Joan Mitchell, celebrated in a major retrospective that just opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, may be the best Abstract Expressionist you’ve never heard of. Born in 1925 to a wealthy family ...
A gigantic mural by the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, Pan American Unity of 1940 (top image, detail), has taken up residence at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It’s an astonishing collection of scenes, ...
The boxy TV sets emerge from a thick bed of live ferns like gigantic mushrooms on a primeval forest floor. A video program plays simultaneously on all 49 TVs: disco dancers rocking out to “Devil ...