radicalsnails:

On exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This is one of the most beautiful paintings I have come across in the art world.

Diego Rivera’s The Flower Carrier [formerly The Flower Vendor] (1935), part of our permanent collection.

deszczowe-dni:

Hiroshi Sugimoto - ‘Gemsbok’. 1982
(via SFMOMA)

Our curators and conservators are hard at work producing an amazingly comprehensive online scholarly catalog to complement our Robert Rauschenberg collection. The Rauschenberg Research Project, part of the Getty Foundation’s Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative, is scheduled to go live in 2012, and will include essays, conservation research, an abundance of images/multimedia features, and more. 

Ever wonder what the back of Raushenberg’s Untitled [glossy black painting] looks like? The answer may surprise you… click here to learn more about this mystery!

More people looking at Rothko.

pioneer-boy:

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)

We will pretty much reblog any photo you take of people looking at Rothko. It never gets old!

pioneer-boy:

Coffee Break at the MOMA

Dang, you went all out! Thiebaud Cake, Mondrian cake, Cindy Sherman float… yum.

inspirationcocoa:

#create #cali #sfmoma (Taken with Instagram)

Nice detail of the back of Robert Arneson’s California Artist!

In 1952 Chris Marker made his 1st film, “Olympia 52,” a 16mm feature documentary about the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games. Today for Free Tuesday, we’re celebrating the life and legacy of Marker with a 12pm screening of his influential “La Jetée,” which is considered to be one of the most beautiful films of all time. 

Image: courtesy New Yorker Films/Photofest © New Yorker Films

New on Open Space: Tess Thackara writes on Patty Hearst’s Speech Acts, which is now on view as part of Stage Presence: Theatricality in Art and Media.

Excerpt:

“Mum, Dad, tell the poor and oppressed people of this nation what the corporate state is about to do…That they’re about to be murdered…Tell the people that the energy crisis is nothing more than a means to get public approval for a massive program to build nuclear power plants all over the nation… Tell them, Dad, that the removal of unneeded people has already started.”

So goes the fourth audiotape in the famous series of recordings of Patty Hearst aired on public radio during her kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) in 1974.

Read the full post here.

Pictured: Sharon Hayes, Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) Screeds #13, 16, 20 & 29 (still), 2003; four-channel video installation with sound; courtesy the artist and Tanya Leighton, Berlin; © Sharon Hayes

Pop artist and cultural icon Andy Warhol was born 84 years ago today!

Pictured: Warhol’s A Set of Six Self-Portraits (1967)

Do you have a favorite work by Warhol?