Iowa Museum Plans to Tear Down Acclaimed Land Art Installation

The Cultural Landscape Foundation, an advocacy organization, disagrees.

When the museum commissioned Greenwood Pond, it “pledged to ‘reasonably protect and maintain’ the work,” says Charles Birnbaum, the foundation’s president and chief executive, to the Art Newspaper’s Claire Voon. The “plan to tear down this widely hailed work is not only unreasonable, it undermines the Art Center’s fundamental role as a responsible steward of our shared cultural legacy.”