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Cristina Bean participating in Password

The Beans are living their last days in San Francisco before travelling to San Diego where they're going to participate in a new edition of the ComicCon as special guest stars. This morning, they have been revising some English grammar like Past Simple vs. Past Continuous and constructions with Let's.

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They have also talked about objective and subjective points of view, something very important if you like enjoying modern art.

The family has participated in a new programme of ABC7-KGO TV. Manuel and Cristina Bean have been chosen by their family to representate it in a TV Contest named Password. Both of them have done a fantastic participation and they have won the total amount valorated in free entrances to visit the SFMOMA in San Francisco. 

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Manuel Bean participating in Password

The family has decided to talk about art with one of the genius of the last century, Salvador Dalí, and they have been preparing their visit to the SFMOMA, a wonderful and interesting museum where you can enjoy the last modern works without any kind of censorship, because, as everybody must know, art is a free expression and we are in the city where was born the Free Speech movement and where was signed The Charter of the United Nations in 1945.

Then, this afternoon, the family has visited the SFMOMA. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a modern art museum located in San Francisco. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art, and was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art. 

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The museum’s current collection includes over 33,000 works of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts. They are displayed in 16,000 metres square of exhibition space, making the museum one of the largest in the United States overall, and one of the largest in the world for modern and contemporary art.

The Beans, the SFMOMA and Salvador Dalí

SFMOMA reopened on May 14, 2016, following a major three-year-long expansion project.The expansion more than doubles the museum’s gallery spaces and provides almost six times as much public space as the previous building, allowing SFMOMA to showcase an expanded collection along with the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection of contemporary art.

SFMOMA was founded in 1935 under director Grace L. McCann Morley as the San Francisco Museum of Art. For its first sixty years, the museum occupied the fourth floor of the War Memorial Veterans Building on Van Ness Avenue in the Civic Center. 

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A gift of 36 artworks from Albert M. Bender, including The Flower Carrier (1935) by Diego Rivera, established the basis of the permanent collection. Bender donated more than 1,100 objects to SFMOMA during his lifetime and endowed the museum's first purchase fund. The museum began its second year with an exhibition of works by Henri Matisse. In this same year the museum established its photography collection, becoming one of the first museums to recognize photography as a fine art. 

SFMOMA was obliged to move to a temporary facility on Post Street in March 1945 to make way for the United Nations Conference on International Organization. 

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, 

if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. 

Milan Kundera