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AAMD LINES UP WITH HEIZER EARTHWORK
The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) has voiced its support for artist Michael Heizer's battle to protect City, his monumental earthwork in Nevada's Garden Valley, from encroachment by a planned U.S. Department of Energy rail line. The $880-million, 319-mile-long Caliente Corridor rail line would ferry nuclear waste to the controversial Yucca Mountain dump, which is supposed to store 77,000 tons of radioactive waste now held in 39 states. According to a statement adopted by the AAMD at its February 2005 meeting, the rail line would "permanently destroy a visitor's experience of Heizer's isolated sculpture," and also "raises significant environmental concerns for the primitive wilderness areas" near the artwork. Like the artist and the Dia Art Foundation, which helps fund the project, the AAMD is urging the DOE to use an alternate route.
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- bill 2-06-2005 4:14 pm
AAMD LINES UP WITH HEIZER EARTHWORK
The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) has voiced its support for artist Michael Heizer's battle to protect City, his monumental earthwork in Nevada's Garden Valley, from encroachment by a planned U.S. Department of Energy rail line. The $880-million, 319-mile-long Caliente Corridor rail line would ferry nuclear waste to the controversial Yucca Mountain dump, which is supposed to store 77,000 tons of radioactive waste now held in 39 states. According to a statement adopted by the AAMD at its February 2005 meeting, the rail line would "permanently destroy a visitor's experience of Heizer's isolated sculpture," and also "raises significant environmental concerns for the primitive wilderness areas" near the artwork. Like the artist and the Dia Art Foundation, which helps fund the project, the AAMD is urging the DOE to use an alternate route.
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