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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The 1995 [[Mario Botta]]-designed building with the 2016 [[Snøhetta (company)|Snøhetta]]-designed addition behind it The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California. SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art, and has built an internationally recognized collection with over 33,000 works of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts. The collection is displayed in of exhibition space, making the museum one of the largest in the United States overall, and one of the largest in the world for modern and contemporary art. In 2024, SFMOMA was ranked 14th in the Washington Post's list of the best art museums in the U.S.

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 the previous building, allowing SFMOMA to showcase an expanding collection along with the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection of contemporary art. Provided by Wikipedia
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    010101 : art in technological times.

    Published 2001
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    Helen Levitt / by Phillips, Sandra S., 1945-

    Published 1991
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    SFMOMA painting and sculpture highlights /

    Published 2002
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    Icons : magnets of meaning /

    Published 1997
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    Stephen De Staebler : the figure /

    Published 1987
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    010101 : art in technological times.

    Published 2001
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    Photography, a facet of modernism : photographs from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art /

    Published 1986
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    Photography in California, 1945-1980 / by Katzman, Louise, 1949-

    Published 1984
    “…San Francisco Museum of Modern Art…”
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    Paul Klee : the Djerassi collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art / by Bishop, Janet C.

    Published 1997
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    Luciano Fabro. by Fabro, Luciano, 1936-2007

    Published 1992
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    The art of participation : 1950 to now /

    Published 2008
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    Magritte /

    Published 2000
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    Wayne Thiebaud / by Tsujimoto, Karen

    Published 1985
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    An everyday modernism : the houses of William Wurster /

    Published 1995
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    Space, time, sound : conceptual art in the San Francisco Bay Area, the 1970s / by Foley, Suzanne

    Published 1981
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    High art : a history of the psychedelic poster / by Owen, Ted

    Published 1999
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    Willem de Kooning : the late paintings, the 1980s. by De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997

    Published 1995
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    Lawrence Halprin : changing places : [exhibition] San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 3 July - 24 August 1986 / by Halprin, Lawrence

    Published 1986
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    Dreaming in pictures : the photography of Lewis Carroll / by Nickel, Douglas R. (Douglas Robert), 1961-

    Published 2002
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    Sitting on the edge : modernist design from the collection of Michael & Gabrielle Boyd /

    Published 1998
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