Indigenous futurism. Narrative medicine. Cyberpunk and digital dystopias. Soil contamination. Environmentally sustainable mega-cities.
These and other topics will be explored in “Pacific Standard Time: Art x Science x L.A.” in 2024. The Getty Foundation announced Wednesday the 45 Southern California cultural and educational institutions that will collectively receive more than $5 million in exhibition research grants. “Pacific Standard Time: Art x Science x L.A.” will include dozens of concurrent exhibitions as well as performances, publications and other programming, all exploring the intersection of art and science.
The funding comes at a critical time when most of these cultural institutions have been closed for 10 months, resulting in unprecedented financial challenges. In November, the American Alliance of Museums released a survey reporting that nearly a third of museums in the U.S. were concerned about permanent closure within 12 months should they not receive addit
Past Governor, National YEA Chair, American Society of Heating and Refrigeration Engineers Chair, Stantec Innovation Committee
OFF THE CLOCK Passion for inventing. Over the years I have designed and built a go kart from a power washer, destroyed and then rebuilt a working car before I even had my driver’s license, designed a real-time residential energy meter (more details below), and developed a travel hot tub. Hobbies: Amateur astronomy, camping, golfing, hiking, inventing Most memorable vacation: A month-long, cross-country, post-university trip from Vancouver to Kingston, Ontario, in 2006, to sail an autonomous sailboat in the first national autonomous sailboat competition.
The beleaguered San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) is contemplating the sale of its iconic 1931 Diego Rivera mural, The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City, in order to supplement its endowment, which was alleged to stand at just $10 million in June. Reported to have expressed interest in the $50 million mural is Star Wars filmmaker George Lucas, who is said to want the work for his Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, currently under construction in Los Angeles.SFAI, one of the country’s oldest and most prestigious art schools, has struggled to stay open since March, when, already faced
A 1931 mural created by Mexican painter Diego Rivera at the San Francisco Art Institute was supposed to be sold off to knock off much of the school's debt, a decision that outraged many in the local. US News Summaries. | Newser