What I learned from a black hole in Los Angeles

The Getty Museum's PST: Art and Science Collide event invited me to travel to about 30 galleries across Los Angeles .

Artist Marcel Duchamp once said in his 1957 talk about artistic criticism that "the creative act is not performed by the artist alone" A true work of art is often considered irreplicable, but an ideal scientific conclusion relies on replicability.

Duchamp wondered about an elusive phenomenon in which a spectator reacts to a piece of work.

The concept reminds me of a scene from the TV show "Mad Men " in which someone buys an expensive piece of art but doesn't allow anyone in the workplace to see it.

With these scientific art exhibits, it seemed like the artwork inherently required both artistic and scientific spectators' reactions to bring the pieces toward their true potential.

Monisha Ravisetti visited the Getty Museum as part of the PST : Art and Science Collide event.

She said she wished she could see these pieces from the eyes of the art world to know how science might have enhanced, diminished or laterally woven into their experience.

The individuality of art is unfortunately mirrored in the individuality of the creative act.