Michael Heizer: 'I’m a quiet man. I just make art'

The creator of the magisterial City is back in New York with a new exhibition. He tells Jason Farago how he went about making his latest giant rock worksTo meet Michael Heizer, the sculptor and pioneer of Land Art, usually entails an arduous trek through the desert. I only have to take the subway. Heizer has been creating large-scale artworks in Garden Valley, Nevada out of stone, earth – and one in particular, the magisterial City, has occupied him for decades. Yet this May, for the first tim