“We wanted people to get a sense of how vibrant L.A. is as an art scene and also in producing local art,” she said. “Latin America is a vast area, we weren’t trying to tell a comprehensive story. But we wanted to get people excited about the ideas and see more.”

Every day, she said, more catalogs of the exhibits are coming into her office — she expects her colleagues and other art historians to pour over them in the months to come.

While it is not a given that there will be another P.S.T. initiative, Ms. Marrow said, they certainly will discuss it in the coming months. “If we want to get new people exposed to art, it might take a while to do it.”

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