The artist Mary Miss is suing the Des Moines Art Center (DMAC) to block the demolition of her Land art environment Greenwood Pond: Double Site (1996), which the art centre commissioned.

On 14 January, pioneering land artist Mary Miss and the Des Moines Art Center (DMAC) settled their ten-month legal battle over the demolition of Miss’s outdoor installation. The Des Moines Art Center ...

Mary Miss’s Greenwood Pond: Double Site opened in 1996 and has since camouflaged itself in the natural surroundings of Greenwood Park. The land art installation is now slated to be torn down .

Nearly three decades later, the art installation will be removed from the park in 2024 due to what Art Center leaders say is the threat it poses to public safety and the high price involved in ...

A temporary restraining order against the Des Moines Art Center after artist Mary Miss sued to block the dismantling of her outdoor work. Benjamin Sutton. Public art news. 14 January 2025 ...

The art center invited Miss, an internationally known land artist, in the 1980s to propose a permanent work and she suggested they overhaul a much-loved but dilapidated pond down a hill from the ...

A work of environmental art by Mary Miss has evaded demolition — for now. A judge in the U.S. District Court in Des Moines on Friday granted her request for a preliminary injunction that would ...

Artist Mary Miss Sues to Stop Des Moines Art Center From Demolishing Her Work Museum officials worry the installation is a public safety issue. Mary Miss, Greenwood Pond: Double Site , Des Moines.

There’s a storm roiling the Midwest, but there’s a Mary, not a Dorothy, at the center—Mary Miss, one of the pioneers of land art, a genre that emerged in the 1960s and ’70s. On Jan. 17 the ...

New York-based artist Mary Miss has filed a legal complaint against the Des Moines Art Center (DMAC) in Iowa, which announced plans to begin demolishing her land art installation “Greenwood Pond ...