""You'll also find a primer for the exhibitions," Monetta White, the director and chief executive of MoAD, tells The Art Newspaper. "You'll find a framework, some vocabulary, some definitions of the themes." Meanwhile, she points out, much of the rest of the $500,000 renovation has gone into critical infrastructure improvements visitors will hardly notice, such as lighting upgrades and a new heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system."
"The museum's Unbound exhibition covers the gamut of media, from painting to photography, sculpture and installation. It was curated by the museum's first chief curator, Key Jo Lee, who had been researching the show ever since her arrival in January 2023. White says the exhibition encompasses "expanded considerations of the Black experience. It is important for a lot of reasons, like how we're looking at the future of MoAD, this whole cosmic side.""
MoAD in downtown San Francisco reopened for its 20th anniversary with a refreshed ground-floor lobby and two new exhibitions. The lobby includes new ticketing and welcome counters and an open gathering area with a primer that provides framework, vocabulary and definitions for the shows. A $500,000 renovation funded lighting upgrades and a new heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system. Unbound: Art, Blackness & the Universe presents 17 artists across painting, photography, sculpture and installation, curated by Key Jo Lee and running through 16 August 2026. Works are organized under Geo-Cartographic, Religio-Mythic and Techno-Cyborgian themes to map Blackness across cosmic and terrestrial realms.
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