Source: MIR and Snøhetta SFMOMA Expansion Aerial Southeast Façade.

The biggest museum fundraising campaign in San Francisco history is nearing its $610 million goal two years before the opening of a new wing that will more than double the space for artworks by Andy Warhol,Mark Rothko and David Hockney.

About $570 million, or 94 percent, has been raised by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for its 235,000-square-foot (21,800-square-meter) expansion and to add $245 million to the museum’s endowment. The $305 million wing designed by the Snohetta architecture firm is rising behind SFMOMA’s current home, opened two decades ago in the technology-heavy South of Market area, or SOMA.

“In 1995, we were the pioneers when SOMA was pretty run-down, and the tech boom followed us,” Neal Benezra, the museum’s director, said June 20 in a presentation at Bloomberg LP’s San Francisco offices. “Our expansion will solidify the neighborhood as a cultural hub.”

The museum’s main entrance will shift to Howard Street from Third Street in a slender 10-story addition that features more glass and outdoor terraces, Benezra said. SFMOMA’s current holdings will be joined in the larger quarters by the 1,100-piece collection of Doris and Donald Fisher, founders of San Francisco-based Gap Inc., that include works by Richard Serra, Alexander Calder, Roy Lichtenstein, Willem de Kooning, Anselm Kiefer and Chuck Close, among others.....Continue Reading

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