Ruth Asawa: Permanent Installation
In 2005, in celebration of the opening of the redesigned de Young Museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, Ruth Asawa donated 15 sculptures to the Fine Arts Museums for a permanent […]
Free
9 exhibitions found.
Exhibitions for January 3, 2020
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California Studio Craft
SFO Terminal 2 Departures - Level 2 - Post-Security Featuring works from the Forrest L. Merrill collection Studio craft combines the characteristics of traditional, handmade craft with the refined qualities […]
Ongoing
Where We Are: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection 1900-1960
Focusing on works made from 1900 to 1960, Where We Are traces how artists have approached the relationships, institutions, and activities that shape our lives. Drawn entirely from the Whitney’s holdings, the […]
$25
The Medium Is the Message: Art since 1950
Using works created since 1950, this exhibition explores the relationship between subject, content, and the materials that informed each object’s production.
Free
Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection
The first-ever artist-curated exhibition mounted at the Guggenheim celebrates the museum’s extensive collection of modern and contemporary art. Curated by Cai Guo-Qiang, Paul Chan, Jenny Holzer, Julie Mehretu, Richard Prince, […]
$25
In a Cloud, in a Wall, in a Chair: Six Modernists in Mexico at Midcentury
Clara Porset, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Anni Albers, Ruth Asawa, Cynthia Sargent, and Sheila Hicks share one defining aspect: Mexico, a country in which they all lived or worked between the 1940s and 1970s. During this period they all realized projects that breached disciplinary boundaries and national divides. This exhibition is the first to explore Mexico's impact on these visionary artists and designers.
Women Take the Floor
“Women Take the Floor” challenges the dominant history of American art by focusing on the overlooked and underrepresented work and stories of women artists. This reinstallation—or “takeover”—of Level 3 of the Art of the Americas Wing advocates for diversity, inclusion, and gender equity in museums, the art world, and beyond. With more than 250 works drawn primarily from the MFA’s collection, the exhibition is organized into seven thematic galleries.
$25
The Pencil Is a Key
The Pencil Is a Key is an exhibition of historical and contemporary drawings by incarcerated people from all over the globe. Works by artists who were or currently are prisoners will be juxtaposed with drawings by prisoners who became artists while incarcerated.
$5
Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019
Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019 foregrounds how visual artists have explored the materials, methods, and strategies of craft over the past seven decades. Some expand techniques with long histories, such as weaving, sewing, or pottery, while others experiment with textiles, thread, clay, beads, and glass, among other mediums. The traces of the artists’ hands-on engagement with their materials invite viewers to imagine how it might feel to make each work. At the Whitney Museum of American Art.
$25