Michael Heizer Took 50 Years To Make An Artwork As Big As A City, But It Might Take Another 5,000 Years To See The Point Of It

While surveying the Nevada landscape to plan an underground storage space for nuclear waste, the US Department of Energy spied a site so strange that technicians decided it must be a secret military base. Their theory made sense given the proximity of their flight path to Area 51. They were wrong. …