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March 25 - June 2, 2013

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Newport Beach Revisited Announcement for "The San Francisco Performance," 1972, featured in "Newport Beach Revisited"
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Koret Visitor Education Center Daily (except Wednesdays and Sundays), 4:15 p.m. Please note there will be no screenings on Saturday, April 27, 2013. George Bolling, Newport Beach Revisited, 1979, 29 min. Courtesy of the SFMOMA Research Library and Archives Organized by Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator of media arts, SFMOMA Traveling with a group of San Francisco artist friends in a 15-passenger airport limousine, video curator and videographer George Bolling recorded their 1972 road trip to show at the Newport Harbor Art Museum. Organized by Tom Marioni, director of the Museum of Conceptual Art in San Francisco, the trip itself and its documentation (by Bolling and Larry Fox) were considered to be works in Marioni's exhibition "The San Francisco Performance," which included Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Paul Kos, Mel Henderson, Sam's Cafe, and Bonnie Sherk. Several of the artists drove down together, making stops along the way to Baldasare Forestierre's Underground Garden in Fresno and Chris Burden's "Bed Piece" in Venice, California. One sequence features Henderson talking to the police about his intervention of spelling out ATTICA in Christmas lights on a ravine hillside. Art critic Charles Shere narrates the film, discussing key aspects of the significant work being made in Northern California at that time. Bolling produced this documentary in 1979 on the occasion of SFMOMA's "Space / Time / Sound-1970s: A Decade in the Bay Area," the first major museum survey of Bay Area Conceptual art and performance. Free with museum admission; drop-ins welcome.