Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By richards on May 6, 2014

Fueled by $5 million in grants from the J. Paul Getty Trust, 42 museums and other arts institutions from San Diego to Santa Barbara have begun tracing the prominent Latino and Latin American strand in Southern Californias cultural DNA, including how Latinos in L.A. and elsewhere in the United States have absorbed, reflected and grappled with the creative legacies of their mother countries.

The fruits of the planning and research thats now underway will be harvested starting in September 2017, when Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles/Latin America begins a five-month run at museums, universities and performance spaces around the region.

The focus on Latino and Latin American art and culture is Round 3 in the Pacific Standard Time initiative that the Getty, the worlds richest visual art institution, began laying groundwork for in 2002.

The first effort, Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980 in 2011, documented how individual artists and institutions helped make L.A. and its environs a global force in the art world in the decades after World War II.

The 2011 initiative was a unique attempt at uniting dozens of arts institutions for a sprawling, panoramic and multifaceted view of themes in visual art that have particular relevance for Southern California.

The Getty kicked in $11.1 million in grants for that first chapter. Last years Pacific Standard Time: Modern Architecture in L.A. used an additional $3.6 million in Getty grants to consider architecture alone.

On Tuesday the Getty plans to announce the first round of grants for Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, as its known for short. It also provided brief summaries of the exhibitions, film screenings and performances its funding.

In many cases the focus will be narrow, sometimes on a single artist. But collectively, LA/LA aims to offer a wide-angle, panoptical view of the art Latinos have created in Southern California and elsewhere in the United States, together with creative paths forged in Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean.

The exhibitions will range from 1000 BC -- the starting point for a show on Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas that the Getty is organizing with New York Citys Metropolitan Museum of Art -- to the speculative future, as manifested in Critical Utopias: The Art of Futurismo Latino, an exhibition at UC Riversides ARTSblock galleries on how science fiction has influenced the styles and sociopolitical visions of Latino and Latin American artists.

The Getty had announced the theme and title of LA/LA more than a year ago, but the grant announcements flesh out what will happen in 2017. So far, there will be 40 exhibitions, three film series and concerts by the Los Angeles Philharmonic at both the Hollywood Bowl and Walt Disney Concert Hall.

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Getty gives $5 million to plan next PST, on Latino/Latin American art

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