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    The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. – Julia Margaret Cameron, born on this day in 1815. Cameron didn’t pick up a camera until she was 48 years old, but that didn’t stop her from having an impact on the history of photography. “From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour,” she wrote, “and it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and memory and creative vigour.”Image: Julia Margaret Cameron, “Mrs. Herbert Duckworth” (1867)

    The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. – Julia Margaret Cameron, born on this day in 1815. 

    Cameron didn’t pick up a camera until she was 48 years old, but that didn’t stop her from having an impact on the history of photography. “From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour,” she wrote, “and it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and memory and creative vigour.”

    Image: Julia Margaret Cameron, “Mrs. Herbert Duckworth” (1867)

    Posted on Tuesday, June 11th 2013

    Tags portrait vintage photography Julia Margaret Cameron history art history sfmoma

    On Sunday, June 2, we exited our current building to make way for expansion construction. Led by artist Desirée Holman, we marched from the rooftop to the atrium, then out of the museum for a group hug around the footprint of our future building. See you soon, 2016! (To see all the photos, go HERE!)

    On Sunday, June 2, we exited our current building to make way for expansion construction. Led by artist Desirée Holman, we marched from the rooftop to the atrium, then out of the museum for a group hug around the footprint of our future building. See you soon, 2016!

    (To see all the photos, go HERE!)

    Posted on Monday, June 3rd 2013

    Tags countdown celebration sfmomago sfmoma museum expansion

    NOW LIVE! SFMOMA Future Countdown Live, streaming from our rooftop as part of our Countdown Celebration!

    Posted on Saturday, June 1st 2013

    Tags sfmomago sfmoma countdown celebration livestream KQED

    justinkeena: It’s like waiting for a concert to get into the SFMOMA today! Three block lines an hour before it opens. Should’ve sidewalk camped it last night. #sfmoma #museum #art #exploremore (at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) Although waiting in line is never the most fun, this warms our heart. Thank you to everyone who has come out this weekend! We’re feeling very happy to see such a supportive community coming to celebrate our launch into the future :)

    justinkeena:

    It’s like waiting for a concert to get into the SFMOMA today! Three block lines an hour before it opens. Should’ve sidewalk camped it last night. #sfmoma #museum #art #exploremore (at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)

    Although waiting in line is never the most fun, this warms our heart. Thank you to everyone who has come out this weekend! We’re feeling very happy to see such a supportive community coming to celebrate our launch into the future :)

    Posted on Saturday, June 1st 2013

    Tags countdown celebration sfmomago sfmoma expansion futuresfmoma

    Reblogged from KEENAphoto

    kadist: Desirée Holman, Channeling Aura 1, 2012. Gouache on paper, 30” x 22”. Tomorrow kicks off a four-day celebration at SFMOMA that will kick-off their expansion and launch their off-site programs. The weekend will culminate with a Farewell Processional on Sunday. Desirée Holman will conduct a series of movements that bridge our present potential to our future tense. Drawing on eccentric histories of time and space, from New Age culture and extraterrestrial encounter to paranormal powers, Holman mobilizes extraordinary characters, costumes, and objects that can make the museum’s and our own futures happen now. Help us bid adieu to our building by joining the processional as it winds its way from the museum’s rooftop down to the atrium and into the world outside. For more information about this weekend’s festivities visit: Countdown Celebration. RSVP FOR/PARTICIPATE IN OUR FAREWELL PROCESSIONAL ON SUNDAY!

    kadist:

    Desirée Holman, Channeling Aura 1, 2012. Gouache on paper, 30” x 22”.

    Tomorrow kicks off a four-day celebration at SFMOMA that will kick-off their expansion and launch their off-site programs.

    The weekend will culminate with a Farewell Processional on Sunday. Desirée Holman will conduct a series of movements that bridge our present potential to our future tense. Drawing on eccentric histories of time and space, from New Age culture and extraterrestrial encounter to paranormal powers, Holman mobilizes extraordinary characters, costumes, and objects that can make the museum’s and our own futures happen now. Help us bid adieu to our building by joining the processional as it winds its way from the museum’s rooftop down to the atrium and into the world outside.

    For more information about this weekend’s festivities visit: Countdown Celebration.

    RSVP FOR/PARTICIPATE IN OUR FAREWELL PROCESSIONAL ON SUNDAY!

    Posted on Thursday, May 30th 2013

    Tags countdown celebration sfmoma sfmomago

    Reblogged from KADIST