Urban Light - Satellite Oddity - Los Angeles, California, USA.
N 34° 03.778 W 118° 21.556
11S E 374562 N 3769971
Chris Burden's - Urban Light - Featured on Virtual Globetrotting. The sculpture consists of 202 restored vintage light posts from City's in the vicinity of Los Angeles, California.
Waymark Code: WMN9VW
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 01/27/2015
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Chris Burden's 'Urban Light' is on display in front of the Los Angeles County, Museum of Art. Lighting the Wilshire Boulevard entrance, at night.
From Wikipedia:
"Urban Light (2008) is a large-scale assemblage sculpture by Chris Burden located at the Wilshire Boulevard entrance to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The installation consists of 202 restored street lamps from the 1920s and 1930s. Most of them once lit the streets of Southern California.
The cast iron street lamps are of 17 styles, which vary depending on the municipality that commissioned them. They range from about 20 to 30 feet (6 to 9 meters), are painted a uniform grey and placed, forest-like, in a near grid. The lights are solar powered and switched on at dusk. Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Susan Freudenheim described the restored lamps as displaying "elaborate floral and geometric patterns" at the base, with "fluted shafts and glass globes that cap them...meticulously cleaned, painted and refurbished to create an exuberant glow." Text Source: (
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