A closer look at Chris Burden

Its really one of the great, untold stories of the art world, the writer and filmmaker Richard Dewey says of the life and work of the late artist Chris Burden. The artist is known for work that is both ephemeralhis shocking and gruesome 1970s performances like Trans-Fixed, in which he had himself crucified to a Volkswagen Beetleand monumental, such as the 2008 sculpture Urban Light, made of 202 antique street lamps, which is now a fixture outside of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The