© San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, photo by Richard Barnes

The main facade of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Alexander Calder Andy Warhol Roy Lichtenstein Suspect Charged with Warhol and Picabia Thefts Investors Indulge Appetite for Luxury SFMOMA Considers Unusual Expansion Plan Dealer Holly Solomon’s Papers Headed to Smithsonian Phillips de Pury Makes Its (Small) Mark

Send a letter to the Editor

Save to Del.icio.us Digg this

Fisher and his family’s plans to build a private museum in the city’s Presidio, a national park, fell through this summer after a two-year battle with preservationists, leading to worries in San Francisco’s art community that the collection would end up at a museum in another city. But under a just-announced agreement, the Fishers will lend the artwork to SFMOMA and will create a trust to oversee the care of the collection. The new wing, which will also incorporate art from the museum’s holdings, is part of a expansion intended to triple the institution’s gallery space. SFMOMA is planning an exhibition of the Fisher artwork next summer; the collection includes about a thousand works by such artists as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Alexander Calder and is conservatively valued in the tens of millions of dollars.

Read more at the New York Times.