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: [...]
Read more...
Tags: contemporary art, Larry Bell, 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 [...]
Read more...
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 [...]
Read more...
Tags: Bodacious Buggerrilla, Ed Bereal, Pacific Standard Time, politics, PST, PSTinLA, Q&A
2 Comments | | Trackback | Permalink
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 [...]
Read more...
Tags: contemporary art, festival, Lita Albuquerque, Pacific Standard Time, performance art, PST, PSTinLA, Spine of the Earth 2012
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 [...]
Read more...
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 [...]
Read more...
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 [...]
Read more...
Tags: Ed Moses, In Studio, Pacific Standard Time, PST, PSTinLA
“One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.”―Jean Cocteau We’re offering an array of films this weekend in the free screening series Dream a Little Dream: Artists in Film. I’m [...]
Read more...
Tags: Blood of a Poet, film series, free events, Jean Cocteau, movies, Saturday evening events, Surrealism, Testament of Orpheus
Saturday Nights at the Getty enjoys performing from aerial silk. It’s mostly a concert series, but it often features film, dance, poetry, or some improbably awesome musical mashup, like Irish mariachi or hip-hop violin. Earlier this season Inara George and Van Dyke Parks made an appearance with a 14-piece orchestra and dancers suspended from silk [...]
Read more...
Tags: Abigail Washburn, aerial silk, aerial tissue, Getty, Inara George, Music, rehearsal, tissu, Van Dyke Parks
Ryan and Trevor Oakes are close to completing their three-week drawing project, in which they’ve been rendering the Getty Center and Central Garden exactly as the human eye views it. Their last day here is this Saturday, December 24. Their public drawing has drawn large crowds—nearly 600 visitors checked out the work this past Sunday!—and [...]
Read more...
Tags: artist-based programs, Central Garden, contemporary art, drawing techniques, Oakes brothers, perspec
Subscribe to the posts of the Iris