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https://www.thedailybeast.com/utahs-desert-monolith-mysteriously-vanishes?ref=homeUtahs Desert Monolith Mysteriously Vanishes
THAT WAS QUICK
Tracy Connor, Executive Editor
Updated Nov. 28, 2020 10:21PM ET /
Published Nov. 28, 2020 10:02PM ET
Utah Bureau of Land Management
Blues Heron
(5,931 posts)efhmc
(14,725 posts)Dave in VA
(2,037 posts)of course!
Ferrets are Cool
(21,105 posts)searching for 5 ounces of copper in a old appliance I have disposed of.
orwell
(7,771 posts)...has been discovered!
It was time to move it to an undisclosed location in preparation for the next election...
Sneederbunk
(14,289 posts)Chiyo-chichi
(3,577 posts)dalton99a
(81,433 posts)Chiyo-chichi
(3,577 posts)"Some online sleuths, using Google Earth to determine when the sculpture materialized in the desert, are still asserting that it was placed there around 2016, well after McCrackens death."
There's speculation that it was made by the late artist John McCracken or an acolyte of his.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/arts/design/john-mccracken-utah-monolith.html
CanonRay
(14,097 posts)librechik
(30,674 posts)bravo! good luck getting a grade on it. There is an awful lot of documentation at this point, though. Including a shot of the cardboard under the stainless steel skin. Looks great in most of the videos, though.