Watch the LACMA rock’s 11-night adventure [video]
A 340-ton rock travels 105 miles to Los Angeles County Museum of Art to be part of artist Michael Heizer’s artwork, “Levitated Mass.”
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The tale of a 350-ton piece of granite traveling from a quarry in Riverside County to the campus of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art captivated much of Southern California over the last two weeks.
Now: the video.
Times videographer Jeff Amlotte joined the caravan during its 11-night trip, capturing the sounds and scenes, the tight squeezes and the growing crowds.
The shrink-wrapped boulder was carried on a custom transporter across four counties. Its eventual resting place will be as the centerpiece of the museum’s permanent art installation “Levitated Mass” by reclusive Nevada artist Michael Heizer.
The museum paid $70,000 for the rock itself and is spending $10 million to transport it and build the public art work -- all paid for with private donations.
And in case you missed it Sunday night, here’s a first-person story by Times reporter Deborah Vankin about her own adventure with the caravan.
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