{"id":796,"date":"2012-01-09T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/01\/pacific-standard-time-the-gallery-scene.html"},"modified":"2012-01-09T13:32:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T21:32:00","slug":"pacific-standard-time-the-gallery-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/01\/pacific-standard-time-the-gallery-scene.html","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Standard Time: The Gallery Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANOTHER bit of catching up here: My latest article concerns the art galleries that made Los Angeles an important center for contemporary art in the years before the LACMA opened. I looked primarily at three gallery owners &#8212; Irving Blum of Ferus, Virginia Dwan and Riko Mizuno.<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-_WQeYHDEHOY\/Twtc1TFth3I\/AAAAAAAABPQ\/myR-x4juUDU\/s1600\/Wallace_berman.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-_WQeYHDEHOY\/Twtc1TFth3I\/AAAAAAAABPQ\/myR-x4juUDU\/s320\/Wallace_berman.jpg\" width=\"317\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>The late, great Wallace Berman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2012\/jan\/01\/entertainment\/la-ca-PST-gallery-owners-20120101\">HERE<\/a> is the story, which due to the Times&#8217; layout looks like it is almost entirely a correction. (It&#8217;s not.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s notable, of course, that two of these key figures were women, especially given how macho the LA art world was in the first few postwar decades. (Ferus included.) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xrds.org\/podium\/default.aspx?t=131251\">Here<\/a> is a page about a show at Crossroads School about woman gallerists in the &#8217;60s and &#8217;70s.<\/p>\n<p>Some of these themes will be part of a West Hollywood branch of Pacific Standard Time called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/artbeatwesthollywood?sk=info\">It All Started Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANOTHER bit of catching up here: My latest article concerns the art galleries that made Los Angeles an important center for contemporary art in the years before the LACMA opened. I looked primarily at three gallery owners &#8212; Irving Blum of Ferus, Virginia Dwan and Riko Mizuno. The late, great Wallace Berman HERE is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70,156,30,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-art","7":"category-lacma","8":"category-los-angeles","9":"category-west-coast","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}