Felix gonzalez torres biography of mahatma
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Let’s Get Physical: Lucky Dragons and the Art of Conflict Resolution
The Los Angeles–based music and art collective Lucky Dragons—comprised of Sarah Rara and Luke Fischbeck—has lots of plans for their month-long residency at SFMOMA, titled User Agreement, under way now. Come try to untangle The Tangle, walk The Pattern, or listen to The Problem Solver! All exemplify Lucky Dragons’ clever strategies to engage visitors in creative, often physical forms of problem solving and peace making.
User Agreement is made up of three participatory pieces that will remain on view for the rest of the month, reappearing on weekends and disappearing during the week. The Tangle is a large, tangled mass located just inside the Third Street entrance and made of many different materials such as pool noodles, cables, and rope.
The Pattern is a labyrinth for walking meditation located on Floor 2, near the ticket counters. And The Problem Solver is an audio meditation on positive and negative peace—primarily a voice-over narrative, with interwoven field recordings—that people can access at useragreement.sfmoma.org, an online component fed in part by inputs from The Problem Solver and by classroom projects the artists will engage in while they’re in San Francisco.
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Explore thousands of artworks in the museum’s collection—from our renowned icons to lesser-known works from every corner of the globe—as well as our books, writings, reference materials, and other resources.
- Mahatma Gandhi Spinning, April 1946
Margaret Bourke-White - Charles Lane, Between West and Washington Streets, September 20, 1938
Berenice Abbott - “Hilton Head Island, S.C., USA, June 24, 1992,” from Beach Portraits, 1992
Rineke Dijkstra - Diosa, Historia (Goddess, History), 1979
Manuel Alvarez-Bravo - Civilian Defense, 1942, printed 1953/54
Edward Weston - “Baby Urr” of Chicago, Evanston, 1910/30
Elizabeth Buehrmann - Telephone Pole, Los Angeles, California, September 1982
David Hockney - Untitled (Sex and Death), 1984
Brian Weil - “Untitled” (Fainted), 1991
Felix Gonzalez-Torres - Berber Horsemen, A Fantasia, Morocco, 1951, printed 1951/52
Irving Penn - Geographical & Geological Explorations & Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, 1871/73
Timothy O’Sullivan - At Warm Springs, 1991
Sally Mann - Mirror Lake, Mount Watkins, Yosemite National Park, California, 1925, printed 1975/80
Ansel Adams - Nelson Algren Pauses after Another White Sox Loss, Chicago, 1950
Art Shay - Midwest Landscape #73, 1963
Art Sinsabaugh - Ancient Ruins in the Cañon de Chel
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Chair: Laura Weinstein (Museum mock Fine Art school, Boston) | Discussant: Ariella Azoulay, Brownish University
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