Fantasy fair featuring Dali, Basquiat returns to life

Mesmerizing carousels and Ferris wheels designed by Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Kenny Scharf that spin to music by Miles Davis or Philip Glass: This is "Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy."

With works designed by prominent 20th-century artists, the resurrected show bills itself as the world's first art amusement park, a one-of-a-kind psychedelic fair.

Luna Luna recently opened its doors in Los Angeles. Its features include a mirrored fun house signed by Salvador Dali, a pavilion from Roy Lichtenstein, an enchanted forest by David Hockney, and a marriage chapel designed by Andre Heller, the Austrian multimedia artist who brought the "Forgotten Fantasy" to life nearly four decades ago.

Heller, an aficionado of traveling fairs and circuses, and with far-flung interests in film, music, theater, sculpture and more, recruited some of the most established names from the last century's art scene as well as some talented newcomers to create Luna Luna: An amusement park designed to make art accessible to ordinary people.

The fair debuted in Hamburg, Germany in 1987, but after drawing thousands of visitors, money ran out, bureaucratic obstacles mounted, and plans for a world tour had to be shelved. Luna Luna ended up being packed away in 44 shipping containers in Texas for the next 35 years.

That's when Drake got involved. The superstar rapper and singer heard about Luna Luna, said he was "blown away" by the concept, and had his music company, DreamCrew, buy and restore the fair's attractions.

Drake and other investors put $100 million into the project, a Luna Luna executive told the New York Times.

Breathtakingly unique pieces emerged from the dusty containers like Haring's carousel, in which distinctive figures seem to...