Journey to the Moon by William Kentridge

Yesterday I made a trip to the SFMoma's new rooftop garden. It's basically behind their top floor gallery. It has a sense of corporate park loneliness mixed with upper crust privilege.... Or at least that's what I felt as I waited behind a fussy older woman who ordered the "Wayne Theibaud Cake" not the "Piet Mondrian Cake" which she was served at the Blue Bottle Coffee kiosk(!). The cakes, I should mention, looked delicious, and took kitsch to a new level. Anyway back to the point of my visit.......

There are several notable sculptures on display, and the back wall of the indoor gallery is now a window looking out on the space. Inside are some really cool pieces, new acquisitions and permanent collection items. I recommend the top floor gallery and the William Kentridge survey currently on display (awesome).



I had only seen his drawings before, never his videos, which really grabbed my attention in this show. Drawing on theater, film history, classical music, and the artist in the studio doing art for art's sake, his has created fantastic yet simple films which are some of the best I've seen from a living artist. The thing I liked the most about them is that the materials used were often just paper, charcoal, eraser and ink. I'm going back soon to re-watch everything. It's very rare that I pay such close attention to a whole museum exhibition.