(AP image/Carolyn Kaster)Ed Ruscha: "Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas, 1963," at the Getty
Just shut up, New York and Europe. You’re really not all that, culture-wise. Last weekend officially kicked off “Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980.”
Over the next six months, nearly 200 museum and gallery shows and hundreds of program events — featuring more than 1,300 artists — will demonstrate the vibrancy and vitality of the City of Art Angels. And local design from the 1940s through the 1970s will be well represented with plenty of Eames stuff … naturally, and posters, prints, publications, photos, experimental films and animations, and so on.
Promotion began with a video created by TBWAChiatDayLA, with the cool Mr. Ruscha and a Red Hot Chili Pepper cruising around town while exchanging words about “if.” And “so.” And so on.
Stay tuned for further reports on PST festivities.
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Related post: the California Design Biennial in Pasadena
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-981815p1.html'>Matt Knoth</a>, <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-715492p1.html'>MaxyM</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Photo montage by Salon)
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