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Spring 2017

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Good to KnowHours Open Friday–Tuesday 10 a.m.–5 p.m. and Thursday until 9 p.m.; public spaces open at 9:30 a.m. Closed Wednesday.

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Gallery Guidelines+ Please do not touch the art.+ Personal, noncommercial photography/video recording is

allowed (except where marked). No flashes, tripods, or selfie sticks. + No eating, drinking, or cellphone conversations in the galleries.+ Lost and Found: Visit the Information Desk (Floor 2) or call

415.357.4000.+ All bags must be carried by hand or worn on the front of the body.+ No smoking or vaping in the museum or on the outdoor terraces.

Accessibility Ask our staff about accessibility services, including large-print and tactile guides. On-loan wheelchairs, strollers, and cane seats are available free of charge at Coat Check on Floors 1 and 2.

ShopMuseum Store Browse a wide selection of art books, home accessories and furnishings, jewelry, toys, artist prints, and more.

Floor 1 | Open Friday–Tuesday 9:30 a.m.–6 p.m. and Thursday until 9:30 p.m. Open Wednesday 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

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Floor 2 | Open Friday–Tuesday 9:30 a.m.–5 p.m. and Thursday until 9 p.m. Closed Wednesday.

Eat + DrinkIn Situ Chef Corey Lee, recipient of three Michelin stars, curates a menu of dishes by chefs from around the world. Reservations are recommended; visit insitu.sfmoma.org.

Floor 1 | Open daily 11 a.m.–4 p.m.; closed Wednesday. Open Thursday–Sunday for dinner 5–9 p.m.

Cafe 5 Enjoy family-friendly, California-fusion fare in our tranquil rooftop cafe and sculpture garden.

Floor 5 | Open Friday–Tuesday 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m. and Thursday 10 a.m.–8:30 p.m. Closed Wednesday.

Sightglass at SFMOMA Pick up locally handcrafted artisanal coffee and sweet and savory treats. Dine in only.

Floor 3 | Open Thursday–Tuesday 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Closed Wednesday.

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Director’s Picks

Welcome to SFMOMA! If you only have time for a short visit, here are some of my favorite things to see, including gems from the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection. Look for the star icons on this guide’s floor plans to find them.

Neal Benezra, Helen and Charles Schwab Director, SFMOMA

Mark Rothko, No. 14, 1960 Floor 2

Frida Kahlo, Frieda and Diego Rivera Floor 2

Alexander Calder, Constellation Floor 3

Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park #79 Floor 4

Ellsworth Kelly, Cité Floor 4

Agnes Martin Gallery Floor 4

Andy Warhol, Triple Elvis [Ferus type] Floor 5

Gerhard Richter, Lesende (Reader) Floor 6

William Kentridge, The Refusal of Time (through April 2) Floor 7

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 at PlayThrough May 14

Prints, drawings, paintings, and hand puppets that reveal the Swiss modernist’s lifelong en-gagement with the creative and transformative possibilities of play.

Paul Klee and Rex RayMay 20–Sept 10

An intimate exhibition filled with works by Klee alongside dazzling paintings by beloved San Francisco artist and designer Rex Ray.

3 On the EdgeArt of California Through July 16

Activist art from 1960s Los Angeles, paintings of the Western sublime, and reimagined icons of the American frontier.

Exhibitions On View

4 Drawings from the Collection1980 to Today Through May 14

A selection of contemporary drawings from the collection including works by Rosana Castrillo Díaz, Gabriel Orozco, Raymond Pettibon, and Gary Simmons.

5 To Those Who Have Eyes To SeeThrough Summer 2017

A multimedia installation by Andrea Geyer bringing to light the history of American women as champions of modern art via the enduring legacy of Grace McCann Morley, SFMOMA’s founding director.

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in the beginning Through Apr 30

An exhibition of over 100 photographs that highlights the first seven years of Arbus’s career and offers fresh insights into this iconic artist.

Mike MandelGood 70sMay 20–Aug 20

Photographs, books, a film, and baseball cards from conceptual artist Mike Mandel’s enigmatic and humorous projects from the 1970s in California.

7 Japanese Photography from Postwar to NowThrough Mar 12

A thematic presentation of Japanese photo- graphy from the last 60 years, showcasing gifts and promised gifts from the Campaign for Art.

Larry SultanHere and HomeApr 15–July 23

A major retrospective of American photo- grapher Larry Sultan, comprising more than 200 photographs, ranging from collaborative projects to solo works, and exploring themes of family and home.

8 Alexander Calder: Motion LabThe Fisher CollectionThrough Sept 10

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 Bureau Spectacularinsideoutsidebetweenbeyond Through Aug 13

Founding partner of Bureau Spectacular, Jimenez Lai has created a large physical model of an urban landscape, littered with surrealistic architectural characters and jarring environments.

Floor 410 Matisse/Diebenkorn

Mar 11–May 29

A landmark exhibition of 100 paintings and drawings exploring the profound inspiration that California painter Richard Diebenkorn found in the work of French modernist Henri Matisse.

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 Park McArthurApr 1–Aug 27

An exhibition of new and existing work that considers the social conditions of dependency and connects to ongoing relationships with buildings or places of congregation.

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 British Sculptors The Fisher CollectionThrough Sept 10

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

15 Walter De MariaSurface WavesMay 27–Nov 26

The debut of De Maria’s first sculpture to enter SFMOMA’s collection, an arresting floor piece polished to shine so lustrous as to appear liquid.

Floor 616 Tomás Saraceno

Stillness in Motion: Cloud Cities Through May 21

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 A Slow Succession with

Many Interruptions Through Apr 2

An exhibition drawn from the museum’s collection highlighting many works on view for the first time by contemporary artists including Trisha Donnelly, Doris Salcedo, and Danh Vo.

19 William Kentridge The Refusal of TimeThrough Apr 2

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.

Background photos: © Henrik Kam. Neal Benezra photo: Katherine Du Tiel. Cafe 5 photo: Albert Law. Artwork illustrations: Adam Simpson.

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, Fragmente (Fragments), 1937; collection SFMOMA, gift of Wilbur D. May. 3) William Allan, Traveling in Strange Circles, 1973; collection SFMOMA, gift of the Women’s Board. 4) Gary Simmons, Time Peace I, 1997; collection SFMOMA, gift of Vicki and Kent Logan. 5) Andrea Geyer, Research Sketch (Grace Morley / The Ladder), Title title llama; image: courtesy the artist. 6) Diane Arbus, Jack Dracula at a bar, New London, Conn. 1961; © The Estate of Diane Arbus, LLC. All Rights Reserved; photo: courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Mike Mandel, Baseball-Photographer Trading Card #88 (Imogen Cunningham), 1975; image: courtesy the artist. 7) Lieko Shiga, Tomlinson FC, from the series Lilly, 2005; collection SFMOMA, gift of the Kurenboh Collection; and Lar-ry Sultan, Woman in Curlers, from the series The Valley, 2002; courtesy the Estate of Larry Sultan. 8) Alexander Calder, Double Gong, 1953; the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 9) Jimenez Lai, insideoutsidebetweenbeyond, 2014; collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund purchase. 10) Richard Diebenkorn, Seated Woman, 1967; collection of Gretchen and John Berggruen. 11) Ellsworth Kelly, Cité, 1951; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Doris and Donald Fisher

Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and promised gift of Helen and Charles Schwab. 12) Park McArthur, How to get a wheelchair over sand, 2013; courtesy the artist and Essex Street, New York. 13) Roy Lichtenstein, Live Ammo (Tzing!), 1962; the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 14) Antony Gormley, Quantum Cloud VIII, 1999; the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 15) Walter De Maria, Large Rod Series: Circle/Rectangle 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 1986; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for Major Accessions) and the Dallas Museum of Art (TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art Fund). 16) 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) Paulina Olowska, A Portrait of the Artist – Indoors, 2012; collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund purchase; 19) William Kentridge, The Refusal of Time, 2012; jointly owned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (purchase, by exchange, through an anonymous gift and the K. Hart Smith Trust) and The Met-ropolitan Museum of Art, New York; photo: The Metropoli-tan 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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20 Runa Islam VersoThrough Apr 2

A solo exhibition including two film installations that explore the materiality of film and its relationship to sculpture.

Please note: Floor 7 will be temporarily closed for installation after April 2.

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On the EdgeArt of CaliforniaThrough July 16

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