Arts & Entertainment Most SF Museums Will Be Free the First Weekend In December, Thanks to Anonymous Donors 21 museums across San Francisco will be open to the public free of charge on the weekend of December 3, thanks to some generous, anonymous patrons of the arts who are underwriting the weekend.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: SFMOMA's Soapbox Derby Makes Glorious Return to McLaren Park for First Time Since 1978 Thousands of onlookers gathered along John F. Shelley drive Sunday afternoon to watch a parade of soapbox derby cars descend down the steep road. And while most of the rickety race cars crossed the finish line without much of a hiccup, the day's race included a few epic wipeouts.
Arts & Entertainment This Weekend, SFMOMA Revives Its Artists' Soapbox Derby For the First Time Since 1978 SFMOMA is putting on a fun-for-the-people event in McLaren Park that was first and last held in the 1970s, and it's all about artists creating kooky contraptions in which to roll down a hill.
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Has Hired Another White Guy as Director, But One With a Proven Commitment to Diversity in Art A year after Neal Benezra's announcement that he would step down as director of SFMOMA, the museum's search committee has selected his replacement: Christopher Bedford, the current director of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Arts & Entertainment Legendary California Painter Wayne Thiebaud Has Died at 101 Thiebaud’s paintings of cakes, pinball machines, and cityscapes have fetched up to $40 million, and the painter who passed away on Christmas Day.
Arts & Entertainment Enormous Diego Rivera Fresco Moved From City College to SFMOMA, Goes On Display Next Week A 74-foot-wide, 10-panel fresco painted by Diego Rivera for the 1940 Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island, which has lived in a theater building at City College since the early 1960s, has just been *very* carefully relocated to SFMOMA ahead of a big Rivera retrospective.
Arts & Entertainment Sign Up For Entry Slots For SFMOMA's Upcoming Free Days SFMOMA has scheduled three upcoming days for free museum-going, and given the general public's ravenous hunger for in-person culture, you'd best sign up for a reserved entry slot or risk standing in a terrible line.
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Reopens This Weekend With Pandemic-Themed Exhibit; deYoung Reopens With 'Calder-Picasso' San Francisco's two biggest art museums reopen this weekend after three-month closures, as the city moves into the "Red" tier allowing for 25% capacity at museums.
SF News SFMOMA Director Steps Down Amid Race Scandals and Financial Turmoil, Insists it Has Nothing To Do With That SFMOMA director Neal Benezra had 18 good years, and one pretty bad one, but will stick around long enough to pick his successor.
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Set To Reopen Next Week With New Large-Scale Wall Projects, Pandemic-Inspired Artwork Many of San Francisco's notable art hubs — like the de Young Museum and Asian Art Museum — opened this week at 25 percent capacity. And SFMOMA, too, is set to open its doors on October 1, revealing a new indoor mural and a timely collection featuring Bay Area artists’ responses to the pandemic.
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Senior Curator Resigns Following Uproar Over Comment About White Artists Yet another management figure at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has resigned amid roiling controversy among the museum's staff over race and representation.
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Executive Steps Down After Instagram Institutional Racism Incident A hollow, corporate Black Lives Matter post on SFMOMA’s Instagram drew a critical comment from an ex-employee, setting off a month of escalating drama and critiques of the museum’s mostly white executive culture.
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA’s ‘An American Project' Showcases the Work Of Photographer Dawoud Bey The career of Dawoud Bey — an American photographer famous for highlighting black subjects and African-American history — is the focal point of SFMOMA’s newest retrospective, ‘Dawoud Bey: An American Project,’ which includes his early portraits of Harlem residents and much more.
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Sells Rothko Painting To Fund Purchase Of 11 Works By Women And Minorities The museum used the proceeds from the sale of a single 1960 work by Mark Rothko to fund the purchase of 11 works by 10 modern and contemporary artists who are not white men, in a strategic effort to diversify the permanent collection.
Arts & Entertainment Go See This Thing: The Stunning New 100-Foot-Wide Digital Mural Of San Francisco At SFMOMA French artist JR, in his first major San Francisco commission, has created a contemporary piece reflecting everyday San Francisco life that's moving, beautiful, and staggering on many levels.
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Debuts New Animated, Digital Mural In Lobby That Housed Serra Piece On Thursday, the day after SFMOMA's big Art Bash, there will be a public unveiling of the newly installed digital mural piece by French artist JR titled "The Chronicles of San Francisco."
Arts & Entertainment Video: SFMOMA Installs Largest Painting In Its History Now hanging, as of Wednesday, in SFMOMA's Third Street atrium a.k.a. the museum's former main entrance is a monumental abstract painting by artist and MacArthur "genius" grant recipient Julie Mehretu that
Arts & Entertainment Matisse/Diebenkorn Closing Soon At SFMOMA This month is your last chance to catch Matisse/Diebenkorn, the gorgeous special exhibition at SFMOMA that closes on May 29. The show’s striking beauty and unexpected connections make it a must-see
Arts & Entertainment Photographer Michael Jang Watched The SF Punk Scene Blossom, And Now He's Selling Photos Of It For $20 Well respected SF-based photographer Michael Jang already has plenty of his work in museums, including the permanent collection of SFMOMA, and this year he's been pulling some work out of his own vault
Arts & Entertainment Your Adventure Awaits At SFMOMA's Birthday Bash Hey San Francisco: you're invited to the absolute best birthday party in town. (Actually, maybe it's the second best after counting your own lucky day, because gifts and free drinks, right?) On April
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: This Art Is Crap A months-old feces smear — or should we call it a fresco? — on a block of Russian Hill is now a work of public art thanks to a small museum-style label, likely placed there
SF News Text This Number, And SFMOMA Will Send You Images From Its Collection By Keyword A new image search function created by SFMOMA makes Google image search look like a service for philistines. Art enthusiasts with some free time on their hands and no one to text are
Arts & Entertainment Solange Will Grace SFMOMA's Birthday Bash In April Her sister Beyonce headlines venues like Levi's Stadium, but Solange is apparently more at home in a museum setting. A year ago in April, SFMOMA threw open its doors to show off the
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA To Honor Ghost Ship Fire Victims With Offer Three Hours Of Free Admission Tonight In recognition of the #OaklandFire tragedy, SFMOMA will be free tomorrow from 6-9pm. Come reflect, mourn, and heal with those you love. pic.twitter.com/EWU4mgmsel— SFMOMA (@SFMOMA) December 7, 2016 The recently-revamped
Arts & Entertainment Cosplayers Descend On SFMOMA, Paint The Place Red Way more smartphone pictures than usual were snapped on Sunday at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, as more than a dozen cosplay specialists tricked themselves out to represent works on display
