Artist Mary Miss sues US art centre to block demolition of her Land art environment

“The current leadership of the Des Moines Art Center has offered no alternatives to demolition and has brought the city along on the idea that this misguided and highly unethical action is just a routine business decision,” Charles A. Birnbaum, the president and chief executive of the Cultural Landscape Foundation—an education and advocacy organisation based in Washington, DC—said in a statement.