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Chris Burden
Urban Light
2008
Chris Burden's 'Urban Light' (2008), installed at the Wilshire Boulevard entrance of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gathers 202 restored cast-iron streetlamps that once illuminated Los Angeles streets in the 1920s and 1930s into a grand colonnade reminiscent of a Greek temple. Each evening at sunset all 202 lamps light simultaneously, casting a warm amber glow across the plaza. Widely considered the most successful recent repurposing of municipal heritage as public sculpture in the United States, the installation has become both LACMA's most photographed work and an urban landmark of Los Angeles.
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