The museum is better known for historical examples, though it already has among its contemporary holdings artists including Polke, Richter, Scott Burton and Lee Bontecou, also all gifts from the col…
Of 15 solo shows at the museum since fall 2010, seven have been given to artists in the stable of Marian Goodman Gallery, which has venues in New York and Paris.
Writing in the catalogue for Rineke Dijkstra's retrospective, which she co-organized, SF MOMA senior curator of photography Sandra Philips likens the artist's portraits to 7th century icon paintings…
Ordinarily, a portrait photograph isolates a single moment in the life of its subject. Portraits may imply the presence of traits that subjects bring to the studio-qualities that they have acquired…