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Double Down: Two Visions of Vega  |  Video, 09 18 2008 - 01 4 2009 SFMOMA presents Double Down: Two Visions of Vegas. The exhibition offers a concise portrait of America's most spectacular fantasy environment and fastest growing city by juxtaposing two recent video works: Olivo Barbieri's site specific Las Vegas (2005, 13 min.) and Stephen Dean's No More Bets (2003, 7 min.) The two works will be shown in sequence on facing walls. Image: Olivo Barbieri, site specific_LAS VEGAS 05, 2005; Courtesy of the artist and Yancey Richardson Gallery San Francisco Museum of Art 151 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94103 USA Hours Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Sunday 11 am - 5:45 pm / Wednesday CLOSED / Thursday 11 am - 8:45 pm Museum opens at 10 am during summer May 28–September 3, 2007 Admission: Adults $12.50 / Seniors and Students $8.00 - $7.00 http://www.sfmoma.org

Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900  |  Photography, 10 11 2008 - 01 4 2009 The exhibition explores the use of photography in 19th-century science, with a particular focus on the representation of phenomena invisible to the naked eye Image: Hermann Schnauss, Electrograph of a brass wire gauge, 1900; Albertina, Vienna, permanent loan of the Höhere Graphische Bundes-Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt, Vienna San Francisco Museum of Art 151 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94103 USA Hours Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Sunday 11 am - 5:45 pm / Wednesday CLOSED / Thursday 11 am - 8:45 pm Museum opens at 10 am during summer May 28–September 3, 2007 Admission: Adults $12.50 / Seniors and Students $8.00 - $7.00 http://www.sfmoma.org

PASSAGEWORKS: CONTEMPORARY ART FROM THE COLLECTION  |   Contemporary Art, 10 25 2008 - 01 8 2009 Drawing primarily from SFMOMA's collection and highlighting recent acquisitions, some presented here for the first time, the exhibition looks at art that evokes a sense of passage or transition-from past to present, from fact to fiction, from the personal to the collective, and back again. Image: Felix Gonzalez-Torres "Untitled" (Golden), 1995; Courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery; Photo: Ben Blackwell; © 2008 The Felix San Francisco Museum of Art 151 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94103 USA Hours Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Sunday 11 am - 5:45 pm / Wednesday CLOSED / Thursday 11 am - 8:45 pm Museum opens at 10 am during summer May 28–September 3, 2007 Admission: Adults $12.50 / Seniors and Students $8.00 - $7.00 http://www.sfmoma.org

Martin Puryear  |  Sculptures, 11 8 2008 - 01 25 2009 Made from a variety of natural materials including wood, tar, rawhide, and stone  Martin Puryear's distinctive sculptures combine modernist geometry with international craft traditions. Influenced by woodworking, basketry, and construction techniques, the pieces at times resemble familiar objects. This major retrospective charts the artist's career from his first solo show in 1977 to the present. SFMOMA's presentation includes a special installation in the Haas Atrium including Ladder for Booker T Washington (1996), made from a 36-foot-long split sapling, and Ad Astra (2007), a 63-foot-tall work that rises to the museum's fifth-floor bridge. Image: Martin Puryear, Ladder for Booker T. Washington, 1996; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; gift of Ruth Carter Stevenson, by exchange; © 2008 Martin Puryear; photo: David Wharton San Francisco Museum of Art 151 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94103 USA Hours Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Sunday 11 am - 5:45 pm / Wednesday CLOSED / Thursday 11 am - 8:45 pm Museum opens at 10 am during summer May 28–September 3, 2007 Admission: Adults $12.50 / Seniors and Students $8.00 - $7.00 http://www.sfmoma.org

New Work: Mai-Thu Perret  |   Contemporary Art, 11 21 2008 - 03 1 2009 Geneva-based artist Mai-Thu Perret Perret's prsents a  new installation, created for SFMOMA: sculpture, neon light, texts, and wallpaper. Like all her work, it draws from diverse sources, such as Russian avant-garde stage design, French illustration, Busby Berkeley musicals, early-20th-century mysticism, the Bauhaus, and various other modern art movements. In its contemporary reframing of feminist and socialist issues associated with the 1960s and 1970s, Perret's work explores how broader collective possibilities can still suggest social change without a heavy-handed sense of nostalgia. Brochure. Image: Mai-Thu Perret, Sylvania, 2006; collection of the artist; photo: Stefan Rohner; © 2008 Mai-Thu Perret San Francisco Museum of Art 151 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94103 USA Hours Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Sunday 11 am - 5:45 pm / Wednesday CLOSED / Thursday 11 am - 8:45 pm Museum opens at 10 am during summer May 28–September 3, 2007 Admission: Adults $12.50 / Seniors and Students $8.00 - $7.00 http://www.sfmoma.org

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