Celebrate your successful immersion back into regular post-holiday life with a delightful Pop-Up Lunch Break at SFMOMA (151 Third Street) today. For two hours (11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.), the museum will be transformed into a neighborhood lunch break room, highlighting the final weeks of the Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break exhibition, which contemplates workers' activities during their lunch breaks through film, photography, and writing. more ›

You can't swing a cat without hitting a Gertrude Stein happening in this city. The Summer of Stein sprouted two exhibits about the queer icon (and her family) at the Contemporary Jewish Museum and the SFMOMA; and now an opera production at the Yerba Buena Novellus Theater of the Gertrude Stein/Virgil Thomson collaboration, Four Saints in Three Acts, performed by the Ensemble Parallele team. more ›

SFMOMA announced in a press release this afternoon that it has received an unprecedented number of promised gifts of art from nine leading Bay Area collectors as part of a donor-lead campaign to strengthen the museum's collection. 195 works from artists as diverse as Cy Twombly, Cindy Sherman, Jackson Pollock, Jeff Koons and Richard Tuttle will now be become part of the museum's permanent holdings. more ›

Today, Jan. 5th, is National Bird Day. Chirp. In honor of National Bird Day, SFMOMA made a little video using a Felix Gonzalez-Torres' poster. Delightful. more ›

SFist is super excited to see the upcoming Henri-Cartier Bresson exhibit at SFMOMA, which opens on October 30 and runs through January 30 -- we'll be hitting the museum's First Tuesday next month. more ›

SFMOMA is having a fun contest today, in which three people will win a bag of artwork by Chris Sollars, who was SFMOMA's One Day Artist in Residence last month. Head over to the museum at 4 p.m. and find Chris Sollars wearing the same striped shirt in front of the same painting in the photograph at left, and ask him for a coat check ticket. The first three people to do so will win their bounty from the coat check. Get more details over at SFMOMA. more ›

SFMOMA Artist Gallery's epic, four-and-a-half day-long 17th Annual Artists Warehouse Sale starts tonight with a special preview reception, for those wanting a leg up. You'll also have a chance to beat the weekend crowd tomorrow and Friday afternoon/evening. more ›

"Artful looks on a non-profit budget"? Artful perhaps, but certainly not cheap. You can't fool us, Chron! more ›

Meatpaper and Blue Bottle Coffee are joining forces to open SFMOMA’s third Thursday springtime event series, SFMOMA: Now Playing. more ›

Via SFMOMA: "What a beautiful weekend in SF! The kind of weather that makes you want to visit a Rooftop Garden and celebrate Piet Mondrian's 138th birthday while having a delicious piece of Mondrian cake at Blue Bottle." [Sound delightful! -- SFist] more ›

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art began its 75th anniversary celebration this weekend. Each department mined its archives and scoured through new work to present shows that would represent the museum’s impact... more ›

This weekend is the official 75th anniversary celebration of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The party starts on Saturday at 11 a.m... more ›

This year, SFMOMA celebrates its 75th anniversary. In honor of such a grand milestone, according to 7x7, "the St. Regis has rolled out two limited edition MOMA suites and a MOMA Anniversary Travel Package, which lasts the duration of 2010." Said packages involve hotel rooms with real works prints from the museum's "75 Years of Looking Forward" series -- most notably Heni Matisse and Jackson Pollock (the latter, some might argue, being a superior and more important American artist than soup can-happy Andy Warhol). more ›

This is another NSFV (Not Safe for Vegans) post, so consider yourselves warned. SF Weekly food blogger Meredith Brody snapped the pic at right of a whole steer that spit roasted and then butchered before an audience at a event Saturday night celebrating a week of events at the museum focusing on Futurism. We, ourselves, are simultaneously grossed out and drooling over the photo and this write-up by Brody, which describes how the meat slices were sent onto a conveyor belt around the room, slathered in mole, and served atop Tartine bread along with a bunch of yummy cocktails. more ›

The folks at SFMOMA invite the public to participate in their weekly Sketch Fridays, which is geared toward facilitating an exchange between the community and the museum in the creation of "visual guestbooks." The group meets every Friday at 2 p.m., and guests of all levels are encouraged to attend, from children to professional artists. more ›

On Saturday, the first major retrospective of the photographs of Richard Avedon since his death in 2004 opens at SFMOMA. San Francisco is the only U.S. stop on the tour for this show, and Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004 focuses primarily on the artist as portrait photographer, featuring some of his best-known portraits including Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Marilyn Monroe, Bjork and William S. Burroughs. We saw a preview of the show yesterday, and it's both a gorgeous collection of images as well as a moving document of the faces of the late 20th Century. more ›

With July 4th fast approaching, there might be no better way to express -- and examine -- your patriotism than a visit to SFMOMA to see Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans", the Swiss photographer's profound and path-breaking look at our fair nation. more ›

In celebration of Mother's Day on Sunday, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is offering free admission to the opening of their new Rooftop Sculpture Garden. The Rooftop Garden features two open-air spaces and a glass pavilion with views of both the San Francisco skyline and the museum's sculptural works. more ›

The 16th Annual SFMOMA Artists Warehouse Sale at Fort Mason starts tonight with a special preview event for those who want first dibs on the goods. more ›

It may not be the best moment to be celebrating the blind indulgence of American consumer (and drug) culture, but fashion designer Ken Courtney of Ju$t Another Rich Kid is nonetheless forging ahead with an ironic tribute to everyone who enjoys the booger sugar: a limited edition set of silver and gold coke spoons crafted by five well known designers. The set is a kind of art object titled "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not." and each spoon in the set was designed by a different designer: Courtney himself, Terence Koh, Various Projects, Daniel Jackson and SF's own Nice Collective. Courtney's original spoon, inspired by a 1970s McDonald's coffee stirrer that was banned, allegedly, because of its popularity for use in snorting cocaine - link NSFW - was recently purchased by the SFMoMA for their design collection. It was part of a series called "Indulgences" which included a $5,000 pair of gold-dipped high-top Nikes. more ›

For the next year, patrons and passersby can enjoy Kerry James Marshall's monumental mural exhibit in SFMOMA's Evelyn and Walter Haas Atrium. Marshall depicts the rarely represented slaves who inhabited Monticello and Mount Vernon through a vibrant connect-the-dots theme, encouraging us all to re-write history together. At the press preview, Marshall pointed out that the two Founding Fathers are still relevant today -- books are still being written about them, and therefore, we can continue discovering the whole truth about our collective history. "There's always a way to talk about it," Marshall explained. more ›

God, this story needs to die. more ›

"Simon Blint, Director of Visitor Relations at the SFMOMA is a first rate asshole." more ›

Saturday:We're hitting the San Francisco Peoples’ Organization “Auctions Off Downtown" event at 111 Minna. There'll be live music, film screenings, and the aforementioned auction with Matt Gonzalez taking the auctioneer's podium. This we've got to see! It all starts at 7:30. more ›

You may want to metaphorically brace yourself under a solid table (and not in a doorjamb, for crying out loud!) -- 2006 is not only the year of the Congressional midterm elections, but also the 100th anniversary of the Great San Francisco Quake and Fire (April 18, 1906). (Dude, they had orders to shoot to kill looters back then! Gavin better not try any of that!) To kick off the centennial, two local art museums are now featuring 1906 earthquake themed shows -- the SF MOMA is featuring historic photographs of the disaster, along with (starting in March) films from the Library of Congress of the quake itself, and panel discussions about the commemoration of disasters through photography. Meanwhile, the Legion of Honor is sponsoring the show "After the Ruins: Rephotographing the San Francisco Quake And Fire," where photographer Mark Klett has visited sites of famous 1906 photographs and reshot them as they are today: so there's shots of Union Square, the Presidio, Dolores Park, and (as seen above) the Ferry Building, then and now. And before you ask -- yes, both the SFMOMA and the Legion of Honor are seismically sound. Composite photograph of Ferry Building from 1906 and 2006 from the Legion of Honor website more ›