Arts & Culture
Urban Light, installed in 2008 at the Wilshire Boulevard entrance to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is Chris Burden’s large outdoor sculpture made from 202 restored street lamps dating from the 1920s and 1930s. Drawn mostly from Southern California streets and arranged in a near grid, the lamps represent 16 streetlight models and form both an artwork and a ceremonial gateway. Burden spent years assembling and restoring the collection before LACMA acquired it in 2006. Since installation, the work has become one of Los Angeles’s best-known public artworks, transforming fragments of the region’s streetscape into a shared civic landmark.
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