Mega-billboards on Hollywood and Vine
Billboards are a hot topic in Hollywood — whether you think they distract drivers, add value to real estate, spice up the urban landscape or just add visual clutter to the streetscape, just about everyone has an opinion.
Whatever your stance, the MAK Center for Art & Architecture has taken an innovative and artistic approach to billboards with their new large scale exhibition: How Many Billboards? Art In Stead. The MAK Center commissioned 21 contemporary artists (including Kenneth Anger, Ken Gonzales-Day and Martha Rosler) to “critically respond to the medium of the billboard and interpret its role in the urban landscape.” The billboards will be posted beginning today along major boulevards running from LAX to Downtown, including Sunset & Hollywood Boulevards.
On Saturday, February 27, a free reception for the project will be held at the MAK Center’s Schindler House in West Hollywood, and related lectures, screenings, and tours will take place until mid-April. To stay up-to-date with the project, visit http://www.howmanybillboards.org/.
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