What constitutes a "hot ticket"?
Probably a few things, depending on the genre or art form. Some might base the label on whether a record is selling well or a movie gets terrific reviews.
But here's another measurable: What if tickets were getting booked-up, literally in week or month chunks, seemingly in days?
There's one very small space in town that can lay claim to that designation: The Perceptual Cell, an experience currently on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Created by artist James Turrell, the cell, which is part of a larger series of perpetual cells, is a 12-minute "program of saturated light" created for a sole viewer.
Meaning that only one person at a time may enter the small orb, meaning that less than a dozen tickets can be sold a day. It's not akin to a concert or play at all, where hundreds of people may attend at the same time.
Quite the opposite: It's just you. You and light.
The rather sci-fi looking orb, which is titled "Light Reignfall," will be taking sole viewers on that 12-minute light journey through April 6, 2014. So here's where the "hottest ticket" bit comes in: Though the Turrell exhibit just opened at the end of May, tickets for the light experience are booked through September.
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How will you be on the other side of those 12 minutes? We picture it as something like the mind-deepening end of "2001: A Space Odyssey" but it can't be described before it is known, or so we've heard. That's something charming in this know-everything-before-you-get-there world.
And speaking of that: The museum's Stanley Kubrick exhibit wraps at the end of June.
Tickets for James Turrell's Perceptual Cell experience are $15 for LACMA members, $45 for the general public. A Perceptual Cell ticket gets you into the exhibit and the museum as well.
