How Many Billboards? Art In Stead

The MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House of Los Angeles presents a large-scale urban exhibition entitled: How Many Billboards? Art in Stead. This exhibition includes 23 new works by leading contemporary artists, presented simultaneously on billboards throughout Los Angeles for five weeks from February 5 through March 12, 2010. The exhibition will be accompanied by an overview exhibition and orientation station at the Schindler House, which opens on February 23, as well as a series of public programs and bus tours. The exhibition's site, www.howmanybillboards.org has been launched to provide up-to-date exhibition information as the project unfolds. The MAK Center is also designing interactive media to help viewers navigate the show.

23 artists working in the vein of California’s conceptual art movement have each been commissioned to create a new work that critically responds to the medium of the billboard and interprets its role in the urban landscape. Investigating art as an idea as well as art as a media for critical intervention, the exhibition highlights the interaction of Pop, conceptualism and architecture in Los Angeles since the late 1960s.

“In How Many Billboards? Art in Stead, the streets of Los Angeles become the walls of the exhibition, and the city itself becomes a large museum,” said Kimberli Meyer, Director of the MAK Center and initiator and co-curator of the exhibition. “We have put together an important group of 23 artists that span multiple generations, and we’ve asked each artist to take into account the landscape of the city.

MAK Center, Los Angeles, CA
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