W Magazine | Sarah Thornton:
Not every fundraiser is a celebration, but this year’s Modern Ball at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) was positively ecstatic—with dancing in the cavernous Haas Atrium, the new Schwab Hall, on the loading docks and even stairway landings, where guests wearing headphones boogied in a “silent disco.” For almost three years, the Bay Area had lost the center of its art world while SFMOMA was closed for a massive expansion and renovation by the Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta. Now the city boasts the largest museum of modern and contemporary art in America… Read more
Image: From left: SFMOMA senior curator Gary Garrels, art consultant Sabrina Buell, SFMOMA trustee Susan Swig, interior designer Steven Volpe, event planner Stanlee Gatti, and SFMOMA trustee Alka Agrawal, in the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection Gallery of SFMOMA, with Joan Mitchell’s Bracket, 1989, and Lee Krasner’s Polar Stampede, 1960 (from left). Photograph by Jake Stangel, Styled by Lauren Goodman; Hair and makeup by Joshua Conover for Oribe at Workgroup; Photography Assistant: Damien Maloney