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Curbed LA caught the installation of some panels from the Berlin Wall at 5900 Wilshire Blvd., across from LACMA: "The exhibition is part of Culver City-based Wende Museum's commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Wall... When finished (a total of 10 panels will go up), the exhibition will constitute the largest concentration of Berlin Wall panels outside of Europe."

              

It's been a busy couple of weeks for Pasadena's Armory Center for the Arts, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary year with the exhibition Installations Inside/Out. It began with skywriting art last week, followed up by eight public art installations around the city, an hour-and-a-half theatre show performed in a busy intersection during 15-second crosswalk-intervals and a large gallery show featuring and supporting Southern California artists.

              

As part of the current exhibit "Your Bright Future" things are looking very colorful at LACMA these days. Two of the most striking parts of the show include the work of Korean artists Choi Jeong-Hwa, whose blue, red, and yellow swaths of fabric, "Welcome," drape the museum's exterior, and the bright and dangling "HappyHappy" delight the visitors. LACMA's site explains more about the artists and his work:

The only artist in the exhibition who has not studied or lived abroad, Choi Jeong-Hwa proudly proclaims that he was "made in Korea." Renowned as the father of Korean pop art, he has produced three temporary outdoor installations for Your Bright Future. In Welcome, swaths of brightly colored fabric stretch from roof to balustrade on the south and west facades of LACMA's Ahmanson Building. Two other works are both titled HappyHappy. One comprises long strings of colorful plastic containers that hang from ceiling to floor in the museum's BP Grand Entrance. The other, near Sixth Street, includes five sections of chain-link fence, on which visitors can hang their own sculptures made of plastic containers.

How cool is this? A free all-night festival on the beach and pier in Santa Monica with over 20 multi-media artists and music from KCRW, Machine Project, Dub Lab and other to-be-announced artists? That's what's happening at Glow, a dusk-to-dawn (7 p.m. to 7 a.m.) event put on by the city of Santa Monica on July 19.

Inspired by temple wish trees in Japan, Yoko Ono's Wish Tree project is devoted to encouraging the public to take part in artmaking as well as promoting worldwide peace and understanding. Starting in August, her Wish Trees, which will be chosen in relation to the surrounding environment or history of California, will be displayed at One Colorado in Pasadena.