The long-running dispute over the fate of the artist Mary Miss’s Land art environment in Des Moines, Iowa, has been resolved after the artist and the Des Moines Art Center (DMAC) reached a ...

January 2024 photo of New York artist Mary Miss in her studio in Tribeca, New York. Miss' art installation, Greenwood Pond: Double Site at the Des Moines Art Center, is under threat of demolition.

The Des Moines Art Center in Iowa has reached a settlement with Mary Miss more than nine months after the groundbreaking land artist filed a lawsuit to stop the institution from demolishing an ...

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 ...

But the site's designer, well-known New York landscape artist Mary Miss, sued to stop the removal, saying that under her original contract the installation could not be dismantled without her consent.

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, Greenwood Pond: Double Site. The art center will remove ...

"Greenwood Pond: Double Site" by Mary Miss is pictured in Des Moines in 1996. In 2024, the Art Center, which owns the site, announced plans to remove it, saying the cost to rehabilitate the ...