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.
SFMOMA: Photography is Not the Truth
Artist John Baldessari had an epiphany that led him from painting to photography and deeply informed his notorious sense of humor and visual style. He went on to challenge the […]
SFMOMA: Photographing the Sex Pistols
Bay Area photographer Michael Jang discusses his experience capturing both local and famous punk bands on film—including the Sex Pistols, who played their final concert in San Francisco in 1978. […]
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: Robert Frank
In this rare interview, photographer Robert Frank discusses his seminal book The Americans (1958). He reflects on specific images from the series and gives insight into his process at the […]
SFMOMA: Camera Obscura
Artist Abelardo Morell reimagines scenery by turning entire rooms into camera obscuras – effectively merging interior and exterior spaces – and then photographing the results. He discusses how he developed […]
SFMOMA: Electromagnetic Landscape
Sound artist Christina Kubisch describes how she discovered electromagnetic induction, the phenomenon at the core of her work Electrical Walks San Francisco (2017), created for SFMOMA’s exhibition Soundtracks.
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 […]
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: 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.
