The Getty Foundation has announced $17 million in grants in support of its Pacific Standard Time initiative and that the exhibitions will become a regularly scheduled series on a five-year cycle under the name PST Art.

In two previous editions over the past 12 years, Pacific Standard Time brought together museums and cultural organizations across Southern California to delve into topics deemed too ambitious for any single institution to tackle alone—from rewriting the history of post-World War II American art to forging a hemispheric conversation about Latin American and Latinx art. For the upcoming Arts & Science Collide exhibition, PST Art’s research-driven collaborations will include partnerships with civic institutions such as Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County, and the San Diego Museum of Art; museums such as The Broad and the Museum of Contemporary Art; academic institutions including the California Institute of Technology and Southern California Institute of Architecture; and university-affiliated museums and galleries such as the Hammer Museum at University of California, Los Angeles and University of California, Riverside Arts. 

“The exhibitions in this new edition of PST Art boldly go beyond the expected, sparking a fundamental shift in how we see the possibilities of both art and science,” said Getty Foundation director Joan Weinstein. “The questions that more than 50 partner organizations are posing in their exhibitions are crucial for our very future. What can artists and scientists do in collaboration to overcome ecological damage and imagine a more sustainable future? What does the history of Southern California’s aerospace industry tell us about the movies, and about current structures of surveillance and control? How have scientists visualized the natural world, and how do artists now envision once-unthinkable scientific developments? With Art & Science Collide, PST Art is again venturing into new territory and revealing the unexpected.” 

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