The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

  detail of a self-portrait by Jeanne Hébuterne, seen at SFMOMA as part of the exhibit Matisse's Femme au chapeau: A Modern Scandal

  detail of an untitled study by Diego Rivera for Allegory of California , a ceiling mural for the Pacific Stock Exchange Luncheon Club in ...

  a hat designed by Caroline Reboux, seen at SFMOMA as part of the special exhibit Matisse's Femme au chapeau: A Modern Scandal

  Two sculptures by Alexander Calder at SFMOMA: to the right, Big Crinkly , & to the left, Intermediate maquette for Trois disques (T...

  detail of Family II by Hung Liu, now in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

  detail of The March to Sagesse (The March to Wisdom) , a fiber sculpture  by Sheila Hicks, on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern ...

  detail of Marie Stadler Artichaud by Joan Mitchell, now at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

  detail of Triptych for Steven by Suzanne Jackson, seen at SFMOMA as part of the special exhibition Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love

  detail of  Rain Garden Zag IV by Louise Nevelson, now at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)

  detail of Untitled (Pink Hydrangea) , a watercolor by Ruth Asawa, currently on view at SFMOMA as part of the special exhibit   Ruth Asawa...

  detail of a sketch for Le Bonheur de vivre (The Joy of Life) by Henri Matisse, now at SFMOMA

  detail of Untitled (Gingko Leaves on Three Branches) by Ruth Asawa, seen as part of Ruth Asawa: Retrospective at SFMOMA

  detail of All Things Bright and Beautiful by Amy Sherald, part of the exhibition Amy Sherald: American Sublime at SFMOMA

  detail of Amy Sherald's What's different about Alice is that she has the most incisive way of telling the truth , currently on vi...

  Duchamp's Fountain , Matisse's Femme au Chapeau , & Diego Rivera's The Flower Carrier , lined up at the San Francisco M...

I was at SFMOMA yesterday, partly to wander but mostly to take another look at the gorgeous Frank Bowling exhibit & a first look at th...

detail of an untitled sculpture by Ruth Asawa, with shadows, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 2016

plus ça change at SFMOMA: this was taken 19 May; check out the picture taken three years earlier , which I ran two weeks ago

Diego, Frieda, & Co From the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 2013, right before it closed for a three-year expansion. It re...

In honor of its re-opening on 14 May, here's a shot from 2012 of the (former) lobby of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art