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Pacific Standard Time announces eleven-day performance and Public Art Festival

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The art of Pacific Standard Time heads into the streets, clubs and public spaces of Southern California from January 19 through 29, 2012, during a special Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival. This 11-day celebration will feature more than 30 extraordinary performances—including contemporary re-enactments of iconic works by artists such as Judy Chicago, Suzanne Lacy, Robert Wilhite and James Turrell—and interventions both large and small in the public sphere. Organized by the Getty Research Institute and LAXART, and supported by grants from the Getty Foundation in conjunction with the ongoing Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980 initiative, the Performance and Public Art Festival will reexamine, reinvent, reinterpret and renew an epochal movement in contemporary art for which Los Angeles has been an epicenter. In the 1960s and 1970s, Los Angeles became one of th