PST ART 2024: Selected Exhibitions

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In this class, visit several of the exhibitions associated with the newest iteration of the Getty-sponsored Pacific Standard Time, which returns to Southern California in September 2024.  Entitled PST ART: Art & Science Collide, this landmark art event consists of over 60 exhibitions presented at museums and institutions across the region, all of the shows exploring the intersection of art and science in the past, present, and future.  Among the exhibitions are the Hammer Museum’s Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, an intergenerational group show focused on climate change; the Institute of Contemporary Art’s Scientia Sexualis, a presentation of artists dealing with issues of sex and gender; MOCA’s Olafur Eliasson retrospective, which surveys the career of this multidisciplinary Icelandic artist who uses natural phenomenon like light and water to alter the viewer’s senses; and a few of the Getty Museum’s own art and science offerings—9 exhibitions in all—that span centuries and media (drawing, photography, holograms, and more).  Over 40 SoCal art galleries will offer exhibitions that complement the PST ART theme, such as the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery’s Post Human, a revised version of a prescient traveling show first presented in New York in 1992 that explores figuration in the face of technology.