Welcome! If you google Luna Luna Los Angeles you will find dozens of articles telling the history and current status of this amazing installation. Amazing, heartfelt, challenging, but is it art? Yes it is!
Half, or maybe less than half of the original pieces are here. You can see them all and more at the lunaluna.com website, with a lot of clicking around.
To keep you entertained in line.
It is expensive though, very expensive especially on the weekend. I didn’t mind paying because I had read so much about what it took to mount this show, but expensive enough that I hope once the production team has cleared their expenses they will make enjoying this place available more widely and significantly lower the cost.
Roy Lichtenstein’s Luna Luna Pavilion and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Painted Ferris wheel.
Sections from Basquiat’s Ferris wheel because everywhere you look is awesome.
André Heller’s Wedding Chapel where anybody can marry anything.
Here she is, waiting to marry anybody to anything.
The inside of Roy Lichtenstein’s Luna Luna Pavilion with the wedding chapel reflected.
The entry panel to Salvador Dali’s Dalidom.
Arik Brauer’s Carousel.
Daniel Spoerri’s Crap Chancellery.
Salvador Dali’s Dalidom.
Keith Haring’s carousel.
A clip from one of the eight very large panels created by Keith Haring.
Some promotional materials from the original installation.
Manfred Deix’s Palace of the Winds. Get it get it…
Sonia Delaunay’s welcome gate.
Kenny Scharf’s painted chair swing ride and freestanding sculptures with Keith Haring in the background.
Kenny Scharf’s chair swings with David Hockney’s Enchanted Tree behind.
There are several videos available, all of them interesting although we didn’t sit through everything. They start the rides every now and then just so you can see them go and hear the music. In the videos you can see the installation in full swing with kids on all the rides.
The Timeline: I loved this “part mood board, part cultural history” mounted across two walls. It’s so great I’d buy it if it were in a book.
We got there so early most of the entertainers weren’t out yet but this Luna Luna was a hit with the kids.
Down the ramp, Exit Through the Gift Shop.
Me and My Big Head. Jim, Ingalill, Rick
(self-portrait)