From a young age, the multidisciplinary artist Doug Aitken remained captured by landscapes. He saw them as their own vibrant characters, a refreshing departure from traditional settings in the art world. “Why do we just automatically go to the museum or gallery to see art when we live in this vast, sprawling world of radical diversity?” he once asked. His own answer was to work on a monumental scale, breathing life into cities and landmarks. “Lightscape,” a seven-screen cinematic installation at the Shed, is the latest iteration of Aitken’s philosophy. More a fragmented kaleidoscope of vignettes than a linear narrative, the film pays homage to the dreamlike beauty of Los Angeles, moving from the Mojave desert to high-rise buildings in Hollywood in a hallucinatory, almost Lynchian manner. Devotional and immersive, the exhibition has little dialogue but features musical accompaniment by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by its own Gustavo Dudamel. —Maggie Turner