Aubreader MastoMar 28, 2024

Michael Heizer - 'City' Installation - AWKWARD MOVEMENTS

https://awkmo.co/michael-heizer-city-installation/

When I first saw this it definitely had the vibe of a Preacher inspired art-hoax, but from what we can tell (including satellite imagery) this is 100% legit. I’d never heard of “earth-art” before the start of this year, but I’m coming to like the ideals behind it, of which one Michael Heizer seems to be the embodiment of.

#art #MichaelHeizer

Michael Heizer - 'City' Installation - AWKWARD MOVEMENTS

When I first saw this it definitely had the vibe of a Preacher inspired art-hoax, but from what we can tell (including satellite imagery) this is 100% legit. I’d never heard of “earth-art” before the start of this year, but I’m coming to like the ideals behind it, of which one Michael Heizer seems to be the embodiment of. Heizer’s…

AWKWARD MOVEMENTS
Arts at UMBCMay 10, 2023

In Hyperallergic, Rebecca Uchill, UMBC's Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) director, writes why she and colleague Ana María León drove past Michael Heizer’s City but never visited —

https://hyperallergic.com/820815/why-we-never-visited-michael-heizer-city/

#umbc #artsatumbc #cadvc #rebeccauchill #michaelheizer

Why We Never Visited Michael Heizer’s City

We counted down the minutes until we hit the stretch of highway closest to the installation, but we didn’t stop.

Hyperallergic
Jennifer WingateDec 13, 2022
"As an abstract built environment, City is a city imagined as a ruin, unpeopled and sited in the atomic desert, a monument to the nuclear age." -- Kirsten Swenson, "Michael Heizer's 'City': A Visit to a Ruin Being Born" Art in America, 12/5/22
https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/michael-heizer-city-visit-1234648545/ #MichaelHeizer #KirstenSwenson
Michael Heizer's ‘City’: A Visit to a Ruin Being Born in Nevada

A tour of the decades-in-the-making artwork reveals secrets of the desert.

ARTnews.com