Michael Heiser's Modern Megalithic "City"

[Orphia Nay]

"City, a vast complex of outdoor structures and landmasses the Land artist Michael Heizer began constructing in the desert of Nevada in 1970, will finally begin welcoming public visitors next month. The site’s opening on 2 September, more than 50 years after work at the site began, marks the fulfillment of Heizer’s most ambitious and career-defining project.

"City has been described as quite possibly the largest contemporary artwork on the planet, stretching more than a mile and a half long and half a mile wide, evoking the scale of ancient sites like Native American mounds, Mesoamerican metropolises and Egyptian devotional complexes."

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/08/19/michael-heizer-city-nevada-opening-public

Cool? Pretentious? Something else?

I think it sounds amazing, but would love to see it for myself.

 

[lionking]

I will look at more of this on YouTube, but I generally like grand ambitious projects like this.

 

[theprestige]

Derivative. It's a great pyramid, but the ratio of effort expended by the civilization to effort available to the civilization is not as impressive. Wealthy people with 50 years on their hands should have more to show for it. As big as it is, the artistic ambition is so very small.

 

[Skeptical Greg]

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.”

We seem to have a primal impulse to piss away resources in a way that doesn't benefit anyone except the few who have the recourses to faun over it.

 

[sackett]

The Brazilians did it first and made it their capitol.

The graffiti punks will arrive soon. Won't help. Much anyway.

 

[Armitage72]

Let's see if this links works.

Location at Google Maps

 

[Orphia Nay]

Let's see if this links works.

Location at Google Maps

Cool! Thanks.

 

[Skeptical Greg]

Found it flying my F18 in Microsoft Flight Simulator