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SFMOMA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts—Opens, then Closes and Then Opens Again

March 7, 2021 Leave a Comment

Park - Nudes

San Francisco was one of the first cities to shut down during the pandemic. For those of us who love museums, gathering with friends, going out to dinner, it was hard. But it was also an important thing to do to stop COVID. Then finally, a glimmer of hope after a very long wait. San […]

Filed Under: Activities, California, Destinations, Featured-City, Museums, North America, San Francisco, Travel, United States Tagged With: Abstract Expressionism, David Park, Figurative Movement, San Francisco Art Institute, SFMOMA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts—Opens, then Closes

March 7, 2021 Leave a Comment

Park - Nudes

San Francisco was one of the first cities to shut down during the pandemic. For those of us who love museums, gathering with friends, going out to dinner, it was hard. But it was also an important thing to do to stop COVID. Then finally, a glimmer of hope after a very long wait. San […]

Filed Under: Activities, California, Destinations, Featured-City, Museums, North America, San Francisco, Travel, United States Tagged With: Abstract Expressionism, David Park, Figurative Movement, San Francisco Art Institute, SFMOMA

Rethinking the Legacy of Andy Warhol

June 16, 2019 Leave a Comment

Brillo Boxes

What do you think of when you hear Andy Warhol? His Campbell’s Soup cans and Three Elvises? His prognostication of 15 minutes of fame, as the “creator” of the Pop Art movement? His early embrace of an openly gay lifestyle? Warhol certainly deserves recognition for all of these. A retrospective of Andy Warhol  “A to […]

Filed Under: Activities, California, Destinations, Featured-Trips, Museums, North America, San Francisco, Travel, United States Tagged With: Any Warhol, pop art, SFMOMA

SFMOMA, Henri Matisse and Richard Diebenkorn: What’s Not to Like?

April 7, 2017 Leave a Comment

Seated Figure with Hat

San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) has been opened for almost a year now and we have been enjoying our membership there (at least, when we are in town). Currently, it has a special exhibit that we visited. SFMOMA Matisse and Diebenkorn Exhibit SFMOMA’s Matisse/Diebenkorn exhibition traces the extension of Henri Matisse’s innovative treatment […]

Filed Under: Activities, California, Destinations, Featured-Trips, Museums, North America, San Francisco, Travel, United States Tagged With: Diebenkorn, Matisse, SFMOMA

San Francisco’s Booming Contemporary Art Scene

June 19, 2016 Leave a Comment

Ca Funk. Allan-Half a Dam

Most of San Francisco’s art oxygen is rightly being consumed by the May 2016 reopening of the fabulous SFMOMA (see our blog on our visit). But, as spectacular as the museum and the addition of the huge Fisher Collection is, this is but the tip of the Bay Area modern and contemporary art scene. The […]

Filed Under: Art, California, Destinations, Featured-City, North America, San Francisco, Travel, United States Tagged With: DiRosa Preserve, Fisher Collection, Hess Art Collection, SFMOMA, Stanford

Rejoicing in the Return of SFMOMA in San Francisco

June 13, 2016 Leave a Comment

stairway 03

San Francisco’s modern art scene has been eclipsed by the five years of dusk resulting from the closure and reconstruction of SFMOMA. The much anticipated May 2016 reopening has not only lifted the pall, but has also exposed an innovative new design for museums and provided the public with access to the incredible Fisher Collection. […]

Filed Under: California, Destinations, Featured-City, North America, San Francisco, Travel, United States Tagged With: SFMOMA