Art and Culture: Pacific Standard Time (PST) Los Angeles : Art 1945-1980

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Ed Ruscha, "Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas," 1963, oil on canvas

Psssst. Have you been following PST? Pacific Standard Time, funded by the Getty Foundation, includes over 60 exhibitions around Southern California. First stop should be the core exhibition held at the Getty Museum: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970. This show includes examples of the era's Pop art, hard-edge geometric painting, assemblage, ceramic sculpture and much more by David Hockney, Ed Ruscha, Ed Kienholz, Sam Francis and others.

Thanks to $10 million in funding, nearly every museum, institution and gallery in Southern California is participating to some degree in the excavation and presentation of this region's cultural history. The influence of Marcel Duchamp and Dada can be seen in Beatrice Wood: Career Woman at the... more

KCRW RECOMMENDS THIS WEEK

Otis College of Art and Design, Ben Maltz Gallery
Doin' It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building

Art critic Hunter Drohojowska-Philp shares her thoughts on "Doin' it in Public: Feminism and Art at the Women's Building," the Pacific Standard Time...

Armory Center for the Arts
Speaking in Tongues: The Art of Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken

Speaking in Tongues advances our understanding of two seminal Los Angeles artists by bringing them into close conversation for the first time...

Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles
Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980

This comprehensive exhibition examines the incredibly vital but often overlooked legacy of Los Angeles's African American visual artist...

Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University
California Art: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation

Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University
Since the 1960s California has emerged as a center...

Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974 - 1981

Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981 will constitute the most comprehensive survey exhibition to date to examine the exceptional fertility...

Getty Museum
Crosscurrents in L.A.: Painting and Sculpture from 1950 to 1970

The culmination of a nine-year research initiative organized by the Getty Research Institute, Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents...