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The 1980s Art Carnival, Luna Luna, will come to New York


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n original Basquiat Ferris wheel and a Keith Haring carousel are two of the high- art-meets-fairground attractions coming to New York this fall when Luna Luna, the once lost art carnival, travels to the Shed in Hudson Yards. After languishing in a rural Texas warehouse, Luna Luna was rescued and restored thanks to intervention from the rapper Drake. Its first  in Los Angeles in December. 


   summer of 1987.


Participating artists included Haring, Jean-Michel   either decorated vintage carnival equipment or created their own works for the pavilions. In 1990, after a potential European tour and


 through, Heller agreed to sell the project to the  set off decades of litigation over rights concerns and disputes on charging admission, and left Luna Luna untouched until its 2022 rescue. 


  projects, said the mix of avant-garde art and pop culture that is manifested in Luna Luna made it   


 


Michael Goldberg, the founder of Something Special Studios and the chief experience and creative officer of the team that helped resurrect Luna Luna, said coming to New York made sense because of the roots that artists like Basquiat,  Luna Luna will be sprawled across both the


 be transformed into a performance space with 115  movable outer shell. That height is important to  like the Basquiat Ferris wheel, which almost kissed   


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exhibition, in that it is the work of world-class artists   Luna Luna will open to the public on Nov. 20


 season programming, which includes a production       Alex Poots, the artistic director at the Shed, said the   original intention for Luna Luna.  commission some of the most important artists of     Luna Luna will be sprawled across both the


 be transformed into a performance space with 115  movable outer shell. That height is important to  like the Basquiat Ferris wheel, which almost kissed   


exhibition, in that it is the work of world-class artists   Luna Luna will open to the public on Nov. 20


 season programming, which includes a production       Alex Poots, the artistic director at the Shed, said the   original intention for Luna Luna.  commission some of the most important artists of    


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