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SFMoMA acquires its first NFT, a work by tech art pioneer Lynn Hershman Leeson
The museum is one of the most prominent to date to acquire a blockchain-backed digital artwork for its permanent collection
Acquisitions round up: Wu Tsang's immersive installation from Venice Biennale heads to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Bernd and Hilla Becher, photography giants of the Düsseldorf School, emerge from the shadows in New York show
The exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the pair’s first major US survey and will include their signature grid works as well as largely unknown early pieces
‘A fig for your barriers of wire’: Diego Rivera’s dream of a united America explored in major show
The exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art brings together 150 paintings, frescoes and drawings that illustrate the Mexican artist’s vision of unity and solidarity with workers
SFMoMA receives gift of 350 works and $10m bequest from late American trustees
The donation includes works by Marcel Duchamp, Jeff Koons, Ai Weiwei and others from the collection of the late philanthropists Norah and Norman Stone
Baltimore Museum of Art director Christopher Bedford will leave to lead SFMoMA
Bedford, like his SFMoMA predecessor Neal Benezra, very publicly ran afoul of industry conventions around deaccessioning and selling works from museum collections
After a controversial year, director will leave the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Neal Benezra’s departure follows the museum’s deletion of an Instagram comment that faulted the institution on racial issues
The Sistine Chapel's system upgrade: Nam June Paik's immersive video to be recreated for Tate
The late artist’s award-winning Venice Biennale presentation has been painstakingly reconstructed at Tate Modern—clunky old tubes and all
Top of the Pods: the world of Warhol, as told by Jeremy Deller and Donna De Salvo
With the Pop artist's blockbuster retrospective currently on show at SFMoMA, we delve into the life and legacy of the ever-popular painter with artist Jeremy Deller and curator Donna De Salvo. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
Art world’s wage inequality sparks waves of protests
As institutions pursue multimillion-dollar expansions, workers feel the squeeze and try to organise
Rothko deserves better, SFMoMA
The San Francisco museum plans to sell Untitled (1960) at Sotheby's for between $35m and $50m, the artist is unlikely to have approved
Dealers cash in on San Francisco’s wealth of museums at Untitled Art and FOG fairs
The Bay Area collector base may be known for its tech-mined millions but institutions fuelled sales at the growing West Coast fairs
The slow and meticulous work of Vija Celmins zooms into view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Artist’s retrospective encourages viewers to take their time when looking in the modern age
Settling into Donald Judd’s demanding furniture
A show at SFMoMA reminds a critic of his past experience with Judd and his creations
Apartheid revisited: US museum snaps up South African photography project at Art Basel
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art “will be acquiring” a series documenting a Modernist high-rise apartment block in Johannesburg
The best—and worst—of Magritte is on show at SFMoMA
The “philosophical painter” poses age-old questions about what the senses apprehend, what awareness and reflection contribute, and how we know
What René Magritte did when Surrealism was trumped by ‘Nazi idiots’
Exhibition at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art explores Belgium artist's lesser-known late period
How should museums respond to Donald Trump?
We asked directors of prominent US institutions what they can or should do
Major gift of American art and cash to San Francisco MOMA
The donation will strengthen the museum’s holdings with major paintings by Americans such as Philip Guston, Leon Golub, Richard Diebenkorn and Willem de Kooning
"Into a New Museum" among exhibitions organised at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's new location
The opening displays, with recent gifts of Matisse, de Kooning, Marden, Polke and Richter, show John Lane's success in wooing San Francisco collectors
Salvaging 1950s Rauschenberg: The artist's early work goes on show in San Fransisco
This exhibition recovers missing works and provides clues for his development