About the Blog
Open Space is the blog of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The somewhat rowdy virtual halls and environments of this blog-as-work-in-progress are an ongoing experiment in finding ways to connect what happens inside the museum to the life and vitality of the city and the art-loving public outside and around SFMOMA.
The blog takes its name, and spirit, from a small but influential Bay Area poetry magazine that appeared in 1965. Edited by Stan Persky and presided over by legendary poet of the San Francisco Renaissance, Jack Spicer, and with the strict dictum that no copies be circulated outside the Bay Area, Open Space included only local writers, whose works-in-progress were to be published as submitted, without censorship or constraint.
This community-based, Bay Area-centric magazine also printed the work of many local artists of the time, including Jess, Harry Jacobus, Fran Herndon, Amando Navarro. In our efforts to follow this model, every few months we invite a group of local writers & artists to blog here on Open Space, in an editorial free zone, about all things visual culture in the Bay Area. Our external writers do not write on assignment from SFMOMA, we invite them in to do what they do. You can expect the occasional changing of the guard to give a changing shape to the content as well.
Instigators, interrogators, interlocutors: all welcome and encouraged. Do note that the comment box is always open.
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There have been many Qs on this: Our link list in the sidebar is also a work in progress, and is designed to give visitors to the blog a sense of the range and diversity of venues for art, offline and on, around the Bay Area. We add links periodically in one fell swoop, so if we’re missing your favorite spot, let us know and we’ll add it in due course. This policy is certainly subject to change, and at a moments notice and at our whim! I’ll let you know, though, when we nail it down.
Suggestions, complaints, praise, inquiry? Send email to suzanne at sfmoma dot org.
