Throughout his career, Jasper Johns has created over 180 works with numbers as their primary subject. 

“By detaching numerical signs from their usual context, Johns focuses on their essence both as familiar signposts that permeate contemporary life and as potently charged entities embedded in memory.” - Roberta Bernstein

Image: Installation view, Jasper Johns: Seeing with the Mind’s Eye.

ATTENTION WET SAN FRANCISCANS! You know what tastes awesome when it’s raining? Hot chicken soup and arepas! TODAY from 11:30am-1:30pm our Schwab room will be open to any and all lunch-eaters looking for a cozy place to appreciate good food + art. Come join the fun at our Pop-Up Lunch!

(Colombian food not your thing? Feel free to BYO lunch!)

sfmomacrowd:

What’s it called and where is it?

The GLBT History Museum at 4127 18th St. in San Francisco’s Castro District. More details: www.glbthistory.org.

Who goes there?

Bay Area locals and visitors from around the world. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in search of their heritage — and LGBT-friendly people eager to discover the queer history and culture of San Francisco.

How does it work?

The museum’s Front Gallery often presents the work of photographers who document LGBT history and artists inspired by LGBT history.

Why is it important?

The museum provides an amazing window into 100 years of the San Francisco’s vast queer past.

Thanks to the terrific folks at the GLBT History Museum for participating in our crowd-sourced Tumblr project :)

You can submit a post about your own Art MicroHub here.

Some things never change :)

Below: Pirkle Jones, Log and Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, from Portfolio Two…, 1952; ca. 1968

Have you seen the New York Times’s Profile in Style on Barry McGee? If not, check it out NOW! It shows peeks inside of the artist’s home, plus a shot of him surfing.

Pictured: McGee wears a shirt by J. Crew and a sweater by Thom Browne

installator:

“The Acrobatic Sculptures of the Rooftop Garden”. Alexander Calder’s “Man” being installed at SFMOMA

Sometimes, we like to fly our sculptures through the San Francisco skyline, just to create great photo ops. (Well, we actually have to move these very heavy sculptures this way, but it makes for a great photo op nonetheless!) See more pics here.

This morning we announced plans for extensive off-site programming to begin next summer, and continue throughout our expansion’s construction period.

One of the things we’re trying to do here,” SFMOMA director Neal Benezra said, “is create an SFMOMA that is more generous and engaged with the public than most contemporary art museums are. I think most of them tend to speak more to each other than to the public. So we wrote a strategic plan last year for an institution that’s more accessible and welcoming to the community.

(via SFGate)

Pictured: The proposed addition to SFMOMA designed by Snøhetta

blurrybutilikeit:

A wee close-up of the newly acquired Arneson @sfmoma on Flickr.

Nice close-up of the pedestal on Robert Arneson’s “Portrait of George (Moscone),” the vital and once-controversial sculpture that we acquired last week. Learn the story here.

Check out the Chronicle’s coverage of our acquisition of Robert Arneson’s Portrait of George (Moscone).

Pictured: Robert Arneson with his sculpture of late S.F. Mayor George Moscone, which had been owned by a private collector.

Gabriele Basilico, San Francisco, 2007, 2007; digital pigment print; Collection SFMOMA

via Open Space