Another landmark checked off the bucket list today: Los Angeles’ Urban Light. Ripe for both appreciation and dissection, it’s a fascinating pop phenomenon you just can’t help but stare at in awe. Artist Chris Burden assembled this sculpture collection of vintage lampposts back in 2006 as a way to preserve all the posts around Los Angeles that were going to be removed and destroyed. Turns out he transformed both the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) entrance and the Wilshire Boulevard streetscape into one of L.A.’s most notable public space and public art success stories.
