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 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.
On December 1, 2023, according to The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), DMAC notified Miss of plans to decouple the art piece from Greenwood Park, a 147-acre public green space that abuts the art museum. This notification followed an earlier announcement from
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