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This summer the UCLA Hammer Museum courtyard is showing
Greg Lynn's Fountain, molded from kids' shark and whale toys. It's So. Cal.'s latest translation of Bernini's
Trevi Fountain into a lowbrow idiom. Compare Hollywood's
Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) and the
Laguna Beach Pageant of the Masters' Trevi Fountain.
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L.A. might also be implicated in the Orlando Disneyworld/Epcot's
Neptune Fountain (bottom), generally understood to be a cost-saving abbreviation of the Trevi. It places a version of Bernini's central figure among dolphins rather than sea horses. In another departure from the source, the architecture is painted
Golden Girls peach.
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