SFMOMA

Last year, I saw an outstanding special exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). This year, my Zoom Buddies (college friends) were in town, and we explored the permanent collection together. What a treat!

I’m not sure we fully appreciated the geometric abstractions of Ellsworth Kelly and Sol Lewitt. We were more interested in the works by Chuck Close and Claes Oldenberg. The Living Wall in the sculpture garden was popular with everyone, as was a collection of artsy tableware.

The pièce de résistance was the new installation titled Giant Arc by Jacob Hashimoto. It was an enormous cloud made up of nearly 75,000 colorful paper “kites.” I wandered slowly beneath that floating canopy, sometimes pausing to admire a geometric pattern or leaf print; other times turning slowly and letting waves of color wash over me. It was marvelous! Well done, SFMOMA.