L.A. Times Reviews Museum's "It Happened at Pomona"; Notes Pomona Could Do What the Whitney Could Not
Like 7-Eleven and the drive-through at Del Taco, the Pomona
College Museum of Art never closes. At least, not until Nov. 6.
Before then, the museum is open all day, every day, 24/7.
That
unusual gesture, a project by artist Michael Asher, is a variation on
one he did for the museum 41 years ago. The open house is among seven
works in the first portion of "It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of
Los Angeles, 1969-1973," a three-part historical survey that will
unfold through the school year. It's the first show out of the gate in
Pacific Standard Time, a panoply of about 60 exhibitions funded by the
Getty Trust to explore the early years of art in post-Second World War
L.A.
Organized by curator Rebecca McGrew, it focuses on the
academic year 1969-1970, when Hal Glicksman, a former installation
designer at the Pasadena Art Museum, ran the school's small museum. He
invited artists to use one gallery space as a working studio, rather
than as a repository for traditional art objects. McGrew's modest,
tightly organized show draws unexpected connections. Full article