Comments on: Countdown to Pacific Standard Time

By: Susan Edwards

Susan Edwards — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:05:37 +0000

Watts Towers is participating in the Pacific Standard Time Performance Festival in January 2012. “Civic Virtue: Watts Here and Now” will be a daylong event featuring spoken word, jazz, and public art sculptures in the spirit of important historical works by artists Noah Purifoy, R. Judson Powell, and John Outterbridge. Should be a really interesting exploration of the connections between the musical, visual, and literary arts.

By: hugh bellas

hugh bellas — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 02:54:52 +0000

What does black visual arts in LA have to do with jazz? Very seldom do the two meet, and African American art, outside of a few like Romare Bearden, from Harlem, are anywhere near this level, and yes his was music based art, as all true creative art is either poetic or musical, not the prosaic and psychobabble of decadent times, as we have just went through.
No, this is a lily white affair. Where is the Watts Towers? Even though build single handedly by a 4’11″ Italian immigrant, it is ignored, because of its location below the Wilshire line. The “cultural’ institutions of LA ignore its people. The “doins’ between Wilshire and Ventura have been pretty insignificant outside of the movies, This is an entertainment town, not art. The are yin and yang, bot necessary but separate.

By: Susan Edwards

Susan Edwards — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:50:17 +0000

Sandra — Hope you enjoy the site! Let us know what discoveries you’ve made and how you liked it.

Hugh — You might be surprised by the doins in L.A.’s postwar art scene! Many of the exhibitions will present work not seen before in museums, not recognized, and in some cases even thought to be lost. Since you’re talking about jazz, I’ll mention two Pacific Standard Time exhibitions that explore the work of African American artists: the Hammer’s “Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980,” which connects visual art to ideas and events in the wider world of creativity and politics here in L.A.; and the California African American Museum’s “Places of Validation, Art, and Progression,” which tells the story of people and places that fostered L.A.’s African-American visual artists. There will be a lot to discover.

By: Hugh Bellas

Hugh Bellas — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 23:14:56 +0000

Yes, we had Bird living here for awhile, and many other worldclass musicians. Those born here included Eric Dolphy, Dexter Gordon, Hampton Hawes, Billy Higgins, Bobby Hutcherson, Etta James and dozens more of the greatest artists this country every produced,in our only true creative art form, jazz.
Oh, your talking visual arts? Gotta go north to teh Bay area in teh post war era for that, not much doins here. Just a buncha entittle dhwite kids goofin around pretending to be artists, when really just soft of mind, body and soul kids whinin. oh, thats who you are talking about?
Nevermind.

By: Countdown to Pacific Standard Time « Lillian Sizemore's Mind's Eye

Countdown to Pacific Standard Time « Lillian Sizemore's Mind's Eye — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:12:18 +0000

[...] Post-War Los Angeles served as a veritable petri dish for the development of modern art in the United States, but we hear little of the West Coast artists, who were often overshadowed by the Cedar Tavern New Yorkers. In the category “Best Use of a Historic Archive” I’m nominating Countdown to Pacific Standard Time. [...]

By: Sandra Ceballos

Sandra Ceballos — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:29:56 +0000

Great website! can’t wait to check it out!!