San Francisco MOMA Opens

What started as an addition to display 1,100 artworks on loan from the Fisher family has ended up with more than 4,000 new works in the largest modern and contemporary art museum in America and the largest museum of any kind in Northern California, as measured by gallery space.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art reopened May 14, 2016, after being closed for three years of expansion. When it does, it will have seven floors of exhibition space, and one of those floors, the fourth, is larger than all five floors from the original building designed by Mario Botta that opened 20 years ago.

The addition and the public spaces are wonderful. A must visit for anyone coming to San Francisco.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

SF MOMA has been closed while a new wing is being built. The anchor piece of the new space will be a Richard Serra sculpture. The interlocking steel spirals - which are 13 feet tall and together weigh a whopping 235 tons. And since the addition's ground floor will be clad in glass, the much-praised "Sequence" should be visible even when the museum is closed.

I went to the museum last month to watch the last of the 12 parts being moved into the space. After it is placed inside the rest of the building facade can be installed. While I was sketching a photographer from the SF Chronicle took photos of me sketching. So in the both Richard Serra and I were featured in the paper's article!