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JANUARY 2013
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HEMISPHERESMAGAZINE.COM
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with places to stay while you’re doing them, page 78)
By Adam K. Raymond, Grant Stoddard and Chris Wright
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From the world’s largest theme park in New Jersey
to Singapore’s Dr. Seussian gardens
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here are
new things to see and do* this year
to Pablo Picasso’s long-awaited return to Paris,
SAN FRANCISCO: FOG LIGHTS
A 75th anniversary traditionally calls for diamonds, but the city
of San Francisco is giving the Bay Bridge something with a lot
more sparkle: 25,000 LEDs. Aligned along the bridge’s vertical
cables, these will form a mesmerizing light sculpture designed by
Leo Villareal, a pioneer of illuminated art. The gi is a li le
late in arriving, as the bridge’s 75th anniversary was in
2011 (
there were delays in the sculpture’s assembly).
No ma er: When the switch is flipped in earlyMarch
and the 1.8 miles of lights begin dancing over San
Francisco Bay, the wait will have been well worth it.
Above, the Bay Bridge as it’s expected to look when illuminated;
right, the artist Leo Villareal, atop one of the bridge's cables
