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Art Rule #7

If you put it on a pedestal it is art. I’m working on a collection titled what is art? So far I have one other entry that I could find: But is it Art?

Stoned

We visited the “Levitated Mass” at the Los Angles County Museum of Art (LACMA) on Saturday.  It was heavy.  The LACMA website calls it a Megalith which in my mind makes this installation a henge.  The artist is Michael Heizer.  What I admire most, having moved some big stones around myself, is that he was able to convince art patrons to put up the money to move and install the stone. Walking under the Levitated Mass gave me a control of nature feeling, as if… Read More »Stoned

Public Art in Pasadena

A giant band saw from a closed lumber mill in Northern California has become public art in front of a new Lumber Company on Colorado Blvd in East Pasadena. Congratulations Ganahl Lumber

Public Art in Pasadena

This morning while we were walking in Pasadena we found this piece of public art across from the Paseo Pasadena.  It it a very beautiful bronze mountain goat on a limestone fountain pedestal.  The limestone is rough cuts of the same material as the building fascia. A couple of weeks ago we found this new public art installed on California Ave in front of the new parking structure at the Huntington Hospital: It is according to the plaque in the style of Henry Moore.  Maybe… Read More »Public Art in Pasadena