LACMA's Free Public Artworks: From Urban Light to New Commissions

Key facts

• Chris Burden's Urban Light installed in February 2008, composed of 202 historic street lamps from the 1920s-1930s.
• Alexander Calder's Three Quintains (Hello Girls) from 1964 recently restored and placed in a new reflecting pool.
• Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Sculpture Garden features Auguste Rodin's bronzes including Monument to Honoré de Balzac.
• Jeff Koons' Split-Rocker (2025) is 37 feet tall, covered with 45,000 drought-tolerant plants.
• Tony Smith's Smoke (1967, fabricated 2005) is 24 feet high and 48 feet long.
• Michael Heizer's Levitated Mass (conceived 1969, realized 2012) is a 340-ton boulder from Riverside, installed above a 456-foot trench.
• Mariana Castillo Deball's Feathered Changes (2025) is one of the largest artworks in the world.
• Pedro Reyes' Tlali (2026) is an 18-foot sculpture of carved volcanic stone inspired by Olmec heads.
• Robert Irwin's Primal Palm Garden (2010) includes over a hundred palms, cycads, and tree ferns.
• Yoshitomo Nara's Miss Forest (2020) is his largest outdoor sculpture, installed at BCAM.
• Ai Weiwei's Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads (2011) references a mid-18th century fountain at Yuanmingyuan.
• Christina Quarles' Now We're There (And We're Only Just Begun) (2023) is the inaugural exhibition at W.M. Keck Foundation Gallery.
• Alfonso Gonzalez Jr.'s In Between Stops features 12 benches with socially conscious messages.
• Jonathon Keats' Deep Time Cinematography will create a 10-frame zoetrope movie over 10,000 years.