Fruit carts flying over MacArthur Park: How you can see LACMA’s first AR monuments
“LACMA × Snapchat: Monumental Perspectives” aims to illuminate untold stories and little-known histories from around Los Angeles. The site-specific works — viewable on the Snapchat app — add to the national conversation aroundrepresentation and historical accuracy in monuments, murals and other public works of art. When the viewer looks through their device at the location the work is set in, the digital art appears onscreen.
LACMA Director Michael Govan said in the project announcement that the AR monuments “are not only relevant to issues of today — Los Angeles, civic space, community — but also to the medium of art, opening doors to new ways of thinking about art in both physical and virtual spaces.”
The project will premiere more virtual monuments in 2021 and in years to come.
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