda Gran Torino (1974)

From our website: For more than 40 years Robert Bechtle has pursued a quiet realism, working from photographs of familiar subjects to depict precise moments in time. Despite their photographic origins, however, his canvases are resolutely and finally about painting. Underneath the smooth sheen of their surfaces lies a textured web of strokes and dabs, where abstract shapes meet edges to form an intricate, layered view of our environment.

Learn more here.

nyartstudies:

Philip Guston talking about painting

See this video on our website here.

christinacatherine: SFMOMA #3 April 2012 Nice photo taken in our Rooftop Garden.

christinacatherine:

SFMOMA #3

April 2012

Nice photo taken in our Rooftop Garden.

Do you live in the Bay Area? If so, you’re going to want to check out Gerhard Richter Painting at the Roxie, playing tonight through Thursday. Want a pair of free tickets? We have a few to give away. Be one of the first people to send us a message w/ your name + email address to win a pair of ‘em! Pictured: Richter’s Untitled, 1973

Do you live in the Bay Area? If so, you’re going to want to check out Gerhard Richter Painting at the Roxie, playing tonight through Thursday. Want a pair of free tickets? We have a few to give away. Be one of the first people to send us a message w/ your name + email address to win a pair of ‘em!

Pictured: Richter’s Untitled, 1973

To say that I get a kick out of 100 Boots would be to make a bad pun and besides, Antin’s photographic tale of unmanned footwear on the go, beyond being droll and endearing, is unsettling. When I first saw it, its antic clarity moved me almost to tears. Read more on OPEN SPACE Pictured: Eleanor Antin, 100 Boots Trespass, from the series 100 Boots, a set of 51 photo-postcards, 1971

To say that I get a kick out of 100 Boots would be to make a bad pun and besides, Antin’s photographic tale of unmanned footwear on the go, beyond being droll and endearing, is unsettling. When I first saw it, its antic clarity moved me almost to tears.

Read more on OPEN SPACE

Pictured: Eleanor Antin, 100 Boots Trespass, from the series 100 Boots, a set of 51 photo-postcards, 1971

Gerhard Richter Painting opens tonight at the Roxie and runs through May 10! Want to win a pair of tickets to see the film? Create a Tumblr post explaining why and tag it w/ #sfmoma (so we can find it) for a chance to win ‘em!

Gerhard Richter Painting opens tonight at the Roxie and runs through May 10! Want to win a pair of tickets to see the film? Create a Tumblr post explaining why and tag it w/ #sfmoma (so we can find it) for a chance to win ‘em!

HAPPY NO PANTS DAY! The first Friday in May is a day for celebrating the absence of pants. We pulled a few works from our collection that loosely fit that theme. Enjoy! Pictured above: Alphonse Mucha, Untitled (Female Nude), ca. 1899 Martin Venezky, Notes on the West: Dual, 1993 Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #6, 1977  Salvador Dalí, Oedipus Complex, 1930  Paul Sarkisian, Untitled (Waynesboro, PA.), 1969  Rineke Dijkstra, Odessa, Ukraine, August 11, 1993, 1993 Martin Kippenberger, 9 Gründe, die Preise zu erhöhen (9 Reasons for Raising Prices), from the…, 1987 Joan Brown, Woman Wearing Mask, 1972 Unknown, Untitled [Man and woman posing with a prop], ca. 1930s-1940s Paul Klee, Zwei Männer, einander in höherer Stellung vermutend, begegnen sich…, 1903 Christos Marcopoulos and Carol Moukheiber, Mirror House, from the Domestic Research series, 1998-1999 John Coplans, Self-Portrait: Back Torso from Below and Variation, ca. 1985

HAPPY NO PANTS DAY! The first Friday in May is a day for celebrating the absence of pants. We pulled a few works from our collection that loosely fit that theme. Enjoy!

Pictured above: Alphonse Mucha, Untitled (Female Nude), ca. 1899

Martin Venezky, Notes on the West: Dual, 1993

Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #6, 1977 

Salvador Dalí, Oedipus Complex, 1930 

Paul Sarkisian, Untitled (Waynesboro, PA.), 1969 

Rineke Dijkstra, Odessa, Ukraine, August 11, 1993, 1993

Martin Kippenberger, 9 Gründe, die Preise zu erhöhen (9 Reasons for Raising Prices), from the…, 1987

Joan Brown, Woman Wearing Mask, 1972

Unknown, Untitled [Man and woman posing with a prop], ca. 1930s-1940s

Paul Klee, Zwei Männer, einander in höherer Stellung vermutend, begegnen sich…, 1903


Christos Marcopoulos and Carol Moukheiber, Mirror House, from the Domestic Research series, 1998-1999

John Coplans, Self-Portrait: Back Torso from Below and Variation, ca. 1985



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