Michael Heizer’s ‘City’: A Visit to a Ruin Being Born
A tour of the decades-in-the-making artwork reveals secrets of the desert.
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Virginia Dwan, Risk-Taking Dealer Who Helped Fund Epic Land Art Projects, Dies at 90
Her gallery broke new ground by showing the Minimalists early on.
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Michael Heizer’s ‘City,’ Explained: Why the World Has Its Eyes on One of the Biggest Artworks of All Time
The $40 million installation opens to the public on September 2 after 50 years in the making.
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How Late Politician Harry Reid Helped Michael Heizer Realize His Magnum Opus
Reid insured that Heizer's City would be protected under the law.
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Fashion Designer Rick Owens Went on a Land Art Bus Tour to Michael Heizer’s Fabled ‘City’
Owens and Lamy join a select club to have ever seen 'City' in person.
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‘The Story of Our Civilization’: Land Art Symposium Explores Earthy Tales of ‘Uncollectibility’
The event in New York contemplated work by Michael Heizer, Robert Smithson, and Nancy Holt—plus the habits of collectors like Leonard Riggio.
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Brancusi and America
The story of Constantin Brancusi (1876–1957) and America is long and rich, though to date told only in parts. The artist's innovations are so numerous—and so apparently contradictory—that doubts can…
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Then and Now: Reaching for the Stars, Artists Capture and Replicate the Awe-Inspiring and the Invisible
From George Inness, who “translates just the light and feeling of a fixed hour,” to Vincent van Gogh, whose cypresses are like “voices of aspiration, joy or fear,” to Jackson Pollock, who…
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