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September 2010

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Thursday, September 2, 2010 – Unexplained Walls

Scrim at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard

Okay, you're just trying to get home, and you've just passed the La Brea Tar Pits – but you're stuck in traffic on Wilshire just before Fairfax. Yeah, it's the west end of Wilshire's Miracle Mile, but no one is moving. Everyone is angry. And above it all is something odd. This is the current scrim at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard. Does this mean something? This doesn't help.

Scrim at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Scrim at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Scrim at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard

The scrim hides the museum's latest building, an unremarkable neo-industrial marble box by the equally unremarkable Renzo Piano.

Renzo Piano stairway, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

This is more like it. If you're going to do an ambiguous neo-industrial wall, go all out. Make it severe.

White geometric wall, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
White geometric wall, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Of course while you're stuck in traffic at the museum, waiting to make a right and head up Fairfax home to Hollywood, you can look left and stare at the segments of the actual Berlin Wall on the lawn across from the museum. That'll get you thinking.

Berlin Wall segments, Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
Berlin Wall segments, Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
Berlin Wall segments, Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles

And across the street, if you're paying attention, you can catch a glimpse of Rodin's Orpheus. You know how he feels.

can catch a glimpse of Rodin's Orpheus. You know how he feels.

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Technical Note:

These photographs were taken with a Nikon D200 – the lenses used were AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or AF Nikkor 70-300 mm telephoto. The high-resolution photography here was modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 software.

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