Thought the article about Neal Benezra would be particularly poignant
considering he is now the director of the museum which rejected his
application for an internship.

Terri McNichol

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He Shows You Can Go Home Again
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Once rejected as an intern at San Francisco MOMA,
Bay Area native Neal Benezra is its new director at a crucial time.

By MICHAEL J. YBARRA, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

August 14 2002

SAN FRANCISCO--When Neal Benezra was around 10 or 12 years old,
he went to the San Francisco Museum of Art, then a spotty
collection crammed into an old building in the city's civic center.
One of the museum's few strengths was its spectacular trove of
Clyfford Still canvases, monumental abstract paintings made of jagged,
slashing forms, one of which was titled "Self Portrait."
The painting fascinated Benezra.

The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.calendarlive.com/cl-et-ybarra14aug14.story

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