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Installation view of "Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination" at LACMA, 2015. Photo (c) Fredrik Nilsen Diana Thater is among the artists who lost Altadena homes and studios to the Eaton fire. News reports have mentioned that Thater was working on a so-far unannounced commission for LACMA's Peter Zumthor addition, the David Geffen Galleries. A story by Edwin Folven in the Beverly Press supplies more details.  "It's a large exterior video projection on the building," Thater is quoted. "As you go under the bridge on Wilshire, you will see this giant video project." That sounds like the work might address concerns that the underside of the Wilshire bridge would be dark and dismal, like a freeway overpass. (See posts on that topic from 2022 and 2024 .) It also raises new questions: Will the video run in the daytime or just at night? Will it become a social media magnet, tempting drivers to slow down and take videos on busy Wilshire?  Thater lost th...