A guide to the new SFMOMA

You may know Doris and Donald from a little clothing company they started back in the 1969—Gap Inc. But the Fishers have another claim to fame: One of the world's greatest private collections of postwar and contemporary art. Among the 260 selections that will be on view over three floors of SFMOMA (the first time the artwork will be available to the public) are important works of American abstraction, pop, minimal and figurative art by artists such as Chuck Close, Richard Serra, Ellsworth Kelly, Lee Krasner, Roy Lichtenstein, Agnes Martin and Andy Warhol; works of German art after the 1960s by such artists as Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter; a broad range of Alexander Calder works from the late 1920s to the late 1960s; and sculpture by leading British artists including Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Barbara Hepworth and Richard Long. The Fishers believe that art is for everyone, which is why they are making their previously private collection public.

The new Pritzker Center for Photography nearly triples the museum's space dedicated to photography, filling the majority of the third floor. At fifteen thousand square feet, it is the largest space permanently dedicated to photography in any art museum in the United States, and includes permanent collection galleries as well as new special exhibition galleries, along with a study center and an interactive Interpretive Gallery.