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Iowa Museum Plans to Tear Down Acclaimed Land Art Installation

Smithsonian Magazine

The Cultural Landscape Foundation, an advocacy organization, disagrees.

When the museum commissioned Greenwood Pond, it 鈥減ledged to 鈥榬easonably protect and maintain鈥 the work,鈥 says Charles Birnbaum, the foundation鈥檚 president and chief executive, to the s Claire Voon. The 鈥減lan to tear down this widely hailed work is not only unreasonable, it undermines the Art Center鈥檚 fundamental role as a responsible steward of our shared cultural legacy.鈥