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SFMOMA

151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94103 map
cross street: between Mission & Howard
district: Soma


Tel. 415-357-4000
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Events Calendar
Sat Jan 26 - Sun Jun 15
Italian photographer Gabriele Basilico creates beautiful, often haunting portraits of urban environments that favor areas of transition and transformation. His pictures are marked by an eerie stillness — and a notable absence of people — that propels... More
Fri Feb 08 - Sun Jun 08
This dynamic selection drawn from the SFMOMA collection highlights the vital architectural concept of the section, a cross section of a building or object that illustrates spatial adjacencies and discontinuities. Works on view include architectural d... More
Sat Feb 23 - Sun May 18
Among photography's most prolific practitioners, Lee Friedlander is also heralded as one of the United States' finest. This retrospective assembles the most comprehensive array of Friedlander's work to date — nearly 400 pictures spanning the 1950s to... More
Sat Mar 22 - Sun Jun 08
One of the first U.S. museums to embrace time-based media artworks, SFMOMA boasts a dynamic collection that spans the history of the genre. This exhibition brings together a number of pioneering works created in the 1970s — a particularly rich period... More
Fri Mar 28 - Sun Jun 22
The latest installment in the New Work series debuts Los Angeles-based Paul Sietsema's most recent body of work, which includes sculptures, drawings, and a 16mm film. A conceptually driven artist, Sietsema uses a broad range of technical processes, m... More
Thu Apr 24 - Sun Jul 20
It would be hard to overestimate the significance of the Elise S. Haas collection for SFMOMA. Made up of some 35 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, this group of stunning early modernist works highlights especially the art of Henri Matisse an... More
Sat Jun 14 - Sun Sep 28
Exhibit showcases 50 paintings from the beginning of Frida Kahlo's career in 1926 to her death in 1954. Mexican artist Frida Kahlo began painting in 1926, while recovering from a near-fatal bus accident, and soon became captivated by the medium's ... More
Tue Jul 01 - Sun Sep 21
Exhibit showcases the greatest photographs, some never seen before, of Lee Miller and her unconventional life.... More
Thu Jul 10 - Sun Oct 05
Exhibit contains 50 paintings, sculptures and installations that explores the transition of art since the post-Mao era.... More
Thu Jul 10 - Sun Oct 05
Computer-generated video installations by Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer.... More
Thu Sep 18 - Sun Jan 04
Exhibit juxtaposes video works by Olivo Barbieri and Stephen Dean.... More

About SFMOMA

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a private, not-for-profit institution supported by its members, individual contributors to Donor Circle, corporate and foundation support, federal and state government grants and admission revenues. Annual programming is sustained through the generosity of Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund and The James Irvine Foundation. Thursday evening half-priced admission is sponsored by Banana Republic. Reduced admission for seniors is sponsored by Pacific Bell. KidstART free admission for children twelve and under is made possible by The Charles Schwab Corporation Foundation.

SFMOMA is easily accessible by MUNI, BART, Golden Gate Transit, SamTrans and Caltrain. Hourly, daily and monthly parking is available at the SFMOMA Garage at 147 Minna Street. For parking information, call 415.348.0971.

ONGOING EXHIBITION
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SFMOMA's world-renowned photography collection includes pictures from the mid-1800s to the present. The current presentation includes a special selection of works by Bay Area photographer and San Francisco State University professor John Gutmann (1905-1998) on the centennial of his birth. A German-born artist who fled the Nazi regime for the United States in 1933, Gutmann intended his photographs as documents of the exotic American culture he saw around him, but they reflect his surrealist tendencies and poetic leanings, as well. Also on view are more than 50 recent acquisitions, pictures that have never been shown at SFMOMA.

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Matisse and Beyond: The Painting and Sculpture Collection

Representing movements ranging from Fauvism and Cubism to Pop art and Minimalism, SFMOMA's modern art holdings include paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by some of the 20th century's most celebrated artists. The selection currently on view features works by Josef Albers, Vija Celmins, Bruce Conner, Marcel Duchamp, Philip Guston, Frida Kahlo, Yves Klein, Joan Mitchell, Piet Mondrian, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Diego Rivera, Charles Sheeler, and Wayne Thiebaud.


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Between Art and Life: The Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Collection

In 1959 Robert Rauschenberg said, "Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in that gap between the two.)" This presentation of the SFMOMA collection is organized around this philosophy. With works from the last five decades, the exhibition emphasizes special concentrations within SFMOMA's contemporary holdings and includes works by Olafur Eliasson, Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons, Julie Mehretu, Marilyn Minter, Chris Ofili, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Doris Salcedo, Rachel Whiteread, and Christopher Wool. As part of the exhibition, an audio/video walk by artist Janet Cardiff is also available at the information desk in the Haas Atrium.


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The Art of Design: The Architecture and Design Collection

SFMOMA's growing architecture and design collection focuses on the areas of architecture, industrial design, and graphic design and features both historical and contemporary works. This broad survey ranges from well-known classics to works by emerging designers, highlighting the collection's strengths in experimental architecture, digital design, and Bay Area innovation. A selection of mid-century modern furnishings designed by Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, and Isamu Noguchi for American furniture manufacturer Herman Miller complements the exhibition Alexander Girard: Vibrant Modern.



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Picturing Modernity: The Photography Collection

The exhibition will be temporarily closed November 13 to 17, with a new rotation of works opening November 18.

SFMOMA's world-renowned photography collection includes pictures from the mid-1800s to the present that capture key moments in the development of the medium and reflect a wide range of practices. Among the highlights of the new installation are a selection of European modernist photographs from the 1920s and 1930s from the Prentice and Paul Sack Photographic Trust and several works by contemporary photographers such as Mitch Epstein.


PUBLIC TOURS
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Ongoing
Spotlight Tours
Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays: Noon - 12:30 p.m.
Meet in the Haas Atrium.
These innovative noontime tours bring artists' voices directly to visitors, beginning with a short video clip of a featured artist, then moving into the galleries for viewing and discussion.

Free with Museum admission.

In conjunction with Matisse and Beyond

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Ongoing
Daily Tours
Daily (except Wednesdays): 11:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m.
Thursday evenings: 6:15 p.m., 7:15 p.m.
Meet in the Haas Atrium
Topics change daily for these free tours led by SFMOMA docents.

Free with Museum admission.

In conjunction with The Art of Richard Tuttle

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AUDIO TOURS
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Ongoing
SFMOMA Collection Highlights
Available daily
In addition to information spotlighting photographs, paintings, and sculptures in the SFMOMA collection, this audio guide includes the musical tour A Few Notes on Modern Art, an exploration of the connections between 20th-century art and music.

$3 general. In English or Spanish. Recommended for ages 10 and up.

In conjunction with Matisse and Beyond
Also in conjunction with Picturing Modernity


Hours
Sunday: 10 am - 6 pm
Monday: 10 am - 6 pm
Tuesday: 10 am - 6 pm
Wednesday: closed
Thursday: 10 am - 9 pm
Friday: 10 am - 6 pm
Saturday: 10 am - 6 pm
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Editorial Review
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Beyond Real at SF MOMA
Surrealist Photography and Sculpture
By Aimee Le Duc (04/07/2006)

" Andre Breton defined surrealism as, "psychic automatism in its pure state, by which on purposes to express, verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner -- the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern." It's important to carry a working definition of surrealism around with you while navigating through the seemingly never-ending SFMOMA exhibition, Beyond Real: Surrealist Photography and Sculpture from Bay Area Collections. "

Editorial Review
1906 Earthquake at SFMOMA Image
1906 Earthquake at SFMOMA
Commemorating San Francisco's Big One
By Nirmala Nataraj (02/03/2006)

" Those of us who were in the Bay Area for the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake are accustomed to the fear-addled curiosity of out-of-towners. Earthquakes are the most unimaginable of natural disasters for most people because of their sheer unpredictability -- but being so close to Earthquake Central, we often forget the devastating impact of some of history's major calamities. "

Editorial Review
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Richard Tuttle @ SFMOMA
The Hardest-Working Man In The Art World
By Maureen Hanratty (07/08/2005)

" The exhibit of approximately 300 pieces spanning the forty plus years of Richard Tuttle's artistic output begins with a group of twelve paper octagonals pasted directly to the wall. Barely perceptible they teeter on the edge of being and nothingness. Richard Tuttle is not a master craftsmen or virtuoso painter. He wills his works into being. His personality can be felt in each one of his pieces. It's a quality that separates him from so many of his peers and the reason why The Art of Richard Tuttle will be enjoyed by a broad-range of museum visitors. "

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