**This class will be taught on Zoom**
In May 2016, SFMOMA reopened with a 10-story, addition more than doubling its space. On view are more than 200 core works from the Fisher collection by nearly 70 artists. The lineup includes works by Alexander Calder, Gerhard Richter, Cy Twombly, Roy Lichtenstein, Joan Mitchell, Agnes Martin and Ellsworth Kelly. While the Fisher collection has star presence, the rest of the galleries are showcasing about 1000 works from the museum’s own collection. This course will include a brief history of the Museum from its first 1935 permanent home in the War Memorial Veterans Building, located in the city’s Civic Center to its 1995 Mario Botta building, and finally to its newly expanded 10-story, Snohetta designed addition (instantly making SFMOMA one of the best collections of modern and contemporary art in the country). Truly an exciting time for Modern Art in the Bay Area. We’ll also explore three site specific works, commissioned by SFMOMA, Kara Walker’s Garden of automatons, Fortuna and the Immortality Garden, (Machine), Julie Mehretu’s site-specific diptych, Howl, and Barbara Stauffacher Solomon’s large-scale, “supergraphics” commission for SFMOMA’s lobby, Strips of Stripes.
