Art of Noise
May 4–Aug 18, 2024
Group Exhibition
Curated by Joseph Becker.
Image: Installation View Art of Noise Concert Posters. SFMOMA, San Francisco.
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| Monday | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm |
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| Tuesday | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm |
| Wednesday | Closed |
| Thursday | 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm |
| Friday | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm |
| Saturday | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm |
| Sunday | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm |
Overview
SFMOMA’s Art of Noise exhibition features 800+ music related objects (concert posters, album covers, music devices, sound installations).
This is a MUST SEE show for music lovers, musicians, DJs, audiophiles, graphic/industrial design lovers.
Art of Noise Exhibition Preview. SFMOMA, San Francisco.
The posters in the exhibition (over 600!) are mind-blowing, spanning decades.
Notable works for me are the Factory Records-related posters (see my post on last year’s Pace collab regarding Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures) and the collection of rave and nightclub fliers, which remind me of the “weird” San Francisco I grew up with during the 1990s, the San Francisco I find myself homesick for.
Art of Noise Concert Posters. SFMOMA, San Francisco.
*The interactive dynamic of this show is superb.
teenage engineering, a Swedish consumer electronics company founded by Jesper Kouthoofd, David Eriksson, Jens Rudberg, and David Möllerstedt, created an extraordinary mid-century-meets-the-future, exquisitely Jetson-esque listening lounge where you can experiment with mixing songs from artists like Missy Elliot and Lykke Li.
*See their ultra-cool drum machines and synthesizers, available for purchase on Amazon at the end of the post.
In Devon Turnbull’s HiFi Listening Room (Devon is THE master sound system creator known for his work in celebrity homes, luxury hotels, and the New York Supreme store), which features custom-built speakers and subs made from previously discontinued Japanese audio components by Fostex International, you can experience a LIVE DJ SET BY A VARIETY OF SELECTORS.
See the schedule HERE. I attended twice, and was such a different vibe each time! Both times were phenomenal. Seeing Mark Ronson DJ was beyond exciting.
Devon Turnbull Playing Sonny Rollins’ “You Don’t Know What Love Is”. Devon Turnbull’s HiFi Listening Room. SFMOMA, San Francisco.
Guest DJ Mark Ronson Playing Amy Winehouse’s “Love is a Losing Game”. Devon Turnbull’s HiFi Listening Room. SFMOMA, San Francisco.
Guest DJ Mark Ronson Playing “Uptown Funk”. Devon Turnbull’s HiFi Listening Room. SFMOMA, San Francisco.
Art of Noise also includes Yuri Suzuki’s Arborhythm, a sound sculpture located at the Howard Street entrance to the museum, near the museum’s latest installation by Kara Walker, which you can preview HERE.
“Suzuki has programmed the work to actively remix the natural and urban sounds of San Francisco into an ambient wellness soundtrack. Captured from around and beyond the city, more than a hundred field recordings—featuring foghorns and ocean waves, cable cars and sea lions—playfully connect us to our surroundings.”
Yuri Suzuki. Arborhythm, 2024. SFMOMA, San Francisco.
🗓 Art of Noise (located on the 7th floor) closes Aug 18 at SFMOMA. It runs alongside several FANTASTIC shows (see exhibitions below), including Kara Walker: Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine) and Creative Growth: The House That Art Built, which I’ll post about soon. Admission is $30.
💌 Did you see the show? What did you think? Let us know in the comments (in the Reviews section located on the second tab at the top of the page).
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⭐ EXHIBITIONS: Zanele Muholi: Eye Me [EXCEPTIONAL show!!! A MUST SEE for photography lovers.] (Closes 8/11); What Matters: A Proposition in Eight Rooms [Ebony G. Patterson’s …three kings weep…IS STUNNING.] (Closes 9/22). Creative Growth: The House That Art Built [Celebrates the 50th anniversary of the organization that supports artists with disabilities.] (Closes Oct. 6); Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors [Interactive musical experience. Think: If melodic intensity was visual.] (Closes 10/14). *Yayoi Kusama’s Dreaming of Earth’s Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love is back on view at the museum (Closes May 2025). Kara Walker: Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine) (Closes Spring 2026).
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⭐ ADMISSION: General Admission Adults $30; Seniors 65+ $25; Ages 19-24 $23; 18 & Under FREE. Membership starts at $130 GA/$110 Senior/$90 Working Artist.
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💛 FREE FAMILY DAYS (up to 4 adults accompanying one child – next one is Sept 8, 2024)
💖 FREE COMMUNITY DAYS (next one is Oct 20, 2024).
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⭐ EVENTS: FREE (with admission) SF Public Library’s Summer Stride (storytime and drawing 10:30–3 p.m.) with author and illustrator Sendy Santamaria on Aug 11; *ARTIST OPEN CALL (sports related artwork) on Sept 1, 10–4 (4th floor) for SFMOMA’s upcoming Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture exhibition (FREE ADMISSION plus guest w/artwork submission. Artist David Huffman [preview his FANTASTIC show from 2022 at MoAD HERE] will select 15 works to be featured in a related presentation at SFMOMA’s Steps Coffee); Creative Growth 50th Anniversary Gala on Sept 25 5:30–10 p.m.
⭐ SFMOMA FOOD/DRINK: *MEMBERS RECEIVE A 10% DISCOUNT. Steps Coffee (2nd floor) is open Fri-Tues 9:30-4:30; Thurs 11-6:00; Cafe 5 (5TH FLOOR) is open Fri-Tues 10:30–4:30; Thurs 12-7:30; *Grace (street level) is open to the public, MUSEUM ADMISSION NOT REQUIRED. Hours: Thurs-Mon 11:30-5 CLOSED TUES AND WED. Thurs 11:30–8. *Check out their FABULOUS HAPPY HOUR Thursday–Monday 3–5 p.m.
⭐ NEARBY ART: MUSEUMS: YBCA (4 min walk), MoAD (6 min walk), CJM (8 min walk). PUBLIC ART: Revelation, the Martin King Jr. memorial fountain and several others at Yerba Buena Gardens (4 min walk) [see LINK for Yerba Buena Gardens self-guided art tour].
⭐ NEARBY FOOD/DRINK: My nearby FAVES are Fang [Cantonese] (1 min walk), Yokai (7 min walk), Wise Sons (8 min walk) and *Oren’s Hummus (6 min walk). *Check out their AMAZING HAPPY HOUR Monday–Thursday 3–5 p.m.
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