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Pacific Standard Time - A Los Angeles Art Exhibit
Pacific Standard Time - Los Angeles, California

Pacific Standard Time, A Los Angeles Art Exhibit

Pacific Standard Time: It's more than one event! -

Come experience Art in Los Angeles- at an art and exhibition event like none other ever held in Los Angeles! Put together by the Getty Foundation and the Getty Research Institute, this dynamic project focuses on postwar art through recorded film and audio, public viewings, interviews, lectures and educational displays.
What makes the getty Pacific Standard Time events so special are not only the vast amount of art collected and displayed from this post World War II era, but the style and reach of this movement: This is not your traditional art exhibit. Present at over 30 theaters, galleries, museums, schools and centers, the exhibit "pops" up throughout many venues within Los Angeles, Orange County and even as far-reaching as San Diego.
The art mediums, methodologies and mindsets present in Pacific Standard Time encompass the disparate historical decades of the 1940s through the 1980s and cover the gamut of sculpture, conceptual art, emerging American cultural art pieces, performance art, screen printing, and the traditional mediums of painting, photography and more. The Getty organization had the genius to create a long-production of the exhibition from October 2011 to March 2012, pair it with accessible and diverse venues spread throughout Southern California to showcase the diversity and dynamism of Los Angeles, the "City of Angels" and the city of so many dreams: dreams of stardom, of innovation and of making it.
Learn about the schools of thought, politics, history and sociological atmosphere during the Twentieth Century, and contemplate the influence of this exhibition on contemporary art and culture. Visit the Pacific Standard Time website for more information on viewings and dates for these time-sensitive exhibitions located throughout Southern California.
Visit the official event website to view short videos, obtain visitor information: dates, times and all the necessary details, and even set up your own "My Time" queue to select art you are interested in seeing for a custom recommendation of Los Angeles art exhibits you should catch!
www.pacificstandardtime.com

Participating Venues


  • American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA)
  • Armory Center for the Arts
  • California African American Museum (CAAM)
  • California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)
  • REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater)
  • University Art Museum California State University, Long Beach (CSULB)
  • California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside (UCR)
  • Chinese American Museum
  • City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural
    Affairs (DCA)
  • Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (MAG) and the Watts Towers Art Center (WTAC)
  • 18th Street Arts Complex
  • The Getty Conservation Institute at the Getty Center
  • Grammy Museum
  • Hammer Museum
  • Huntington Library, Art Collections, and
    Botanical Gardens
  • Japanese American National Museum (JANM)
  • The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center
  • LA><ART
  • Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA)
  • Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
  • Los Angeles Filmforum
  • MAK Center for Art and Architecture
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)
  • Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD)
  • Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA)
  • Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
  • Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA)
  • Otis College of Art and Design, Ben Maltz Gallery
  • Palm Springs Art Museum
  • Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA)
  • Pomona College Museum of Art (PCMA)
  • Santa Barbara Museum of Art
  • Santa Monica Museum of Art
  • Scripps College
  • UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
  • UCLA Film & Television Archive, Billy Wilder Theater
  • University Art Museum University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
  • University of Southern California Fisher Museum of Art
  • Vincent Price Art Museum (VPAM)