Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A., 1945–1980 was a scholarly initiative funded by the J. Paul Getty Trust to historicize the contributions to contemporary art history of artists, curators, critics, and others based in Los Angeles. Planned for nearly a decade, PST, as it was called, granted nearly 60 organizations throughout Southern California a total of $10 million to produce exhibitions (on view between September 2011 and April 2012) that explored the years between 1945 and 1980. Underscoring the significance of this project, art critic Roberta Smith wrote in The New York Times:

ARTnews named the initiative as the decade's most important exhibition and cited how its archival research project had already impacted the history of art by the end of the decade through multiple exhibitions of historically underrepresented work.

Among the artists included Vija Celmins Jay DeFeo Sonia Gechtoff Wally Hedrick Craig Kauffman Linda Nishio Gordon Wagner Kate Johnson

Participating arts institutions The following organizations presented exhibitions in conjunction with Pacific Standard Time:

18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica A+D Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA), Pomona Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara Autry National Center, Los Angeles Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley California African American Museum (CAAM), Los Angeles California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) / REDCAT, Los Angeles California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside Chapman University Guggenheim Gallery, Orange Chicano Studies Research Center, University of California, Los Angeles Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM), Los Angeles Craft in America, Los Angeles Crossroads School, Sam Francis Gallery, Santa Monica Eames House Foundation, Pacific Palisades Fisher Museum of Art, University of Southern California, Los Angeles Fowler Museum, University of California, Los Angeles Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles The GRAMMY Museum, Los Angeles Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino Institute for Arts and Media, California State University, Northridge Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach LA><ART, Los Angeles Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA) (LACE) Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, West Hollywood Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts, Rancho Cucamungo Mingei International Museum, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach Natural History Museum, Los Angeles Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles & West Hollywood Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach Otis College of Art and Design Ben Maltz Gallery, Los Angeles Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena Palm Springs Art Museum Pasadena Museum of California Art Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont Santa Barbara Museum of Art Santa Monica Museum of Art Scripps College, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Claremont University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach Vincent Price Art Museum, East Los Angeles College Watts Towers Arts Center, Los Angeles Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu

See also

Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA

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