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THE SMART GUIDE<br />
An update on the world of culture heads our<br />
collection of the latest, the best, and the brightest.<br />
TODD HEISLER / THE NEWYORKTIMES / REDUX / LAIF<br />
A CITY LIKE NO OTHER<br />
Part of a growing trend, the latest artistic creation of extraordinary scale has opened<br />
in the American West, after 50 years in the making. // By Brian Noone<br />
© MICHAEL HEIZER; COURTESY TRIPLE AUGHT FOUNDATION; PHOTO BY JOE ROME<br />
THE SAME SELFISH, INEVITABLE<br />
question arises for visitors to<br />
the pyramids of Egypt, the<br />
Great Wall of China and every<br />
other monumental relic of<br />
the ancient world: In a few<br />
thousand years, what will<br />
be left of our contemporary<br />
civilization? Michael Heizer’s<br />
extraordinary project in the<br />
austere desert of Nevada,<br />
which took the artist 50<br />
years to complete, is a good<br />
candidate to be one of the<br />
survivors.<br />
When the project began<br />
back in the early 1970s,<br />
Heizer was one of the foremost<br />
artists in a movement that<br />
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