It took Burden and his chief engineer four years to make Metropolis II. Burden doesn’t have any particular interest in transportation or urban planning, he says, although he has used toys in his ...

The GOOD4NOTHING CONNOISSEUR went to see Metropolis II when the art-piece was switched off, the cars and trains were still and the room was devoid of the constant whirr of… The GOOD4NOTHING ...

Artist Chris Burden says that his huge, noisy, chaotic city sculpture "Metropolis II" "refers specifically to Los Angeles, but an idealized Los Angeles of the future where traffic flows at ten times ...

about the big city; namely, Chris Burden’s new installation at LACMA, Metropolis II (right). Known among art cognoscenti for his madcap — and at times masochistic — performance art of the early 1970s, ...

The film from Phil Swinburne, which premiered at L.A. Shorts Fest on Monday, was inspired by Chris Burden's "Metropolis II" on view at the museum. By Christopher Wyrick There is a long tradition of ...

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We first featured the matchbox creations of Chris Burden back in 2010 when he was building the framework for his artistic Metropolis II Matchbox Car Cityscape which is 10ft tall and 28 ft wide. Burden ...

German filmmaker Fritz Lang hardly had any clue that his 1927 science-fiction movie Metropolis would be the inspiration for someone after decades to build a racetrack sculpture and name it Metropolis ...

It pulses with the energy of a real city, and the arteries of this exhibit are filled with hundreds of miniature cars. They shoot through straight-a-ways and overpasses on a road trip that never ends.