Los Angeles–August 9, 2019

Here are some pictures of graffiti and wall art near the hotel:

LACMA

I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. First stop was the Broad Contemporary Art Museum, where there were some works by Frank Stella:

Also on the first floor: a remarkable sculpture called “Band”, which is a huge band of metal winding through a very large room, “Miracle Mile,“ made of a row of fluorescent lights, and “Metropolis 2.“ a small city with hundreds of cars zooming through fanciful buildings:

Here’s a view from the top floor, and an artwork by Barbara Kruger; she has lined the elevator shaft with text:

An artist named Mary Corse had a series of artworks that were composed of various shades of white that change as you move past the work (these two pictures are of the same canvas from different positions):

The highlight for me was “The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China”:

This was amazing: a “tiger rug“ made out of cigarettes:

And this large truncated icosahedron by Ai Wei Wei. There are no nails holding it together; it’s all mortise and tenon joints.

There was a room filled with tiles that had black and white photographs pasted onto them, a stainless steel artwork in the form of a large rock, and a, well, I don’t know how to describe it:

A rolled-up rubber sheet with 300,000 nails driven into it, and an installation made of paper:

The museum also had a display about Korean calligraphy, but I didn’t find it terribly interesting. Just this one photo:

And finally, Levitated Mass, a concrete walkway underneath a 340-ton boulder. It is probably one of the most over-photographed things in Los Angeles, and I am inflicting yet another set of photos of it on you.