DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A nationally known outdoor artwork will be removed from a park pond in Des Moines under a settlement announced Tuesday, ending a legal fight between the New York artist who created the work decades ago and a local art center that argued it couldn’t afford needed repairs to the site. Under the agreement, the Des Moines Art Center will pay $900,000 to artist Mary Miss, who will end her effort to block removal of her work, G…

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A nationally known outdoor artwork will be removed from a park pond in Des Moines under a settlement announced Tuesday, ending a legal fight between the New York artist who created the work decades ago and a local art center t

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Artist, Des Moines Art Center settle over Greenwood boardwalk

The Des Moines Art Center, a contemporary art museum in Iowa, has reached a settlement with artist Mary Miss after a dispute over the destruction of a decaying installation titled Greenwood Pond: Double Site that it commissioned from her in 1996. 
	The settlement, which resulted in the museum paying Miss a sum of $900,000 to move forward with the demolition, comes after a year-long effort by the artist and The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF…

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Des Moines Art Center Reaches $900 K. Settlement with Artist Mary Miss Over Land Art Demolition

A celebrated artwork by the environmental artist Mary Miss will be demolished by the museum that commissioned it. On Tuesday, the Des Moines Art Center reached an agreement with Miss, 80, to dismantle her sprawling outdoor installation, “Greenwood Pond: Double Site,” in exchange for $900,000, ending the lawsuit she filed against the museum last April seeking to save it. The Des Moines Art Center invited Miss in the late 1980s to develop a site-s…

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Des Moines Art Center to Demolish Work and Pay Land Artist $900,000

A nationally known outdoor artwork will be removed from a park pond in Des Moines under a settlement announced Tuesday, ending a legal fight between the New York artist who created the work decades ago and a local art center that argued it couldn't afford needed repairs to the site....

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The artist had sought to force the museum to repair her 1996 outdoor installation, while the institution claimed it could only afford to tear it down

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Mary Miss and Des Moines Art Center settle lawsuit over Land art piece's demolition

Artist Mary Miss and the Des Moines Art Center (DMAC) in Iowa have reached a settlement on a lawsuit regarding the museum’s move to deaccession Miss’s environmental artwork “Greenwood Pond: Double Site” (1989–96) without the artist’s approval after the work deteriorated considerably. The settlement reached this week outlines that DMAC will pay Miss a total of $900,000 in exchange for the artist’s release and dismissal of all claims against the m…

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Land Artist Awarded Nearly $1M in Iowa Museum Settlement

Video still of fenced off section of “Greenwood Pond: Double Site,” April 2024.On Tuesday, the Des Moines Art Center and artist Mary Miss announced a settlement in their legal dispute over the fate of Greenwood Pond: Double Site, a land art installation Miss created for the center. It’s considered a major and pioneering work of American land art, and has been part of Des Moines’ Greenwood Park for decades.  The large-scale installation features …

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Celebrated artwork will be removed from an Iowa park as its creator ends fight to preserve the work

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