The Floating Museum

The Floating Museum was a temporary museum, organized by the artist Lynn Hershman Leeson, which commissioned site-specific works around the Bay Area, at the SFMOMA, and abroad, providing exposure to many women artists, and artists working in mediums underrepresented in the museum context at the time. Among the near 350 artists commissioned were Eleanor Antin, Michael Asher, Judith Barry, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Gordon Matta Clark, R. Crumb, Douglas Davis, Barbara Hammer, Newton Harrison & Helen Mayer Harrison, Suzanne Lacy, Cindy Sherman, and Spain. Though very successful, The Floating Museum, remained under the historic radar until very recently. It's structure became a model for Creative Time and PS1, amongst other arts organizations.