The Getty Museum is apologizing after their highly-anticipated kickoff for a new arts event was a little too explosive to the liking of the community on Sunday.
The series of blasts rattled the surrounding area, including the USC campus, and shook the people in attendance a little harder than they even thought was possible. Videos from both inside and outside of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum show billowing plumes of smoke after the fireworks went off Sunday afternoon, but moments before the sky was filled with a vivid display of color — all part of the PST Art: Art & Science Collide exhibit which officially got underway with the ceremony.
The noise, abruptness of the actual explosion, and the repetitiveness of the display made people believe that there were gunshots ringing out, especially in the finale, which some say was tone deaf. 'The times that we live in, I mean, look at what just happened in Lebanon,' said Carol Cheh, an art journalist. 'Here we are setting off massive explosions with a ton of smoke and no explanation in a major city.
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