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Art in the desert went viral last fall with the debut of a bewitching spear of reflective metal in southern Utah. The so-called monolith, placed in a cleavage of crimson rock miles from the nearest road by an unknown maker, made international headlines and became ubiquitous on Instagram. Hundreds of visitors descended on the site, posting pictures of themselves leaning jocularly against the monolith’s sheer sides or offering a vague tribute to St. Simeon by perching atop its 10-foot summit.
The monolith craze was hardly the first time that social media users have obsessed over a sculpture in the desert. The current golden age of this style of art-making began in earnest in 2017, thanks to a homestead of mirrors in the foothills of California’s San Jacinto Mountains. The sculpture, Doug Aitken’s