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  Encyclopedia: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (or SFMOMA) is a major modern art museum and San Francisco landmark.
A museum is typically a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their environment.
The Asian Art Museum is housed in the west wing of the de Young.
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 Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
The exhibition was co-presented in San Francisco at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.
The exhibition was organized by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and the Honolulu Academy of Arts.
International symposium on Chinese art and archaeology, sponsored by the Society for Asian Art as a tribute to the Shanghai Museum and Asian Art Museum and to commemorate the Society's 25th anniversary.
www.asianart.org /pastexhibitions.htm   (1557 words)

  
 San francisco museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is one of the largest museums in the Western...
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco - devoted to the arts and cultures of Asia....
SFMOMA, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, is the institutional anchor ofthe Yerba Buena arts and entertainment redevelopment around the Moscone...
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 SFMOMA TURNS 10 / Initially imposing, the museum now fits nicely on a bustling block. And it's a great place to view ...
When SFMOMA opened, this atrium embodied a larger flaw in the overall design: It was trying too hard to put the museum on the international map.
Botta and the local firm he worked with, the San Francisco office of Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, brought a rare thoroughness and integrity to the project; the result is a structure that places the same importance on small details as on large gestures.
Botta gave the museum a vivid new identity that is monumental, practical and fittingly modern.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/01/13/DDGIGAOKO51.DTL   (1609 words)

  
 Art in America: David Ross Quits SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included
Ross told the San Francisco Chronicle that he had decided to look for opportunities in the for-profit world (his reported annual salary at the museum was $393,000).
Ross took the San Francisco position at a time of prosperity and growth for the museum, and in the early stages of an aggressive acquisitions campaign.
Rauschenberg also presented the museum with a 63-foot-long, 97-sheet transfer drawing, Hiccups (1978), in honor of SFMOMA trustee Phyllis Wattis, a committed philanthropist who has underwritten, in whole or in part many of the most ambitious recent acquisitions.
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 Artcom Museums Tour: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA
SFMOMA is also widely known for its collection of Southern California art; for the important promised gift of works by Paul Klee from the Djerassi Art Trust; and for its very active contemporary art acquisitions program.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a privately funded museum supported by its members, individual contributors to the Donor Circle, and corporate and foundation funders in the Donor Council.
SFMOMA members and children 12 and under (children must be accompanied by an adult) are admitted free.
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 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - March 2000
SFMOMA, founded in 1935, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exists to collect, preserve, present, and interpret the best of contemporary and modern art for the purpose of enriching people's lives through aesthetic and learning experiences.
SFMOMA has distinguished itself as one of the leading museums internationally exploring art-making and arts education in digital media and the World Wide Web.
SFMOMA has pioneered the exploration of design using digital media and is the only museum in the United States to acquire Web sites for its permanent collection of design.
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 Charity Navigator Rating - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a dynamic center for modern and contemporary art.
The Museum strives to engage and inspire a diverse range of audiences by pursuing an innovative program of exhibitions, education, publications, and collections activities.
Opened in 1935, SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to twentieth-century art.
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 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art:0918471591:Garrels, Gary:eCampus.com
Mario Botta's new building for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opened in 1995 and became an instant architectural landmark.
There is a brief illustrated story of the Museum's illustrious 65 year history and a grand pictorial tour of its interior.
As Mario Botta says: In museums, the real challenge is to discover that perfect balance where the architecture and art enrich one another.
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 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco- SF sightseeing attractions-Must See San Francisco
The first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art, the San Francisco Museum of Art opened in 1935 under the direction of Grace L. McCann Morley.
The Museum, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1985, rose to international prominence under the leadership of Henry T. Hopkins (1974–86).
He was particularly interested in artists exploring the intersection of art and technology, a theme carried out in such exhibitions as Bill Viola, Seeing Time: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection of Media Art and the groundbreaking 010101: Art in Technological Times.
www.mustseesanfrancisco.com /attractions/sf-museum-of-modern-art.html   (202 words)

  
 Wired News: Museum Offers Webby Art Award
The digital art award is the first in a planned series of cash prizes for individual achievement that the Webbys plans to roll out over the next few months.
SFMOMA will host an international symposium focusing on online art on 13 May with exhibitions of creative work in the medium.
Even with San Francisco's high cost of living, she said, the prize money could enable an artist to invest in new technology tools or even support themselves for a year or two while they're creating new work.
www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,34414,00.html   (492 words)

  
 San Francisco California Museums including MOMA Deyoung Legion of Honor Monet Picasso
Instead of a typical "art filled box" - the new architecture from Pierre de Meuron and Jacques Herzog is a seamless joy to explore.
The re-opened museum is built at the same site as its earthquake damaged predecessor at the east end of Golden Gate Park near the music concourse.
The art museum includes a basement gallery for special exhibits; two floors of permanent exhibits; and a 144 foot high tower with an observation deck.
www.sftravel.com /museum.html   (480 words)

  
 Bill Viola and the SF MOMA at The Take
Standing on the second balcony of the museum, a silhouette that is recognizably that of the director, David Ross, looks out onto the couple thousand of people that seem to be trashing his museum.
A lot of people have obviously come to the museum to really get down, but it is sad to see that they cannot move anything but their upper bodies.
Stan says the parties that happen at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art are usually more grandiose than the one taking place this evening of July 10, 1999.
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Inside Out: New Chinese Art is the first major international exhibition to explore how these challenges have spurred artists in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, as well as artists who have emigrated to the West in the late 1980s, to produce an astonishing stream of mold-breaking works.
The exhibition catalogue is co-published by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Asia Society Galleries, and the University of California Press.
Through art exhibitions and performances, films, lectures, seminars and conferences, publications and assistance to the media, and materials and programs for students and teachers, the Asia Society presents the uniqueness and diversity of Asia to the American people.
www.ps1.org /press/INSIDE.DOC   (1482 words)

  
 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Increases Functionality with Magic HelpDeskIQ
In addition, SFMOMA technicians are now able to directly dialogue via email to communicate a request, elevate the issue to the appropriate technician, and resolve the inquiry, while keeping all parties informed via its automatic email integration.
Established in 1935 as the first West Coast institution devoted to modern art, SFMOMA offers dramatic encounters with an outstanding collection and an exciting array of internationally important artists and exhibitions.
In its four floors of spacious galleries, the museum presents modern and contemporary painting and sculpture, photography, architecture and design, and media arts.
www.remedy.com /corporate/press/PR_SFMOMA_US_4-20-04_US.html   (794 words)

  
 Images of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, by Mario Botta. Digital Imaging Project: Art historical images of ...
Images of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, by Mario Botta.
Digital Imaging Project: Art historical images of European and North American architecture and sculpture from classical Greek to Post-modern.
This art museum is in the middle of the block across from the Yerba Buena Gardens and Art Center.
www.bluffton.edu /~sullivanm/sfmoma/sfmoma.html   (248 words)

  
 Larry Sultan: The Valley - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - Absolutearts.com
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presents Larry Sultan: The Valley, an exhibition of photographs by Bay Area artist Larry Sultan that looks at the transformation of middle-class suburban homes into stage sets for adult films.
On recent excursions to the San Fernando Valley, Sultan noticed that ordinary houses in the vicinity were being rented for a few days at a time to be used as sets for adult films.
Raised in the San Fernando Valley, Larry Sultan studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, and though he has made Northern California his home, his work has consistently engaged the culture of Southern California.
www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2004/05/10/32036.html   (947 words)

  
 SF Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), San Francisco, CA
Currently, SFMOMA is displaying the art of Richard Tuttle in an exhibit that runs through October 16, 2005.
The museum was created in 1935 but moved to its current location in the South of Market neighborhood in 1995.
San Francisco is home of one of the most thriving and diverse arts communities in the United States.
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 Extensive exhibition on Roy Lichtenstein at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
In analogy to his first Pop Art paintings, which had been reproductions of comic strip images, this series were based on catalogues, ads and pictures from the yellow pages.
Although Lichtenstein was a foremost member of the Pop Art movement that challenged traditional definitions of art in the 1960s, he wasn’t quite as famous as others like Andy Warhol for example.
SFMOMA 151 Third Street (between Mission and Howard Streets) San Francisco, CA 94103-3159 Tel:415.357.4000 www.sfmoma.org.
www.laprensa-sandiego.org /archieve/december17-04/roy.htm   (819 words)

  
 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) | Museum/Attraction Review | San Francisco | Frommers.com
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
The museum's permanent collection consists of more than 23,000 works, including close to 5,000 paintings and sculptures by artists such as Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, and Willem de Kooning.
MOMA was one of the first museums to recognize photography as a major art form; its extensive collection includes more than 12,000 photographs by such notables as Ansel Adams, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
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 MoMA.org | Exhibitions | 1997 | de Kooning   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
With the exception of a relatively small number of works that were shown in museums and galleries during the past decade, few of these paintings have been seen by the general or even specialized art public.
The exhibition was organized by Gary Garrels, Elise S. Haas Chief Curator and Curator of Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, in association with the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and coordinated for The Museum of Modern Art by Robert Storr, Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture.
Panel discussions and lectures, for both Museum members and the general public, are planned in conjunction with the exhibition.
www.moma.org /exhibitions/1997/dekooning   (264 words)

  
 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - FileMaker
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - FileMaker
Located in a striking building in San Francisco's burgeoning SOMA district, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art prides itself on its creative and innovative approach to the presentation of art, showcasing outstanding modern painters, sculptors, photographers, and architects in a continuing series of focused exhibitions.
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 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Hotels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
San Francisco Hotels Inc. offers the lowest rates on hotels near the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Opened in 1995, this museum houses a permanent collection of over 15,000 works, including 4,700 paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and 9,000 photographs.
The museum has exhibited the works of Matisse, Diebenkorn, Dorothea Lange, Klee, Cindy Sherman, and many contemporary artists.
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 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - de Young - Legion of Honor
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) is the city's largest public arts institution.
Comprising the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor, FAMSF is also the city's most successful public/private partnership.
Although a designated city department, most of the Museum's operational funding and all funding for art acquisitions and exhibitions are raised privately.
www.famsf.org   (118 words)

  
 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Reduces Costs and Improves Communications With a Simple-to-Man - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is one the country's largest modern and contemporary art museums and a top attraction in one of the nation's most visited cities.
In additions, SFMOMA has also implemented Avaya's Extension-to-Cellular capabilities which allow the user's cellular phone to ring simultaneously when the desk phone is dialed, reducing missed calls and time spent waiting by the phone.
SFMOMA relied on the integration expertise of Quagga, a Gold certified Avaya BusinessPartner and an Extreme Networks Solutions Partner, to help design and integrate the new network and IP telephony communications infrastructure.
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 ipedia.com: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a museum in San Francisco, California, of Mario Botta architect, dedicated to modern art.
At that time, it was the only modern art museum o...
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a museum in San Francisco, California, of Mario Botta architect, dedicated to modern art.
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 Alibris: San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art
This striking volume coincides with a groundbreaking exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
010101 is the brilliant exhibition catalog from the San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art's groundbreaking show "Art In Technological times." This insightful publication outlines the eclectic breadth of artworks included in 010101 and documents the unique moment in the history of art to which they belong.
by Hultén, Karl Gunnar Pontus, and Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), and University of St. Thomas, and San Francisco Museum of Art
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