Windshield Perspective

What you won't find with Pacific Standard Time Presents is a tidy chronology of LA architecture. Museums have had a free range to offer different perspectives on what might count as LA Modern. So LACMA has a conceptual art piece by Stephen Prina capturing, in pink, the footprint of Schindler; and it will looks forward with a show of new plans for the LACMA site. We'll hear from LACMA director Michael Govan about that show, which opens in June, on an upcoming DnA. And MOCA will explore contemporary architects in the aftermath of Frank Gehry in its New Sculpturalism show, also opening in June, and to be discussed soon on DnA. But opening in May is a show that explores the notion that LA is defined as much by its streets as by its individual buildings. It's called Windshield Perspective, it will be at A+D Museum, and the curator is Greg Goldin. The show takes a look at the layers of building and changes of ownership that have shaped one boulevard in LA: Beverly. Goldin argues that unlike the "manufactured" streets like Grand Avenue, Beverly represents a canvas of authentic Los Angeles, where changing cultures and businesses, often juxtaposed in intriguing ways, that typically we barely observe as it flashes past us when we drive that strip.