Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, Iron Works of Coalbrook Dale, 1805, aquatint, 11 3⁄8 × 15 3⁄4″. From “Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis,” 2024–25, Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, Los Angeles.
LAUNCHED IN 2011, the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time initiative (now called PST ART) coordinates and supports the presentation of thematically linked exhibitions across Southern California. Its fourth iteration, focused on the topic “Art & Science Collide,” opened last September and continues through February 16, with work by more than eight hundred artists on display at over seventy museums and galleries. To help make sense of this vast array of programming, Artforum’s West Coast Editor Bryan Barcena introduces us to the history and institutional politics of PST, while Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann tackles the framework of a collision between art and science and Red Cameron addresses the subset of exhibitions devoted to ecology. Reviewers Jan Tumlir, Andrea Gyorody, Suzanne Hudson, Annabel Osberg, and April Baca look closely at a sampling of what’s on view, with more reviews to come in our next issues.
