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
Arts & Entertainment A Retrospective Of Bruce Conner's Mesmerizing Work Is Now At SFMOMA Realist. Surrealist. Hippie. Punk. Bruce Conner (1933-2008) was all of these and more. A Bay Area pioneer in experimental film, collage, photography, conceptual works, and paintings, Conner challenged the limitations of medium, genre,
Arts & Entertainment Video: SFMOMA Does MTV 'Cribs'-Style Short With SF Photographer Michael Jang The revamped SFMOMA has a newly revived YouTube presence, the best part of which is a new series called "Artist Cribs" featuring well edited, MTV-style tours of artists' homes. The latest was shot
Arts & Entertainment Regarding The Potentially Dicey Stipulations In SFMOMA's Agreements Surrounding The Fisher Collection As you're likely well aware by now, the newly reopened SFMOMA now has more than half of its expanded gallery space devoted to paintings and sculptures that are part of the Doris and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New SFMOMA Restaurant In Situ Is A Fun, If Pricey, Trip Through Modern Global Cuisine In opening his new restaurant at the expanded SFMOMA, called In Situ, chef Corey Lee explained that he and his staff would "performing" the work of other chefs around the world, interpreting their
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFMOMA's In Situ Is 'The Most Original New Restaurant In The Country' Says NYT Food Critic Pete Wells One of the nation's most esteemed dining critics, Pete Wells of the New York Times, is lavishing praise on chef Corey Lee's month-old restaurant (or is it an exhibition?) inside SFMOMA, called In
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In Situ, Corey Lee's Food-As-Art Reproduction Restaurant, Opens At SFMOMA Next Week Ambitious chef-restaurateur Corey Lee (Benu, Monsieur Benjamin) has had an enviable career already at a young age, having earned three Michelin stars at Benu, helmed the kitchens at The French Laundry and Per
SF News SFMOMA Visitor Trips, Falls Into $82 Million Warhol Painting This is why we can't have nice things. It's been barely two weeks since the expanded SFMOMA reopened to the public, putting on display hundreds of wildly valuable 20th Century artworks from the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Art-Inspired Cakes At New MOMA Have Blue Bottle Pastry Chef Crying 'Forgery' "Remember those modern art style desserts?" SFist wondered in April 2015 when we learned that MOMA had not renewed its contract with the coffee shop Blue Bottle. "What will become of them!?" You
Arts & Entertainment Day Around The Bay: Remember, Tomorrow's SFMOMA's Big Day 100-year-old Hayward man says doughnuts are why he’s avoided death. [CBS 5] It's not always easy to find a dog-friendly apartment, but apparently it's easiest in the Tenderloin and near Lake Merced.
Arts & Entertainment Cool Time-Lapse Of SFMOMA's Construction, Plus John King's Final Word On The New Wing The new, enormous SFMOMA addition designed by Norwegian architects Snøhetta has some early fans, as well as some early critics, as we discussed last week. We had to wait until this weekend's Sunday
Arts & Entertainment Gagosian San Francisco, Offshoot Of Major Art Dealer's Empire, Prepares First Show If you build it, provided that "it" is a massive expansion to your best art museum, they will come, if by "they" you mean famous art collectors. Hot on the heels of the
Arts & Entertainment Early Reactions To New SFMOMA Building Very Mixed, Include IKEA Comparison The bold, new Snøhetta-designed addition to the SFMOMA that we took you inside yesterday is already garnering some mixed emotions from architecture critics, and while we await the official word from the Chronicle's
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Peek Inside The Brand New SFMOMA, Opening May 14th The first thing you'll notice when you arrive at the new SFMOMA will be a massive sculpture. The only question is whether it will be by Alexander Calder or Richard Serra. The original
SF News Video: Guy Free-Climbs SFMOMA Facade People just can't wait for our neighbor, @sfmoma to re-open. - John, Visual Arts A video posted by YBCA (@ybca) on Apr 11, 2016 at 1:26pm PDT Man, people are really excited
Arts & Entertainment Video: SFMOMA's Rad New Living Wall One of the most stunning aspects of the new SFMOMA is a living wall comprising some 19,440 plants, all California native species, that lines a second-story courtyard along the eastern side of
