Joshua Light Show at Skirball Center for the Performing Arts: Live photos (SLIDE SHOW)

The avant-garde visionary teamed up with MGMT for some heady action.

  • Photograph: Ben Oxenburg

    Joshua Light Project at Skirball Center

  • Photograph: Ben Oxenburg

    Joshua Light Project at Skirball Center

  • Photograph: Ben Oxenburg

    Joshua Light Project at Skirball Center

  • Photograph: Ben Oxenburg

    Joshua Light Project at Skirball Center

  • Photograph: Ben Oxenburg

    Joshua Light Project at Skirball Center

  • Photograph: Ben Oxenburg

    Joshua Light Project at Skirball Center

  • Photograph: Ben Oxenburg

    Joshua Light Project at Skirball Center

  • Photograph: Ben Oxenburg

    Joshua Light Project at Skirball Center

  • Photograph: Ben Oxenburg

    Joshua Light Project at Skirball Center

  • Photograph: Ben Oxenburg

    Joshua Light Project at Skirball Center

  • Photograph: Ben Oxenburg

    Joshua Light Project at Skirball Center

  • Photograph: Ben Oxenburg

    Joshua Light Project at Skirball Center

  • Photograph: Ben Oxenburg

    Joshua Light Project at Skirball Center

  • Photograph: Ben Oxenburg

    Joshua Light Project at Skirball Center

  • Photograph: Ben Oxenburg

    Joshua Light Project at Skirball Center

  • Photograph: Ben Oxenburg

    Joshua Light Project at Skirball Center

  • Photograph: Ben Oxenburg

    Joshua Light Project at Skirball Center

  • Photograph: Ben Oxenburg

    Joshua Light Project at Skirball Center

  • Photograph: Ben Oxenburg

    Joshua Light Project at Skirball Center

  • Photograph: Ben Oxenburg

    Joshua Light Project at Skirball Center

  • Photograph: Ben Oxenburg

    Joshua Light Project at Skirball Center

  • Photograph: Ben Oxenburg

    Joshua Light Project at Skirball Center

Photograph: Ben Oxenburg

Joshua Light Project at Skirball Center

Liquid-light mastermind Joshua White, creator of the Joshua Light Show, landed a pretty sweet gig back in the ’60s: crafting tripped-out visuals in real time to accompany performances at the storied Fillmore East. This past weekend, White returned to downtown Manhattan to reprise the JLS at NYU's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, with help from various contemporary sonic avant-gardists, including neopsych bigwigs Benjamin Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden (you might know ’em as MGMT). TONY photographer Ben Oxenburg was on hand to capture their collaboration on Saturday night; we'll leave it up to you to imagine any telltale odors.…

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  • You mean vapors.

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