Michael Heizer, renowned for monumental earthworks like “City,” offers a domesticated, rattlesnake-proof art for Manhattan’s Gagosian. By Arthur Lubow Michael Heizer’s exhibition at Gagosian in ...
“There was a moment when I saw a pile of dirt in the middle of the gallery and I thought: ‘Gee, I hope Larry doesn’t come by right now.” A key figure in Land Art, Heizer has long experimented with the ...
Beneath the restless Nevada sun lies a creation that seems almost out of place — a city with no inhabitants, a monument with ...
It took the artist half a century of toil in the most remote parts of Nevada to build what may be the most extreme contemporary monument ever made. Now what? It took the artist half a century of toil ...
The master rigger has hoisted huge art works for Richard Serra, Jeff Koons, and MOMA. Now he’s brought new pieces by Michael Heizer from a Nevada ranch to Gagosian.
A bill quietly introduced by United States Senator Harry Reid would protect an 800,000-acre swath of Nevada desert containing the land artworks of Michael Heizer, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported ...
“God made the rock. Man made all this equipment,” said a Riverside resident who'd driven to Jurupa Valley, a few miles east of home last night. He and over a hundred others gathered to see a 340-ton ...
In March, the art world rallied to call for the protection of Nevada's Basin and Range area, a landscape of rich archaeological resources and the site of Michael Heizer's sprawling land art piece, ...
American sculptor Michael Heizer (born 1944) was among the first artists to reject the white cube gallery space in favor of the open land and majestic vistas of the western United States. Michael ...
In the long afternoon of last year’s summer solstice, Ernest Edwin Higbee Jr. pulled a white Chevrolet Tahoe off the main road of Alamo, Nevada, driving past spindly creosote bush and stalky Nevada ...