At Des Moines Art Center (DMAC) a meandering wooden boardwalk and concrete walkways hug a 1.6-acre lagoon to form an installation that doubles as an art piece and point of recreation. Mary Miss’s ...

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 ...

A view of Mary Miss's "Greenwood Pond: Double Site" (1996) (© Judith Eastburn; all images courtesy the Cultural Landscape Foundation) The Des Moines Art Center (DMAC) has been prohibited from ...

In 1996, the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa unveiled pioneering land artist Mary Miss’ Greenwood Pond: Double Site, a series of winding pathways and other structures that allow visitors to explore a ...

The Des Moines Art Center says it will dismantle Mary Miss’s celebrated work because it does not have the money to repair it. By Julia Halperin The American land artist and designer Mary Miss was ...