LA/LA:
A CELEBRATION
BEYOND
BORDERS
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About PST: LA/LA
Through a series of thematically linked exhibitions, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA will present a wide variety of important works of art, much of them new to Southern California audiences. While the majority of exhibitions will have an emphasis on modern and contemporary art, there also will be crucial exhibitions about the ancient world and the pre-modern era. With topics such as luxury objects in the pre-Columbian Americas, 20th-century Afro-Brazilian art, alternative spaces in Mexico City, and boundary-crossing practices of Latino artists, exhibitions will range from monographic studies of individual artists to broad surveys that cut across numerous countries.
While the exhibitions will focus on the visual arts, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA programs will ultimately expand to touch on music, performance, literature, and even cuisine. Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA will be a multifaceted event that will transform Los Angeles and Southern California for five months, and our understanding of modern and contemporary art forever.
Embracing organizations of all sizes and types — from the largest museums to smaller museums, from university galleries to performing arts centers — Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA exhibitions and programs will take place across Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego, from Santa Monica to Palm Springs.
With its historical roots in Latin America and its current demographics, Los Angeles might be described as tomorrow's capital city. In a way that is possible only in Los Angeles, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA will implicitly raise complex and provocative issues about present-day relations throughout the Americas and the rapidly changing social and cultural fabric of Southern California.
Each iteration of Pacific Standard focuses on a critical aspect of Southern California's pivotal role in the history of art and architecture.
Exhibitions
Participants
Each participating partner has their own LA/LA story to tell.
- 18th Street Arts Center
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- Angels Gate Cultural Center
- Annenberg Space for Photography
- Autry Museum of the American West
- CSU Northridge Art Galleries
- California African American Museum
- California Historical Society
- Chinese American Museum
- Craft & Folk Art Museum
- Craft in America
- ESMoA
- Fowler Museum at UCLA
- Hammer Museum
- ICA LA (Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles)
- Japanese American National Museum
- LA Phil
- LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes
- LA><ART
- LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
- LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
- LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division)
- Los Angeles Central Library
- Los Angeles Filmforum
- Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
- MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House
- MOCA (The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles)
- ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries
- Otis College of Art and Design, Ben Maltz Gallery
- REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater)
- Self Help Graphics & Art
- Skirball Cultural Center
- The Broad
- The Getty Conservation Institute
- The Getty Research Institute
- The J. Paul Getty Museum
- The Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State L.A.
- The Mistake Room
- The Music Center
- Torrance Art Museum
- UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
- UCLA Film & Television Archive
- USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
- USC Fisher Museum of Art
- Vincent Price Art Museum