Via my New York Times subscription.
Reading this morning about an incredible art work which has been taking shape in the desert of Nevada for decades at huge cost, the work of Michael Heizer. It was started in 1970.
There are now opportunities for a limited number of people to visit the work.
This article provides more details on the installation / land art.
From the videos I've seen it's monumental and I'd love to go and take a look. along with some of the other monumental land art in neighbouring states.
The closest I'll probably get is Google Earth.
Heizer’s masterpiece, which has been called the largest artwork in the world, contains no walkways, lookouts, or directional signs; there is no beginning, no end. It is designed to be explored on foot and by instinct, as guests stride among its graded gravel lanes, rounded ravines, and vast concrete structures.
"Complex One," City. © Michael Heizer/ Triple Aught Foundation. Courtesy of the artist and Triple Aught Foundation. Photo: Mary Converse.
“It’s an artwork aware of our primal impulses to build and organize space, but it incorporates our modernity, our awareness of and reflection upon the subjectivity of our human experience of time and space as well as the many histories of civilizations we have built.”
Michael Govan: Los Angeles County Museum of Art director and chief executive
In this New Yorker piece from 2016 it is described as a monument to outlast humanity.
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