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SFMOMA

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


Tel. +1 415.357.4000
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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 ...........

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 ...........

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
SECA Award Winners at the SFMOMA Image
SECA Award Winners at the SFMOMA
Passing on the Baton
By Nirmala Nataraj (02/18/2005)

" The 2004 Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) Awards portend a shift in modern art -- from the sweeping, dramatic debacles so many of us associate with "modern art" to a subtle, softer, and perhaps more complex, representation of the uncertainty that serves as a book end to the modern experience. Currently on exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The SECA Award Exhibit, a biennial juried show that honors local artists, features works by Rosana Castrillo Diaz, Simon Evans, Shaun O'Dell, and Josephine Taylor. "

Editorial Review
Weathering Winter Image
Weathering Winter
Brrrrr…It's Cold Outside
By grace chen (01/28/2005)

" Weak -- that's me as I complain about our "winter". Try shivering lows in the 50's (I keep my apartment at a round 80 degrees). Worse, if the Groundhog sees its shadow on February 2nd, we may not only see more days of winter but also freezing temperatures that drop as low as the 40's! "

Editorial Review
William Eggleston: Los Alamos Image
William Eggleston: Los Alamos
Everywhere is Anywhere
By Maureen Hanratty (08/28/2004)

" William Eggleston: Los Alamos at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a small gem of a show and required viewing for any serious student of photography. The dye transfer prints featured in the exhibit are from a recently rediscovered series of eighty-eight photographs taken by the artist in the mid-sixties to mid-seventies in Memphis, Tennessee and from a series of road trips through the American South. Considered by many to be the "father of color photography," Eggleston's saturated, snapshot-style photographs of automobiles, storefronts, and parking lots are beautiful yet wholly unromantic portraits of ordinary American life. "

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