Chris Burden (1946-) - Urban Light, 2009 another wide view - Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 2010

Normally the phrase "art installation" would send me running for the hills, but as soon as I came across this one in LA, I liked it...The artist Chris Burden seems to be a highly eccentric character if his Wikipedia biography is anything to be believed, but maybe it takes an eccentric to come up with such an ingeniously simple idea - take a bunch of vintage street lights and arrange them in neat rows by order of size. The result is not only aesthetically pleasing in a way that most installation art isn't, but actually (ahem) sheds light on our relationship with familiar objects...Unfortunately I wasn't able to see the work at its best advantage, i.e., at night, because I was only in LA for one day and had to catch an evening flight. For that, I'm afraid you'll just have to look at somebody else's photos...Thanks to U.S. News Travel for using a thumbnail of the above photo on their LACMA page...Chris_Burden ( http://Chris_Burden ) ..travel.usnews.com/Los_Angeles_CA/Things_To_Do/Los_Angeles... ( http://travel.usnews.com/Los_Angeles_CA/Things_To_Do/Los_Angeles_County_Museum_of_Art_62750/ )