Hey! Check Out LA's Urban Landscape Art

MOCA's billboards-61 of them throughout LA -encourage motorists to consider urban details as art in the landscape.

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February 5, 2001, 10:30 AM PST

By Gwen Hilburn


The Museum of Contemporary Art has a new and catchy campaign. It encourages harried commuters to look at urban details they may have dismissed as mundane. The white billboards with black lettering are site-specific, and ask motorists to take note of their urban surroundings.

Thanks to Gwenn Hilburn

Monday, February 5, 2001 in The Los Angeles Times

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