San Francisco. Founded 1935, the first West Coast museum devoted to modern and contemporary art; the Snøhetta expansion (2016) wrapped Mario Botta’s 1995 building. Deep holdings in Abstract Expressionism, color field, and minimalism.
Grows from
My own growth, not where Namjoon pointed. A place I visit on my own.
The door - why it matters
(fill in: which visit, which rooms, what kept pulling me back over the years.)
Encountered here
- Night Sea - Agnes Martin, 1963.
- Untitled (Golden) - Felix Gonzalez-Torres, 1995 (co-owned with the Guggenheim and the Art Institute of Chicago).
- Untitled - Morris Louis, 1959.
Related
- RM × SFMOMA Between You and Me - Namjoon’s 2023 audio guide at this museum. His pointer landed on the works he chose, not the building; I’d been coming here on my own before that.