Urban Light (2008) is a large-scale assemblage sculpture by Chris Burden located at the Wilshire Boulevard entrance to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The 2008 installation consists of restored street lamps from the 1920s and 1930s.

It’s an art installation at the LACMA museum and is accessible without actually visiting the museum itself so you don’t need a ticket. The artists collected and restored over 200 streetlamps dating back to the 1920s from LA and surrounding areas!

2018年2月14日 · Chris Burden’s “Urban Light” installation at LACMA has become one of the city’s most popular landmarks and tourist attractions - and it’s celebrating its 10th birthday. For its’ tenth...

Since first illuminating LACMA’s Smidt Welcome Plaza in 2008, Urban Light has drawn flocks of visitors to its iconic glow. The assemblage of historic street lamps perched along Wilshire Boulevard are radiant beacons that are at once L.A.-centric and universal.

2018年2月6日 · Since its opening at LACMA in February 2008, Urban Light has been unofficially adopted by Los Angeles as a symbol of the city and is indisputably the most popular artwork on campus. Composed of 202 historic streetlamps dating from the 1920s and 1930s originally spread throughout Southern California, the large-scale sculpture, the

A commemorative feast for the eyes, "Celebrating Urban Light" features 150 photos, poems, and video stills chosen by Charlotte Cotton, LACMA’s curator and head of photography department, from over 1,000 submissions.

In honor of the 10th anniversary, the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation (LDF) has generously supported the replacement of all 309 incandescent light bulbs with LED bulbs, resulting in approximately 90% in power savings for LACMA while also reducing emissions of greenhouse gases and other harmful pollutants.

Celebrating Urban Light. Online exhibition | Print-on-demand book Urban Light on: Flickr | YouTube | Facebook. Thanks for making the Urban Light citizen photography project a success, with more than eleven hundred entries inspired by the landmark Chris Burden installation and sent in via Flickr, Twitter, and YouTube. The Book and Online Exhibition

2023年1月12日 · Since its debut at LACMA in February 2008, Urban Light has been unofficially accepted as a symbol of the city and is unquestionably the most well-liked piece of art on campus. Composed of 202 historic streetlamps from the 1920s and 1930s that were originally dispersed throughout Southern California, the large-scale sculpture, a gift from the […]