As we soak in the spectacular feats we've been watching during the Paris 2024 Olympics (Go Simone Biles!), SFMOMA is gearing up for our many sports-related fall exhibitions. In the process, we've been learning how art can express the raw emotional experience of sports and play.
And now we're opening up the call to our community, thinking about how our very own Bay Area sports teams inspire us year-round! SFMOMA seeks fan-made artworks that reflect on, reimagine, and celebrate the people and culture of Bay Area sports.
On September 1, 2024, we invite artists to bring their works to share during a one-day display in SFMOMA’s Gina and Stuart Peterson White Box. At 3 p.m., artist David Huffman will select up to 15 works as finalists for possible presentation in Steps Coffee on Floor 2, from October 2024 to February 2025.
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This exhibition is not co-organized with the IOC. |
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When the World Is Watching |
Opens August 17 |
Major international competitions like the Olympics are highly anticipated media events. International games spur innovations in design and urban planning while also driving discussions that influence broader social progress. The exhibition When the World Is Watching opens alongside two other sports-focused presentations, Count Me In and Unity through Skateboarding, on August 17. Stay tuned!
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Other News and Events from SFMOMA |
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Art of Noise |
Closing August 18
Last Look for Members August 17–18 |
Picture the last time music moved you. How did design shape your experience? Explore this question in Art of Noise. Pore over 400+ psychedelic rock posters, chart a century of sound in 100+ objects, and enjoy music through immersive installations like Devon Turnbull's HiFi Listening Room. Members can enjoy a special "Last Look" from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the final weekend of this show!
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Summer Stride with SFPL! |
Sunday, August 11
10:30 a.m.–3 p.m. |
It’s Summer Stride time at the San Francisco Public Library, and SFMOMA is joining the fun for the third year in a row!
Join Sendy Santamaria, author of Yenebi’s Drive to School, as she compiles all the ways artists (professional and kid alike) make mundane moments joyful.
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Zanele Muholi: Eye Me |
Closing August 11 |
Often photographing their own body or members of their LGBTQ+ community in South Africa, Zanele Muholi calls attention to the trauma and violence enacted on queer people while celebrating their beauty and resilience.
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What Matters: A Proposition in Eight Rooms |
Closing September 2 |
What Matters brings together contemporary works from the museum’s collection that address questions about life and art. These quiet works propose celebration, mourning, and transcendence. Together, they initiate a stimulating composition about life and freedom. Presented as related episodes over time, What Matters offers deep engagement with ideas, materials, and structures that order meaning and purpose.
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Kara Walker: Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine) |
Experience Kara Walker’s new commission, Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine), which considers the memorialization of trauma, the objectives of technology, and the possibilities of transforming the negative energies that plague contemporary society.
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Creative Growth: Studio Reel |
Welcome to Creative Growth, the first organization in the United States dedicated to supporting artists with developmental disabilities. Join artists Donald Mitchell, Ron Veasey, Alice Wong, John Martin, Dan Miller, and Joseph Alef in the studio, and celebrate the organization’s 50th anniversary with us.
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Our ongoing commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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© 2024 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Image details: Ernie Barnes, Homecoming, 1994; courtesy the Estate of Ernie Barnes, Ortuzar Projects, New York, and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York; © Ernie Barnes. Eduardo Terrazas and Lance Wyman, Mexico City 1968 Summer Olympic Games poster, 1967; © Lance Wyman; photographer: Don Ross. Art of Noise, installation view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 4–August 18, 2024; photo: Matthew Millman Photography. Sendy Santamaria, Yenebi's Drive to School, 2024; courtesy Chronicle Books. Zanele Muholi, Faniswa, Seapoint, Cape Town, from the series Somnyama Ngonyama (Hail the Dark Lioness), 2016; SFMOMA collection, Accessions Committee Fund purchase; © Zanele Muholi. Deana Lawson, Latifah’s
Wedding, 2020; collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund purchase, by exchange, through a gift of Michael D. Abrams; © Deana Lawson; photo: Katherine Du Tiel. Still from SFMOMA video Kara Walker: Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine); photo: SFMOMA. Still from SFMOMA's video Creative Growth: Studio Reel; photo: SFMOMA.
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Lead support for Get in the Game is provided by Bank of America.
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Presenting support is provided by Dana and Bob Emery.
Major support is provided by KHR McNeely Family Fund and Mary Jo and Dick Kovacevich.
Significant support is provided by Mary Jane Elmore, Susan Karp and Paul Haahr, Jessica Moment, Nancy and Alan Schatzberg, and Anonymous.
Meaningful support is provided by Ethan Beard and Wayee Chu and Maryellen and Frank Herringer.
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Major support for Art of Noise is provided by Mary Jo and Dick Kovacevich, The Bernard Osher Foundation, and the Bernard and Barbro Osher Exhibition Fund.
Significant support is provided by Deborah and Kenneth Novack.
Meaningful support is provided by Sonya Yu.
Additional support is provided by Aston and Aushlee Motes, Joby and Jackie Pritzker, and the Diane and Howard Zack Fund for Architecture and Design.
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Lead support for Second Sundays is provided by the Koret Foundation.
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Presenting support is provided by Penny S. and James G. Coulter.
Major support is provided by the Hearst Foundations.
Meaningful support is provided by the John & Marcia Goldman Family Free Sundays Endowment Fund.
Additional support is provided by Geoffrey and Priscilla Weber.
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Presenting support for Zanele Muholi: Eye Me is provided by Denise Littlefield Sobel.
Major support is provided by the Pritzker Exhibition Fund in Photography.
Meaningful support is provided by David and Pamela Hornik and Barbara and Stephan Vermut.
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Presenting support for What Matters: A Proposition in Eight Rooms is provided by The Norah and Norman Stone Fund for Exhibitions of Contemporary Art.
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Major support for Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine) is provided by Roberta and Steve Denning Commissioning Endowed Fund and Sir Deryck and Lady Va Maughan.
Significant support is provided by Mary Jane Elmore, Agnes Gund, Pamela J. Joyner and Alfred J. Giuffrida, Jessica Moment, Diana Nelson and John Atwater Commissioning Fund, Deborah and Kenneth Novack, Sonja Hoel Perkins and Jonathan Perkins, and SFMOMA Contemporaries.
Meaningful support is provided by Alka and Ravin Agrawal, Ethan Beard and Wayee Chu, Agnes Cowles Bourne Bay Area Contemporary Arts Exhibition Fund, Davis/Dauray Family Fund, Patricia W. Fitzpatrick Commissioning Endowed Fund, Girlfriend Fund, Sheri and Paul Siegel Exhibition Fund, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., and Denise Littlefield Sobel Commissioning Endowed Fund.
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This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.
In-kind production support provided by Kvadrat and Obsidian Wine Co.
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Lead support for Creative Growth: The House That Art Built is provided by Randi and Bob Fisher and Diana Nelson and John Atwater.
Major support is provided by Mary Jo and Dick Kovacevich.
Significant support is provided by Mary Jane Elmore.
Meaningful support is provided by Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Maryellen and Frank Herringer, and Alison Pincus.
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