SF MOMA to Close for 30 Months

Yes, that's right.  Did any of you Bay Area folks know about this? Beginning in June, until sometime in "early 2016", SF MOMA will close its doors to accommodate a construction project which will double the museum's square footage, mostly to house the some 11,000 pieces that came in from the late Donald Fisher of the Gap (which is a great acquisition, of course).  Originally this was to be a stand alone addition, but the architects convinced the museum that, in order to create a "seamless" viewing experience, they would simply add on to the existing structure, thus necessitating a two and a half year closure.  Somehow that does not quite fit the definition of "seamless" viewing experience that springs to my mind.

Now, apparently, MOMA plans to have a "presence" throughout the City during the closure - special shows are already scheduled for Chrissy Field and the Jewish Museum.  But still.  Danielle and I were longtime members of MOMA, and if I still lived in San Francisco I'd be furious about this (I'm grumpy enough about it in Seattle).  Me? I don't have much of a problem when I visit a museum to simply exit one building and walk a short distance to another if that's where the art is.  By God, maybe a chance for some outdoor pieces on a pathway connecting the two buildings, what do I know? Anyway, point being, get to MOMA and look at that giant Rothko or whatever Johns or Rauschenberg is on display before the joint closes in the middle of June for thirty months.  I plan to stop by during my early May San Francisco visit...

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"Siamese Cross"

Original IBL art - pen, felt pen and lipstick on found coaster (pen marks pre-existing), 3.5 x 3.5 inches, 4/7/13.

"Don't Forget to Sparkle"

Original IBL art - pen and lipstick on cocktail napkin, 5 x 5 inches, March - April, 2013.

(Untitled Original IBL Art)

Pen on torn coaster,
1 1/8 x 1.25 inches, 4/7/13.

Chester

Billy Bragg Live at the Neptune in Seattle This Evening

And, yes, Danielle and I will be in attendance.

Here's a little something from Mermaid Avenue, lyrics by Woody Guthrie -

Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key...

(For more on Billy in these very pages, please check out 8/22/12.)


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Baseball

(That is all.)

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