San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Professor Light Captures Darkness at the Border

September 27, 2020 The Guardsman Hasselblad, ken light, Mexico, Asylum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, JohnTaylor Wildfeuer, Melvin Wong, the guardsman, Midnight: La Frontera, city college, border patrol, immigration, University of California Berkeley, photography

Mothers handcuffed to their children, a full-grown man stuffed into a drainpipe, a family of three crammed together in the boot of a car. Under the cover of night they were found and detained by border patrol officers, their moments of fear and loss caught in the glow of Ken Light’s Hasselblad camera.

Frontpage Display Culture

Diego Rivera Mural Moving to SFMOMA

September 2, 2020September 7, 2020 The Guardsman COVID-19, mural, Eleni Balakrishnan, diego rivera, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, exhibition, Diego Rivera’s America, Will Maynez, Jill Lynch, Pan American Unity, PAEC, SFMOMA, Edgar Torres, coronavirus, Performing Arts Education Center

The “Pan American Unity” mural by Diego Rivera will be moved to SFMOMA for their new exhibition dedication to Rivera called “Diego Rivera’s America”. Rivera’s mural is remembered as a very historical piece of City College history.