On and off the Walls

PACIFIC STANDARD TIME, REDUX

The amazing feat that was Pacific Standard Time occupied most of the cultural season of 2011 and 2012 and took over most of Southern California’s visual arts institutions and examined the many ways in which California became modern in the post-World War II years—in architecture, art, craft, and design. Now there will be more; starting in April the Getty will launch Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in Los Angeles, which will look even farther forward. Though smaller in its embrace, this new venture will nonetheless cross the broad Southern California terrain to provide a far-reaching look at how California became contemporary. Exhibitions and special programs will examine the trajectory of architecture from Richard Neutra to Frank Gehry and Thom Mayne and explore a range of buildings from iconic modernist houses to powerful civic landmarks to the Googie architecture of coffee shops and carwashes and the city’s vast network of freeways. Highlights will include the exhibitions Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940–1990 and In Focus: Ed Ruscha, both presented by the Getty, along with A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern California at the Museum of Contemporary Art; Quincy Jones: Building For Better Living at the Hammer Museum; The Presence of the Past: Peter Zumthor Reconsiders LACMA at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Technology and Environment: The Postwar House in Southern California at the W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona. pacificstandardtimepresents.org