“Best Art of 2024”
By Holland Cotter
“For the third edition of the multi-venue art extravaganza once called “Pacific Standard Time,” now “PST ART,” the Getty Foundation, its funder and organizer, asked some 70 Southern California cultural institutions to cook up exhibitions on the theme of “Science and Art Collide.” It was a baggy assignment but some results rose to the occasion. The Getty’s own exhibition, “Lumen: The Art and Science of Light,” did through pure breath-catching visual scintillation. So did a small survey, assembled by LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), devoted to the conceptual artist Beatriz da Costa, who, in her short life — she died of cancer at 38 — called on the energies of plants and birds in projects aimed at planetary healing (through Jan. 5). (Read our critic’s notebook about “PST ART.”)
