The reason I like the whole SFMoma thing is that it was a place I frequented when I worked at The Chronicle. I loved the view from Yerba Buena - hardly a work day would go by without a walk around those gardens.
Highlights for me at the museum:
Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra - awesome photographer. Portraits. Through time. The most striking were the mothers who just gave birth, shocking, almost violent. Soldiers, adolescents. Dijkstra is obsessed with people in different stages of their lives -TRANSITIONS. All large scale photographs. Oh, and even more amazing are the video installations - uninhibited dancing.
Jim Campell: in the lobby a flickering grid of light that is like a sculpture and like watching a moving image. Thousands of LED show shadowlike figures and cars that dissolve and reappear.
On the second floor there is another piece of his: A clock - sheer - sideways and one can see themselves in it but there is a 5 second delay and it's a experiment in being in the moment.
High highlight - hanging with Kendra and Scott for the members party....
