Art in Nevada – 3 examples

These photos of Burning Man will make you want to go immediately

Photography, Sculptures / 1 minute of reading

Victor Habchy is a French photographer and director. He was lucky enough to get a ticket to Burning Man, an annual festival in the middle of the desert of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert in the US. He describes the event as life-changing, spending a full week without electricity, sleeping in a tent in the desert […]

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Ugo Rondinone’s colorful rocks in Vegas

Sculptures / 10 minutes of reading

Far in the desert south of the city of Las Vegas in Nevada, you will find seven colossal pillars of stones made by pilling small, colorful pebbles perpendicularly. The figures appear poised between monumentality and collapse, creating a striking sight amidst barren landscapes. Titled Seven Magic Mountains, the shapes were installed by internationally-renowned New York-based

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This $265,000 Burning Man sculpture burned to ashes

Sculptures / 2 minutes of reading

The Pier Group, a collective of artists, engineers, and builders, came together and spent a budget of $265,000 in order to create Embrace, the 72-foot (22 meter) sculpture of two figures embracing, whose fleeting life would end up in flames at the Burning Man festival. The sculpture had an internal staircase The enormous sculpture had

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