Since its inception 60 years ago, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum has exhibited outdoor sculpture on its property in the bucolic town of Ridgefield, Conn. But it wasn’t until the Covid era that the garden’s deficiencies became glaring.
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“We saw in the pandemic that people loved and sought out this part of our program,” says executive director Cybele Maylone. “But because we were inundated with visitors, we saw all the problems of our site.” Chief among them: steep grade changes, a lack of accessibility, invasive bamboo, and a grass lawn that easily devolved into a mud field. Some of it was simply not usable, unless “you went out in sneakers and were maybe willing to roll down a hill.”…