UCLA has purchased one of its largest pieces of art, the literary map “City in Mind: A Lyrical Map of the Concept of Los Angeles,” thanks to the long running Collecting Los Angeles initiative by the UCLA Special Collections, seeking out cultural documents and art found within Los Angeles’ communities.
Reporter Stephen Phan speaks to the map’s creator, J. Michael Walker, to find the history and inspiration of this huge literary map, as well as Kelly E. Miller, the head of the College Library to describe the purpose of a 23-foot across and 5-foot high piece of art on display among the book stacks of Powell, which will be on display in Powell Library by the fall of 2014.