{"id":818,"date":"2011-10-05T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/10\/introducing-pacific-standard-time.html"},"modified":"2011-10-05T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T21:27:00","slug":"introducing-pacific-standard-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/10\/introducing-pacific-standard-time.html","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Pacific Standard Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>IT’S finally happened. After a lot of talk, the postwar art blowout Pacific Standard Time has opened at dozens of museums and spaces across Southern California.<\/p>\n

Your humble blogger wrote a piece<\/a> for Los Angeles magazine about the origins, offerings and meaning of the whole thing — it includes a dozen recommended shows, from the Getty’s overview, Crosscurrents, to a show of swimming pool photography in Palm Springs. Here’s an image that describes what I liked about this period:<\/p>\n

Walter Hopps, the curator-genius who steered the gallery in its radical early days, originally supported his art habit by working as a psych-ward orderly. Kienholz lived, as he put it, \u201con the fringes of society, like a termite,\u201d so poor that he bartered a painting for the removal of an aching tooth. Irwin made his money winning dance contests\u2014the lindy mostly\u2014and betting on horses. Billy Al Bengston was so broke that he couldn\u2019t afford a battery for his car: The art school dropout parked his \u201937 Pontiac facing downhill, nose toward the Malibu surf, so he could roll-start it.<\/span>

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Here’s something art critic Dave Hickey just told the New York Times:<\/span>

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Wildman Ed Kienholz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s corny,\u201d said Dave Hickey, an art critic and a professor in the art and art history department at the University of New Mexico. \u201cIt\u2019s the sort of thing that Denver would do. They would do Mountain Standard Time. It is \u201950s boosterish, and I would argue largely unnecessary.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span>
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You be the judge.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IT’S finally happened. After a lot of talk, the postwar art blowout Pacific Standard Time has opened at dozens of museums and spaces across Southern California. Your humble blogger wrote a piece for Los Angeles magazine about the origins, offerings and meaning of the whole thing — it includes a dozen recommended shows, from the […]<\/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":[70,55,30,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-art","7":"category-getty","8":"category-los-angeles","9":"category-west-coast","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","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=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}