At the time of this article's writing, the Des Moines Arts Festival sits at seventh on USA Today's leaderboard in voting.

The Des Moines Art Center and Mary Miss, who created an installation at Greenwood Park that the adjacent museum owns and wants to remove, are nearing a settlement, according to court documents.

COURT DOCUMENTS SHOW THE DES MOINES ART CENTER AND ARTIST MARY MISS REACHED A DEAL TO REMOVE THE GREENWOOD PARK BOARDWALK. MISS FILED A LAWSUIT LAST SPRING WHEN THE ART CENTER TRIED TO REMOVE THE ...

A nearly year-long legal battle between the Des Moines Art Center and New York-based artist Mary Miss has ended in a $900,000 settlement and sparked a public art advocacy fund. A nearly year-long ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. DES MOINES — A nationally known outdoor artwork will be removed from a park pond in Des Moines ...

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 ...

The installation, which opened in 1996 and includes multiple walkways, pavilions and trellises, is built around and into a pond at Greenwood Park, just south of the Des Moines Art Center.

Miss' art installation, Greenwood Pond: Double Site at the Des Moines Art Center, is under threat of demolition. Courtesy of Cultural Landscape Foundation/copyright 2024 Lila Barth. DES MOINES, Iowa ...