The best time to take a picture with lights are at...

The best time to take a picture with lights are at night. This is the picture of the entrance of the Los Angeles County Museum of Arts (LACMA). It is the largest art museum in the US and located right next to the La Brea Tar Pitts & Museum.

Each year, about 1.5 million people visit the museum and take a selfie in front of these lights which have become a popular photo-attraction especially at night when they are lit in the dark. These 202 lights are restored street lamps from the 1920s and 1930s which were once lit in Southern California. Together they are actually a large-scale assemblage sculpture designed by the artist Chris Burden. Currently a retrofit project is underway by the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation to replace these incandescent light bulbs with LED bulbs to reduce 90% in power savings as well as emissions of greenhouse gases and other harmful pollutants.

In November'14, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors approved a $600-million makeover plan which is to tear down the three buildings that made up the museum s original 1965 campus and to build a 410,000-square-foot new building. This new building is scheduled to break ground in 2018 and complete construction in 2023. By then, an underground train station connected to Downtown LA, Koreatown and Weswood will be open at the corner to attract more visitors.