As you’ve probably guessed if you follow my Twitter feed (@CultureGrrl), I’ve neglected the blog because I’ve been traveling in the San Francisco area, where I spent two rewarding, if exhausting, days (Friday and Monday) in the generous, welcoming spaces of the expanded SFMOMA.
Photo by Lee Rosenbaum
The advantage of arriving after the scribe tribe has decamped lies in getting to see how the museum is being used by real visitors (not just persnickety critics). Press previews are fine for receiving useful, spoonfed information, but not so great for judging how things work for a wider audience, when the museum is fully operational.
As I suggested in responding to tweeted praise for my ramblings from Kelly Scott, former arts and culture editor of the LA Times, the snippets below are fleeting impressions of oddities and anomalies that I encountered. More serious reflections and substantive appraisals will come later—in the mainstream media and on CultureGrrl.
For now, come join me at MOMA in SOMA—the once seedy, now swank “South of Market” neighborhood where the revitalized, reenergized museum is pulling in crowds after a three-year hiatus: