Contributed by Peter Plagens / The first edition of the Getty-sponsored “Pacific Standard Time” slate of exhibitions in 2011 was subtitled simply “Art in L.A., 1945 – 1980,” and it aimed to elucidate Southern California’s contribution to American postwar modern art. In 2017, the second iteration was called “LA/LA,” indicating the city’s Latin American art and artists. This time around PST has declared a more specific theme, “Art and Science Collide,” reminiscent of one of those noble Rose Parade rubrics…
Tag: Hammer Museum
Shows I’d like to see: “Oranges and Sardines” at the Hammer
Curator Gary Garrels worked with six abstract painters�Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, and Christopher Wool�to select one of their […]
At the Hammer Museum, Gary Garrels assembles a distinctly Angeleno strain of contemporary visual language
Doug Harvey in the LA Weekly: �One of the most pronounced symptoms of the wide-scale institutionalization of artistic practice has been the rise of curatorial […]
Ann Philbin at the Hammer Museum collects paper
According to Jori Finkel in the NY Times, �When Los Angeles� Hammer Museum Director Ann Philbin and Chief Curator Gary Garrels started building a collection, […]