On March 15 of this year spokespersons for the Paul Getty Foundation announced in Paris the gigantic artistic project titled "Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Latin American and Latino Art in LA" (September 2017 to January 2018) at the Maison de l'Amérique Latine. This highly ambitious event is financed by the Getty Foundation—with a 16 million dollar contribution—and the Bank of America. It involves the simultaneous opening of 70 museums accompanied by 60 private galleries also centered on Latin American art. The project also includes the presentation of concerts, dance performances, and outdoor art film projections, among other activities, aimed at transforming California into "a large museum," according to the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA). The project not only aims at the promotion of Latin American art—pre-Columbian, folk, modern and contemporary arts. Its purpose is also academic in nature as it is closely connected to research programs in the cultural field that it aims to stimulate. Why choose Latin American art as the central theme? Los Angeles has a long history of relationships with that part of the American continent and the Latin American presence in the city is very large, as it occurs with other big urban centers like Chicago and Miami. Most of the exhibitions are group exhibitions: Radical Women at the Museo Hammer, curated by Andrea Giunta and Cecilia Fajardo; Kinetic Art, at the Palm Spring Art Museum, curated by Dan Cameron (who travelled to Paris to present it); Memories of Underdevelopment at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, presented in collaboration with the Fundación Jumex of Mexico and the Museo de Arte in Lima); and LA>