{"id":404,"date":"2017-01-30T19:38:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T19:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w17\/?p=404"},"modified":"2017-01-30T19:40:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T19:40:32","slug":"404","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w17\/2017\/01\/30\/404\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been quite a while since the last time I visited the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Although I only visited there for my school project, I really enjoyed being there and staring at those fascinating art pieces. I remember that the building was enormously huge, consisting of 4 (or 5 can&#8217;t remember exactly) floor plans within the building. Recently, it got even bigger with an expansion and now they have total of 7 floor plans in the building. Each floor has one or two categories of exhibitions but mainly focused on the sculptures and paintings.<\/p>\n<p>The first two floors include a theater, a museum store, Atrium, Howard Street Gallery, education center, and painting and sculpture Galleries. The education center really caught my attention because it offers &#8220;more opportunities for hands-on-art-making, welcoming family-oriented artist commissions, and providing increased professional development opportunities for teachers&#8221;. I found this to be very fascinating because it breaks the mold regarding the perception of museums as a place of look-at-the-art-pieces-and-leave and offers opportunities for people of all ages to create their own art piece first hand. The third and fourth floor include an extension of painting and sculpture galleries, center for photography, and this space called the &#8220;White Box&#8221;. The White Box is a new multi-disciplinary space which features a state-of-the-art lighting grid and acoustics, creating new possibilities for live performances.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-405 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/white-box-e1485799096943-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/white-box-e1485799096943-300x223.jpg 300w, http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/white-box-e1485799096943.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The painting and sculpture galleries seem to extend all the way to the sixth floor, with a new category of architecture &amp; design gallery. The new seventh floor includes contemporary galleries, conservation studio and media art galleries. The media art gallery seemed quite interesting to me especially because it suits with the theme of our class well. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-423 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/media-art-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/media-art-300x190.jpg 300w, http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/media-art-768x487.jpg 768w, http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/media-art.jpg 1006w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0 Overall, SFMOMA is a very well-constructed museum with various categories of art pieces. However, there is one thing I was disappointed with the museum &#8211; it&#8217;s heavily devoted to the Western arts. The paintings and sculpture gallery being the main collections of the museum, the description on the website specifically says &#8220;collection of postwar and contemporary art comprised of over 1,100 works by 185 major American and European artists&#8221;. I mean, there certainly are very good Asian &amp; middle eastern modern arts out there&#8230; Therefore, as an alternative system of categorization, I think they bring in collections from different countries, cultures, and of different artists. That way, it \u00a0would enrich the experience of appreciating the modern arts for the visitors more than ever, or they might as well change their name to &#8220;The Museum of Western Modern Arts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been quite a while since the last time I visited the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 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