Los Angeles Swaps 21 Billboards With Art

Work by Kerry Tribe; photo by Gerard Smulevich, courtesy of the MAK Center for Art & Architecture

From the hundred-foot supergraphics that coat historic buildings like Christo sculptures to the garish digital screens that cast a sickly glow over once-dark neighborhoods, Los Angeles seems to be losing a battle with ugly billboards. So the timing of a new large-scale urban installation that replaces mega-ads for McDonald's Mac Snack Wraps with works of mega-art by Kerry Tribe (above) couldn't...