At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) children can sign up for NexGen membership to get in for free until age 18. They also receive one complimentary adult ticket per child each time they visit. We came to see Michael Heizer's Levitated Mass and Chris Burden's Metropolis II, but we stayed because the kids enjoyed the museum far and wide.
Levitated Mass is a 340 pound boulder alleviated above a 450 foot concrete slot specially constructed on the museum grounds. It took Heizer more than 40 years from conception to identify the appropriate rock found near Riverside, CA and to realize his dream. Last spring, the megalith's 11-day, 100+ miles journey from the quarry through the streets of the City of Los Angeles drew crowds day and night as people flocked to see the boulder moved on a flatbed truck.
Metropolis II is described as a kinetic sculpture that models a frentic, fast-paced city. More than 100,000 miniature cars race on intricate roadways next to dense buildings. The cars race only on Fridays through Sunday, one hour on and then an hour off.
