art for the open airLater this month, SFMOMA’s Roberts Family Gallery will fill with nearly 75,000 hand-built kites. Early kites are generally traced to ancient China between 475 and 221 BCE, where wooden forms often imitated birds. The scale is impressive, though the labor behind each paper surface gives the event its force. His 1972 exhibition Kites: Red Line in the Sky explored paper kites as sculpture, with slender frames and red marks set against open blue. centipede kite, Tyrus Wong | image © Sara Jane Boyersa museum with no ceilingThe Art Kites Project made that airborne exhibition model explicit.