Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA opens Sept 15, 2017

PACIFIC STANDARD TIME: LA/LA OPENS ACROSS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ON SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

An unprecedented collaboration among more than 70 cultural organizations
showcasing Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles

KEY OPENING DATES

PST: LA/LA’s inaugural week will include dozens of media previews, exhibition openings and public celebrations in Los Angeles and across Southern California. Key dates include:

• Tuesday, September 12 | Opening Media Conference at the Getty (invitation to follow)
• Thursday, September 14 | Launch Party at Grand Park in Downtown LA (free and open to the public)
• Friday, September 15 | Public Opening

ABOUT PACIFIC STANDARD TIME: LA/LA

From September 2017 through January 2018, Southern California will be transformed into a vast showcase for the widest, deepest, most inclusive and most revelatory celebration ever conceived for Latin American and Latino art.

Led by the Getty, more than 70 museums, performing arts institutions and cultural centers in Los Angeles and throughout the region will collaborate at the same time to present Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, exploring the many facets of one great international tradition and the work of more than 1,100 artists.

The dozens of individual, in-depth exhibitions in PST:LA/LA can be viewed separately—but seen together, they will make up a breathtaking mosaic of Latin American and Latino art, sweeping from the ancient world to today and from the tip of South America to Los Angeles. Topics will range from luxury arts in the pre-Hispanic Americas to modern Afro-Brazilian art, from alternative artistic spaces in Mexico City to Chicano Movement murals in Los Angeles, from photography in 19th-century Argentina to the genre-bending, boundary-defying work of the latest artists and collectives. Adding to the exhibitions, a wealth of concerts, dance performances, readings and performance art events will make PST:LA/LA an artistic, cultural, scholarly, diplomatic, civic and festive experience possible only in Los Angeles and Southern California.

WHERE

Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA will be presented at venues in the City of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County; Claremont, Pomona, Riverside and Palm Springs; Long Beach and Orange County; San Diego; Santa Barbara and Ventura County; and Pasadena and San Marino. For a full list of participants, please visit www.pacificstandardtime.org.