By 10 a.m. on the blistering morning of Apr. 25, 2008, dozens of people on the plaza of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art were stacking big blocks of ice to build the walls of what would become a structure 30 feet long and eight feet high. A cross section of students from UCLA, random volunteers and museum staff, including LACMA president Melody Kanshat, heaved and hauled the blocks from a Union Ice truck.
