Great news! Although tomorrow’s Lebbeus Woods conversation with Thom Mayne and Neil M. Denari is sold out, we’ll be streaming it live from our theater so that as many people as possible can tune in. Watch it tomorrow at 7pm!
Image: Lebbeus Woods, Conflict Space 4, 2006; crayon and acrylic on linen; Collection SFMOMA, purchase through a gift of anonymous donors and the Accessions Committee Fund; © Estate of Lebbeus Woods
Posted on Wednesday, February 20th 2013
Happy President’s Day! To celebrate, may we present this 1918 photograph of 21,000 soldiers standing in the formation of Woodrow Wilson’s face.
Image: Mole & Thomas, Woodrow Wilson (21,000 Officers and Men, Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio), 1918; photograph; Collection SFMOMA, Purchase through a gift of the Alfred William Pye and Mabel Johnston Pye Endowment Fund.
Posted on Monday, February 18th 2013
Unlikely as it sounds, former president George W. Bush is apparently a Sunday painter. Several of his works were recently brought to light when a hacker broke into the Bush’s family email account…
Posted on Tuesday, February 12th 2013
A love letter to Matisse’s La Conversation (The Conversation)
Hafiz says “Art is a conversation between lovers”
You are definitely talking to me. When I see you, there is a little gasp inside me and sometimes when I turn a corner you stop my in my track, and I gasp out loud.
I love you.
See more love letters to works of art and write one yourself!
Posted on Saturday, February 9th 2013
A love letter for Glenn Ligon’s Rückenfigur (2009)
Which work of art “so gets you?” Send us a love letter to a work of art and finally let the whole world know about your feelings!
Posted on Thursday, February 7th 2013
Love seeing Duchamp’s Box in a Suitcase getting some attention in our Love Letter to Art Project.
Got a special sweetie in the form of a work of art? Send your art crush a valentine!
Posted on Wednesday, February 6th 2013
In the late 1980s, when museums of contemporary art began to be founded throughout the world, Gertrude Stein’s oft-quoted, yet perhaps apocryphal comment to MoMA founding director Alfred H. Barr Jr. – “You can be a museum, or you can be modern, but you can’t be both” – came back to haunt us. Read more…
Image: Gertrude Stein’s apartment at 27 Rue de Fleurus, Paris, 1920
Posted on Tuesday, February 5th 2013
A love letter for Rachel Whiteread’s Untitled (Fictions).
Are you creative? Join the fun and submit your own love letter to a work of art!
Posted on Tuesday, February 5th 2013
Ever experience love at first sight with a work of art? Tell us about it!
Posted on Friday, February 1st 2013
Today is Inspire Your Heart with Art Day! Just in time for the occasion, we’re bringing back our popular Love Letter to Art Valentine’s Day challenge. So, get out those calligraphy pens and glitter glue – it’s time to get creative!
Submit your Love Letter to Art here.
Need some inspiration? Check out last year’s submissions here!
Posted on Thursday, January 31st 2013
We passed 100,000 followers over the weekend!
Big thanks to you, our fantastic art-loving community – it really means a lot that you’re all here. We also want to give exuberant virtual high fives to all of you who have contributed to our #SubmissionFriday series, which has been successful and awesome only because of your creative talent and willingness to share. So, bravo to you all, and keep the submissions coming!
In some related news, we just went live with a lil’ Tumblr theme makeover. Check it out and let us know, what do you think?
Posted on Monday, January 28th 2013
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