The Des Moines Art Center, a contemporary art museum in Iowa, has reached a settlement with artist Mary Miss after a dispute over the destruction of a decaying installation titled Greenwood Pond: Double Site that it commissioned from her in 1996.
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The settlement, which resulted in the museum paying Miss a sum of $900,000 to move forward with the demolition, comes after a year-long effort by the artist and The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), a cultural advocacy group in Washington D.C., to pressure the Art Center to raise enough funds to preserve the work…