The version of "The Scream" on the block Wednesday was one of four -- two pastels and two paintings -- executed between 1893 and 1910, Sotheby's said, and is one of the best-known images in modern art.
During the closure, SFMOMA will co-organize exhibitions with partner museums throughout the city, including Beyond Belief: 100 Years of the Spiritual in Modern Art, which will be on view from June 27 to Oct. 27 at the Contemporary Jewish Museum.
The blue-eyed Redondo Beach native looks like an ex-skateboarder, and his relaxed Southern California demeanor makes it easy to forget that he's famous in every modern art scene in the world.
Together with the Tate in London and the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, they have established the New Art Trust, which will pay for acquisitions and sponsor critical research in the field of media art.
The results, he says, offer some simple lessons in the modern art of disguise: Avoid symmetry, and focus on obscuring the area around your eyes.
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The peculiar tension of that displacement has never recurred anywhere on so engulfing a scale, but hints of it linger in Northern European modern art, particularly in that of van Gogh, and somewhat in that of Mondrian and Malevich.
In 2000 Iwona edited a directory called Fresh Cream, a "Who's Who" of the best new talent in the international modern art world.
In 1940 he became the first head of the industrial design department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, where he organized a contemporary furniture competition that launched the careers of Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames.
In 1970 came the laying on of hands: a one-man show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Since 2001 the boyish supercollector has been the largest patron in Mexico's modern art scene.
His office is framed from floor to ceiling in glass, with modern art on nearly every wall.
The National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi staged a major retrospective of her work in 2010.
The Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth, Texas, is one of America's most closely watched current museum projects.
In the annals of modern art, Klimt is the go-to source for kitsch.
Now, the interior is highly contemporary, and filled with one of the leading collections of minimalist modern art in the country.
It's like modern art in a way: You can appreciate it as much as you want, but that doesn't mean you're going to understand it.
It had recently been renovated by interior designer Studio Sofield with countertops made with the same marble found in the Museum of Modern Art's garden.
While many institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York have acquired Matsunaga posters, few collections, besides that in Munich, include his work in packaging.
Iwona has lectured all over the world including at the Toyama Museum of Modern Art in Japan, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp and the Louisiana Museum, Denmark.
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The gallery is owned by the art collector Charles Saatchi, who has become a champion of modern art in Britain, and the photographs are part of Mr Saatchi's private collection.
It was only a grant at the end of his life from the Museum of Modern Art in New York that enabled him to work on (though not complete) the Merzbarn.
When the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) acquired Les Demoiselles d'Avignon in 1937 it was still a largely unknown work, although Picasso had eventually sold it to a collector in 1924.
Where, except New York, would a curator put a metro station in a museum of modern art, and what restaurant could be more self-consciously Parisian than Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles in Manhattan?
John Elderfield of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Elizabeth Cowling of the Tate, two curators working with Mr Golding (in a three-country team of six) on the Matisse-Picasso show.
After Vienna, versions of the show will travel to Cologne, Germany and Bilbao, before moving to the Museum of Modern Art in New York in April 2013 and to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis that September.
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As evidence of its place in design history, the PRADA phone by LG 1.0 is part of the permanent collection in New York City's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Shanghai.
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Munch painted four versions of his famous painting between 1893 and 1910, and there are two of the originals on view at the Munch Museum, one at the National Gallery of Norway and one at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
It is quite possible, if Picasso had died the day he painted Les Demoiselles that neither he nor his painting of five awkward-looking, two-dimensional prostitutes parading their wares in front of the viewer would be any more than footnotes in the story of modern art.
To sell the Baccarat Residences, a 50-story glass condominium tower under construction across from the Museum of Modern Art in midtown Manhattan, a model set up in the building's showroom includes striking materials like lacquered ziricote-wood walls and a crackled bronze sculptural wall embedded with tiny pieces of glass made by a British artist.
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