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Levitated Mass
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. The installation consists of a 340-ton boulder sculpture placed above a 456-foot viewing pathway to accommodate 360-degree viewing. The nature, expense and scale of the installation attracted discussion within the public art world, and its notable 106-mile transit from the Jurupa Valley Quarry in Riverside County was widely covered by the media.
The piece is open to the public during museum hours and does not
"Complex" magazine listed "Levitated Mass" as one of its 50 Most Iconic Artworks of the Past Five Years.
A parody/tribute work by Mungo Thomson, entitled "Levitating Mass", was commissioned by the Aspen Art Museum and appeared at the 2012 Aspen Old-Fashioned Fourth of July Parade, just ten days after the public opening of the original work. It consists of a one-half scale helium balloon replica of "Levitated Mass"'s central boulder.
"Boulder Mass: The Levitation"