Last fall I taught a course called “Queer Modernism” at California College of the Arts. As a class project, my students traced a queer itinerary through the permanent collection at SFMOMA, culminating in a queer audio tour of the museum’s holdings. Eac... »
Last fall I taught a course called “Queer Modernism” at California College of the Arts. As a class project, my students traced a queer itinerary through the permanent collection at SFMOMA, culminating in a queer audio tour of the museum’s holdings. E... »
Once I finally saw through that Easter Bunny scam, I determined never again to put my faith into any of the known rites of spring—that’s Easter, Passover, Nowruz and Major League Baseball by my watch. But time heals all wounds. And with the arrival of ... »
Last fall I taught a course called “Queer Modernism” at California College of the Arts. As a class project, my students traced a queer itinerary through the permanent collection at SFMOMA, culminating in a queer audio tour of the museum’s holdings. E... »
Last fall, I taught a course called “Queer Modernism” at California College of the Arts. As a class project, my students traced a queer itinerary through the permanent collection at SFMOMA, culminating in a queer audiotour of the museum’s holdings. Ea... »
[Five questions to SFMOMA artists, staff, or guests. Ruth Laskey is a winner of the 2010 SECA Art Award, and her work is on view in the fifth-floor galleries.] Do you collect anything? No. But I have a lot of books. If you could steal any artwork in th... »
Last fall, I taught a course called “Queer Modernism” at California College of the Arts. We focused on marginalized schools such as magic realism and neo-romanticism; figurative practices such as portraiture; queer inflections of abstraction; creative ... »
In conjunction with Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards, we’ve restyled our weekly in-gallery talks with a superb lineup of past SECA Art awardees. Each Thursday at 6:30pm an artist talks about something on view. Last week, Maria Porges (1992 ... »
Last month, January 19th to be exact, I convinced a friend to come with me to an exhibition at California College of the Arts’ Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art to see Baldessari Class Assignments (Optional). I’d been overhearing, and participatin... »
When I saw this sculpture, crafted out of handmade paper, hanging in an alcove at California College of the Arts a few years ago, it stopped me in my tracks. The piece, with its multiple formal, material, and conceptual references to cycles, exemplif... »
Though I first encountered them when I was barely 20, few artists since have made as strong an emotional and physical impact on me as Ana Mendieta and Francesca Woodman. I suppose one could write this off as the romantic over-identification of a young ... »
Do you collect anything? One of the things that I collect was actually inspired by an exhibition that we had here at SFMOMA about 10 years ago called California Pottery; that's where I learned to love Bauer ringware pottery. I have several small bowls ... »
from Jessica Brier: It is unusual to think of an artist as contemporary, of our own moment, years after her death. Even more unusual is a museum exhibition that focuses on work made in art school and as the artist was just beginning to develop a practi... »
