Flight 401 was the plane I mentioned that went down in the Florida Everglades in 1972.
There were human survivors of that crash, but also parts of the plane itself were salvaged and reused.
In 1974, Airport 1975 was released (pictured below). This was the first sequel to the successful 1970 film Airport. It starred Karen Black as... More

SFMOMA’s Schwab Room was to the gills with representatives of San Francisco’s culinary pioneers this past Friday, May 31, for The Kitchen Sisters’ The Making of a Charitable Food Movement, coordinated by Mission Chinese Food and Sharetable.org, and featuring presentations and sample bites from La Cocina, Tartine, and Flour + Water, among othe... More

It’s 5:45 p.m. In 24 hours we’ll close the doors! Let’s spend the [last] night together—we’re open now and will be up all night, with a 24-hour live art variety show and our last 24-hour screening of Christian Marclay’s The Clock. At 5:30 p.m. tomorrow artist Desiree Holman conducts a farewell processional from the rooftop to our atrium to the street—and SFMOMA will be On the Go.

It’s 5:45 p.m. on May 31, which means there are only two days left until we close the doors at 5:45 p.m. THIS SUNDAY. Don’t miss our ongoing Countdown Celebration this weekend—the museum is FREE to all!

We hope you’ll come count down with us, but you can always follow my countdown series here.

Bringing you stories of Bay Area craftspeople and pioneers, from the makers of violins to jars of jam to the queer car service, Homobile, The Kitchen Sisters are Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva, radio producers and collaborators since they first met in 1979. The pair are currently hosting The Making Of… at SFMOMA, part of the museum’s four-day... More

Founded in 2011 by Bay Area arts patron Ann Hatch, The Workshop Residence is based in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood and hosts eight individual artists—four local, four international—per year. The for-profit program pairs its resident artists with local factories or visiting artisans in order to design and make locally manufactured, af... More

It’s 5:45 p.m., and there are only three days left until we close the doors . . . at 5:45 p.m. THIS SUNDAY. Our four-day-long Countdown Celebration is under way—the museum is FREE to all. We hope you can join us!

Follow my countdown series here.

The Treatbot Ice Cream Karaoke Truck trades in—yup!—ice cream and karaoke. Based in the San Jose area, they’ll serve you up a scoop of Eastside Horchata or Mango Ice and throw in the opportunity to belt out your tune of choice to whoever’s listening. Today, Thursday, May 30, and tomorrow, Friday, May 31, they’re parked outside SFMOMA on T... More

The Elise S. Haas Bequest: Modern Art from Matisse to Marini is on view at SFMOMA till June 2. Open Space is pleased to host a series of posts highlighting Mrs. Haas’s network of personal connections, from SFMOMA Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture Caitlin Haskell, and featuring graphics by designer Adam Machacek.

Sarah Stein diagram by ... More

It’s 5:45 p.m. on May 29, which means we are four days away from closing our doors.

Our four-day-long Countdown Celebration begins TOMORROW—the museum is FREE to all. We hope to see you there! And follow my countdown series here.

SFMOMA commissioned the online project Agent Ruby by acclaimed San Francisco artist Lynn Hershman Leeson in 2001–2002. Since that time Agent Ruby—an artificial intelligence internet entity—has conversed with online users, which has shaped her memory, knowledge, and moods. On May 23, 2013, art historian, playwright, and poet Moira Roth met Age... More

Literally.
Starting at 10:30 this morning we’ll be broadcasting live from the groundbreaking ceremony happening just around the corner from our current building. Tune in from the cube!

It’s 5:45 p.m., and we’re counting down the days til we close the doors . . . at 5:45 p.m. THIS SUNDAY. Martin Venezky’s Notes on the West: Five, 1993:

Join us for our four-day-long Countdown Celebration—starting THURSDAY the museum is FREE to all. And follow my countdown series here.

After the last submission for our series Proposal for a Museum was published on Open Space in February, we invited Byron Peters, Matthew Post, and Xiaoyu Weng to join us in a conversation responding, collectively and critically, to the series as a whole. The following text, written by Peters and Post and including input from Weng, provides some of ... More

The Elise S. Haas Bequest: Modern Art from Matisse to Marini is on view at SFMOMA till June 2. Open Space is pleased to host a series of posts highlighting Mrs. Haas’s network of personal connections, from SFMOMA Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture Caitlin Haskell, and featuring graphics by designer Adam Machacek.

Aline M. Liebman diagra... More

Her murmuring, her mumbling, accented. Her skin, her freckles, her glasses, crisp paper. Her. The her of writing, whomever. The written word is like currency. There remains no attachment between the hand of the writer and the words that were written and certainly not the mouth. Writing, on the other hand, is an act of mark making.

The Otolith Group... More

It’s 5:45 p.m. on May 27. Happy Memorial Day! Guess what these pictures from our collection have in common . . .

Join us as we count down the days til SFMOMA shuts its doors, at 5:45 p.m. on Sunday, June 2. SFMOMA’s Countdown Celebration extravaganza starts THURSDAY, May 30, and is FREE to all. Join us there, or follow my countdown series here.

Garry Winogrand is on view on the museum’s fourth floor through June 2. Thanks to Georgie Devereux, who interviewed Anastasia Mann and Susan Wall at SFMOMA on April 27, 2013, and to Judy Bloch, managing editor of publications, for this post.

They’ve been called the Three Graces, walking east on Hollywood Boulevard in a shaft of unearthly light ... More

The Sun Hides: Eclipse, June 1932, from an unknown photographer:

It’s 5:45 p.m., and we’re counting down the days til SFMOMA shuts its doors . . . at 5:45 p.m., Sunday, June 2. SFMOMA’s four-day-long Countdown Celebration extravaganza starts THURSDAY, May 30, and is FREE to all. Join us there, or follow my countdown series here.

Amanda N. Simons wrote this commentary in response to an assignment in my Visual & Critical Studies dual-degree seminar at California College of the Arts. I invited Amanda to share her perspective with the readers of Open Space.

 
AMANDA N. SIMONS

On February 8, 2013, feminist author and blogger Jessica Valenti announced via Twitter that FoxNews.com had screwed up.

Three days earlier, FoxNews.com published the article “To be happy, we must admit that women and men aren’t ‘equal,’” by Suzanne Venker. A demonstrative image ... More

It’s 5:45 p.m. on May 25! We’re counting down the days til SFMOMA shuts its doors, at 5:45 p.m. on Sunday, June 2.

Tatsuo Miyajima’s Counter Voice in the Water:

SFMOMA’s four-day-long Countdown Celebration extravaganza starts THURSDAY, May 30, and is FREE to all. Join us there, or follow my countdown series here.

It’s 5:45pm on May 24th! We’re counting down the days til SFMOMA shuts its doors, at 5:45pm on Sunday June 2.

SFMOMA’s four-day long Countdown Celebration extravaganza starts THURSDAY May 30th and is FREE to all. Join us there, or follow my countdown series here.

“We’ll look at five works for ten minutes each,” I said after my group assembled in the Koret Visitor Education Center for SFMOMA’s version of Slow Art Day. “Please don’t read the placards. I prefer you not take notes. The works’ identity won’t be revealed until the follow-up discussion here in the ce... More

It’s 5:45 p.m. on May 23! We’re counting down the days til SFMOMA shuts its doors, at 5:45 p.m. on Sunday, June 2, starting with Brice Marden’s Ten Days, Suite J:

SFMOMA’s four-day-long Countdown Celebration extravaganza starts THURSDAY, May 30, and is FREE to all. Join us there, or follow my countdown series here.

Two words: Professional Jealousy. Busy people get things done because, well, they are busy. But don’t bother telling that to the hipsters who keep spray-painting sarcastic graffiti on the mural Franco just made last weekend in Williamsburg, Brooklyn—they won’t care.

To them he’s just another good-looking guy with all the money and a... More

The Elise S. Haas Bequest: Modern Art from Matisse to Marini is on view at SFMOMA till June 2. Open Space is pleased to host a series of posts highlighting Mrs. Haas’s network of personal connections from SFMOMA Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture Caitlin Haskell and featuring graphics by designer Adam Machacek.

Agnes E. Meyer diagram by... More

The Elise S. Haas Bequest: Modern Art from Matisse to Marini is on view at SFMOMA till June 2. Open Space is pleased to host a series of posts highlighting Mrs. Haas’s network of personal connections from SFMOMA Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture Caitlin Haskell and featuring graphics by designer Adam Machacek.

Elise S. Haas diagram by ... More

The Elise S. Haas Bequest: Modern Art from Matisse to Marini is on view until SFMOMA temporarily closes its doors June 2, and as we wind down these last few days, Open Space is pleased to host a series of posts from SFMOMA Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture Caitlin Haskell highlighting one of the museum’s most important benefactors, Elis... More

In 1954 Garry Winogrand, then a twenty-six-year-old commercial photographer, was commissioned by Sports Illustrated to do a story about a young boxer named Nick Biondi. The two struck up a friendship and stayed in touch until Winogrand moved away from New York in 1971.

When SFMOMA and the National Gallery announced plans to organize a retrospective... More