Art & Science Collide

Art & Science Collide

Sep
15
2024
Feb
16
2025

PST ART: Art & Science Collide will create opportunities for civic dialogue around some of the most urgent problems of our time by exploring past and present connections between art and science in a series of exhibitions, public programs, and other resources. Project topics range from climate change and environmental justice to the future of artificial intelligence and alternative medicine.

About PST ART: Art & Science Collide

Southern California’s landmark arts event, PST ART (previously Pacific Standard Time), returns in September 2024 with more than 818 artists, 50 exhibitions, and 1 mind-blowing theme:

Art & Science Collide

In partnership with museums and institutions across the region, this is one of the most expansive art events in the world.

This “collision” will explore the intersections of Art and Science, both past and present, with diverse organizations activating exhibitions on topics like ancient cosmologies, Indigenous sci-fi, environmental justice, and artificial intelligence.

PST ART: Art & Science Collide will share groundbreaking research, spark lively debate, and provide thought-provoking lenses to explore our complex world.

Whether you are already in-the-know or discovering PST ART for the first time, Art & Science Collide will be the groundbreaking event of 2024.

PST ART is a Getty initiative.

Any questions? Don’t hesitate to email us at info@pst.art

A photograph of large white domes on a concrete floor. Two figures in black crouch in front of two of the domes.
Robert Breer’s "Floats," 1970 outside a model construction of the Pepsi-Cola Pavilion. Chromogenic process. Photograph by Shunk-Kender. ©J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles and Robert Breer.
Robert Breer’s "Floats," 1970 outside a model construction of the Pepsi-Cola Pavilion. Chromogenic process. Photograph by Shunk-Kender. ©J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles and Robert Breer.
A color photograph of ocean vegetation.
"Dark Paradise – Chapter 2 – On restoration and future," 2023, Paul Rosero Contreras. 4k video – 5.1 surround system. Paul Rosero Contreras, 2023. ©Paul Rosero Contreras, Dos Islas Studio / USFQ, 2023 – 2024.
"Dark Paradise – Chapter 2 – On restoration and future," 2023, Paul Rosero Contreras. 4k video – 5.1 surround system. Paul Rosero Contreras, 2023. ©Paul Rosero Contreras, Dos Islas Studio / USFQ, 2023 – 2024.
A color photograph of human clavicle sprinkled with gold pieces.
"Fuel to Fire" (image still), 2023, Carolina Caycedo. Video, color, sound. Courtesy of the artist. ©Carolina Caycedo.
"Fuel to Fire" (image still), 2023, Carolina Caycedo. Video, color, sound. Courtesy of the artist. ©Carolina Caycedo.

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Past Initiatives

Latin American & Latino Art in LA
2017-2018
Photograph by La Raza Photographic Staff. East L.A. High School Walkouts. 1968. La Raza Newspaper & Magazine Records. Coll. 1000. Courtesy of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. Photograph by La Raza Photographic Staff.

Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA was a far-reaching and ambitious exploration of Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles. With topics such as luxury objects in the pre-Columbian Americas, 20th-century Afro-Brazilian art, alternative spaces in Mexico City, and boundary-crossing practices of Latino artists, exhibitions ranged from monographic studies of individual artists to broad surveys that cut across numerous countries.

Art in L.A. 1945-1980
2011-2012
Painting of the Hollywood sign silhouette against the sunset, viewed as a mirror-image of the letters, as if seen from behind.

Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980 was an unprecedented collaboration of more than 60 cultural institutions across Southern California coming together to celebrate the birth of the L.A. art scene. Between October 2011 and March 2012, each institution made its own contribution to this grand-scale story of artistic innovation and social change, told through the multitude of simultaneous exhibitions and programs.