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40-583: The museum was founded in 1935 with galleries in the Veterans Building in Civic Center . In 1995, the museum opened in its Mario Botta -designed home in the SoMa district . On May 14, 2016, following a three-year-long closure for a major expansion project by Snøhetta architects, the museum re-opened to the public with more than double the gallery space and almost six times as much public space as

80-560: A competition to design the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's new structure in Downtown. Semifinalists included Charles Moore and Tadao Ando . The three finalists were to present site-specific design proposals later that year, but the museum canceled its architectural competition after only a month and went with the 45-year-old Botta. The new museum, planned in association with architects Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum ,

120-1018: A current list of all trustees. The Director of SFMOMA is Christopher Bedford , who was appointed in 2022. Previous Directors include Grace Morley (1935–1958), George D. Culler (1958–1965), Gerald Nordland (1966–1972), Henry T. Hopkins (1974–1986), John R. Lane (1987–1997), David A. Ross (1998–2001), and Neal Benezra (2002–2022). Jackson Pollock had his first museum show at SFMOMA, as did Clyfford Still and Arshile Gorky . The museum has in its collection important works by Ansel Adams , Joan Brown , Jerome Caja , Alexander Calder , Jay DeFeo , Richard Diebenkorn , Marcel Duchamp , Jess , Frida Kahlo , Anselm Kiefer , Ellsworth Kelly , Paul Klee , Dorothea Lange , Agnes Martin , Henri Matisse , Richard Mayhew , Jean Metzinger , Joan Mitchell , Chiura Obata , David Park , Jackson Pollock , Gerhard Richter , Diego Rivera , Mark Rothko , Richard Serra , Frank Stella , Clyfford Still , Wayne Thiebaud , Cy Twombly , and Andy Warhol , among others. Presentation of

160-485: A glass pavilion for dining. The larger sculpture garden affords views of the city skyline, dominated by the imposing art deco facade of the 140 New Montgomery skyscraper. In 2009, in response to significant growth in the museum's audiences and collections since the opening of the 1995 building, SFMOMA announced plans to expand. A shortlist released in May 2010 included four architecture firms officially under consideration for

200-494: A period of 100 years. In 2009, SFMOMA announced plans for a major expansion to accommodate its growing audiences, programs, and collections and to showcase the Doris and Donald Fisher collection of contemporary art. In 2010—the museum's 75th anniversary year—architecture firm Snøhetta was selected to design a major addition. SFMOMA closed to the public and broke ground for its expansion in May 2013, re-opening three years later. During

240-531: A place and occur at the Center. The complex was developed in the 1920s on two blocks on Van Ness Avenue facing San Francisco City Hall from the west. The "War Memorial" name commemorates all the people who served in the First World War , which ended seven years before the project commenced. It was designed by Arthur Brown Jr in 1927-1928, and is one of the last Beaux-Arts style structures erected in

280-903: A wall relief by Claes Oldenburg . In January 1995 the museum opened its current location at 151 Third Street , adjacent to Yerba Buena Gardens in the SOMA district. Mario Botta , a Swiss architect from Canton Ticino , designed the new US$ 60 million facility. SFMOMA made a number of important acquisitions under the direction of David A. Ross (1998–2001), who had been recruited from the Whitney Museum in New York, including works by Ellsworth Kelly , Robert Rauschenberg , René Magritte , and Piet Mondrian , as well as Marcel Duchamp ’s iconic Fountain (1917/1964). Those and acquisitions of works by Jasper Johns , Mark Rothko , Francis Bacon , Alexander Calder , Chuck Close and Frank Stella put

320-849: Is restricted to images and objects in the collections of SFMOMA that are free of copyright. San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center The San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center ( SFWMPAC ) is located in San Francisco, California . It is one of the largest performing arts centers in the United States . It covers 7.5 acres (3 hectares ) in the Civic Center Historic District, and totals 7,500 seats among its venues. Opera , symphony , modern and classical dance , theatre , recitals , plays , lectures , meetings , receptions , special screenings , and gala events all have

360-527: The Peace Treaty with Japan (commonly called "Treaty of San Francisco"), formally ending World War II hostilities with Japan, was signed in the Opera House. The Center has been host to U.S. presidents and foreign heads of state. In 1990 the Center was chosen to host the first Goldman Environmental Prize ceremony, and this prize is now presented annually at the Center. The following venues make up

400-524: The Botta staircase was removed. The expanded building includes a large-scale vertical garden on the third floor, purported to be the biggest public living wall of native plants in San Francisco; the large, free-access Roberts Family Gallery on the ground-floor gallery facing Howard Street , with 25-foot (7.6 m) glass walls that place art on view to passersby; a double-height "white box" space on

440-628: The San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center—SFWMPAC: The War Memorial Opera House , or the Opera House, with 3,146 seats, was built in 1932 as part of the original War Memorial Building. It has been the home of the San Francisco Opera since 1932, as well as the San Francisco Ballet . Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall opened in 1980 and, with 2,743 seats, is the major symphony hall of

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480-654: The United States at the time. The building achieved LEED Gold certification, with 15% energy-cost reduction, 30% water-use reduction, and 20% reduction in wastewater generation. The SFMOMA Board or Trustees is chaired by Robert J. Fisher ; its president is Diana Nelson. Artist Trustees are Tucker Nichols and Carrie Mae Weems . Past Artist Trustees, who normally serve for three years, include (beginning in 2006) Robert Bechtle Larry Sultan , Yves Béhar , Ed Ruscha , Rosana Castrillo Díaz , Jeff Wall , David Huffman , and Julie Mehretu . The SFMOMA web site maintains

520-625: The United States. The project resulted in the construction of a matched pair of buildings across a formal courtyard park: the War Memorial Opera House ; and the multi-purpose Veterans Building next door. Both were completed and opened in 1932. The upper floors of the Veterans Building housed the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (formerly the San Francisco Museum of Art) from 1935 to 1994. In 1980

560-612: The Veterans building as homage to the War Memorial Opera House. Third Street (San Francisco) Third Street is a north–south street in San Francisco , California , running through the Downtown , Mission Bay , Potrero Point , Dogpatch , and Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhoods. The road turns into Kearny Street north of Market Street and connects into Bayshore Boulevard south of Meade Avenue. It

600-478: The basis of the permanent collection. Bender donated more than 1,100 objects to SFMOMA during his lifetime and endowed the museum's first purchase fund. The museum began its second year with an exhibition of works by Henri Matisse . Also in 1936, the museum established its photography collection, becoming one of the first museums to recognize photography as an art form. In 1940, the museum held its first architecture exhibition, Telesis: Space for Living . The museum

640-673: The biennial SECA Art Award to honor San Francisco Bay Area artists. The museum rose to international prominence under director Henry T. Hopkins (1974–86), adding "Modern" to its name in 1975. In the 1980s, under Hopkins and his successor John R. Lane (1987–1997), SFMOMA established three new curatorial posts: curator of painting and sculpture, curator of architecture and design, and curator of media arts. The positions of director of education and director of photography were elevated to full curatorial roles. At this time SFMOMA took on an active special exhibitions program, both organizing and hosting traveling exhibitions, including major presentations of

680-479: The city. It has been the home of the San Francisco Symphony since its opening. Harold L. Zellerbach Rehearsal Hall is located at the corner of Franklin and Hayes streets, and is directly adjacent to Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall. Zellerbach Rehearsal Hall consists of three rehearsal facilities, which can be used for a multitude of rehearsal purposes and movie shoots. Herbst Theatre is housed in

720-735: The closure, SFMOMA presented exhibitions and programs at off-site locations around the Bay Area as part of SFMOMA On the Go. In February 2011, the museum launched a Collections Campaign, announcing the acquisition of 195 works including paintings from Jackson Pollock , Willem de Kooning , Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Francis Bacon . Also under the auspices of the Collections Campaign, promised gifts of 473 photographs were announced in 2012, including 26 works by Diane Arbus and significant gifts of Japanese photography. In July 2020,

760-528: The collection is overseen by curators for painting and sculpture; photography; architecture and design; and media arts. SFMOMA's website allows users to browse the museum's permanent collection. The SFMOMA Audio App provides information for select works, keyed by audio stop numbers. SFMOMA's Research Library was established in 1935 and contains extensive resources pertaining to modern and contemporary art, including books, periodicals, artists’ files, photographs and media collections. The Koret Education Center on

800-467: The five-story building began in early 1992, with an opening in 1995, the institution's 60th anniversary. At the time of the new building's opening, SFMOMA touted itself as the largest new American art museum of the decade and, with its 50,000 square feet (4,600 m) of exhibition space, the second-largest single structure in the United States devoted to modern art. (New York's Museum of Modern Art , with 100,000 square feet (9,300 m) of gallery space,

840-507: The fourth floor with sophisticated lighting and sound systems; state-of-the-art conservation studios on the seventh and eighth floors; and, on the seventh floor, a long balcony that offers skyline views to the east, toward Salesforce Tower and the Bay Bridge . The expansion facades are clad with lightweight panels made of Fibre-Reinforced Plastic ; upon completion, this was the largest application of composites technology to architecture in

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880-565: The institution in the top ranks of American museums of modern art. After three years and $ 140 million building up the collection, Ross resigned when a slow economy forced the museum to keep a tighter rein on its resources. The 2003 exhibition Treasures Of Modern Art: The Legacy Of Phyllis Wattis featured more than 80 of the many works donated by art patron Phyllis Wattis , who died in 2002, including works by Robert Rauschenberg , Piet Mondrian , René Magritte , Marcel Duchamp , Andy Warhol , and Barnett Newman . Under director Neal Benezra, who

920-654: The museum beginning in 1937, and in 1946 brought in filmmaker Frank Stauffacher to found the Art in Cinema film series, which ran for nine years. The museum continued its expansion into new media with the 1951 launch of a biweekly television program, Art in Your Life , later renamed Discovery , which ran for three years. Morley ended her 23-year tenure as museum director in 1958 and was succeeded by George D. Culler (1958–65) and Gerald Nordland (1966–72). In 1967, SFMOMA inaugurated

960-493: The museum gained a custodial relationship for the contemporary art collection of Doris and Donald Fisher of Gap Inc. The Fisher Collection includes some 1,100 works from artists including Alexander Calder , Chuck Close , Willem de Kooning , Richard Diebenkorn , Anselm Kiefer , Ellsworth Kelly , Roy Lichtenstein , Brice Marden , Agnes Martin , Gerhard Richter , Richard Serra , Cy Twombly , and Andy Warhol , among many others. The collection will be on loan to SFMOMA for

1000-426: The museum's operations. It offers approximately 142,000 square feet (13,200 m) of indoor and outdoor gallery space, as well as nearly 15,000 square feet (1,400 m) of art-filled free-access public space, more than doubling SFMOMA's previous capacity for the presentation of art and providing almost six times as much public space as the pre-expansion building. The soaring "silo" with its Oculus Bridge remained, but

1040-547: The new Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall opened, on a site on Van Ness across the sidestreet from the Opera House, as part of the SFWMPAC complex. The SFWMPAC has historical significance. On June 26, 1945, the United Nations Charter was signed in the Veterans Building's Herbst Theatre by the group of 50 founding nations, following the two-month-long United Nations conference in the Opera House. In 1951,

1080-554: The previous building, allowing SFMOMA to showcase an expanding collection along with the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection of contemporary art. SFMOMA was founded in 1935 under director Grace L. McCann Morley as the San Francisco Museum of Art. For its first sixty years, the museum rented the fourth floor of the Veterans Building on Van Ness Avenue in the Civic Center . A gift of 36 artworks from Albert M. Bender , including The Flower Carrier (1935) by Diego Rivera , established

1120-574: The project: Adjaye Associates ; Diller Scofidio + Renfro ; Foster + Partners ; and Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta . In July 2010 the museum selected Snøhetta to design the expansion. On May 14, 2016, following a three-year-long closure, the museum re-opened to the public. The approximately 235,000-square-foot (21,800 m) expansion joined the existing building with a new addition spanning from Minna to Howard Streets. The expanded building includes seven levels dedicated to art and public programming, and three floors housing enhanced support space for

1160-511: The reception desks and coat-check desk. In 2009, SFMOMA opened its 14,400 sq ft (1,340 m) rooftop sculpture garden and pavilion, located above the museum's parking structure and situated across an enclosed pedestrian bridge from the fifth-floor galleries. Following an invitational competition held in 2006, the garden was designed by Jensen Architects in collaboration with Conger Moss Guillard Landscape Architecture. It features two open-air spaces for plants and sculpture and between them

1200-522: The second floor offers resources for educators, and hosts events and talks. Larger events are held in the theater on the first floor SFMOMA has published numerous books, catalogues, and digital publications to document and provide context for exhibitions and the museum’s collection, and to showcase the scholarship of curators. Recent books include Tauba Auerbach ― S v Z (2020), Dawoud Bey: Two American Projects (2020), Joan Mitchell (2021), and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Unstable Presence (2021). This gallery

1240-536: The senior curator of painting and sculpture, Gary Garrels, resigned after using the term " reverse discrimination " during an all-staff Zoom meeting, which caused an uproar. Looking back on the incident in 2023, and quoting Garrel's resignation letter in full, the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CiMAM) called his resignation "a radical and bewildering gesture by an advocate for diversity." In 2022, Christopher Bedford

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1280-485: The soaring light well and stairway...Outside, rising above the nearly windowless, striated brick facade, is the giant black-and-white striped silo of the central well, sliced on the bias, topped by a 130-foot-high elliptical skylight that has already become the museum's trademark. Botta's interior design is marked by alternating bands of polished and flame-finished black granite on the floor, ground-level walls, and column bases, and by bands of natural and black-stained wood on

1320-535: The system. It is also the first true light rail line in the mostly streetcar Muni Metro system, as it operates primarily in the median. In 2009, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom proposed Third Street be renamed for former mayor Willie Brown . The proposal was not adopted. In the 1960s, the downtown section of Third Street was known as San Francisco's " skid row ", with most of its (then much smaller) homeless population concentrating there. The street featured as

1360-482: The work of Jeff Koons , Sigmar Polke , and Willem de Kooning . In 1992, Harry W. "Hunk" Anderson and Mary Margaret "Moo" Anderson "transformed SFMOMA'S collection of American Pop art in one fell swoop," building on prior gifts of works by Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns with additional works dating from the early 1960s to the early 1980s, including paintings by Jim Dine , Roy Lichtenstein , James Rosenquist , Andy Warhol , and Robert Indiana , as well as

1400-414: Was built on a 59,000-square-foot (5,500 m) parking lot on Third Street between Mission and Howard streets. The South-of-Market site, near Moscone Convention Center , was targeted through an agreement between the museum, the redevelopment agency, and the development firm of Olympia & York . Land was provided by the agency and developer, but the rest of the museum was privately funded. Construction of

1440-517: Was formerly called Kentucky Street in the Dogpatch and Railroad Avenue in the Bayview . Major League Baseball's San Francisco Giants play at Oracle Park on the intersection Third and King. The majority of the street is served by the T Third Street light rail line. It was the first new light rail line in San Francisco in more than half a century, and the first fully accessible line in

1480-410: Was named director, succeeding Neal Benezra. The museum's announcement of his selection noted that " DEI has been at the center of Bedford’s work: he has made evident a natural synergy between policy and program, ensuring that diversity, equity and inclusion is implemented across all endeavors." In the summer of 1988, architects Mario Botta , Thomas Beeby and Frank Gehry were announced as finalists in

1520-633: Was obliged to move to a temporary facility on Post Street in March 1945 to make way for the United Nations Conference on International Organization ; following the signing of the United Nations Charter at Herbst Theatre in the Veterans Building , the museum returned to its original location in July. Later that year, the museum presented Jackson Pollock 's first solo museum exhibition. Founding director Grace Morley held film screenings at

1560-658: Was recruited from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002, SFMOMA achieved an increase in both visitor numbers and membership while continuing to build its collection. In 2005 the museum announced the promised gift of nearly 800 photographs to the Prentice and Paul Sack Photographic Trust at SFMOMA from the Sacks' private collection. The museum saw record attendance in 2008 with the exhibition Frida Kahlo , which drew more than 400,000 visitors during its three-month run. In 2009,

1600-486: Was then the largest single structure, while the nearly 80,000 combined square feet of Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles put it in second place). Michael Kimmelman in The New York Times reported that the new Botta building consists of galleries rising around a central, skylighted atrium. The overall structure, roughly speaking, is a series of stepped-back blocks with a cylinder in the middle containing

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