What's New Today In The Art World?

       Amongst the hustle and bustle of the San Francisco city streets lies one of the largest and most popular modern and contemporary art museums in California, the SFMOMA. As a Bay Area native, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has been a source of inspiration in my artistic journey since I was a teenager. I visited the museum for the first time with my mom on a nice chilly Saturday morning when I was in the 8 th   or 9 th   grade. As most kids transitioning from middle to high school, I did not know what kind of college career I wanted to pursue but I always knew I loved to make art. That first time visiting the SFMOMA opened my eyes to the immeasurability of artistic possibilities and creations in which I instantly knew I wanted to be a part of. To this day, I am still witnessing ways in which art concepts, processes, and boundaries are being explored and contorted.   An exhibition I visited recently this month at the SFMOMA, that exemplifies...

   My Mother in front ot the exhibition.      "The Visitors," an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art by Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson, is among the most profoundly touching displays I have ever seen. The installation is set up with nine enormous screens, each featuring a different musician performing an instrument, in an a dark room similar to a movie theater. They are all performing the same song, each contributing an individual component to the symphony from a different room or space than the other.  Completely immersed in this hour-long performance, the audience gathered in the main room, either sitting on the bench or lying down on the floor.        Instead of reading the name of the exhibition and artist statement before going into the experience, I decided to read it after.  While reading the sign and doing my research, I soon discovered that this piece was created from nine separate rooms in a sing...