Welcome Exhibitions On View · The first West Coast museum presentation of Portuguese artist Leonor...

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Floor 21 Open Ended

Painting and Sculpture since 1900Ongoing

Notable selections from the collection of painting and sculpture exploring themes that have shaped the history of modern art from the early twentieth century to now.

2 Paul Klee in ColorThrough Oct 30

Paintings and watercolors that explore the artist’s intuitive and theoretical approaches to color.

Paul Klee at PlayNov 5–May 14, 2017

Prints, drawings, paintings, and hand puppets that explore the Swiss modernist’s lifelong engagement with the creative and transformative possibilities of play.

3 Art of Northern California Three ViewsThrough Jan 2017

Artists associated with the University of California, Davis; the exploration of the personal and spiritual; and the Conceptual art scene of the late 1960s and 1970s.

4 The Campaign for Art Drawings, Part II Sept 24–Jan 2017

Contemporary drawings that reveal the daring and thoughtful ways artists engage with their time and explore the medium.

Exhibitions On ViewWelcome

See (and hear) art in a whole new way—free at sfmoma.org/appSee inside for details.

Fall 2016

5 Remezcla Gráfica/Graphic RemixSept 3–Jan 8, 2017

SFMOMA and San Francisco’s Galería de la Raza, a community-based, Chicano/Latino arts organization, present artworks from the early 1970s to now that use graphics as a catalyst for social change.

Floor 36 Anthony Hernandez

Sept 24–Jan 1, 2017

The first retrospective to honor the four-decade career of this major American photographer, whose work is united by its arresting formal beauty and subtle engagement with social issues.

7 Japanese Photography from Postwar to NowOct 15–Mar 12, 2017

This exhibition, presented thematically, examines Japanese photography of the last sixty years, showcasing gifts and promised gifts from the Campaign for Art.

8 Alexander Calder: Motion LabThe Fisher CollectionThrough Sept 10, 2017

Celebrated and lesser-known examples of the artist’s work from the late 1920s to the 1960s highlighting Calder’s restless innovation bringing actual movement into art.

9 Model BehaviorSnøhetta’s First Concepts for SFMOMA Through Jan 16, 2017

Snøhetta’s initial sketches and models for the expanded SFMOMA building in its challenging and prominent urban site.

Floor 410 Bruce Conner

It’s All TrueOct 29–Jan 22, 2017

A retrospective of one of the foremost American artists of the postwar era, spanning a vast array of media, from densely layered assemblages and drawings, to film and large-scale digital projections.

11 Approaching American AbstractionThe Fisher CollectionOngoing

Divergent approaches to abstraction developed since 1950 by American painters and sculptors including Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, and Cy Twombly.

12 New Work Leonor AntunesThrough Oct 2

The first West Coast museum presentation of Portuguese artist Leonor Antunes’s sculptural forms based on architectural spaces and histories.

New Work Sohei NishinoNov 4–Feb 26, 2017

Recent works, including a newly completed map of San Francisco, from the artist’s Diorama Maps series of large-scale photographic collages, each made up of thousands of individual photographs.

Floor 513 Pop, Minimal, and Figurative Art

The Fisher CollectionOngoing

Paintings and sculptures from American Pop and Minimal artists, as well as work considering the human figure as subject.

14 Claudy Jongstra, AardeThrough Apr 2, 2017

A site-specific installation of hand-dyed wool that responds to SFMOMA’s three architectural transformations through texture and color.

15 British Sculptors The Fisher CollectionThrough Sept 10, 2017

A selection of diverse sculpture by artists residing in Great Britain.

Floor 616 Typeface to Interface

Graphic Design from the CollectionThrough Oct 23

A trajectory of iconic type and the evolution of digital tools marking the rapid transformation of graphic design over the past sixty years.

Tomás SaracenoStillness in Motion: Cloud Cities Dec 17–May 21, 2017

An immersive site-specific project that explores themes of human interconnectivity, challenges preconceived notions of the built world, and transforms its gallery into a space of architectural provocation.

17 German Art after 1960 The Fisher CollectionOngoing

An overview of leading German artists such as Gerhard Richter, Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, and Bernd and Hilla Becher.

Floor 718 The Campaign for Art

ContemporaryThrough Oct 30

Paintings, sculptures, projection-based work, and more by contemporary artists including Matthew Barney, Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, and Takeshi Murata.

A Slow Succession with Many Interruptions Art of the 21st CenturyDec 10–Apr 16, 2017

Drawn from the museum’s collection, this exhibi-tion highlights several works on view for the first time by contemporary artists including Trisha Donnelly, Doris Salcedo, and Danh Vo.

19 Film as PlaceThrough Oct 30

Historic contemporary media artworks that address charged locations and surveillance through a cinematic and political lens .

William Kentridge The Refusal of TimeDec 10–Apr 16, 2017

The West Coast debut of The Refusal of Time (2012), a multisensory experience of projections, sounds, lectures, and a kinetic sculpture evoking embodied histories of time and a resistance to an imposed, imperial order.

20 Runa Islam Dec 10–Apr 16, 2017

This solo exhibition includes two film installa-tions that explore the materiality of film and its relationship to sculpture.

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Mark Rothko, No. 14, 1960 Floor 2

Frida Kahlo, Frieda and Diego Rivera Floor 2

Alexander Calder, Constellation Floor 3

Bruce Conner, CHILD Floor 4

Ellsworth Kelly, Cité Floor 4

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Background photos: © Henrik Kam. Neal Benezra photo: Rory Earnshaw. In Situ photo: Eric Wolfinger. Back cover: Pritzker Center for Photography; rendering by Steelblue. Illustrations: Adam Simpson.

Exhibitions image credits: 1) Henri Matisse, Exhibitions image credits: 1) Henri Matisse, Femme au chapeau (Woman with a Hat), 1905; collection SFMOMA, bequest of Elise S. Haas. 2) Paul Klee, Ohne Titel (Breitohr-clown) (Untitled [Big-Eared Clown]), 1925; hand puppet, 48 cm; Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Livia Klee Donation; and Paul Klee, Untitled [recto], 1940; collection SFMOMA, gift of the Untitled [recto], 1940; collection SFMOMA, gift of the UntitledDjerassi Art Trust. 3) Joan Brown, After the Alcatraz Swim #1, 1975; promised gift of Maryellen and Frank Herringer. 4) Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (Black and Cream Butterfly), 2005; promised gift of Diana Nelson and John Atwater; © Mark Grotjahn. 5) José Montoya, El Mito y los Matones, 1976–78; image: courtesy Galería de la Raza. 6) Anthony Hernandez, Discarded #50, 2014; courtesy the artist; © Anthony Her-nandez. 7) Lieko Shiga, Tomlinson FC, from the series Lilly, 2005; collection SFMOMA, gift of the Kurenboh Collection. 8) Alexander Calder, Double Gong, 1953; the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 9) Snøhetta, SFMOMA Expansion Study Model #21, 2010; courtesy Snøhetta; photo: Katherine Du Tiel. 10) Bruce Con-ner, CHILD, 1959; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, gift of Philip Johnson; © Estate of Bruce Conner / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. 11) Ellsworth Kelly, Cité, 1951; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Doris and Donald Fish-er Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and promised gift of Helen and Charles Schwab. 12) Leonor Antunes, a skylight alley running sideways (detail, SFMO-MA), 2016; © Leonor Antunes; and Sohei Nishino, Diorama Map London (detail), 2010; courtesy the artist and Michael

Hoppen Gallery, London. 13) Roy Lichtenstein, Hoppen Gallery, London. 13) Roy Lichtenstein, Live Ammo (Tzing!), 1962; the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 14) Claudy Jongstra, Aarde (detail 2), 2016; courtesy the artist. 15) Antony Gorm-ley, Quantum Cloud VIII, 1999; the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 16) Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, San Francisco Museum of Art program guide, August 1965; collection SFMOMA, gift of the artist; and Tomás Saraceno, Cloud cities thermodynamics of self-assembly/005, 2015; collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund purchase. 17) Gerhard Richter, Janus, 1983; the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 18) Jeff Koons, Large Vase of Flow-ers, 1991; promised gift of Norah and Norman Stone in honor of John Caldwell, curator of painting and sculpture (1989–93); and Paulina Olowska, A Portrait of the Artist – Indoors,2012; collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund pur-chase. 19) Julia Scher, Predictive Engineering3, (video still), 1993–present; collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund purchase; and William Kentridge, The Refusal of Time,2012; jointly owned by the San Francisco Museum of Mod-ern Art (purchase, by exchange, through an anonymous gift and the K. Hart Smith Trust) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 20) Runa Islam, Cabinet of Prototypes, 2009–2010; purchase, by exchange, through a fractional gift of Shirley Ross Davis and the Accessions Committee Fund; photo: © White Cube (Ben Westoby).

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