Los Angeles–August 11, 2019
Smorgasburg
Went to Smorgasburg, a food festival that happens every Sunday in East Los Angeles. Here are a few pictures from there:
Some wall and sidewalk art on the way there:
Nisei Week
I went to see the Nisei Week parade. It went on for quite some time, but I only stayed long enough to get these pictures of the parade and the festival area:
Museum of Contemporary Art
The Museum of Contemporary Art has an outpost in Little Tokyo. On the side of the building is an installation named “Questions“ by the very great Barbara Kruger. (A better picture with explanatory text is here.)
Also outside the museum is this piece; you can push the parts of the cube to rotate it:
Here are some of the works inside the museum:
One exhibit was a series of postcards, each with a message telling when the artist got up that day:
And another, by Chris Burden, “Exposing the Foundation of the Museum“:
There was a display of quotes concerning art and destruction by various poets and artists:
Wall Art
Lots of it in the Little Tokyo area:
Finally, this sculpture (sorry, I wasn’t able to get inside the fence to get a better shot):
with a sign with this text:
“Head of Aphrodite (or maybe) Dionysus“
This ancient relic was discovered on March 14, 2019 by a crane operator at Alameda construction site #32.
Modern scholars suggest it is the head of Aphrodite (Greek Goddess of Love & Beauty) but some dispute this conclusion and instead think it is the androgynous head of Dionysus (Greek God of Wine & Theatre).
None of the scholars know how the hell it got here. If you have information please contact:
Randy
@ Los Angeles Dept. of Cultural Affairs
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