How a installation became a Los Angeles symbol
The main entrance to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art was through a hole in the postmodern fortress of the Art of the Americas Building on Wilshire Boulevard from the mid-eighties through the late aughts. The campus from Sixth Street to Wilshire Boulevard in 2008, the museum opened a drastically reconfigured campus, designed by architect Renzo Piano, that shifted the center of gravity west to a new pavilion and walkway spanning. A three-story red escalator rose to the top floor and main entrance of the new Broad Contemporary Art Museum; to the east, a new staircase built to showcase Tony Smith’s sky-scraping “Smoke” sculpture led up toward the old campus to its west.
At the center, the pavilion ended up being said to be anchored having a reproduction vapor locomotive hanging from the 160-foot crane and belching smoke, a still-to-this-day-theoretical work by Jeff Koons. Read More