Sculptor Petah Coyne treats her materials as a sort of language with which to share stories, drawing inspiration from literary sources as diverse as Greek mythology and Charles Dickens. (…
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Artist Ellsworth Kelly, a minimalist pioneer, recalls his first encounter with abstraction and reflects on how his decades-long fascination with line, form, and color has manifested in both his…
This month the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presents the first west coast retrospective of award-winning documentary photographer Susan…
Photographer Rinko Kawauchi discusses her interest in the small mysteries of everyday life, which she explores in her series Utatane (2001). She explains why she was drawn to the sublime beauty of…
Photographer Catherine Opie traces her personal and artistic development in San Francisco. She describes how she captured the invented “personas” of the city’s queer community during the AIDS…
BALTIMORE, MD (June 14, 2018)—The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) and San Francisco Museum of Art (SFMOMA) are co-organizing a comprehensive retrospective of American artist Joan Mitchell. The…
René Magritte: The Fifth Season — presented exclusively at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) from May 19 through October 28, 2018 — focuses on the latter half of Magritte’s career, from…
Widely considered one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century, Donald Judd transformed the art world with his work in art, design, and architecture. This exhibition looks…
