The Art Newspaper

Adding up the Getty’s PST grants

Which institutions received funding and how much

By Helen Stoilas. Web only
Published online: 30 September 2011

Asco are showing at Lacma

The Getty Foundation has given more than $10m in grants to institutions in California and elsewhere to fund research into art produced in southern California between 1945 and 1980. Here are the combined grants to each institution listed by value in descending order:

$927,000, “California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way” and “Asco: Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective, 1971-1987", Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma)

$768,900, “Under the Big Black Sun: 1974-1981”, Museum of Contemporary Art

$718,800, “LA Xicano”, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, with exhibitions at Autry National Center, Lacma and UCLA Fowler Museum

$605,000, Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival, LAXart

$490,000, “Carefree California: Cliff May and the Romance of the Ranch”, University Art Museum University of California, Santa Barbara

$450,000, “Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980”, Hammer Museum

$450,000, “Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla and Downtown San Diego

$419,400, “The Experimental Impulse: Los Angeles Art from 1945 to 1980”, California Institute of the Arts REDCAT

$410,000, “It Happened at Pomona: Art at Pomona College 1969-1973”, Pomona College Museum of Art

$400,000, “State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970”, Orange County Museum of Art

$355,000, “Clay's Tectonic Shift: John Mason, Ken Price and Peter Voulkos, 1956-1968”, Scripps College

$305,000, “Places of Validation, Art, and Progression”, California African American Museum

$300,000, “Beatrice Wood: Career Woman—Drawings, Paintings, Vessels, and Objects”, Santa Monica Museum of Art

$298,000, for surveys of Los Angeles avant-garde archives, California International Arts Foundation

$250,000, “Exchange and Evolution: World Wide Video Long Beach 1974-1999”, Long Beach Museum of Art

$246,000, “Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945-1980”, Palm Springs Art Museum

$240,000, to catalogue Southern California archives in the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

$225,000, “Doin' It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building”, Otis College of Art and Design, Ben Maltz Gallery

$222,000, to catalogue Southern California materials in the institutional archive, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

$202,000, “Los Angeles Goes Live: Exploring the Origins of Performance Art in Southern California”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions

$200,000, to catalogue the institutional archive, Art Center College of Design

$197,000, “Collaboration Labs: Southern California Artists and the Artist Space Movement”, 18th Street Arts Complex

$191,000, “Common Ground: Ceramics in Southern California 1945-1975”, American Museum of Ceramic Art

$190,000, to catalogue archives related to Southern California avant-garde art and architecture, Charles E. Young Research Library, Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles

$185,000, “Speaking in Tongues: The Art of Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken”, Armory Center for the Arts

$183,000, “Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in LA, 1945-1980”, Los Angeles FilmForum

$175,000, “The House that Sam Built: Sam Maloof and Art in the Pomona Valley, 1945-1975”, Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

$171,000, “Civic Virtue: The Impact of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and Watts Towers Arts Center”, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and the Watts Towers Art Center

$125,000, “MEX/LA: The Legacy of Mexican Modernism(s) in Los Angeles 1930-1985”, Museum of Latin American Art

$120,000, “Good Vibrations: Connecting the Music and Pop Art of Southern California, 1960-1980”, Grammy Museum

$115,000, “LA Rebellion” film series, UCLA Film & Television Archive, Billy Wilder Theater

$110,000, “Drawing the Line: Japanese American Art, Design and Activism in Post-War Los Angeles”, Japanese American National Museum

$100,000, “Pasadena to Santa Barbara: A Selected History of Art in Southern California 1951-1969”, Santa Barbara Museum of Art

$95,000, “Peace Press Graphics 1967-1987: Art in the Pursuit of Social Change”, University Art Museum California State University, Long Beach

$80,000, to catalogue Los Angeles-related materials in the Institute for Arts and Media's photographic collection, California State University Northridge Foundation

$75,000, “Artistic Evolution: Southern California Artists at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 1945-1963”, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

$65,000, “'Round the Clock: Chinese American Artists Working in Los Angeles”, Vincent Price Art Museum

$60,000, for scholarly catalogue to accompany tour of Ed Kienholz's Five Car Stud, 1969-1972), Louisiana Museum, Humelbaek, Denmark

$50,000, “Sight Specific: LACPS and the Politics of Community”, University of Southern California Fisher Museum of Art

$50,000, publication support for exhibition catalogues, “Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface” and “State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970”, University of California Press Foundation

$37,000, for educational outreach programme for schools in downtown Los Angeles during PST, Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County

$25,000, publication support, “LA Raw: Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles 1945-1980, From Rico Lebrun to Paul McCarthy”, Pasadena Museum of California Art

$25,000, for public programming for “Art Along the Hyphen: The Mexican American Generation”, Autry National Center of the American West

$20,000, publication support for “Sympathetic Seeing: Esther McCoy and the Heart of American Modernist Architecture and Design”, MAK Center for Art and Architecture