SFMOMA: Vija Celmins
Vija Celmins on her life in art, her source materials – from the kitchen counter to the cosmos – and her enduring obsession with “redescribing” the world around her.
SFMOMA: Don’t Believe the Doubters
Artist Etel Adnan has dedicated her life to creating poetry and visual art. Here she explains how she began working in those mediums and what she sees as the unique […]
SFMOMA: Mesmerizing Aerial Photos
Artist Jananne Al-Ani discusses how war reportage has contributed to Western representations of the Middle East as a largely uninhabited desert region. Her work Shadow Sites II (2011) presents aerial […]
SFMOMA: Eternal Last Breath
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer discusses Last Breath (2012), a mechanical sculpture that captures the breath of a given person in an imperfect attempt to retain their presence even after they have passed […]
SFMOMA: Future Flying Cities
Argentinian artist and architect Tomas Saraceno discusses his installation at SFMOMA, Stillness in Motion—Cloud Cities (2016). He describes how the piece illustrates his vision of “future flying cities” built in […]
SFMOMA: Alica McCarthy
Artist Alicia McCarthy explains why she decided to reserve space in her 2017 SECA Art Award presentation at SFMOMA for work by the late Aaron Curry, known on the street […]
SFMOMA: Boiler Room Symphony
Artist Bill Fontana takes us to the source of his SFMOMA-commissioned sound installation Sonic Shadows (2010): the museum’s boiler room.
Artist Cribs: Hung Liu
Chinese-American painter Hung Liu takes us inside her Oakland studio where we get a glimpse at colorful works in progress. She shows us her table of catalogs used to reflect […]
SFMOMA: Photos From Adult Film Sets
Photographer Larry Sultan considers his series The Valley (1997–2003), for which he made pictures of ordinary homes that were used as sets for pornographic films.
SFMOMA: Absurd Thoughts
In her Brooklyn studio, Dana Schutz imagines the moment when a painting becomes “more than just material, and more than just a picture.” She describes how her paintings begin as […]
