SFMOMA’s Chief Offers Calm, Competence

“Probably only art world insiders felt relief when Neal Benezra took over as director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art five years ago last month. Since his arrival, he has quietly capitalized on the international respect SFMOMA enjoys as a collaborator on traveling exhibitions, while smoothing out museum operations from within.” Now, after half a decade of stabilizing a precarious institution, Benezra says that the museum is on the verge of realizing bigger plans.