J.W. Burleson photo / Boquillas del Carmen, Coah.

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Michael Heizer's City.

 In 1972, Michael Heizer began construction on the massive installation known as City in the desert of Lincoln County, Nevada. 
Thanks to Scott Dorrance for the heads-up on Michael Kimmelman's piece on Michael Heizer in the NYT last month: " “City” ... may be the most ambitious sculpture anyone has ever built, one of those audacious, improbable American dreams, at the scale of the West, conceived for the ages. More than a mile long, “City” is a kind of modern Chichen Itza in the midst of Garden Valley, a pristine, lunar stretch of stark and unspeakable beauty, an hour’s bumpy drive from the nearest paved road..."
There's a show--his first in years--up for a few more days at Gagosian in NYC: 18-ton slab of granite named "Potato Chip" and a 12-ton rock of iron ore called “Asteroid.”

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