Diana Thater
debuting in September 2026 | Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Artist Diana Thater stands in front of her new video installation at LACMA’s new David Geffen Galleries.
(Carlin Stiehl / For The LA Times)
By Solvej Schou
When pedestrians and drivers head under the bridge formed over Wilshire Boulevard by Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s David Geffen Galleries, they will soon be treated to a new permanent large-scale video installation by artist Diana Thater.
As the sun set on a recent weeknight, Thater stood along the busy thoroughfare and pointed up at an early test run of her new piece “Oo Fifi, Five Days In Claude Monet’s Garden, Part 3,” expected to debut in September as both the largest work of Thater’s career and the first time an artist has had a permanent outdoor video installation in a public space.
The piece will run about seven hours from sundown to sunrise, 365 days a year, just across the street from Jeff Koons’ monumental topiary sculpture “Split-Rocker.”
While the sunlight faded, two large projectors splashed 6K video footage that Thater took in 2025 of Claude Monet’s lush garden in Giverny, France, onto a 59-feet-wide by 21-feet-high building wall — and part of the bridge’s ceiling — on the north side of the recently opened Peter Zumthor–designed galleries.