Monday, September 19, 2011, at Sunset Junction, where Sunset Boulevard meets Santa Monica Boulevard in Silverlake, out east of Hollywood. The street art says it all - lifeless. But as part of the Getty Foundation's Pacific Standard Time initiative, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art will present "Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981" - opening in October. Those were bad times and the idea is "to demonstrate how this collective loss of faith in government...
more »Monday, September 19, 2011, at Sunset Junction, where Sunset Boulevard meets Santa Monica Boulevard in Silverlake, out east of Hollywood. The street art says it all - lifeless. But as part of the Getty Foundation's Pacific Standard Time initiative, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art will present "Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981" - opening in October. Those were bad times and the idea is "to demonstrate how this collective loss of faith in government and institutions yielded a spirit of artistic freedom and experimentation that reached its apex in California through the pluralistic art practices that flourished here." Yeah, well, we're there again - lifeless under that big black sun. Some things never change.
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