Glenn Phillips will give an overview of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945–1980, an unprecedented collaboration of more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California who are coming together between October 2011 and April 2012 to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene, and to discuss the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival, a series of more than 25 large-scale commissions, reinventions and re-stagings of historic spectacles happening throughout Los Angeles in January 2012.

Glenn Phillips is Principal Project Specialist and Consulting Curator in the Department of Architecture and Contemporary Art at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. He is currently a member of the curatorial team for Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A.1945–1980.