Let’s start with the numbers, which are impressive: a 150 million-year-old granite boulder more than 21 feet high and weighing in at 340 tons. It took 11 days to transport that boulder, via a ...

Online, the 340-ton granite boulder has been used to signify various threats, from the personal to the political. Michael Heizer, Levitated Mass (2012), on view at the L.A. County Museum of Art in ...

LEVITATED MASS is the story of a rock star; the artist behind the sensation; a $10 million, 22-city tour; and the international media storm that ensued--but not in the way you might expect.

Skillfully structured and highly entertaining, Doug Pray’s docu chronicles the saga of Michael Heizer’s monumental sculpture “Levitated Mass” from its conceptual inception in 1968 to the installation ...

The 340-ton boulder that is now an art object at LACMA called “Levitated Mass” first had to travel 106 miles, very slowly, to get to its final destination. The process involved getting permission from ...

On Sunday, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will finally open its latest "destination artwork," Levitated Mass. That's the name bestowed on the 340-ton boulder transported from a quarry in ...

A daily chronicle of creativity in film, TV, music, arts, and entertainment, produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from November 2014 – March 2020. Host John Horn leads the ...

LOS ANGELES (CBS) — The "Levitated Mass" exhibit featuring a 340-ton granite boulder drew throngs of people to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) when it opened to the public Sunday. The ...

"Levitated Mass" is both the name of Michael Heizer's environmental installation and the documentary about how that big boulder got to its special perch. (First Run Features) 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5; 7 ...

“Blue Valentine” producer Jamie Patricof is behind the project, which he hopes to take to next year’s Sundance Film Festival. By Gary Baum The 340-ton stone that finally rolled onto the LACMA campus ...

When artist Michael Heizer’s Levitated Mass—a 340-ton granite boulder perched above a cavern of “negative space”—was installed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 2012, the reaction of ...