![]() ![]() Apparently, a piece of plastic with the Bank of America logo is the golden ticket for events affiliated with Pacific Standard Time. As I handed her my student ID and debit card, she quickly said that I could enter free of charge. There was no need for it, however, since the middle-aged Chicana vendor at the window gave him the discount anyway on account of his Café Tacvba tank top. 3 My friend is a grad student at USC but had misplaced his ID. 2 When we arrived at the window, it was the usual scramble to find out what discounts would get us out of paying the steep twenty-dollar entry for residents of LA County. We hit the crowd, slowing our entry but allowing for some people-watching-much to my delight, a noticeable number of Hispanics and Latinos were present. On weekends the museum can be a bit packed. Along with a friend who, like me, had received architectural training, I decided to visit LACMA on a particularly hot Saturday afternoon. Of the many PST shows, I’d heard numerous opinions from architects and architectural historians regarding Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915–1985 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). With shows varying from topics like pre-Colombian goldwork, alternative arts spaces in Mexico City, and Chicano muralism in LA and throughout the southwest United States, the organizers have announced on these ubiquitous banners: “THERE WILL BE ART!” After all, stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic, it’s hard to miss the banners hanging from every lamppost over every boulevard in this beloved autopia. 1 If you live or have been to LA recently, perhaps you’ve caught wind of this unprecedented event. The program has been running since September 2017 and will officially continue through January 2018, though many individual institutions will run their exhibitions after that point. And how is that? The organization Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA-PST for short-has, with more than seventy arts and cultural institutions, brought a broad and diverse exploration of Latin American and Latino art to the Southland. In the past few months, all of Southern California, and in particular Los Angeles, has been abuzz with a recent spike in cultural events that have captured the imagination of many within this culturally diverse region. Download PDF The following photographs of the Found in Translation exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art were taken by the author. ![]()
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