LOS ANGELES, CA.- Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA will officially close on January 28, 2018, after the presentation throughout Southern California of hundreds of concurrent exhibitions, programs, and events about Latin American and Latino art. With the support of $16.3 million in grants from the Getty Foundation, and five years of research and planning, more than 70 cultural institutions ranging from small community-based centers to the region’s largest museums participated in this unprecedented, four-month-long exploration of the rich past and vital present of Latin American and Latino art.

Now, audiences in cities across the US and around the world will have the opportunity to experience 18 of the critically acclaimed exhibitions presented as part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. Cities where the traveling exhibitions will be shown include Albuquerque, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Houston, Lima, Madrid, Mexico City, Miami, New York, Phoenix, San Francisco, and São Paulo.

Jim Cuno, President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, said, “Although Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA will officially close at the end of January, in many ways this is just the beginning. Over the last four months, our many partners reexamined and realigned narratives of art history through their exhibitions and events, bringing together the many connections between Latin American and Latino art without regard to borders or categories. Their discoveries will live on in the many exhibitions that will travel far beyond Los Angeles, and in the major permanent legacy of this initiative: the remarkable body of publications and curricula the collaborators have produced. This scholarship is the permanent contribution of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA to the history of art.”

Cuno continued, “PST: LA/LA was an unqualified success for Los Angeles, Southern California, and the world, and very much strengthened the reputation and reach of the Pacific Standard Time initiative.”

Among the exhibitions that will tour are broad thematic and historical surveys such as Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985, organized by the Hammer Museum, traveling to the Brooklyn Museum in New York and Pinacoteca de São Paulo in Brazil; Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas, organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where it will travel in February; and Memories of Underdevelopment, co-organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Museo Jumex in Mexico City and Museo de Arte de Lima in Peru, the two venues where the exhibition will also travel.

Several of the touring exhibitions focus on the work of single artists, including Valeska Soares: Any Moment Now, organized by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art with the Phoenix Art Museum, where it will travel in March; Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell, organized by the Vincent Price Art Museum, traveling to the Frost Art Museum; and David Lamelas: A Life of Their Own, organized by the CSU Long Beach University Art Museum, traveling to Fundación Costantini, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires in Argentina. More information on Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA exhibitions scheduled to tour is available here.

In Los Angeles and throughout Southern California, more than 20 Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA exhibitions will remain on view at partner museums beyond the official close of the initiative. For more information, please visit pacificstandardtime.org.

Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA has produced a permanent legacy of ground-breaking scholarship on Latin American and Latino art through the more than 60 catalogues that have been published, documenting the research for and celebrating the vibrant diversity of the PST: LA/LA exhibitions. In addition, some Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA partners are creating projects that will allow their exhibitions to take new forms. The Hammer Museum is creating a digital archive from its Radical Women exhibition, which will become available to the public in 2019. The Autry Museum of the American West, whose exhibition LA RAZA examines how the eponymous, LA.-based activist newspaper-turned-magazine provided a forum for Chicano political and cultural expression from 1967 to 1977, has launched a Citizen Journalism Project to further engage the Los Angeles community. The project was inspired by the many visitors who have recognized the events and people portrayed in the exhibition’s photographs. Students and faculty from Chapman University have built a new app, called “My Barrio Murals,” inspired by the exhibition My Barrio: Emigdio Vasquez and Chicana/o Identity in Orange County, enabling users to locate Vasquez’s extant murals around Orange County, learn more about their subjects, and find information on murals that were destroyed.