In 2011, some 60 art institutions in Southern California got together to create a region-wide

art collaboration known as Pacific Standard Time.

PST art is now on its third iteration and it's an enormous

undertaking the largest art event in the nation this fall. Senior arts

correspondent Jeffrey Brown sampled some of it for our arts and culture series,

Canvas.

Everywhere you look, light amid the darkness,

illuminated manuscripts, glowing, even shimmering objects.

Most from medieval times a few created by contemporary artists.

All part of an exhibition at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles called

Loomin, the art and science of light. And the wording of that subtitle is

critical. Catherine Fleming is president and CEO of the Getty Trust.

Art and science may at first blush look like things that don't go together, but actually they do.

These are both modalities of thought or of expression that are

concerned with some of the most profound and basic questions. So what we thought might be a kind of juxtaposition of tension has

actually proven to be one of tremendous overlap and compatibility.

In fact, Loomin and seven other exhibitions at the Getty are just part of an enormous project that encompasses more than 70 museums, galleries, and public spaces all over Southern California, featuring some 800 artists this fall and into the winter.

All brought together under the title PST Art, Art and Science Collide. The Getty took the lead and provided some $20 million in grants to institutions large and small

to curate their own exhibitions.

To have all of these different entities working on a common theme, but in their own way, there's just the theme.

And then all of the people who are participating approach it from their own vector and I think that's what makes it

so incredibly rich.

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