Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Sprawling art museum campus centered on a suspended three-hundred-forty-ton granite boulder.
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This guide to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art centers on a three-hundred-forty-ton granite boulder that artist Michael Heizer first dreamed up in 1969, decades before he found the right stone in a Riverside County quarry. It follows the eleven-night convoy in early 2012 that crept the rock one hundred five miles through twenty-two cities on a purpose-built, one-hundred-ninety-six-wheel transporter, drawing crowds who threw block parties at its overnight stops. Stand at Wilshire Boulevard as you listen, where the crowd once gathered before dawn to watch it arrive.
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