“She had few boundaries and made art out of nothing: empty rooms with peeling wallpaper and just her figure. No elaborate stage set-up or lights. Her process struck me more the way a painter works, making do with what’s right in front of her, rather than photographers like myself who need time to plan out what they’re going to do.” —Cindy Sherman on Francesca Woodman

After a successful run at the SFMOMA, the Francesca Woodman show opens today at The Guggenheim here in New York. While a lot of attention is being given these days (and rightly so) to the artist, Cindy Sherman, who has a major retrospective at the MoMA, I am predicting that attendance to see Francesca Woodman at the The Guggenheim will exceed all expectations. And most importantly, it will introduce and inspire a new generation to her transformative work.

Also worth noting, the documentary film The Woodmans (2011) provides a fascinating insight into her work, her family and her life. It is essential viewing for anyone interested in discovering more about this young, ambitious, and ultimately tragic artist. —Lane Nevares

Posted on Friday, March 16th 2012

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Jason Munn’s Artist Series Posters representin’ at SXSW!

(via Instagram)

Posted on Thursday, March 15th 2012

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Music Video for Techno by Coconut

Cocunut will be playing tonight at SFMOMA for Now Playing!

Posted on Thursday, March 15th 2012

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(via “The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area” at SFMOMA | Artinfo)

Posted on Tuesday, March 13th 2012

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Mark Bradford’s abstractions unite high art and popular culture as unorthodox tableaux of unequivocal beauty.

(via Mark Bradford - The Devil is Beating his Wife)

Posted on Tuesday, March 13th 2012

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Two photographers focus lens on the Mexican elite in new SFMOMA exhibit

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“Purse,” from the series Maria Elvia de Hank, 2009; Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Courtesy Yvonne Venegas)

Two Mexican photographers, Daniela Rossell and Yvonne Venegas, have made significant strides in steering Mexican photography in a new direction - from focusing on poverty and indigenous communities into the secret world of the Mexican elite. Their work is now featured in a new exhibit, from March 10 through July 8, 2012, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), called Photography in Mexico: Selected Works from the Collections of SFMOMA and Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser.

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