Calder at SF MOMA

Today we visited San Francisco's newly refurbished and greatly expanded museum of modern art (apparently known only by its acronym, SF MOMA), open since May. The sprawling 7-story building is extremely impressive, and the works on display fully do it justice.  The galleries are large and the art well spaced out, at times perhaps even too much so. There are numerous pieces by Alexander Calder--here both inside and outside, against a Living Wall of plants, which extends even five times the portion you see here. 

The first extra photo displays an expansive, delicate mobile, against a backdrop of boxes and other works by Joseph Cornell (another favorite of mine), with one of Marcel Duchamps's found objects in the foreground. All three artists have close ties to surrealism.  The other two extras show parts of the building, though they are hardly more helpful for grasping it than the  proverbial groping of a blind man around an elephant  :)  Last but by no means least was a small gallery with nearly two dozen works by Paul Klee.