Chris Sollars, an artist based in San Francisco’s Mission District, speaks about Bruce Nauman’s Wax Impressions of the Knees of Five Famous Artists (1966). Sollars describes the journey this piece took from its creation in the Mission to international recognition and ultimately back to San Francisco and SFMOMA’s collection.
75 Reasons to Live
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Organized by Suzanne Stein
Remember the end of Manhattan, when Woody Allen asks himself what makes life worth living? (“Groucho Marx, Willie Mays… Swedish movies…those incredible apples and pears by Cézanne…”) In celebration of SFMOMA’s 75th anniversary in January 2010, Dominic Willsdon & Suzanne Stein invited 75 people from the Bay Area creative community to give extremely short talks—7.5 minutes or less—on a single collection work they cared about. The talks took place during the museum’s three-day celebratory weekend: two at a time, every half hour, 25 a day (a single to close out each day.)
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Compilations and unfurling sequences of contributions – some from our archive, some freshly assembled.
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