Jason Schwartzman Celebrates John Baldessari

Jason Schwartzman Celebrates John Baldessari for Pacific Standard Time the birth of the LA art scene. For more info on Schwartzman & Baldessari visit http://pacificstandardtime.org.
Actor Jason Schwartzman drops his friend off at LACMA and keeps walking along Wilshire because he doesn't like museums. He is surprised by John Baldessari's light projected head. Baldessari's head follows him and explains ones taste for art matures likes one taste for cheese. Jason escapes Baldessari and runs into Jeff Garland at Rays and Stark bar. Jason tries to convince Jeff that Baldessari's head is following him to which Jeff says I don't see him but don't complain as he's a master artist. So Jason walks along while Baldessari educates him on art, cubism, impressionists, Broadway Boogie Woogie and tells Schwartzman not to be intimidated of museums because art is fun. Soundtrack is "Any Fun" on Davy album by Jason's band Coconut records.

Pacific Standard Time is an initiative of the Getty. The presenting sponsor is Bank of America.

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[AyeRonnn]

Baldessari sounds a lot like George Bluth

[PolandMoonRise]

A couple years back I had the same thing with René Magritte, except I never saw his face... there was always an apple in the way...

[mdigital21]

god people you are harsh....this was funny and fun and open. I love the LACMA memeber chirping in below..."waste of money" bla bla. Couldn't people say that about every single piece of art shown there if they simply didn't like it for some reason?

[mdigital21]

@MrTC47 it was playful and fun...sorry

[joshfrankfort]

How did so may people dislike this video? It was hilarious and amazing. "I hate to be a contrarian, but it is a pipe"!

[cosmati75]

It always amazes me when people call something "pretentious" as if they were some kind of authority ... that automatically makes them pretentious!

[pullthestring]

yet another aesthetic wound to L.A. that will go unmended. This is hopeless!

[MrTC47]

Sorry about the double post. That was also a waste and embarrassing for me, but it didn't cost anything for my mistake.

[MrTC47]

I presume that the video wasn’t made for free. After I watched a minute of it, I was convinced it shouldn't have been made at all. What a colossal waste of resources and talent. I was never quite certain what the the message was supposed to be. I am a LACMA member and am embarrassed by how incoherent and trite it was.