Art gets off the wall at SFMOMA with its Now Playing series of Thursday-night events. On February 16 and March 15, artists will activate the museum with live music, readings, films, installations, and performances. Remaking the museum as platform, stage, and promenade, Now Playing invites artists to animate SFMOMA in unexpected ways, allowing guests to experience the museum as projection chamber, food as education and art, and artists playing the architecture. The events…

This Valentine's Day the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) invites couples, singles, and lovers of all kinds to avoid the cliché of flowers and candy by celebrating the occasion a bit more creatively. Romantic writers can celebrate the intimate correspondence between photographer Alfred Stieglitz and painter Georgia O'Keeffe with "The Love Letters of Stieglitz and O'Keeffe," a Free Tuesday Program on February 7. Amorous art buffs can steal away…

On Wednesday, April 25, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)'s highly anticipated 2012 Modern Ball—the Bay Area's biggest art bash of the year and the institution's largest gala fund-raiser—will transform the museum into an ultrachic party with surprises around every corner and a wink to the masterpieces in the collection.

Featuring three parties in one—The Gala Dinner, The Supper Club, and The Post-Modern Party—The Modern Ball promises…

It is with great sadness that I share news of the death of Elaine McKeon (1925–2012), who passed away yesterday morning. A vital and unforgettable member of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's family, a very dear friend to me personally, and an unparalleled figure in the wider arts and civic community has been lost today. It would be impossible to overstate the generosity and commitment that Elaine brought to SFMOMA during the nearly thirty years she was…

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is pleased to announce a new lineup of family programming for the winter 2012 season. Every Sunday in January (excluding January 1), February, and March, the museum galleries and family studio will be loaded with activities that encourage kids and families to engage with modern art and one another. The theme of the season is "Back to Basics," focusing on lines, colors, and shapes. Led by SFMOMA educators and guest…

On Friday, January 6, 2012, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will transform into a neighborhood lunch break room to celebrate the final weeks of Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break, an exhibition that contemplates workers' activities during their lunch breaks through film, photography, and writing. From 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. in The Schwab Room on the ground level, just off the museum's Haas Atrium, Rice Paper Scissors—a Vietnamese pop-up café…

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) MuseumStore is pleased to feature a special product series designed by local artist Jason Munn. The SFMOMA Artists' Series works with artists and designers represented in the museum's collection to create limited-edition products that bring art and design into everyday objects.

For the MuseumStore, Munn designed a special line of products, including four limited-edition posters, T-shirts, mugs, pocket-sized sketchbooks, and…

Design Features Free Ground-Level Galleries and Public Spaces and Dedicated Educational Spaces throughout the Museum

November 30, 2011—With 79 percent of the capital campaign goal raised two years ahead of the groundbreaking for the expansion of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the museum's Board of Trustees has approved visitor- and city-friendly enhancements to the original design program and, in turn, has raised the capital campaign goal to $555 million from $480 million, an increase of 15 percent. These additional funds will enable the museum to increase the…

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is pleased to offer some new art-inspired desserts at the museum's Rooftop Coffee Bar for the holidays. Baked and decorated by Blue Bottle Coffee Co. pastry chef Caitlin Williams Freeman, these treats are a tasty way to enjoy the museum's collection and special exhibitions throughout the year.

New on offer for the holidays is the Cragg Cone, an upside down ice cream cone with Humphry Slocombe malted milk chocolate and pumpkin…

From March 31 through July 29, 2012, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will display the first U.S. museum presentation of work by Dutch graphic artist Parra, whose bold and playful post-Pop style has garnered a substantial cult following. Featuring an expansive mural, the exhibition Parra is organized by Joseph Becker, SFMOMA assistant curator of architecture and design.

Parra's witty, often raunchy work captures attention with its vibrant color, curvaceous…

The Bay Area attracts dreamers, progressives, nonconformists, and designers. Buckminster Fuller was all of these, and though he never lived in San Francisco, his ideas spawned many local experiments in the realms of technology, engineering, and sustainability—some more successful than others. The Whole Earth Catalog, The North Face, Pritzker Prize–winning architect Thom Mayne, and Calfiornia Governor Jerry Brown have all cited Fuller as a key influence on…

From March 10 through July 8, 2012, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present the exhibition Photography in Mexico: Selected Works from the Collections of SFMOMA and Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser. Exploring the distinctively rich and diverse tradition of photography in Mexico from the 1920s to the present, the exhibition showcases works by important Mexican photographers as well as major American and European artists who found Mexico to be a…

The recombination of image and text has seen a surge in contemporary artistic practice. The exhibition Descriptive Acts, on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) from February 18 through June 17, 2012, highlights this phenomenon with a selection of recent acquisitions by Aurélien Froment, Dora García, and Tris Vonna-Michell, contextualized by contemporary works by Anthony Discenza, Shilpa Gupta, Lynn Marie Kirby, and Li Xiaofei as well as a…

On view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) from February 18 through June 17, 2012, and at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) from February 18 through May 27, 2012, in its only West Coast presentation, Mark Bradford is the first major museum survey of paintings, sculptures, and multimedia works by this leading figure in contemporary American art.

Bradford (b. 1961)—a Los Angeles–based artist and MacArthur Foundation "genius" award…

From November 18, 2011, through March 25, 2012, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present New Work: Richard Aldrich, the first museum exhibition to feature work exclusively by Richard Aldrich. The presentation brings together an array of new paintings by the New York–based artist anchored by a selection of earlier pieces that show the diversity of his work and the expansive possibilities of painting itself. Organized by Gary Garrels, SFMOMA Elise…

Since the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) named Mauricio Ancalmo, Colter Jacobsen, Ruth Laskey, and Kamau Amu Patton recipients of its 2010 SECA Art Award nearly a year ago, the artists have been preparing for their SECA award exhibition, which opens at the museum on December 9, 2011, and will remain on view through April 3, 2012.

Established to recognize Bay Area artists of exceptional talent with an exhibition, accompanying catalogue, and modest cash prize,…

Tracing the engagement of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) with the region's vital art community across the past five decades, the exhibition Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards (December 9, 2011, through April 3, 2012) marks the golden anniversary of the museum's art interest group SECA (Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art) and surveys for the first time works by a range of artists who have won SECA's competitive award recognizing…

On Wednesday, November 16, 2011, the Modern Art Council of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will host the 2011 Bay Area Treasure Award Dinner, honoring esteemed artist Mark di Suvero. Organized by the Modern Art Council, SFMOMA's premier fund-raising auxiliary, this annual lifetime achievement award recognizes Bay Area artists who have made significant contributions to the history of contemporary art. Di Suvero is the 12th honoree; previous award recipients…

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is thrilled to announce the date of the 2012 Modern Ball, the museum's largest gala fundraiser. The grand celebration will be held on Wednesday, April 25, 2012, and chaired by SFMOMA Trustee Dolly Chammas. This year's honorary chairs are Helen and Charles Schwab.

The Modern Ball will again be held at the museum, with the soaring, five-story Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Atrium as the center of activity. The multifaceted gala…

On October 1, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will launch a new membership program designed to enhance opportunities for families to engage with the museum and its growing family community. The Family membership includes exclusive viewing hours and unlimited admission for two adult cardholders as well as two adult guests and all accompanying children age 17 and younger. From families looking for hands-on fun at SFMOMA Family Sundays to art…

Art gets off the wall at SFMOMA with its Now Playing series. On three Thursday evenings this fall, artists will activate the museum with live music, readings, films, installations, and performances. Remaking the museum as platform, stage, and promenade, Now Playing invites artists to animate SFMOMA in unexpected ways, allowing guests to experience the museum as projection chamber, food as education and art, and artists playing the architecture. The events are free with…

From October 15, 2011, through January 16, 2012, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break, the latest body of work by Sharon Lockhart. The exhibition, organized by Sabine Eckmann from the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, and overseen at SFMOMA by Curator of Media Arts Rudolf Frieling, will include a large-scale film installation, selected photographs, and a Bay Area edition of the artist's free take-away…

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) honors Latino Heritage Month this September by highlighting Latin American works of art and inviting visitors of all ages to discover them in the exhibition Selected Histories: 20th-Century Art from the SFMOMA Collection on the museum's second floor. Iconic Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo are represented along with their contemporaries Jose Clemente Orozco and Rufino Tamayo, all of whose paintings tell a story.…

Francesca Woodman, the most comprehensive exhibition to date of Woodman's brief but extraordinary career, will premiere at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) on November 5, 2011, through February 20, 2012.

In less than a decade, before Woodman committed suicide in 1981 at age 22, she produced a potent body of photographs exploring the human body in architectural space and the complex problem of representing the self. Haunting and intimate, direct and…

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will extend viewing hours of its popular summer exhibition The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde in response to high demand. The show has received overwhelmingly favorable critical reviews and is expected to host some 350,000 visitors by the time it closes on September 6, at the end of what has unofficially been dubbed the "Summer of Stein" in San Francisco. During the exhibition's…

Richard Serra's large-scale steel sculptures have made him a crucial figure in contemporary art, but his work also takes another striking, lesser-known form: drawing. On view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) from October 15, 2011, through January 16, 2012, in its only West Coast presentation, Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective is the first-ever critical overview of Serra's drawings, offering new insight into both the artist's practice and the…

One of the first museums to recognize photography as a legitimate art form and establish a photography collection, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) continues to spearhead the scholarship and presentation of photography with three upcoming exhibitions. The first comprehensive survey of Francesca Woodman's career in the United States, Francesca Woodman will span the artist's entire career, from her earliest student work to her later blueprint studies and…

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) recently announced the acquisition of Wall Grid (3 x 3) (1966), an important early work by Sol LeWitt, one of the key artists of the postwar period. Wall Grid (3 x 3) was purchased through the Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for Major Accessions.

Melding form and idea, LeWitt's works are organized around principles set by the artist establishing procedures, materials, and boundaries that structure the work of art. By subtly shifting his…

From November 5, 2011, through February 20, 2012, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present The Air We Breathe, a thematic exhibition that brings together commissioned work by 30 contemporary visual artists and eight poets who, for this project, will explore issues surrounding the cause to legalize same-sex marriage from various perspectives.

The Air We Breathe—its title drawn from a Langston Hughes poem—is organized by SFMOMA Assistant…

From November 5, 2011, to September 25, 2012, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present Jim Campbell: Exploded Views. This new work, conceived for SFMOMA's Haas Atrium, will feature hundreds of flickering LED lights creating the illusion of figurative images that explore and reflect the human experience. As visitors move through the space, the vantage point alters and the shadow-like figures begin to take shape, blurring the boundaries between image and…

From February 18 to May 28, 2012, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present the exhibition Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective, the artist's first midcareer retrospective in the United States. The exhibition is co-organized by SFMOMA and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. The San Francisco presentation is organized by SFMOMA Senior Curator of Photography Sandra S. Phillips. This is the most comprehensive museum exhibition to date of the artist's…

From August 27, 2011, through February 20, 2012, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present the exhibition Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams. The exhibition features some 200 sketches, prototypes, and original products that elucidate the seminal designer's distinctly modernist approach and philosophy about the function of design.

Dieter Rams is widely regarded as one of the most influential industrial designers of our time. Many of his works…

Highlighting the revived medium of ceramics, SFMOMA presents New Work: Tiago Carneiro da Cunha and Klara Kristalova (July 8 through October 30, 2011), an exhibition that pairs figurative ceramic sculpture by two contemporary artists who are infusing the medium's unassuming form with complex political and artistic references.

Carneiro da Cunha lives and work in Brazil, and Kristalova is based in Sweden, but, despite very different cultural backgrounds, they work in a…

One of the most important alliances in the history of American opera began in Paris in 1927 when the young, little-known composer Virgil Thomson invited fellow expatriate artist Gertrude Stein to write a libretto he could set to music.

Nearly a decade later, back in the United States, the curtains finally rose on Four Saints in Three Acts (1934), an experimental milestone in 20th-century music as well as a Broadway hit in its day. Considered radical for its…

As American expatriates in bohemian Paris when the 20th century was young, Gertrude Stein and her family were among the first to recognize the talents of avant-garde painters like Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. SFMOMA's major summer exhibition The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde tells the stories behind the famous canvases, offering a rare, in-depth encounter with the artworks and the extraordinary people who facilitated the birth of modern…

Caffè Museo and the Rooftop Coffee Bar at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will offer a variety of dishes inspired by The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde exhibition, on view at SFMOMA from May 21 through September 6, 2011.

During the run of the exhibition, Caffè Museo will present French delicacies influenced by The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book, written in 1954 by Gertrude Stein's partner and muse, Alice B. Toklas.…

The Steins are responsible in many ways for the turn-of-the century revolution in the visual arts through their adventurous patronage, deep ties to leading minds of the era, and legendary Paris salon gatherings. As powerful tastemakers, they had a commitment to the new, a confidence in their inclinations, and a drive to build appreciation for the work they loved. From the moment they first dared to admire Matisse's scandalous Woman with a Hat (1905)—the "nasty…

From July 2 through October 16, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present Face of Our Time: Jim Goldberg, Daniel Schwartz, Zanele Muholi, Jacob Aue Sobol, Richard Misrach, an exhibition that features the work of five distinctive photographers who share an interest in making pictures that capture what the world looks like now. They describe poetic truths and complex, open-ended social realities within the context of current political events.

The…

Design Transforms SFMOMA and Neighborhood Opening New Routes of Public Circulation and Access With New Entry and Pedestrian Promenade

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) today unveiled the preliminary design for its expansion that will double the museum's exhibition and education space while enhancing the visitor experience and more deeply weaving the museum into the fabric of the city. The new building will both transform the museum and enliven the city by opening up new routes of public circulation around the neighborhood and into the museum. Completion is projected in 2016.

Developed by…

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announces a partnership with Bay Area–based technology company Google that will advance both institutions' shared vision to spur creativity and broaden access to art education for young children as a key step toward encouraging innovation and building museum audiences for the future.

Google will provide support to SFMOMA's existing family outreach by sponsoring programming such as kid-friendly activities every Sunday…

In response to the recent arrest and detainment of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in Beijing, the Guggenheim has launched an online petition to express concern for Ai's freedom and call for his release. Leading museums around the world have joined and launched the online petition through their Web sites, Twitter, and Facebook sites, including the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD); Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate, London; Gwangju Biennale, Korea; and the…

Through June 19, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presents Tobias Wong, the first solo museum exhibition of the late artist-designer's work. Wong, who passed away at age 35 in June 2010, was widely recognized as design's most significant "bad boy" of the past decade. Featuring more than 30 objects, the presentation is organized by Henry Urbach, SFMOMA Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design.

Wong made his debut in 2001 and…

From May 21 through September 6, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present David Claerbout: Architecture of Narrative, an exhibition featuring a suite of four projected video works by the Belgian artist David Claerbout. Organized by Rudolf Frieling, SFMOMA curator of media arts, the exhibition spans work from 1998 to the present, marking Claerbout's first solo museum show on the West Coast and the U.S. premiere of his recent piece The American Room…

February 3, 2011—The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) today announced that it has received an unprecedented 195 promised gifts of art from nine leading Bay Area collectors who are leading a campaign to strengthen the museum's collection. The pledges encompass major works by artists including Diane Arbus, Joseph Beuys, Robert Gober, Eva Hesse, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Bruce Nauman, Jackson Pollock, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, and David Smith, and span…

From now through March 15, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is offering visitors a chance to win amazing wine-related experiences while saving our natural resources with the contest SFMOMA Uncorked!

In celebration of SFMOMA's groundbreaking exhibition How Wine Became Modern: Design + Wine 1976 to Now, on view through April 17, SFMOMA Uncorked! entices visitors to drop off used natural wine corks in the museum's Haas Atrium with the chance to win monthly…

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will hold its biennial Art Auction at the museum on April 6, 2011. This highly anticipated fund-raising event organized by the Modern Art Council (MAC) will feature more than 70 lots representing an exceptional range of work by celebrated artists with strong ties to the museum. Auction items will include photographs, paintings, and works on paper donated by local and national galleries and artists. Proceeds from Art…

SFMOMA's popular Now Playing series is back in 2011 with interactive music, video, and performance works by artists Anna Parkina and robbinschilds with Kinski; San Francisco's Pop-Up Magazine; and Jerzy Grotowski's landmark theater-based Workcenter, each of which will take over SFMOMA for a Thursday evening in February, March, and April. The events are free with museum admission and feature live performances in the museum's Haas Atrium, gallery talks, film screenings,…

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Jonathan L. Peterson as the museum's new director of development.  Peterson begins his role at SFMOMA on January 18, 2011. 

Peterson joins SFMOMA after four years as deputy director of development for San Francisco Opera, where he was responsible for contributed income of $35 million annually and managed a department of 28. During his tenure there, he successfully…

From February 26 through June 7, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will showcase the first-ever retrospective examining all aspects of artist Eadweard Muybridge's pioneering photography. Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change brings together more than 300 objects created between 1857 and 1893, including Muybridge's only surviving zoopraxiscope—an apparatus he designed in 1879 to project motion pictures. Originally organized by Philip…

From February 25 through May 22, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present New Work: Anna Parkina, an exhibition premiering the latest body of work by emerging Russian artist Anna Parkina.

Known for her eclectic visual language that collages media and blends genres, Parkina boldly explores the dynamics of history and perception. Her richly layered pictorial works often evoke the forms and imagery of Russian Constructivism but also draw on her own…

Award Exhibition Coincides with Golden Anniversary of SECA, Marking 50 Years of Supporting Bay Area Artists

San Francisco, December 16, 2010 — The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) today announced that Mauricio Ancalmo, Colter Jacobsen, Ruth Laskey, and Kamau Amu Patton are the 2010 artists selected for its biennial SECA Art Award. Administered by SECA (Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art), one of the museum's auxiliaries, the signature award honors Bay Area artists who are working independently at a high level of artistic maturity but who have not…

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's (SFMOMA) MuseumStore is the premier destination for holiday shopping. Drawing on the finest local talent as well as top international designers, the MuseumStore offers a wide array of the best in contemporary jewelry and accessories, housewares, cocktail wares, and children's gifts, in addition to boasting the Bay Area's most comprehensive collection of art and design books. From items priced at less than $10 to limited-edition…

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) MuseumStore is pleased to offer unique and exclusive wine products in conjunction with the exhibition How Wine Became Modern: Design + Wine 1976 to Now, on view at SFMOMA from November 20, 2010, to April 17, 2011. From special glassware, carafes, and wine accessories to limited-edition prints, the MuseumStore has treasures for the wine lover in all of us. See them in the exhibition; take them home with you from the…

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Robert W. Lasher as the museum's deputy director, external relations, a newly created position. Starting on November 1, 2010, Lasher will supervise a new External Relations division, overseeing the museum's Development Department and Marketing and Communications Department. He joins SFMOMA's two current deputy museum directors, of curatorial affairs and of administration and…

On November 20, 2010, SFMOMA debuts a new site-specific sound sculpture by San Francisco–based artist Bill Fontana.

Entitled Sonic Shadows, the work transforms the museum's dramatic circular skylight and fifth-floor steel truss pedestrian bridge into musical instruments. Exploring both visible and invisible architectural features of the museum, the work creates an acoustic translation of the physical space.

Commissioned as part of SFMOMA's 75th anniversary…

The More Things Change samples from SFMOMA's always evolving collection and showcases recent acquisitions—some on view here for the first time—to present a selective survey of art made since 2000. A collaboration among ten curators from all five of the museum's curatorial departments, the exhibition reflects on some of the broad ideas and sentiments that have characterized the last decade, gathering works in a wide range of media by such artists as Tomma Abts,…

Snøhetta Selects San Francisco–based EHDD to be Local Architect of Record

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) has selected the architecture firm Snøhetta to be its partner in developing an expansion that enhances the museum's services to the community and its educational, social, and economic role in the city. The decision follows a comprehensive international search and two-year planning process to address the enormous growth of SFMOMA's collections and of audience demand for programming since the museum's move to its…

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On Wednesday, November 10, 2010, the Modern Art Council of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will host the 2010 Bay Area Treasure Award Luncheon, honoring esteemed artist William T. Wiley. Organized by the Modern Art Council, SFMOMA's premier fundraising auxiliary, this annual lifetime achievement award recognizes Bay Area artists who continually define and redefine contemporary art. Wiley is the eleventh honoree; previous award recipients are painters…

From October 30, 2010, through April 17, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present the U.S. debut of a major survey that examines photography's role in invasive looking. Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Since 1870 is co-organized by SFMOMA and Tate Modern, and gathers more than 200 pictures that together form a timely inquiry into the ways in which artists and everyday people alike have probed the camera's powerful voyeuristic…

Yves Béhar to Become Museum’s Third Artist Trustee

At its May meeting, the Board of Trustees of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) elected Yves Béhar as the museum's third Artist Trustee. Béhar joins Irwin Federman, who was also elected as a trustee at the meeting. Board Chair Charles R. Schwab also announced the appointment of Robert J. Fisher as Board President and confirmed the officers of the Board for 2010 to 2011.

"These appointments come at a transformative time for SFMOMA. In response…

July 22, 2010 – The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) has selected the architecture firm Snøhetta to be its partner in developing an expansion that enhances the museum's services to the community and its educational, social, and economic role in the city. The decision follows a comprehensive international search and two-year planning process to address the enormous growth of SFMOMA's collections and of audience demand for programming since the…

May 11, 2010 – The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) has selected Adjaye Associates, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Foster + Partners, and Snøhetta as finalists following a comprehensive international search for an architectural firm to partner with the museum to expand and improve its current facilities. Motivated by the tremendous, ongoing growth of SFMOMA's programming, collections, and audiences in recent years, the expansion will triple the…

From November 20, 2010, to April 17, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present How Wine Became Modern: Design + Wine 1976 to Now. This exhibition explores transformations in the visual and material culture of wine over the past three decades, offering a fresh way of understanding the contemporary culture of wine and the role that design has played in its transformation. Organized by Henry Urbach, SFMOMA's Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture…

From August 7, 2010, through January 16, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will showcase the exhibition Prints by Paul Klee (1946). Organized by John Zarobell, SFMOMA assistant curator, collections, exhibitions, and commissions, the exhibition features 21 works.

SFMOMA has had a longstanding commitment to the art of Paul Klee over its 75-year history. This exhibition re-creates a show of prints by the Swiss-born modernist held at the museum in 1946. At that…

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is pleased to offer a new selection of art-inspired cakes and desserts at the museum's Rooftop Coffee Bar. Baked and decorated by Blue Bottle Coffee Co. pastry chef Caitlin Williams Freeman, these cakes are a tasty way to enjoy the museum's collection and special exhibitions and feed all of your senses.

Freeman says her goal was to "create desserts that pay homage to works in the museum without copying them."…

 April 2, 2010—The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announced today a major acquisition of 25 works from the collection of Count Giuseppe Panza di Biumo of Milan, Italy, featuring five important early works by American artist Bruce Nauman. Part gift from SFMOMA Trustees and part museum purchase, the acquisition also includes major works by Robert Barry, Joseph Beuys, Hanne Darboven, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, and Lawrence Weiner, among others,…

Today the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announced its interactive Rooftop Garden App for iPad is now available on App Store. The app is an enhanced version of the Rooftop Garden App for iPhone and iPod Touch, a multimedia guide originally launched in January 2010 on the occasion of the museum's 75th anniversary.

From the museum that brought visitors the very first handheld multimedia gallery tour back in 2001 comes a new way to explore modern and contemporary…

San Francisco, CA, February 4, 2010—San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Board Chair Charles R. Schwab today announced that the museum has received landmark contributions totaling more than $250 million to expand the museum and grow its endowment. Comprising more than 50 percent of a projected $480 million campaign goal, these pledges from museum leadership will fuel SFMOMA's plans to triple its gallery and public spaces; offer enhanced exhibitions, educational…

SFMOMA to Present Major Fisher Collection Exhibition as Part of 75^th Anniversary Celebration in 2010

September 25, 2009 (San Francisco, CA) – San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) Board Chair Charles Schwab and Director Neal Benezra today announced that the museum is developing a groundbreaking relationship with Doris and Donald Fisher that would provide the Fisher Collection—one of the world's leading collections of contemporary art—with a home at SFMOMA.

The Fishers, who together founded Gap Inc. in 1969, have long envisioned keeping their…

Mario Botta's 1995 SFMOMA building is an iconic presence within the cityscape of San Francisco. Located in downtown San Francisco's South of Market (SoMa) area, the five-story structure features a stepped and patterned brick facade topped by a soaring cylindrical turret. In the architect's signature style, the turret is finished in alternating bands of black and white stone and topped with a radial pattern of the same material.

Reflecting the influence of architect Louis…

At their June 12 meeting, the Board of Trustees of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) elected Kenneth McNeely and Marissa Mayer as new members of the Board.

Kenneth McNeely is currently the president of external affairs for AT&T's operations in California. His appointment followed the close of the historic merger between SBC Communication Inc. and AT&T Corp. in 2005. McNeely served in a variety of capacities with the former AT&T. From 2000 to…