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Summer 2016

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Director’s Picks

Welcome to our newly expanded museum. If you only have time for a short visit, here are some of my favorite artworks and architectural features, 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

Donald Judd, Copper armchair Floor 4

Diane Arbus Gallery 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

Jeff Koons, Large Vase of Flowers Floor 7

Floor 1

1 Richard Serra, Sequence Ongoing

Walk through the interlocking ellipses of this monumental free-standing sculpture.

Floor 2

2 Art of Northern California Three ViewsThrough Nov 30

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.

3 The Campaign for Art Drawings, Part I Through Sept 18

American and European drawings, collages, and other works on paper made from 1914 through the 1970s.

4 Learning to Love You MoreThrough Aug 21

Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July’s web-based participatory artwork, curated here by Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan of THE THING Quarterly, comprises selected submissions from people who responded to their creative assignments.

5 Open Ended Painting and Sculpture since 1900Through June 2017

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.

Exhibitions On View 6 Paul Klee in ColorThrough Sept 30

Paintings and watercolors by Swiss-born modern-ist Paul Klee (1879–1940) that explore his intuitive and theoretical approaches to color.

Floor 3

7 About Time Photography in a Moment of ChangeThrough Sept 25

This thematic exhibition investigates how pho-tography has profoundly reflected, inflected, and transformed our perception of time over its 180-year history.

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 California and the WestPhotography from the Campaign for Art

Through Sept 5

Newly donated gifts that reveal evolving attitudes toward nature—from nature as spiritual resource to depictions of land use—and explore the medium as a resource in itself.

10 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 4

11 Approaching American AbstractionThe Fisher CollectionThrough June 2017

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

12 The Campaign for Art Modern and ContemporaryThrough Sept 18

New and promised gifts of exceptional paintings, sculptures, video- and performance-based works, architecture, design, and photography.

13 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.

Floor 5

14 British Sculptors The Fisher CollectionThrough August 2017

More than forty years of diverse sculpture by artists born or residing in Great Britain.

15 Claudy Jongstra, AardeThrough April 2, 2017

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

16 Pop, Minimal, and Figurative ArtThe Fisher CollectionThrough June 2017

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

Floor 6

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.

18 Typeface to InterfaceGraphic 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.

Floor 7

19 The Campaign for Art ContemporaryThrough Oct 30

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

20 Film as PlaceThrough Oct 30

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

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Experience the Art for Our TimeTours + Programs Stop by the Information Desk on Floor 2 or check our digital monitors for details on public tours (offered several times daily), as well as lectures, screenings, and other programs available the day of your visit.

Accessibility Ask our staff about accessibility services, including large-print guides and assisted-listening devices. On-loan wheelchairs, strollers, and cane seats are available free of charge at Coat Check on Floors 1 and 2. Gallery Guidelines+ Personal, noncommercial photography is allowed (except

where marked). No flashes, tripods, selfie sticks, or videog-raphy. Please enjoy the art with your eyes, not your hands.

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Background photos: © Henrik Kam. Neal Benezra photo: Rory Earnshaw. Illustrations: Adam Simpson

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

Floor 1 | Open daily 9 a.m.–6 p.m. and Thursdays 9 a.m.–9:30 p.m.

Satellite Store Shop SFMOMA-branded items, as well as an exclusive assortment of collection and exhibition merchandise.

Floor 2 | Open daily 9 a.m.–5 p.m. and Thursdays 9 a.m.–9 p.m.

Eat + DrinkIn Situ Chef Corey Lee, recipient of three Michelin stars, curates a menu of dishes by chefs from around the world.

Floor 1 | Opening June 2016 Confirm hours of operation at the Information Desk.

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

Floor 5 | Open daily 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

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

Floor 3 | Open daily 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

Exhibitions image credits: 1) Richard Serra, Sequence, 2006; the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; photo: © Henrik Kam. 2) Joan Brown, After the Alcatraz Swim #1, 1975; promised gift of Maryellen and Frank Herringer. 3) William T. Wiley, I Wish I Could Have Known Earlier that You Have All the Time You’ll Ever Need Right Up to the Day You Die, 1970; collection SFMOMA, gift of Brenda Richardson. 4) Assignment #27, Take a pic-ture of the sun, Ryn, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, from the archive of Learning to Love You More, Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July, 2002–9. 5) Henri Matisse, Femme au chapeau (Woman with a Hat), 1905; collection SFMOMA, bequest of Elise S. Haas. 6) Paul Klee, Untitled [recto], 1940; collection SFMOMA, gift of the Djerassi Art Trust. 7) Dawoud Bey, Betty Selvage and Faith Speights, from The Birmingham Project, 2012; promised gift of Courtnay Haden. 8) Alexander Calder, Double Gong, 1953; the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 9) Carleton E. Watkins, Yosemite Falls, View from the Bottom, Yosemite, ca. 1878; gift of Helen and Charles Schwab through the Art Supporting Foundation. 10) Snøhetta, SFMOMA Expansion Study Model #21, 2010; courtesy Snøhetta; photo: Katherine Du Tiel. 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) Jackson Pollock, Black and White (Number 6), 1951; promised gift of Helen and Charles Schwab. 13) Leonor Antunes, I Stand Before You Like a Mirror, 2015; New Museum, New York; photo: Mary Hutchinson. 14) Antony Gormley, Quantum Cloud VIII, 1999; the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 15) Claudy Jongstra, Aarde (detail 2), 2016; collection SFMOMA. 16) Roy Lichtenstein, Live Ammo (Tzing!), 1962; the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 17) Gerhard Richter, Janus, 1983; the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 18) Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, San Francisco Museum of Art pro-gram guide, August 1965; collection SFMOMA; gift of the artist. 19) Jeff Koons, Large Vase of Flowers, 1991; promised gift of Norah and Norman Stone in honor of John Caldwell, curator of painting and sculpture (1989–93). 20) Jananne Al-Ani, Shadow Sites II (still), 2011; jointly owned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Accessions Committee Fund purchase) and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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