On January 8 sculptor John Mason opened his studio and shared insights into his creative process with us and a group of eager participants. The event was part of “In Studio,” a program we in the Museum’s Education Department organized featuring six artists whose work was included in the exhibition Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents. The [...]
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Tags: ceramics, In Studio, John Mason, Pacific Standard Time, PST, PSTinLA
Artist De Wain Valentine created his own kind of love letter to the California sea and sky: Gray Column, a 3,500-pound sculpture made of polyester resin that’s twelve feet high and eight feet across. This February 14, come visit From Start to Finish: De Wain Valentine’s Gray Column and you’ll get a sweet reward—something even [...]
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Tags: De Wain Valentine, GCI, Pacific Standard Time, PST, PSTinLA, Valentine's Day
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Artist Larry Bell creates sculptures that play with optical effects, light, and perception. He opened his studio and shared creative insights into his creative process last January 22 as part of “In Studio,” a program we in the Museum’s Education Department organized featuring six artists whose work was included in the exhibition Pacific Standard Time: [...]
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Tags: contemporary art, In Studio, Larry Bell, Pacific Standard Time, PST, PSTinLA
As you move through Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A.: Painting and Sculpture, closing this Sunday, the colors of the walls or the unusual angles of the wall panels might not be the first thing you notice. But Museum designers have plotted your journey through the galleries as meticulously as the curators have selected the [...]
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Tags: color, Crosscurrents, exhibition design, gallery design, interior design, Pacific Standard Time, PST, PSTinLA
Artist Hirokazu Kosaka’s much anticipated presentation of “Kalpa” on January 20 at the Getty Center was an experimental performance spectacular, featuring hundreds of spools of thread being pulled in the mouths of Butoh dancers, and a shining spotlight that illuminated their path down the Tram Arrival Plaza. Originally, the performance was also supposed to include [...]
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Tags: Central Garden, Outdoor, Pacific Standard Time, performance art
In South-Central in the ‘60s and ‘70s, everybody knew Bodacious Buggerrilla. The street theater group staged shocking and hilarious consciousness-raising skits at schools, churches, cafes, prisons, even Laundromats. Members of the group spoke with us before their recent appearance at the Getty Center as part of the just-concluded Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art [...]
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Tags: Bodacious Buggerrilla, Ed Bereal, Pacific Standard Time, politics, PST, PSTinLA, Q&A
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At 8:15 Sunday morning I found myself scurrying through a parking lot in Culver City to get on an old-fashioned-looking red and white bus. I took one of the last empty seats alongside dozens of other chipper volunteers as we listened to a group leader tell us about the day ahead of us. As part [...]
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Tags: contemporary art, festival, Lita Albuquerque, Pacific Standard Time, performance art, PST, PSTinLA, Spine of the Earth 2012
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Dancers, a World War II searchlight, and 400 spools of thread combined to turn the Getty Center’s Arrival Plaza into a performative installation last Friday night. Hirokazu Kosaka’s Kalpa was part of the Pacific Standard Time Public Art Festival, an 11-day celebration of performance art in public spaces. Because of the setting, it took hours [...]
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Tags: Hirokazu Kosaka, Kalpa, Pacific Standard Time, performance art, performances, PST, PSTinLA, video
January 19 is the official launch of the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival. But it’s already unofficially begun, not only with pre-festival events last night at LAXART and tonight at the Getty Center, but also with what promises to be one of the landmark performances of the festival. This is the recreation [...]
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Tags: Bruno Louchouarn, contemporary art, festival, Pacific Standard Time, performance art, PST, PSTinLA, rape, Suzanne Lacy, women
Artist Ed Moses opened his studio and shared insights into his creative process last December 18 as part of In Studio, a program we in the Museum’s Education Department organized featuring six artists whose work is included in the exhibition Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents. The following questions grew out of that visit. Where do you [...]
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Tags: Ed Moses, In Studio, Pacific Standard Time, PST, PSTinLA
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