IT IS THE LARGEST in the nation: 800-plus artists, 60-plus exhibitions. It’s also one of the most important. Its mission: to spark critical civic dialogue, to get us thinking and talking about our world.
Held every five years and underwritten by the Getty Foundation, PST ART (formerly Pacific Standard Time) challenges arts organizations to bring ingenuity, curiosity and creativity to the urgent issues of our day. This year’s theme: Art & Science Collide.
With 50-plus grant recipients, UCLA remains the heart of the initiative. Exhibitions at the Fowler Museum at UCLA and the Hammer Museum at UCLA examine the climate crisis and anthropogenic disasters, seen through a lens of equity and social justice. In the series Science Fiction Against the Margins, the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the UCLA Cinema & Media Studies Program reveal what the genre can teach us far beyond Hollywood entertainment.
As artists and scientists explore climate change, Indigenous knowledge, the burgeoning field of eco-acoustic art, and countless other topics, they push the boundaries of what we know. Or, perhaps, what we merely choose to believe.
Read more from UCLA Magazine’s Fall 2024 issue.
