The six-month collaboration included many art exhibitions and projects across Southern California. (photo courtesy of Getty)

PST ART: Art & Science Collide, the region-wide collaboration initiated by Getty, has concluded after presenting hundreds of exhibitions, programs and events throughout Southern California over the past six months. With the support of more than $20 million in grants from Getty and five years of research and planning, more than 70 cultural institutions, ranging from small community-based centers to the region’s largest museums, have participated in the unprecedented exploration of the intersections of art and science – past, present and in the imaginable future.

Nineteen of the exhibitions, including those at LACMA, the La Brea Tar Pits, The Wende and the Fowler Museum at UCLA, are continuing after the official conclusion of PST ART and will remain on view through various dates in April 2026. A list of continuing exhibitions can be found at pst.art/en/exhibitions.

Art & Science Collide builds on the long history of exchange between art and science in Southern California, dating back to the earliest years at Caltech and the recognition that science flourishes when it is in dialogue with the arts and humanities. In the century since, the region has seen several scientific institutions, including the Natural History Museum and Jet Propulsion Laboratory, incorporate the arts into their programs. Both reflecting and expanding upon the history in the exhibitions, the latest edition of PST ART offered the public extraordinary new insights into topics ranging from the history of space exploration to sustainable agriculture, from ancient cosmologies to Indigenous sci-fi, and from biotechnology to environmental justice.

“Many of the art movements strongly identified with Southern California are unimaginable without an intense engagement with science,” said Katherine E. Fleming, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust. “Light and space artists collaborated with everyone from physicists to brain scientists to create a totally new art form, while digital and media artists have engaged the tech and entertainment industries in transformative ways. PST ART succeeded once again in bringing together Southern California’s distinctive, perpetually innovative art scene, this time in conjunction with one of the most important scientific communities in the world.”