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The Site: a strip of no-man's land outside the gates of the famous (former) CBS-Radford Studios. (The lot was recently put up for sale; if you have to ask, you can't afford it.)
The studio was formerly, famously, the (Mary Tyler Moore) MTM Studios -- remember the mewing kitten? Even more formerly, and more famously, it was the scrappy oater-mill Republic Pictures; and most formerly of all, and most famously, Mack Sennett's Studios, by whom, and for which, when it was built, Studio City was planned, and named.
The Neighborhood Association website about the art is "404" but the artist who made this unique and site-specific exhibit is Karl Johnson; the installation was put in in 2012, and it was sponsored by the residents and the CBS president at the time, who admired the guy's work. (He probably didn't mind the guy clearing out the junk, either.)
Johnson's material includes old studio lights and hardware and even discarded eucalyptus sections. The sculptures are an unexpected grace along a quiet quarter-mile of LA River Walk.
There is something of Italian Futurism in this grimly comical work. If you're distressed out of mind about the horrible world situation, and who isn't, Mr. Johnson feels your pain and invites you to grasp the nettle. Here: "Heroic Mortality."
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