Get in the Game by The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - ISBN: 9781962098038
Hardcover
Sports and art collide, revealing beauty, power, and what makes us human.
  • Hardcover

    168 pages

  • Release Date

    8 October 2024

Summary

“An informative read from first page to last”—Midwest Book Review

Get in the Game unfolds the many ways that sports shape culture, bringing people together in shared emotional and physical experiences and offering a platform for conversations about gender, race, money, and the human body, as well as the drive to compete and to win.

Sports serve as a major driver for artistic and technological innovation, community building, and debates about social and cultur…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781962098038
ISBN-10:1962098036
Author:The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Megan Rapinoe, AJ Dungo, Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, Seph Rodney, Katy Siegel
Publisher:TRA Publishing
Imprint:TRA Publishing
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:168
Release Date:8 October 2024
Weight:612g
Dimensions:229mm x 171mm x 20mm
About The Author

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

AJ Dungo

AJ Dungo is an American surfer and illustrator, known for his 2019 graphic novel In Waves. He has collaborated with notable organizations and publications such as Nike, Nobrow, The New York Times, Esquire, and Narratively. His work has received recognition from American Illustration and the Society of Illustrators. Originally from Fort Myers, Florida, Dungo currently resides in Los Angeles.

Megan Rapinoe

Megan Rapinoe is a prominent American professional soccer player. As a key member of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team, she contributed to victories in the 2015 and 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cups and earned a gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics. Serving as co-captain since 2018, Rapinoe was recognized as the Best FIFA Women’s Player in 2019 and received the Golden Boot award. She is a dedicated advocate for LGBTQIA+ organizations, including GLSEN and Athlete Ally, and was honored with the Board of Directors Award from the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center in 2013. Rapinoe was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020 and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in July 2022.

Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher

Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher is the Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). She has curated numerous exhibitions and authored significant essays on the work of artists and architects such as A. Quincy Jones, Ewan Gibbs, Tobias Wong, and Lebbeus Woods. Since 2010, she has been instrumental in developing SFMOMA’s Architecture and Design collection, with a focus on experimental design since 1980. Recent acquisitions under her stewardship include notable works by Neri Oxman, Ant Farm, Neil Denari, Nathalie du Pasquier, Iwan Baan, Nacho Carbonell, and Mathieu Lehanneur.

Seph Rodney

Seph Rodney is a regular contributor to The New York Times and is featured on the podcast “The American Age.” His book, The Personalization of the Museum Visit, was published by Routledge in 2019. He is a former senior critic and opinion editor for Hyperallergic and has also written for various outlets including CNN and NBC Universal. Rodney is a recipient of the Rabkin Arts Journalism Prize (2020) and an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant (2022).

Katy Siegel

Katy Siegel is the Research Director for Special Program Initiatives at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her academic and curatorial work centers on the intersection of material art-making and social history. Siegel is a member of the advisory committee for the African American Archive Initiative at the Getty Research Institute, a contributing editor at Artforum, and serves on the editorial board of The Brooklyn Rail.

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