Thursday, May 8, 2008

Urban Lights are the collection of vintage LA street lamps collected and restored by Chris Burden. They had for a long time lined his studio in Topanga Canyon. They were acquired by the LACMA and are now situated on Wilshire Blvd. in front of the Museum.




These Chris Burden bridge pieces are pretty amazing. I saw this bridge reconstructed at the new Broad Contemporary Art wing at the LA County Museum a couple of weeks ago. It is really cool. This is a model of the Hells Gate bridge which is somewher in the world. Aparrently burden started to collect vintage erector type building toys on a mass scale to a point that the rarity of them mede themvery expensive, too expensive for him to collect, so he has now made his own stamp out devices and creates his own.





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