February de LaB > Billboards By Bus

Update: Read coverage of our adventures on Fast Company and Curbed LA.

Apologies for the unexpected hiatus (ask us to tell you the story over drinks sometime)! But we're back in action in 2010 with a very arty de LaB that's—gasp!—taking us west of La Brea: A bus tour with the MAK Center to view some of the pieces in their show How Many Billboards? Art In Stead.

This large-scale urban exhibition debuts 21 newly commissioned works by leading contemporary artists, presented simultaneously on billboards in Los Angeles in February and March.

On Monday, February 22, we'll be meeting at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at 6pm, where de LaB's own Marissa Gluck will be giving tours of the Schindler House before we go. At 7pm, we'll board a bus with MAK director Kimberli Meyer and other special guests to see as many of the billboards as we can. Then we'll finish out the night at the Andaz West Hollywood around 9:30, where a comprehensive public art program has made the hotel a destination in itself.

Monday, February 22

6pm: Meet at the MAK Center

835 North Kings Road

West Hollywood, CA 90069

7pm: Board bus

9:30pm: Meet at Andaz West Hollywood
8401 Sunset Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90069
(we'll have the bus drop us here, and it's a short walk back to the MAK Center)

We estimate the bus will be about $12 per person but won't know until we get RSVPs. If you want to take a tour of the Schindler House, please bring an additional $7 donation. Bring cash, please!

Please RSVP for the bus to hello AT designeastoflabrea.org by February 19. You do not have to RSVP for the Andaz.


Image: Kerry Tribe's piece for How Many Billboards? Art in Stead, 2010.
Photo by Gerard Smulevich, courtesy of MAK Center for Art and Architecture