This 'Purple Rain' room is the perfect tribute to Prince
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has a pretty neat exhibit called the Rain Room, where sensors keep people dry as they walk through a downpour.
A photo posted by Los Angeles County Museum of Art (@lacma) on Dec 19, 2015 at 6:06pm PST
To pay tribute to Prince, who died Thursday, the Random International collective behind the exhibit decided to turn the rain purple Friday.
It was gorgeous.
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