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Pier 24: San Francisco’s Secret Gallery

ByLynn Friedman June 26, 2010June 28, 2013

A collector you’ve never heard of has opened a pop-up gallery in a space you have never seen to showcase a remarkable collection of 20th century photography. It’s so large the SFMOMA would have to create another building the size of the new Fisher wing. To find the gallery, you must wander down an unmarked…

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Richard Avedon at the SFMOMA

ByChelsea Richards July 10, 2009June 28, 2013

Neal Benezra, Director of the SFMOMA, has every right to be beaming. The Richard Avedon exhibit is absolutely breathtaking and the SFMOMA is the only U.S. venue for this retrospective spanning the sixty-year career of Avedon’s artistic genius. The exhibit features over 200 photographs encompassing the span of his work “from his earliest street scenes…