It Was a Mystery in the Desert for 50 Years

The NYT article is trying very hard to paint the 'monument' in a positive light.

> “This is a masterpiece, or close to it,” he said, “and I’m the only one who cares whether the thing is actually done.” > None of that is true. > Except the masterpiece part.

As I read the details, I can't help but feel that the place is boring but the author is trying to spin it in different, abstract ways, that is, you really need to "get" it.

I'm also spotting details that put it in a negative light for me, as a waste of resources and a monument to hubris, and I don't know if it's my kneejerk reaction to being told what to think, or whether I'm saying that the emperor has no clothes.

The most glaring is the self contradictory,

> This is “democratic art, art for the ages,” is how Heizer describes it.

later followed by

> Because Heizer fears crowds diluting the experience, the current plan is only six tickets a day — about the number of seats on a SpaceX flight — and only on some days during certain times of year, suggesting long wait times.