World famous artists designed this carnival in 1987. Nearly 40 years later, it’s back

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If you visited Hamburg, Germany in the summer of 1987, you might have been one of the lucky 250,000 people to attend Luna Luna. It was a carnival designed by some of the most famous artists of the 20th century. Visitors got to ride a small Ferris wheel adorned with drawings by Jean-Michel Basquiat. They could waltz inside a cylindrical pavilion created by David Hockney. They could wind through Roy Lichtenstein’s pop art glass labyrinth, with music by Philip Glass; Fairgoers could also walk inside a mirrored geodesic dome decorated by surrealist Salvador Dalí, and they could ride a carousel painted with bright graffiti figures spray painted by Keith Haring. Now, thanks to the rapper Drake, his studios and some investment partners, Luna Luna has been revived in Los Angeles. Who thought this would work? “I thought the idea sounded great because it is, in a way, something that has been a fantasy of mine since the first time I went to Disneyland or went to amusement parks in America when I was a kid,” the late Keith Haring said in 1987 in a documentary about the park. Luna Luna was the brainchild of Austrian multimedia artist André Heller —...

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