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Joan Mitchell, La Ligne de la rupture, 1970–71; private collection; © Estate of Joan Mitchell; photo: Clint Jenkins

A Joan Mitchell retrospective featuring over 80 of the artist’s works opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in San Francisco on September 4. The show runs through January 17, 2022, and explores the life and career … Continued

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Museums are primarily white spaces—not merely aesthetically, but racially as well. The reason that Beyoncé and Jay-Z‘s 2018 music video “Apeshit” is set in Paris’s Louvre is that the African American duo symbolically expands a predominantly white establishment to include … Continued

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jean Michel Basquiat's la Hara 1981
Donna-Lee Phillips, This is a Photograph, from 100 Small Chairs, More or Less, 1981; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Accessions Committee Fund purchase; © Donna-Lee Phillips

Under the creative wing of the San Francisco Museum of Art, three seminal photographers have come together in collaboration nearly four decades since their last artistic partnership. For a brief and acute period of time, Lew Thomas, Donna-Lee Phillips, and … Continued

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