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A video game invites anyone into Heizer’s exclusive ‘City’ land art

A video game invites anyone into Heizer’s exclusive ‘City’ land art

Tulsa, Oklahoma-based digital artist Lily Belmira has made a new, free video game allowing anyone to virtually visit Michael Heizer’s mysterious and radically difficult-to-enter land artwork in the Nevada desert, titled City. Only six people a day who are willing to pay the regular admission fee of $150 are permitted to explore City, one of the world’s largest artworks, in person. Spanning over a mile and a half, its precise location has been kept secret to some degree since its opening in 2022. But Belmira hopes to offer a virtual way around all that, while deliberately challenging the notion of restricted access to art, in favor of a more democratic and broad-reaching approach. Related Articles She told ARTnews via email that she made the video game out of “a genuine interest in showing City to more people.” But it is also a critique of what she calls a “bourgeois scar on the earth,” albeit a “beautiful” one, in an artist statement. “I didn’t like City when I started, and I saw this project as a …