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Exhibitions (9) View all

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  Luc Tuymans

  February 06 - May 02, 2010
  

  Influenced by the Northern European painting tradition as well as by photography, television, and cinema, Luc Tuymans blends filmic techniques with a mastery of painting to explore…

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  The View from Here

  January 16 - June 27, 2010
  

  Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has played a key role in the history of…

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  Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection

  January 16 - May 23, 2010
  

  In Bruce Conner's electric THREE SCREEN RAY (2006), a new acquisition that premieres in this exhibition, Ray Charles's 1959 hit song "What'd I Say" is set to an ecstatic,…

Talks + Events (2)

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  Courses

  Pickpocket Almanack: Spring 2010

  Enrollment for the spring season begins February 15, 2010.
  Courses take place between February 22 and May 30, 2010.

  The Pickpocket Almanack is an experimental school-without-walls.  Each season, a temporary faculty of artists, curators, writers and filmmakers create courses by selecting…

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  Curator Talk

  Janet Bishop on Jeff Koons's Michael Jackson and Bubbles

  Thursday, March 11, 2010
  6:30 p.m.
  

  Janet Bishop, curator of painting and sculpture, SFMOMA

  Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators or specialists shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes.

Film (1)

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  Film Screening

  Bush Mama

  Thursday, March 11, 2010
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Water Ritual #1: An Urban Rite of Purification, Barbara McCullough, 1979, 4 min., DVD
  Bush Mama, Haile Gerima, 1976, 97 min., 16mm
  Introduction by Billy Woodberry, filmmaker
  Curated by Bérénice Reynaud and Irina Leimbacher

  Ethiopian-born Haile Gerima was not yet 30 when he completed Bush Mama, an early manifesto of the "Los Angeles Rebellion" of black filmmakers who were influenced by…

Video Screenings (3)

• Daily Video Screenings

  Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

  Daily (except Wednesdays), 2:00 p.m.

  Chuck Workman, 1990, 87 min.

• Daily Video Screenings

  Luc Tuymans: Early Film Excerpts

  Daily (except Wednesdays), 1:00 p.m. and 1:30 p.m.
  Thursdays: 6:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.

  Luc Tuymans, 1980-81, 15 min.

  Tuymans stopped painting between 1980 and 1985, instead experimenting with filmmaking. This compilation, created especially for Tuymans's U.S. retrospective, consists of Super-8…

• Daily Video Screenings

  Art:21 — Art in the Twenty-first Century: Systems

  Daily (except Wednesdays), 4:00 p.m.

  Featuring John Baldessari and Julie Mehretu

  Art:21, 2009, 60 min.

Tours (7) View all

• Public Tours

  Daily Tours

  Daily (except Wednesdays): 11:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m., and 2:30 p.m.
  Thursdays: 7:15 p.m.

  See the museum from a new perspective. Topics change daily for these free tours led by SFMOMA docents. The 1:30 tour will focus on Luc Tuymans through May 2, 2010.

• Audio Tour

  Art in the Atrium: Kerry James Marshall

  Available daily

  Artist Marshall lends his voice to this audio guide that explores his mural commission in SFMOMA's Haas Atrium.

  Available for download to your personal MP3 player in an audio only…

• Audio Tour

  Rooftop Garden Audio Tour

  Available daily through May 2, 2010

  Available in English only.

  Get some fresh air and a fresh look at art as artists and curators guide you on an exploration of sculptures in SFMOMA's Rooftop Garden.

  Available for download to your personal MP3…

For Members (1)

• Member Tour

  Members-Only Docent Tours

  Sundays, February 7, March 7, and April 4, 2010
  2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

  Join us for special docent-led tours for members. Meet at the membership desk.