Photo: Utah Department of Public Safety/EPA
Christina Rees and Brandon Zech talk about the recently discovered (and removed) monolith in Utah, and about the wonderful work of a minimalist sculptor.
“I’m not particularly for trampling on a pristine landscape to put a joke out in the middle of the desert, but then again… .”
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Related Reading:
On the Monolith:
—Medium: The Big Dumb Monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey
—Artnet News: There Is an Alien Power Driving the Frenzy Over the Utah Monolith. It’s Just Not From Outer Space
—The Verge: Even Utah’s mysterious monolith may be no match for Google Earth
—Countere: We Planked on the Utah Monolith Before It Disappeared
—BBC: Utah monolith: Internet sleuths got there, but its origins are still a mystery
—We Found The Alien Monolith In The Utah Desert!
—NY Times: A Weird Monolith Is Found in the Utah Desert
—NY Times: Did John McCracken Make That Monolith in Utah?
—NY Times: That Mysterious Monolith in the Utah Desert? It’s Gone, Officials Say
—NY Times: How a Mysterious Monolith Vanished Overnight (It Wasn’t Aliens)
—Sky News: Mysterious monolith found in Romania – days after a similar one vanished in Utah
—NY Times: California Monolith Is Removed and Replaced With a Cross
On John McCracken:
—Art in America: Between Two Worlds: John McCracken
—Artnet News: John McCracken: Radical Minimalism Meets Traditional Craft
—NY Times: ART IN REVIEW; John McCracken
—Artforum: John McCracken at Zwirner & Wirth
—NY Times: Art: John McCracken, 20 Years of Sculpture
—Artforum: John McCracken
—NY Times: ART IN REVIEW; John McCracken
—Artforum: John McCracken at Douglas Gallery
—Artforum: John McCracken at Castello Di Rivoli
—NY Times: John McCracken, Sculptor of Geometric Forms, Dies at 76
—The Washington Post: Artist John McCracken dies at 76
