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Art and locations in Los Angeles
Below is a presentation of the public artwork, architecture and notable locations shown Psi.
They are ordered following an optimal travel itinerary, starting at the most Western location. 

Cradle
Ball-Nogues Studio

Commissionned by the City of Santa Monica, Cradle is situated on the exterior wall of a parking structure at a shopping mall - originally designed by Frank Gehry. An aggregation of mirror polished stainless steel spheres, the sculpture functions structurally like an enormous Newton's Cradle. Each ball is suspended by a cable from a point on the wall and locked in position by a combination of gravity and neighboring balls.
Ball-Nogues Studio is an integrated design and fabrication practice operating in a territory between architecture, art and industrial design, led by Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues. Essential to each project is the "design" of the production process itself, with the aim of creating environments that enhance sensation, generate spectacle and invite physical engagement. 
Broaway & 4th, Santa Monica, CA 90401, USA











Endless V
Jaume Plensa
Endless V is a 8-foot stainless steel sculpture created in 2012 by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa symbolizing the body and mind. Plensa has other similar sculptures around the world, such as:
  • “Roots”(2014): Tokyo, Japan;
  • “House of Memory” (2012): Shanghai, China
  • “Le Nomade” (2010): Antibes, France;
  • "Body of Knowledge" (2010): Frankfurt, Germany.
Jaume Plensa was born in 1955 in Barcelona. He has been a teacher at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and regularly cooperates with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Aside from being exhibited in many museums and galleries around the world, a very significant part of his sculptures can be found in public spaces in Spain, France, Japan, England, Korea, Germany, Canada and the USA.
Beverly Gardens Park,
​Beverly Hills, CA 90210, USA

Celebrity Prints, TLC Chinese Theatre

​TCL Chinese Theatre is a famous cinema palace located on the historic Hollywood Walk of Fame in California. Among the theatre's most distinctive features are the concrete blocks set in the forecourt, which bear the signatures, footprints, and handprints of popular motion picture personalities from the 1920s to the present day. 
There are nearly 200 Hollywood celebrity handprints, footprints, and autographs in the concrete of the theatre's forecourt.
6925 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028, USA

Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame comprises more than 2,500 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California. The stars are permanent public monuments to achievement in the entertainment industry, bearing the names of a mix of actors, musicians, directors, producers, musical and theatrical groups, fictional characters, and others. 
The Walk of Fame is administered by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and maintained by the self-financing Hollywood Historic Trust. It is a popular tourist destination, with a reported 10 million visitors in 2003. The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce credits E.M. Stuart, its volunteer president in 1953, with the original idea for creating a Walk of Fame as a means to "maintain the glory of a community whose name means glamour and excitement in the four corners of the world."

Universal Studios Globe

The Universal Studios Globe is found at the entrance of the Universal Studios Hollywood, which is both a film studio and a theme park in the Universal City community of the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles. Universal is one of the oldest and most famous Hollywood film studios still in use. Its official marketing headline is "The Entertainment Capital of LA." Though the Universal Pictures' studio logo has changed throughout its history, it has always featured a globe as its centerpiece.
100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA 91608, USA

​Clocktower-Monument to Unknown
George Herms

This piece of public art is composed of several rusted ocean buoys grouped around an 18-foot tall metal column which is topped with a (purposely broken) three-faced clock. It was installed in 1987 and is dedicated to the chess-players of Macarthur Park.
George Herms (born 1935) is an American artist best known for making assemblages out of discarded, often rusty, dirty or broken every-day objects, and juxtaposing those objects so as to infuse them with poetry, humor and meaning. Often called a member of the West Coast Beat movement, Herms says: "I turn shit into gold. I just really want to see something I've never seen before."
Macarthur Park, 2230 W 6th St, Los Angeles, CA 90057, USA

Corporate Head
Terry Allen & Phillip Levine

Corporate Head is located outside the Ernst & Young Building in Downtown Los Angeles. Created in 1990, it takes aim at the values and ethics of the foot soldiers and icons of the Reagan-Bush years, critiquing the greed and the lack of moral direction that define corporate mentality. Combined with Levine's poem (which must be read by imitating the posture of the statue), this portrait is also sympathetic to the individual, who is subjected to economic pressures in order to survive.
They said
I had a head
for business.
The said
to get ahead
I had to lose
my head.
They said
be concrete
& I became
concrete.
They said
go, my son,
multiply,
divide, conquer.
I did my best.
Terry Allen (born 1943, Kansas) is a country music singer, painter, and conceptual artist.
Philip Levine (1928–2015) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet.

​Ernst & Young Building
​725 S Figueroa St #1600,
Los Angeles, CA 90017

Double Ascension
Herbet Bayer

"Double Ascension" is a sculpture by Bayer that was dedicated on January 20, 1973. ​Commissioned by ARCO, it was originally titled "Stairway to Nowhere", but Bayer changed it at the request of company officials. Rising from the 60-foot diamater fountain like two spiraling staircases, its 20-feet high, bright orange-red aluminum steps are a bold contrast to the surrounding dark colors and materials. Differences in light intensity on the individual steps are an illusion from the light reflecting at different angles.
Herbert Bayer (1900 – 1985) was an Austrian and American graphic designer, painter, photographer, sculptor, art director, environmental and interior designer, and architect, who was widely recognized as the last living member of the Bauhaus. 
515 S Flower St. 
Los Angeles, CA 90071

Four Arches
​Alexander Calder

Four Arches is an abstract monumental sculpture made by American artist Alexander Calder in 1974, and located in the Bank of America Center. It is made of carbon plate steel and painted a bold vermilion. This striking painted sculpture has a high profile on Bunker Hill and serves as a distinctive landmark that beautifully frames the surrounding buildings and a small nearby park area. After its installation, Four Arches became part of the large collection of art amassed by Security Pacific National Bank.
​Alexander Calder (1898 –1976) was an American sculptor known as the originator of the mobile, a type of moving sculpture made with delicately balanced or suspended shapes that move in response to touch or air currents. In contrast, Calder’s monumental stationary sculptures such as "Four Arches" are called stabiles. In 1987, the Calder Foundation was established by Calder's family. The foundation "is dedicated to collecting, exhibiting, preserving, and interpreting the art and archives of Alexander Calder and is charged with an unmatched collection of his works."

​¤Other works in Psi: "The Red Spider" in Paris & "Homage to Jerusalem" in Jerusalem
333 S Hope St, Los Angeles, CA 90071, US

Museum of Contemporary Art

The MOCA is the only museum in Los Angeles devoted exclusively to contemporary art, home to almost 5,000 artworks created since 1940. Celebrated Japanese architect Arata Isozaki designed MOCA Grand Avenue in 1986 with classical architecture and Los Angeles popular culture in mind. ​
He wanted to contrast with the extreme heights of the Bunker Hill glass-and-steel high rise towers by designing MOCA as a sunken, red sandstone-clad space. Its chief exhibition spaces are under the courtyard, lit from above by groups of pyramidal skylights.
MOCA
​250 South Grand Avenue, 
Los Angeles

Los Angeles Sister Cities Signpost

The Los Angeles Sister Cities signpost is on the corner of Main Street and 1st Street, by the Los Angeles City Hall. A sister city is created when a community decides to join with a community in another nation to learn more about one another, and to develop friendly meaningful exchanges. The signpost indicates the direction of all LA's 25 sister cities as well as the distance. Among the sister cities of Los Angeles are: Bordeaux (France), Beiruth (Lebanon), Eilat (Israel),  St Petersburg (Russia) and Tehran (Iran).
S Main St & E 1st St,
Los Angeles, CA 90012
   

Molecule Man
​Jonathan Borofsky

​Borofsky’s “Molecule Man” is designed with four 32’ high aluminum plates which have been cut in the silhouette form of four athletes embracing after a championship victory.  Borofsky wrote the following about the work: “I had been fascinated by the fact that the human body, though appearing quite solid, is mostly made up of water. In fact 97% of our body is made up of a water molecule which is ‘sea’ or salt water based […]. 
Each of us is part of a biological chain: atoms to molecules, molecules to compounds, compounds to cells, cells to tissues, tissues to organs and finally, organs to organisms. My art is a record of my investigation of the human condition.
Jonathan Borofsky (born December 24, 1942) is an American sculptor and printmaker. He studied at France's Ecole de Fontainebleau and later at Yale. In 1999, three of his Molecule Man sculptures, standing 100 feet tall, were set directly into the Spree River in Berlin.
E Temple St, Los Angeles,
CA 90012, USA

 Skid Row City Limits Mural

The Skid Row City Limits Mural is an 18-by-50 foot mural displayed on San Julian Street in downtown Los Angeles, depicting the citiy limits of the Skid Row neighborhood. Skid Row is home to one of the largest stable populations (between 3,000 and 6,000) of homeless people in the United States. Many human services organizations are there to help them recover and be self-sufficient again. The mural project was organized in 2014 by Skid Row activist General Jeff Page with local street art crew Winston Death Squad. It was carried out solely with the labor of Skid Row citizens and without the aid of any service organizations.

“It is the only place in our community where you will see the name ‘Skid Row’ in public. Now, folks will come from all over the world to take a photo in front of this mural just as they do with the iconic Hollywood sign”, says General Jeff.  Los Angeles City Councilman José Huizar's office has hailed the mural, saying, "It's community pride on the one hand, it's cleverly done and it creates conversation and debate, which often great public art does."
 528 San Julian Street,
Los Angeles, CA 90013