Building a Better Boulder

摘要

Until now, Michael Heizer's Levitated Mass has been more about the journey (a 106-mile trip across 22 cities in California) than the destination (the Los Angeles County Museum of Art). Set to open this summer, the artist's installation will involve a 340-ton granite boulder placed over a 46s-ft.-long trench outside the museum, providing a floating illusion to viewers who walk in the trench. It took 11 days for the rock, unearthed at a quarry in Riverside, Calif., to arrive in Beverly Hills. The project has been percolating for much longer: Heizer came up with the idea in 1968.