Olafur Eliasson with a piece of iceberg from his London Ice Watch installation
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The Getty Foundation has started to distribute research grants for the third edition of the multi-venue exhibition series Pacific Standard Time in 2024, awarding $5.38m to 45 cultural, educational, and scientific institutions throughout Southern California to start preparing shows on the theme of art and science.
“We couldn't be more pleased at the inventive ways that the institutions engaged with the themes, from multiple projects that explore Indigenous knowledge systems, to projects that bring together artists and scientists to imagine new sustainable futures,” says Joan Weinstein, the director of the Getty Foundation. “This comes at an interesting moment that will allow us to exert the validity of science at a time when it’s been under siege, but at the same time, many of these projects question the neutrality and objectivity of science, and it allows us to hold both of these ideas simultaneously and to do this across time, geography, and culture,” she adds. “It will be a really rich exploration in that way.”