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
From January 19 to 29, the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival will present more than 30 new public art commissions and re-invented works of performance art inspired by the amazing history of art in Southern California. As we move into the final days before the festival, artists are moving into their final [...]
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Tags: Eleanor Antin, festival, Judy Chicago, Lita Albuquerque, Pacific Standard Time, performance art, performances, PST, PSTinLA, Richard Jackson
On a Sunday, you might find artist Betye Saar at the Pasadena College flea market, scouting for treasures. The energetic 85-year-old is still an active hunter of offbeat and unusual objects, which she combines into sculptures filled with personal, spiritual, and political power. Saar sat down with us in the green room before she appeared [...]
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Tags: assemblage, Betye Saar, Hammer Museum, modern art, outsider art, Pacific Standard Time, PST, PSTinLA, Q&A
The Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival opens on January 19. For 11 days, artists will be activating public spaces across the city with a variety of performances and public art. From Pomona to Santa Monica beach, these works will include everything from experimental music and conceptual art to dance, light shows, pyrotechnics, [...]
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Tags: festival, Judy Chicago, Machine Project, Pacific Standard Time, performance art, performances, PST, PSTinLA, Suzanne Lacy
Much of what the world sees of L.A. is in movies or on TV. But a new exhibition opening today at the Getty Center offers an enticing glimpse of the city’s past through the lenses of photographers—some well known, some nearly unknown. The carefully selected group of images makes you look twice. In Focus: Los [...]
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Tags: Garry Winogrand, In Focus, L.A. art, Pacific Standard Time, photographs, PST, PSTinLA
Recently, we needed a little magic to get a sculpture in working order. Stephan von Huene’s Tap Dancer—which springs to life every half hour in the first room of our Crosscurrents exhibit—hadn’t danced since 2003, when it was on display in Germany for a von Huene retrospective. Problems with its electrical system had kept it [...]
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Tags: Crosscurrents, John Gaughan, magic, magician, Pacific Standard Time, PST, PSTinLA, sculpture conservation, Stephan von Huene, Tap Dancer
In 1964, while a student in UCLA’s graduate program in painting and sculpture, artist Judy Chicago enrolled in auto-body school—the only woman in a class of 250 men. They were all there to learn how to custom-paint cars with candy-colored lacquer finishes and pinstriped detail work, hallmarks of the hot-rod car culture of Southern California [...]
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Tags: American art, contemporary art, Crosscurrents, feminism, feminist art, Judy Chicago, Judy Gerowitz, Masterpiece of the Week, Pacific Standard Time, PST, PSTinLA, Question of the Week, women
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If you’re a parent, you might be wondering whether Pacific Standard Time is safe for tender eyes. It’s true that several PSTinLA shows tear into grown-up themes, from feminist protest to LGBTQ aesethetics, but there are also plenty of ways for pint-sized Baldessaris and Saars to get in on the action. Here at the Getty, [...]
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Tags: Crosscurrents, De Wain Valentine, Family Festival, Gray Column, kids, Pacific Standard Time, PSTinLA
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Impersonal concrete sprawl. A surfer’s paradise. A dark battleground of grisly crimes. Los Angeles is a regular character in the movies, on TV, in books, and in art, but its identities are as numerous as its roles. The recent conference How Los Angeles Invented the World took up this identity crisis, investigating the flip side [...]
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Tags: Edward Ruscha, Kenneth Turan, L.A. art, L.A. events, Pacific Standard Time, PSTinLA, Richard Schickel, Thom Andersen, Wim Wenders
One of the most influential sculptors active in Los Angeles in the 1960s and ’70s, De Wain Valentine is perhaps best known for his large-scale polyester resin sculptures of simple geometric forms that interact intensely with the surrounding light. Not as well known, however, are the huge challenges he faced in finding a material that [...]
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Tags: conservation science, contemporary art, De Wain Valentine, Light and Space, modern art, Pacific Standard Time, PSTinLA, sculpture conservation
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