"Get in the Game" opens at SF MoMA

October 19, 2024–February 18, 2025October 19, 2024–February 18, 2025

Floor 7

Pass through a stadium tunnel to the roar of a crowd usually reserved for beloved sports teams on game day. When you emerge, Hank Willis Thomas’s masterful Guernica (2016), made from recycled sports jerseys and modeled after the 1937 Pablo Picasso painting of the same name, looms large.

Beyond it awaits an expansive array of works referencing baseball, basketball, e-sports and gaming, football, surfing, skating, and more. It’s a museum entry unlike any other you may have experienced, but Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture is not your typical exhibition.

Opening October 19 and spanning 15,000 square feet of the museum, Get in the Game spotlights the influence of sports on contemporary culture. Athletic competition has inspired many contemporary artists to create works responding to the game’s emotional drama, the fan’s enthusiasm, the athlete’s discipline, and the implicit and explicit codes governing how games are played and who gets to play them. The exhibition brings together over 100 works of art, design, interactive installations, and media related to the world of sports, including athletic fashion and gear, Formula 1 race car steering wheels, and a display of surfboards (this is a California show, after all).

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