Pacific Standard Time began as a joint initiative between the Getty Foundation and the Getty Research Institute. Over the past decade, it has grown into a city-wide collaboration, culminating in a series of events and exhibitions across Southern California with more than 60 cultural institutions. Learn more about the region-wide initiative.
In 2002, the Getty Foundation realized that records of the history of postwar art in Los Angeles were quickly disappearing. Through the project “On the Record: Art in LA 1945–1980” the Getty Foundation began funding surveys of holdings in public and private collections and awarding grants to libraries, archives, and museums to locate and preserve materials related to this rich period of Los Angeles art history.
As part of this effort, the Getty Research Institute acquired the archives of artists, curators, and dealers such as Betty Asher, Jan Baum, Robert Irwin, Charles, Brittin, George Herms, Riko Mizuno, Julius Shulman, Hal Glicksman, and Edmund Teske, as well as institutional archives such as the Long Beach Museum of Art Video Archive; and began conducting oral histories with artists and other art-world figures central to this era.
