Pacific Standard Time
A guide to the events and shows comprising the Southern California-wide arts initiative
DOWNTOWN/ EXPOSITION PARK
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Artistic Evolution: Southern California Artists at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 1945-1963
Oct. 2 - Jan. 15
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Breaking Ground: Chinese American Architects in Los Angeles-1945-1980
Jan. 19 - Jun. 3
Map | LAmag.com Review
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'Round the Clock: Chinese American Artists Working in Los Angeles
Jan. 21 - Apr. 21
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Cruising the Archive: Queer Art and Culture in Los Angeles, 1945-1980: Rare Looks
Oct. 1 - May 31
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Cruising the Archive: Queer Art and Culture in Los Angeles, 1945-1980: Wink Wink
Oct. 1 - Apr. 1
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Under the Big Black Sun: California Art, 1974-1981
Oct. 2 - Feb. 12
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Art Along the Hyphen: The Mexican-American Generation
Oct.14 - Jan. 8
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Drawing the Line: Japanese American Art, Design, and Activism in Post-War Los Angeles
Oct.15 - Feb. 19
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Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles
Nov. 13 - Feb. 27
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Civic Virtue: The Impact of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and the Watts Towers Art Center
Dec. 15 - Feb. 12
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HOLLYWOOD AND MID-WILSHIRE
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Asco: Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective, 1972-1987
Sep. 4 - Dec. 4
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Edward Kienholz: Five Car Stud, 1969 - 1972, Revisited
Sep. 4 - Jan. 15
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California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way
Oct. 1 - Mar. 25
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Maria Nordman Filmroom: Smoke, 1967-Present
Sep. 4 - Jan. 15
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Golden State of Craft: California, 1960-1985
Sep. 25 - Jan. 8
Map | LA Mag review
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The Alchemy of June Schwarcz: Enamel Vessels from the Forrest L. Merrill Collection
Sep. 25 - Jan. 8
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Los Angeles Goes Live: Performance Art in Southern California 1970-1983
Sep. 27 - Jan. 29
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Eames Designs: The Guest-Host Relationship
Oct. 1 - Jan. 16
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Sympathetic Seeing: Ester McCoy and the Heart of American Modernist Architecture and Design
Sep. 28 - Jan. 8
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Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles 1945-1980
Oct. 9 - May 12
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Perpetual Conceptual: Echoes of Eugenia Butler
Jan. 6 - Mar. 4
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Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980
Oct. 2 - Jan. 8
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L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema
Oct. 7 - Dec.17
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Icons of the Invisible: Oscar Castillo
Sep. 25 - Feb. 26
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Mapping Another L.A.: The Chicano Art Movement
Oct. 16 - Feb. 26
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Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970
Oct. 1 - Feb. 5
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From Start to Finish: De Wain Valentine's Gray Column
Sep. 13 - Mar. 11
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In Focus: Los Angeles, 1945-1980
Dec. 20 - May 6
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Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival
Jan. 19 - Jan. 29
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Greetings from L.A.: Artists and Publics, 1945-1980
Oct. 1 - Feb. 5
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Indoor Ecologies: The Evolution of the Eames House Living Room
Oct.1 - Apr. 30
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Beatrice Wood: Career Woman—Drawings, Paintings, Vessels, and Objects
Sep. 10 - Mar. 3
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Collaboration Labs: Southern California Artists and the Artist Space Movement
Sep. 24 - Dec. 17
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She Accepts the Proposition: Six Women Gallerists and the Redefinition of Art in Los Angeles, 1967-1977
Oct. 1 - Nov. 23
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Doin’ It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building
Oct. 1 - Jan. 28
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John Outterbridge
Sep. 10 - Oct. 22
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California Art: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation
Aug. 27 - Dec. 4
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Identity and Affirmation: Post War African American Photography
Oct. 23 - Dec. 10
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LONG BEACH/ ORANGE COUNTY
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Best Kept Secret: UCI and the Development of Contemporary Art in Southern California, 1964-1971
Oct. 30 - Jan. 22
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MEX/LA: "Mexican" Modernism(s) in Los Angeles, 1930-1985
Sep.18 - Jan. 29
Map | LAmag.com Review
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Peace Press Graphics 1967-1987: Art in the Pursuit of Social Change 1967 - Present
Sep.10 - Dec. 11
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Exchange and Evolution: Worldwide Video Long Beach, 1974-1999
Oct. 7 - Feb. 12
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The Radicalization of a '50s Housewife: A Solo Project by Barbara T. Smith
Oct. 6 - Dec. 3
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46 N. Robles: A History of the Pasadena Art Museum
Nov. 18 - Apr. 8
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The House That Sam Built: Sam Maloof and Art in the Pomona Valley, 1945-1985
Sep. 24 - Jan. 30
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Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California
Oct. 1 - Apr. 2
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Speaking in Tongues: The Art of Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken
Oct. 1 - Jan. 22
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L.A. Raw: Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles, 1945-1980, From Rico Lebrun to Paul McCarthy
Jan. 22 - May 20
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CLAREMONT/ POMONA/ RIVERSIDE/ PALM SPRINGS
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It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles, 1969-1973
Aug. 30 - May 13
Part 1: Hal Glicksman at Pomona
Aug. 30 - Nov. 6
Part 2: Helene Winer at Pomona
Dec. 3 - Feb. 19
Part 3: At Ponoma
March 10 - May 13
Map | LAmag.com Review
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Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945-1982
Jan. 21 - May 27 (Preliminary Symposium: Nov. 20-21)
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Seismic Shift: Lewis Baltz, Joe Deal and California Landscape Photography, 1944-1984
Oct. 1 - Dec. 31
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Common Ground: Ceramics in Southern California, 1945-1975
Nov. 12 - Mar. 31
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Clay's Tectonic Shift: John Mason, Ken Price and Peter Voulkos, 1956-1968
Jan. 21 - Apr. 8
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Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface
Sep. 25 - Jan. 22
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San Diego's Craft Revolution-From Post-War Modern to California Design
Oct.16 - Apr. 15
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Pasadena to Santa Barbara: A Selected History of Art in Southern California, 1951-1969
Feb. 11 - May 6
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Carefree California: Cliff May and the Romance of the Ranch, 1920-1960
Feb. 26 - Jun. 17
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PLUS: Read Show of Shows, Scott Timberg's preview of Pacific Standard Time from the September issue of Los Angeles magazine
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