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Llum BCN is an annual light art festival held in Barcelona, Spain. It is celebrated since 2012 every February in Barcelona's neighborhood Poblenou . [ 1 ] It features a series of light installations and shows.
Street Light (also known as The Street Light: Study of Light and Street Lamp (Suffering of a Street Lamp) [3]) (Italian: Lampada ad arco) is a painting by Italian Futurist painter Giacomo Balla, dated 1909, depicting an electric street lamp casting a glow that outshines the crescent moon.
At the end of the century, an event that was a huge impact on both economic and social planning, art and culture for the city, was the 1888 Barcelona Universal Exposition, held 20 May to 9 December 1888 in Parc de la Ciutadella, a former army property acquired by the city in 1868. The art exhibition was an incentive to the improvement of ...
Street name signs identify streets for the unfamiliar, especially benefiting visitors, postal workers and the emergency services. They may also indicate the district in which a street lies. Benches are usually found in central parts of settlements, such as plazas and parks. They are often provided by the local councils or contributors to serve ...
Islam’s expansion led to an explosion in Córdoba’s population and, when the city’s rulers had outgrown it, the construction of Medina Azahara, the so-called “shining city”.
A street light, light pole, lamp pole, lamppost, streetlamp, light standard, or lamp standard is a raised source of light on the edge of a road or path. Similar lights may be found on a railway platform .
The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, United States has the archway consisting of the light stalks and "Métropolitain" sign from the Guimard entrance to Raspail station. [15] [20] [35] The Dali Theater Museum in Figueres (Girona, Spain) has a pair of the light stalks from a Guimard Métro entrance, which are exhibited on the patio. [36]
Urban Light (2008) is a large-scale assemblage sculpture by Chris Burden located at the Wilshire Boulevard entrance to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The 2008 installation consists of restored street lamps from the 1920s and 1930s. Most of them once lit the streets of Southern California. [1] [2]