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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Bruce Munro: Field of Light

May 19, 2019 – Jan 5, 2020
4380 Highway 46 East, Paso Robles, CA 93446, United States

“If you raise the light levels,” the British artist Bruce Munro said in 2016, referring to his installation at Uluru, in central Australia, “you fight with the sun and the moon.” So he keeps the lights dim. Munro’s work is about emphasizing nature—its beauty, its breadth—and eliciting awe from the viewer. A new exhibition in a 15-acre southern California meadow employs 58,000 “flowers”—miniature, multi-colored, solar-powered, fiber-optic spheres—to light up the lightly rolling hills of its host. —J.V.