Where is Rocky II? The 10-year desert hunt for Ed Ruscha’s missing boulder

At the end of the 1970s, artist Ed Ruscha left an artwork – a fake rock – somewhere in the vast Mojave desert. French artist Pierre Bismuth has spent a decade trying to find it – with the help of a private detective and a film crewAlthough believed to be the largest free-standing boulder in the world, Giant Rock, which stands seven storeys tall in the mountainous southern Mojave desert, attracts few tourists, doesn’t appear in any guidebook and is an absolute nightmare to get to, requiri