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Modern SitesSite Name: Levitated Mass
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 28.572 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The West Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Nearest Town: Los Angeles
Latitude: 34.064444N  Longitude: 118.36W
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Levitated Mass
Levitated Mass submitted by Flickr : LACMA Levitated Mass Image copyright: Nicky.T. (Nicholas Tooman), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Levitated Mass is a 340 ton boulder, which was installed on the campus of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 2012. It represents a large scale sculpture by the artist Michael Heizer, consisting of the boulder affixed above a concrete trench, which allows visitors to walk beneath the giant stone.

The boulder itself stems from Stone Valley Quarry in Jurupa Valley (Riverside County, California). The move of the rock to the LACMA was discussed as possibly being the heaviest object ever transported in modern times.

The work on the Levitated Mass installation was highly covered and discussed by the media in California, especially the transport on a 176-wheel truck for 11 nights. Director Doug Pay made a documentary about it. The artist Michael Heizer has never given a hint for the interpretation of Levitated Mass. However, independently of the context the individual visitor may want to see the installation on her or his own. Levitated Mass has a clear reference to the momentum of megalithic architecture.

Text References:
[01] Nagourney, Adam: "Lights! Cameras! (and Cheers) for a Rock Weighing 340 Tons". In: The New York Times (March 10, 2012).
[02] Paquette, Danielle: "Masses descend around and below LACMA's 'Levitated Mass' sculpture". In: Los Angeles Times (June 24, 2012).
[03] Knight, Christopher: "Review: LACMA's new hunk 'Levitated Mass' has some substance". In: Los Angeles Times (June 22, 2012).
[04] Quay, Anthea: Is This The Heaviest Object Ever Transported In Modern Times? In: DesignTAXI (10 Aug 2012).


LINKS:
- Official page at LACMA
- Wikipedia
- Documentary "Leviated Mass“ by Doug Pray
- Photo collection on Flickr
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Levitated Mass
Levitated Mass submitted by Flickr : Levitated Mass from lacma.org website: Levitated Mass by artist Michael Heizer is composed of a 456-foot-long slot constructed on LACMA's campus, over which is placed a 340-ton granite megalith. The slot gradually descends to fifteen feet in depth, running underneath the boulder. As with other works by the artist, such as Double Negative (1969), the monumental negative form is key to the exp... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Levitated Mass
Levitated Mass submitted by Flickr : LACMA Levitated Mass Image copyright: SteveWillard, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Levitated Mass
Levitated Mass submitted by Flickr : Image copyright: JohnBryant64 (John Bryant), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Levitated Mass
Levitated Mass submitted by Flickr : The move of the rock to the LACMA was discussed as possibly being the heaviest object ever transported in modern times. Heading to Stop 6 Image copyright: Taiyo Watanabe (mello yello), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Levitated Mass
Levitated Mass submitted by Flickr : Heading to Stop 6 Image copyright: Taiyo Watanabe (mello yello), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Levitated Mass
Levitated Mass submitted by Flickr : Levitated Mass by artist Michael Heizer Image copyright: Robert Koo's Photostream (Robert Koo), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Levitated Mass
Levitated Mass submitted by Flickr : Image copyright: m-bot, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Levitated Mass
Levitated Mass submitted by Flickr : Levitated Mass June 3rd, 2013 On our last full day in LA we headed to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) to check out the Stanley Kubrick retrospective and and James Turrell exhibits. It turned out to be a pretty incredible day. I Image copyright: Tyson K. Elder (Tyson Elder), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Re: Levitated Mass by Harald_Platta on Wednesday, 25 March 2015
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Re: Levitated Mass by ivanjohnson on Saturday, 21 March 2015
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The engineering of the transport of the rock notwithstanding, it is absolutely one of the most facile meaningless pieces of "art" ever presented. What could involve less artistic work or thought? Calling the air "my work" is the only thing I can think of that would involve less artistic work. What a preposterous waste of arts funding that could have gone to interesting artists with real ideas. He didn't even select an interesting looking rock. Pathetic.
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