WELCOME to PACIFIC STANDARD TIME an unprecedented collaboration of cultural institutions across Southern California coming together to celebrate the birth of the L.A. art scene. Beginning October 2011, over 60 cultural institutions will make their contributions to this region-wide initiative encompassing every major L.A. art movement from 1945 to 1980.
Charles White, Love Letter II, (detail) 1977
Now Dig This! A Video Preview
This October the Hammer Museum will present Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980, a comprehensive exhibition that examines the incredibly vital but often overlooked legacy accorded to the city's African American visual artists. Now Dig This! comprises 140 works from 35 artists that have rarely been shown in a museum setting and includes early pieces by now well-established artists as well as works once considered "lost." This is one of several exhibitions around the southland in coordiination with the Getty Research Institute's Pacific Standard Time, a look back at art in Los Angeles during the post war years.
David Hammons, America the Beautiful, 1968, Lithograph and body print. Overall: 39 x 29 1/2 in. (99.1 x 74.9 cm). Collection Oakland Museum of California.
This exhibition at the Hammer opens October 2, 2011 and runs through January 8, 2012
Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken, 1961-1976
October 2, 2011 – January 22, 2012 Opening: Saturday, October 8, 2011, 7-9pm
Curators: Claudia Bohn-Spector and Sam Mellon
This landmark exhibition brings two seminal yet under-studied Los Angeles artists into close conversation for the very first time. Berman and Heinecken bridged modernist and emerging post-modernist trends by ushering in the use of photography as a key element of contemporary avant-garde art. Their works are explored within the unique cultural context of 1960s and 1970s Southern California, as it fueled and amplified their highly original creative approaches.
Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken, 1961-1976 is part of Pacific Standard Time. This unprecedented collaboration, initiated by the Getty, brings together more than sixty cultural institutions from across Southern California for six months beginning October 2011 to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene.
ARTNIGHT Pasadena Friday, October 14, 2011, 6-10 PM
The Armory Center for the Arts
145 N. Raymond Ave., Pasadena, CA 91103 Phone: 626.792.5101
PAST EVENTS OF NOTE:
Peace Press Graphics 1967-1987:
Art in the Pursuit of Social Change
September 6–December 11, 2011 • Long Beach, California
Event hours: Tuesday – Sunday 12 to 5 PM Thursday to 8 PM
Website:http://www.csulb.edu/org/uam/
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"Peace Press Graphics 1967–1987: Art in the Pursuit of Social Change" is a survey of the press’ work and their connections to artist collectives of the time. Founded in 1967 by a unique group of L.A. activist-artists who created an “alternate everything” printing and publishing business, the Peace Press (1967-1987) emerged from the tangle of progressive political and alternative groups that flourished during the decades between 1960 and 1990. The poster archive, now housed at the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG) in Los Angeles, exemplifies an important element of visual and cultural history: art that reflects the desire and intention to create social and political change, as well as artists who attempt to affect change through both their work and their actions.
The exhibition, co-curated by Ilee Kaplan and Carol Wells, will feature 50 to 75 posters from the press’ archive alongside works on paper whose subject matter addresses issues such as feminist causes, workers’ rights, civil liberties, anti-nuclear protests, environmental concerns, and anti-war demonstrations by artists who worked with the press, including Robert Crumb, Rupert Garcia, Harry Fonseca, Sheila Levrant de Brettville, and Skip Williamson. In addition, a historical timeline, poetry and spoken word performances, film clips interspersed in the galleries, and a separate film screening series will accompany the artworks— to offer audiences a unique opportunity to understand the art of political protest within its larger cultural milieu.
CSULB Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
This exhibition is part of the Pacific Standard Time project.
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