EVENTS

Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, an unprecedented cultural collaboration on Latin American and Latino art comes to Southern California, September 2017-January 2018

Fowler Museum at UCLA Axé Bahia: The Power of Art in an Afro-Brazilian Metropolis Ayrson Heráclito Bori – Oxum, 2008. Photograph, H: 100 cm; W: 100 cm © Ayrson Heráclito.

Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (PST: LA/LA)is a far-reaching and ambitious exploration of Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles, taking place from September 2017 through January 2018 at more than 70 cultural institutions throughout Southern California.

PST: LA/LA, an initiative of the Getty, is presented by Bank of America.

The exhibitions will explore diverse topics, themes, movements and periods such as art and activism; Chicana/o and Latina/o art; identity; gender; design and architecture; film and video; photography; performance art and conceptualism; modernism and abstraction; globalism, borders, and diaspora; and Pre-Hispanic and Colonial eras.

PST: LA/LA will feature the works of more than 1,100 artists from 45 countries in Latin America, North America, and Europe, including Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba, El Salvador, United Kingdom, and the United States.

LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes and California Historial Society ¡Murales Rebeldes!: L.A. Chicano/a Murals Under Siege Roberto Chavez at work on The Path to Knowledge and the False University, East Los Angeles

It will also expand beyond museum walls with concerts, performances and events that partner institutions will present at the Hollywood Bowl, The Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, and Walt Disney Concert Hall, Grand Park, and a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces throughout Los Angeles and the region.

You can find information at pacificstandardtime.org or follow on Instagram and Twitter: @PSTinLA or Facebook: @pacificstandardtime.

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