City Unveils Art Project Spanning 6 Storefront Windows

BEVERLY HILLS, CA — Shoppers and passersby on Wilshire Boulevard will be met by a long row of Weimaraner dogs moving around in perfectly synchronized motion.

The installation, which features work from artist William Wegman, was unveiled Wednesday and will be visible daily from 5:30 p.m. to midnight through March 30. The display spans six windows at 9570 Wilshire Boulevard, former Barneys New York and incoming Saks Fifth Avenue.

Two different video displays will play throughout the installation: "Harmonics," a line of 28 synchronized dogs moving against a black background, and "Up Down Up," dogs following pedestrians and cars as they pass by, according to a news release.

Wegman is known around the world for his often funny conceptual art pieces featuring his Weimaraner dogs. A key figure in the West Coast conceptual art movement, Wegman has work sitting at The J. Paul Getty Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, according to a news release.

His work has been featured in many pop-culture venues like Saturday Night Live, The New Yorker and an instillation in the New York Subway System.

Wegman's Beverly Hills instillation is co-sponsored by Saks Fifth Avenue, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, the Arts and Culture Commission of Beverly Hills and Lisa Baker, chief curator of the Saks Fifth Avenue Art Collection.

The installation came just days before Frieze Week started in Beverly Hills, which opened Thursday and will run through Sunday.

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