Southern California’s landmark arts event, PST ART (previously Pacific Standard Time), returns in September 2024 with 800+ artists, 70+ exhibitions, and one mind-blowing theme: Art & Science Collide.
In partnership with museums and institutions across the region, this Getty initiative is one of the most expansive art events in the world. Some of the numerous institutions involved in PST ART include Caltech; The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens; The Broad; and the Griffith Observatory.
The wildly diverse programs range from a runway fashion show featuring futuristic creations by Indigenous designers to a commemorative rocket launch of a replica of the Sputnik satellite, from a summit on climate change for high-school activists to the LA Phil and Master Chorale premiere of a multimedia work by Doug Aitken, from participatory workshops on synthetic bioengineering to an evening of deep-space communication hosted by comedian Reggie Watts and organized by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
The above photo is from an exhibition at the Brand Library & Art Center in Glendale. The City of Glendale’s Library, Arts & Culture Department, in collaboration with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), an operating division of Caltech and a Federally Funded Research and Development Center for NASA, presents “Blended Worlds: Experiments In Interplanetary Imagination” at the Brand Library & Art Center in Glendale, opening Sept. 21, 2024, with a reception from 7 to 9 p.m.
Explore the PST ART website for the full spectrum of offerings: https://pst.art.
Photo Credit: David Bowen, “tele-present wind” (Mars wind studio test,) 2024. Provided courtesy of the artist.