Remembering Chris Burden: 'Testing the limits of everything,' friends say

Chris Burden’s dear friend, the painter Ed Moses, called Burden “the most magnificent person to ever appear in California as what we call an ‘artist.’”

On Monday, a day after Burden died in his Topanga Canyon home from cancer, Moses and others who knew and admired the artist recalled what made him one of L.A.’s greats, first in performance art and later in sculpture.