A celebration of Los Angeles art with over 30 concurrent exhibitions throughout Southern California beginning fall 2011.
Los Angeles is the birthplace of many of the most influential art movements of the second half of the 20th century, yet much of this history is not well known. Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945–1980 will document this important moment in the history of art in the United States through an unprecedented collaboration of museums and other cultural organizations all across Southern California. Supported by the Getty Foundation, more than 30 concurrent exhibitions in 2011–2012 will celebrate the vibrancy of art in L.A. in the post–World War II decades. The wide variety of exhibitions will display the depth and breadth of the artistic production of the region ranging from hard-edge painting to assemblage sculpture, from the Light and Space movement to video art, from Pop Art to feminist art, and from performance art to modern design.
Getty Foundation grants are supporting the Pacific Standard Time exhibitions in various ways. From 2002–2008 grants focused on the behind-the-scenes work of identifying, preserving, and making accessible to scholars the archives that hold the historic record of the period. In 2008 the Foundation began to award grants to allow the participating museums to undertake groundbreaking research, utilizing the newly accessible archives and drawing on scholars all over the world. In 2010 the Foundation awarded grants for the exhibitions that are resulting from the research.
Pacific Standard Time was launched by the Getty Foundation and the Getty Research Institute.
What's Next
The Pacific Standard Time exhibitions will open in fall 2011 and run until spring 2012 in the Los Angeles area, and throughout Southern California from Santa Barbara to San Diego to Palm Springs. Public lectures, symposia, films, performances, and educational programs are in development and will be announced.
Press Coverage
March 13, 2010: Unearthing Lost Treasures in California, New York Times
January 28, 2010: Fundación Getty da $3.1 millones a 26 instituciones (Getty Foundation Gives $3.1 million to 26 Institutions), La Opinión
January 27, 2010: Getty Foundation Grants Put Southern California in Spotlight, Los Angeles Times
October 28, 2008: L.A.'s Art History Becomes a Hot Topic, Los Angeles Times
October 29, 2008: 2011 Will be a Huge Year for Art in L.A., Los Angeles Times
October 26, 2008: Los Angeles Artists Have Quite a Past, Los Angeles Times
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