nüsfmoma

So I fi­nal­ly got to vis­it the re­cent­ly re­opened San Fran­cis­co Mu­se­um of Mod­ern Art.

It’s been closed for a few years – while a new build­ing by Nor­we­gian ar­chi­tects Snøhet­ta was con­struct­ed to com­pli­ment the 1988 fire­plug de­sign by Mario Bot­ta.

Now larg­er than the New York’s MoMA, San Fran­cis­co’s new white art build­ing grows and oozes with­in the cityscape.

I head­ed out with friends Lau­ra and Tay­lor – us­ing the free en­try for vis­i­tors 18 and un­der deal to get in. We en­tered thru the first lev­el, which comes across as very business‑y: Seat­ing area, grand stair­case, coat check and gift store. Tick­ets are now avail­able on the sec­ond floor. 

Sim­i­lar to the NY Guggen­heim, we set out to ex­plore from the top on down.

The sev­enth floor is filled with con­tem­po­rary and me­dia arts. There was also a sculp­ture ter­race that only has two stat­ues, but also an amaz­ing view.

One of the ex­hi­bi­tions on view is Film as Place,  an in­ter­ac­tive new me­dia ex­pe­ri­ence with five artists look­ing at the con­cept of place ‘from a va­ri­ety of tem­po­ral and ge­o­graph­i­cal angles.’

The rest of the sev­enth floor hous­es a bunch of con­tem­po­rary pieces that had been col­lect­ed through the museum’s Cam­paign for Art. The works were in a va­ri­ety of medi­ums that re­flect the di­ver­si­ty of art be­ing made af­ter 1980.

The sixth floor has an ex­hi­bi­tion called Type­face to In­ter­face.

This show dis­plays graph­ic de­sign pieces from the SFMOMA’s col­lec­tion. Graph­ic de­sign is what I’m study­ing in school – so it’s great to see an in­cred­i­ble col­lec­tion with a strong em­pha­sis on typography.

The oth­er ex­hi­bi­tion on the sixth floor is Ger­man Art af­ter 1960 from the Doris and Don­ald Fish­er col­lec­tion. Artists shown in­clude Georg Baselitz, Bernd and Hilla Bech­er, Anselm Kiefer, Sig­mar Polke, and Ger­hard Richter.

The fifth floor was by far my fa­vorite. There is a Pop, Min­i­mal and Fig­u­ra­tive Art on­go­ing show, and a British Sculp­tors ex­hi­bi­tion. There was also a café and sculp­ture gar­den, as well as the Ocu­lus Bridge – re­al­ly ex­cit­ing to walk across. The sculp­tures were very big and made the gal­leries come to life.

I was also very at­tract­ed to the flu­o­res­cent light pieces. Dan Flavin and Bruce Nauman’s pieces lit­er­al­ly lit up the room.

Oth­er artists fea­tured on this floor in­clude Chuck Close, Wayne Thiebaud, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol among others.

The sec­ond floor hous­es the ‘flomm’ stuff. Paint­ing and Sculp­ture Since 1900 has the Mod­erns: Ma­tisse, Duchamp, Mon­dri­an, Al­bers and MOR.

Over­all, it was cool to be able to vis­it the nüsf­mo­ma – and be­ing young helps one get in free. 

Re­mem­ber to plan your trip ahead of time, the place was re­al­ly crowded.

The San Fran­cis­co Mu­se­um of Mod­ern Art is lo­cat­ed at 151 Third Street, San Fran­cis­co, Cal­i­for­nia [map] and is open dai­ly from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. and Thurs­days un­til 9 p.m.

 
 

—mon­i­ca odeh

Flom­mist Mon­i­ca Odeh is an artist, pho­tog­ra­ph­er and 18-year-old design/advertising stu­dent. Copy­right © 2016 Mon­i­ca Odeh. Ad­di­tion­al pho­tos culled from the SF­MO­MA web­site.

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