The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has received a major gift from the estate of San Francisco philanthropists and art collectorsNorman StoneandNorah Sharpe Stone。In one of the most significant gifts in the institution’s 87-year history, nearly 350 works by artists including Marcel Duchamp, Diane Arbus, Carrie Mae Weems, Jeff Koons, Danh Vo, Sarah Lucas, Bruce Nauman, Hans Bellmer and Ai Weiwei will become part of the museum’s permanent holdings, SFMOMA announced Thursday, March 3.
“They had been very clear that they wanted to keep their collection intact as much as possible,” Amy Stone, Norman’s daughter, told The Chronicle. “They had a strong commitment to SFMOMA, and they had a deep conviction that art made a difference in their lives. We talked a lot about how as a collector, you’re a custodian for a piece and that it belongs eventually in the hands of the public.”
A $10 million unrestricted bequest by the Stones, who both died at age 81 just 19 months apart from each other, is also part of the gift. The Norah and Norman Stone Fund for Exhibitions of Contemporary Art will be dedicated to supporting future contemporary art exhibitions and collection displays.
SFMOMA董事Neal Benezra说：“我想不出一种更好的方式来纪念Norah和Norman。”“拥有一个捐赠基金，我们可以永久地从中获得支持现代表演，这对于博物馆来说只是一个非凡的机会。它将为我们提供一种非常受欢迎的程序自由，并且（将）真正增强了我们当代的使命。”
由石头礼物资助的前两个展览 - “转移沉默”，其中将有32位女性艺术家和“投机肖像”，该肖像将调查科学技术如何告知人类身份的概念 - 计划于4月9日开放。
博物馆将在SFMOMA董事会接受礼物后于3月15日占有该收藏。首席策展人珍妮特·毕晓普（Janet Bishop）说，从今年夏天开始，从石头上的作品将在第二和五楼的展览中纳入展览。
Highlights of the gift include Duchamp sculptures “Objet-dard” and “Feuille de Vigne Femelle”; “Six Oxidation Paintings” by Andy Warhol; Catherine Opie’s photograph “Bo”; and Ai Weiwei’s conceptual sculpture “Fairytale Chairs.”
Bishop说：“从石材收藏中的作品增加了SFMOMA的股份的深度和广度。”“I’m thinking in particular of artists, most of whom emerged in the 1980s or early 1990s and went on to become among the most important artists of their generation, such as Matthew Barney, Cady Noland, Sherrie Levine, Jeff Koons, Jack Pierson, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Larry Clark.”
这些石头在艺术界和SFMOMA的狂热支持者中都是众所周知的。诺曼（Norman）于1991年成为博物馆受托人，并一直担任该职位，直到2021年去世。
每年1995年至2019年，这对夫妇都在Artnews排名前200名的收藏家名单中排名。他们穿着实验性日本和比利时设计师的尖端时尚的彭教徒，在社会盛会和艺术开幕式上是一个嬉戏的存在。在一个2006 Chronicle story记者卡罗琳·辛科（Carolyne Zinko）在达西尔·哈米特（Dashiell Hammett）的小说《瘦男人》（The The The The The Man）中的社交名流侦探之后，将这对夫妇称为“现代尼克和诺拉·查尔斯”。
诺曼·斯通（Norman Stone）是合并保险公司的儿子。创始人W. Clement Stone，他的业务在2002年去世时价值20亿美元。他担任风险投资家，然后从事心理学家的职业，志愿服务。从1980年开始在猎人点的4301家庭中心。
Norah Stone worked as a corporate attorney before marrying Norman in 1986. The couple began collecting art in the 1980s. Amy Stone remembers one early studio visit with her father in that era to a then up-and-coming artist the Stones went on to collect, Richard Prince. The couple lived with their collection at their home in Pacific Heights (where a Christmas tree sculpture by Philippe Parreno was on view year-round) and at Stonescape, their Calistoga estate with its famous“艺术洞穴”雕刻到山上以展示其他作品。
在2006年的《编年史》的故事中，诺曼·斯通（Norman Stone）说，他作为辅导员的经验，处理心理和社会问题，使他在当代艺术中的口味介绍了他的口味。这是关于“告诉我一切”的字面意思，这是Prince的1989年丝网印刷品，引用了访问精神病医生的文字。
诺拉·斯通（Norah Stone）在同一篇文章中说：“我们俩都不对收集'漂亮的图片'感兴趣。”
在SFMOMA与冠状病毒大流行有关的两年动荡之后，SFMOMA进入新的篇章时，这份礼物就来了。六月，贝尔兹拉将step down as director20年后，巴尔的摩艺术博物馆主任接任克里斯托弗·贝德福德。
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