{"id":9060,"date":"2025-04-03T03:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T03:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/779747129737576448-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:17:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:17:52","slug":"779747129737576448-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/779747129737576448-2\/","title":{"rendered":"779747129737576448"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<div class=\"npf_row\">\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"3536\" data-orig-width=\"5116\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr\/media\/dc9836889df27f7feae78a090a14578c1191d73c.jpg\" data-orig-height=\"3536\" data-orig-width=\"5116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/a0ce45ad7f2dff8a17a9c4103084ba40\/30b6691622759b7d-5b\/s75x75_c1\/fbcd10c66b7e7bf79e8b73c3a79876e88ac50ea4.jpg 75w, https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/a0ce45ad7f2dff8a17a9c4103084ba40\/30b6691622759b7d-5b\/s100x200\/3de373e49d1656764bd2399870e046963c2c3bf1.jpg 100w, https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/a0ce45ad7f2dff8a17a9c4103084ba40\/30b6691622759b7d-5b\/s250x400\/43722f6e12ae468d83e06abc9ccaaca874102343.jpg 250w, https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/a0ce45ad7f2dff8a17a9c4103084ba40\/30b6691622759b7d-5b\/s400x600\/da89b493d3a6594183e5a1a9edc190adb05cd8b3.jpg 400w, https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/a0ce45ad7f2dff8a17a9c4103084ba40\/30b6691622759b7d-5b\/s500x750\/2f62c6d5f10cdbac63eb5fe464a42f993cd6ec15.jpg 500w, https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/a0ce45ad7f2dff8a17a9c4103084ba40\/30b6691622759b7d-5b\/s540x810\/5db9708a356644916d9da7959745e2cb55931c9c.jpg 540w, https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/a0ce45ad7f2dff8a17a9c4103084ba40\/30b6691622759b7d-5b\/s640x960\/dc9836889df27f7feae78a090a14578c1191d73c.jpg 640w, https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/a0ce45ad7f2dff8a17a9c4103084ba40\/30b6691622759b7d-5b\/s1280x1920\/b8c073a215e97d8a8abf9ef7e5d073dd7825fb89.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/a0ce45ad7f2dff8a17a9c4103084ba40\/30b6691622759b7d-5b\/s2048x3072\/b66257a23fa881b120ec65ec3cc2ff70b6baf406.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cEvery good work should have at least ten meanings.\u201d \u2014 Walter De Maria<\/p>\n<p><i>The Broken Kilometer <\/i>(1979), located at 393 West Broadway in New York City, is composed of 500 highly polished, round, solid brass rods, each measuring two meters in length and five centimeters (two inches) in diameter. The 500 rods are placed in five parallel rows of 100 rods each. The sculpture weighs 18 \u00be tons and would measure 3,280 feet if all the elements were laid end-to-end. Each rod is placed such that the spaces between the rods increase by 5mm with each consecutive space, from front to back; the first two rods of each row are placed 80mm apart, the last two rods are placed 580 mm apart. Stadium lights illuminate the work\u2019s full area of 45 by 125 feet.<\/p>\n<p>This work is the companion piece to De Maria\u2019s 1977 <i>Vertical Earth Kilometer<\/i> at Kassel, Germany. In that permanently installed earth sculpture, a brass rod of the same diameter, total weight and total length has been inserted 1,000 meters into the ground.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Broken Kilometer<\/i> has been on long-term view to the public since 1979. This work was commissioned and is maintained by Dia Art Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Walter De Maria<br \/>The Broken Kilometer<br \/>1979<br \/>Brass<br \/>At 393 West Broadway, New York<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEvery good work should have at least ten meanings.\u201d \u2014 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12749],"tags":[582,655,2096,9038,123,11662],"class_list":["post-9060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tumblr","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-conceptual-art","tag-metal-sculpture","tag-sculpture","tag-walter-de-maria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>779747129737576448 - Do Not Destroy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/779747129737576448-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"779747129737576448 - 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