Los Angeles Chinatown's Public Art for
The Year of the Rat
Happy Chinese New Year 2020!
LOCATION #1: Chinatown Gold Line Station
Chinatown's Metro Station is nothing short of incredible, and it serves as an excellent car-free entrance to L.A.'s Chinatown and its Chinese New Year festivities.
Here you find the station artwork "The Wheels of Change", with pagoda-style architecture, a pavement medallion of Chinese Characters (with translations: "Calculated Waiting," "Collective Force", etc.), stylized seating at ground level, and the large Chinese Bell across College St. to the south.
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| medallion, part of "The Wheels of Change" [photo: MTA] |
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| Chinese Bell |
LOCATION #2: Chinatown Central Plaza
943 N. Broadway
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| Chinatown East Gate |
The plaza has two popular public statues: the bronze statue of Sun Yat-sen, recently re-gilded and facing the east entrance gate, and the bronze statue of Bruce Lee in one of his characteristically dynamic poses, located around the corner.
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| Statue of Bruce Lee (2013) |
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| Statue of Sun Yat-sen (circa 1961) |
South of the plaza at 913 N. Broadway are the "Chinatown Mosaics" - three large ceramic tile mosaic panels mounted onto the façade of the Plum Tree Inn. Each panel depicts a different theme and artistic style, created in Hong Kong by unknown artists.
- "Picture of Viewing Waterfalls in Summer Mountains" created in the Sung Dynasty style (960-1279)
- "Palace in Heaven" depicting the monkey king from the 14th Century "Hsi-yu chi"/"Journey to the West" tale
- "Four Beauties Catching Swimming Fish" created in the southern China style
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| three Chinatown Mosaics (circa 1968) |
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| "Four Beauties Catching Swimming Fish" [detail] |
LOCATION #3: Thien Hau Temple
756 Yale Street
LOCATION #3: Thien Hau Temple
756 Yale Street
756 Yale Street
A 7-minute walk south on Yale St. from the Central Plaza is Thien Hau Taoist Temple, an incredible decorative masterpiece.
The Chinese New Year's Midnight Temple Ceremony provides one of the best opportunities to view the Temple's artwork and architecture while enjoying the Ceremony's traditional incense burning, lion dancers, and 500,000 firecrackers. Visitors may also make offerings to deities.
Midnight Temple Ceremony:
WHERE: Thien Hau Temple, 756 Yale St., Chinatown, Los Angeles, California, USA
WHEN: 10:00 p.m. - 12:30 a.m.,
Saturday, January 24, 2020
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The Chinese New Year's Midnight Temple Ceremony provides one of the best opportunities to view the Temple's artwork and architecture while enjoying the Ceremony's traditional incense burning, lion dancers, and 500,000 firecrackers. Visitors may also make offerings to deities.
Midnight Temple Ceremony:
WHERE: Thien Hau Temple, 756 Yale St., Chinatown, Los Angeles, California, USA
All photographs, videos and text are the sole property of Public Art in Public Places and are copyright protected from unauthorized use.
WHEN: 10:00 p.m. - 12:30 a.m.,
Saturday, January 24, 2020
All photographs, videos and text are the sole property of Public Art in Public Places and are copyright protected from unauthorized use.
PUBLIC ART IN PUBLIC PLACES © 2020 All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction of website contents, inclusive of photographs, video, and text, is expressly prohibited.
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