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“City” is a land art sculpture by Michael Heizer. It is located in Garden Valley, a desert valley in rural Lincoln County, Nevada. It spans more than a mile in length and is one of the largest contemporary artworks ever built. The work begun in 1972, taking 50 years to complete, and cost an estimated total of $40 million. City is maintained by the Triple Aught Foundation and will open on September 2, 2022, to a limited, reservation-only viewing by a maximum of six visitors per day. Like Heizer's previous work, Double Negative in 1969, City is designed and executed on a massive scale. Covering a space approximately one and a quarter mile long and more than a quarter of a mile wide (2 km by 0.4 km, roughly the scale of the National Mall), City is one of the largest sculptures ever created. Using local dirt, rock, sand, and concrete as building materials, and assembled with heavy machinery, the work is composed of five phases, each consisting of a number of structures referred to as complexes, with some of the structures reaching a height of 80 feet (24 m). City attempts to synthesize ancient monuments, Minimalism and industrial technology. Heizer's inspiration for the work came while he was visiting the Yucatan and studying Chichen Itza. #city #gardenvalley #nevada #michaelheizer #desert #lincolncounty #artwork #contemporary #tripleaught #sculpture #dirt #rock #sand #concrete #monument #maxar #viewfromabove #viewfromspace #space #birdseyeview #satellite #satelliteimagery #vantagepoint #photooftheday #photography #art #instagood #picoftheday