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70 culturedmag.com A longtime public eyesore, the Los Angeles River will soon be getting a major facelift as the result of a controversial redevelopment plan led by Frank Gehry in cooperation with the city. But before the beautiful new buildings and beautiful new people drive out the old, experimental artist Frédérick Gautier has taken up residency in the historic riverbank community of Frogtown. "Everything is already there in the water, on the shores, under the bridges: the traces, the flow, the light, the sound and color," Gautier said before embarking on his site-specific work, Eat the River, featuring 100 assemblages and sculptures derived from his travels along the waterway. At downtown Los Angeles' Please Do Not Enter, beginning September 21. PLEASEDONOTENTER.COM Frédérick Gautier's Eat the River, 2016 Only three years after Station to Station, his cross-country train ride down the silk road of psychedelia, mixed-media artist Doug Aitken returns with a new show, "Electric Earth," at MOCA September 10 through January 15. "We move rapidly through information, grazing across the surface, comfortable in an accelerated state," explains Aitken about the first full survey of his career, an immersive display of sound, sculpture, photographs and videos addressing heady concepts like the end of linear time, environmental depredation, and commerce's stubborn intrusion into social relationships. "In the moment when we stop and turn everything off, we find ourselves alone in an almost greater silence." MOCA.ORG © THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART; COURTESY OF FRÉDÉRICK GAUTIER A still from Doug Aitken's migration (empire), 2008