The newest monumental outdoor artwork installed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is Michael Heizer’s Levitated Mass —a 456-foot-long concrete slot constructed on LACMA’s campus, over which sits a 340-ton granite megalith.

Levitated Mass is a 2012 large-scale public art sculpture by Michael Heizer at Resnick North Lawn at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The installation consists of a 340-ton boulder sculpture placed above a 456-foot viewing pathway to …

Levitated Mass, Michael Heizer (United States, California, Berkeley, born 1944), 2012, Sculpture, Diorite granite and concrete.

Levitated Mass is an artwork by Michael Heizer comprised of a 456-foot-long concrete-lined slot constructed on LACMA’s campus, upon and at the center of which is placed a 340-ton granite megalith. As visitors walk along the slot, it gradually descends to fifteen feet deep, running underneath the megalith before ascending back up.

2012年7月9日 · Hundreds of Los Angeles residents and visitors gathered at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) last Sunday morning for the unveiling of Heizer's megalith outdoor sculpture, Levitated...

2013年6月19日 · story about the physical challenges of the sculpture's construction and the inordinate bureaucratic and logistical hurdles that LACMA—along with the construction, engineering, and transport companies—had to overcome to make it happen.

Originally conceived by the artist in 1969, Levitated Mass is a 456-foot-long concrete slot, over which sits a 340-ton granite boulder. As visitors walk through the slot, the pathway descends to fifteen feet in depth, running underneath the boulder before ascending back up.

A 340-ton megalith that is to be part of artist Michael Heizer’s monumental artwork, Levitated Mass, has begun its epic journey to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

The four-year project involved transporting a 21-foot-diameter, 340-ton boulder from a Riverside quarry to LACMA, where it spans a 456-foot-long subterranean pedestrian ramp next to the La Brea Tar Pits. Victor Langhaar was the Lead Geotechnical …

2012年6月21日 · Thousands of people came out every single day and night to see this boulder move across Southern California to its destination at the museum. And now we’re inviting all of those people—and everyone else, too!—to come see Levitated Mass as it officially opens to the public this Sunday.