SFMOMA Expansion by Snohetta
NYT - By RANDY KENNEDY
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has
long been renowned for its photography collection. Now it will have
galleries whose size and scope will match the ambitions of that
collection.
The museum announced Wednesday that as part of its overall expansion project
– it expects to reopen in 2016 after three years of being closed for a
$610 million capital campaign – it will create a center with more than
11,000 square feet devoted to photography exhibition, a space it
describes as the largest in the country for that purpose.
The center, to be built on the museum’s third
floor, will double the amount of space currently devoted to photographs
and will allow curators to triple the amount of pictures from the
museum’s own collection that they can exhibit every year.
It is being paid for by gifts from the
philanthropists and photography collectors John and Lisa Pritzker, for
whom the space will be named, and four more benefactors. Besides
additional exhibition space, it will include a print study center, an
interpretive center for the study of the history and social role of
photography, and new climate-controlled storage facilities for the
collection.
“What this is going to allow us to do is
make shows from our permanent collection,” said Sandra S. Phillips, the
museum’s senior photography curator, “to show it in ways we’ve never
been able to do before. We don’t even quite know what to expect yet
ourselves, but we think it’s going to be transformative.”
The Museum's capital campaign has raised 95% of its $610 million dollar goal which started back in 2010. An impressive display of leadership from the Board of Trustees and the great support from the community has made this expansion campaign a success. GL
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