ARTISTS
2025
With over 100 works by the father of Mexican photography, this exhibition illustrates how working with others was central to 脕lvarez Bravo鈥檚 creative process.
The Des Moines Art Center announced the appointment of Jonathan deLima as Director of Installations.
On 14 January, pioneering land artist Mary Miss and the Des Moines Art Center (DMAC) settled their ten-month legal battle聽over the demolition of Miss鈥檚 outdoor installation.
The Des Moines Art Center has reached an agreement with noted Land artist Mary Miss that will allow it to demolish her groundbreaking Greenwood Pond: Double Site, 1989鈥�96, a massive outdoor installation that the museum commissioned from her and then allowed to fall into disrepair
The artist Mary Miss agreed to the settlement, ending a yearlong battle to save her work. The museum said her piece, which it had commissioned, had become a safety hazard.
2024
After 12 years of photographing queer youth in New York鈥檚 Hell鈥檚 Kitchen neighborhood, photographer Samantha Box came to the realization around 2018 that this sort of documentation was not work that appealed to her any longer.
The experience of being Black in America transcends the addiction, police brutality, lynchings, loss of family, and misogynoir that the artist depicts.
Critics say that a stalemate over the fate of a piece of Land art in Iowa demonstrates that the聽terms of the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 are far too narrow.
His works currently on view at the Des Moines Art Center engage with the complexities of what it means to be Black in America from the perspective of an Iowa native.
Pioneering land artist Mary Miss yesterday filed a lawsuit against the Des Moines Art Center which has made plans to demolish Miss鈥檚 outdoor installation Greenwood Pond: Double Site (1996).
The Des Moines Art Center cited the 鈥渆phemeral鈥� nature of artist Mary Miss鈥檚 original materials in its decision to destroy the work.
Land artist Mary Miss has filed suit against the Des Moines Art Center to stop the institution from聽tearing down her聽Greenwood Pond: Double Site, 1989鈥�96, an outdoor installation commissioned by the museum for its permanent collection in 1994.
Mary Miss鈥檚 lawsuit claims that the planned demolition of her work violates the Visual Artists Rights Act, which empowers artists to save their work from destruction.
The artist Mary Miss has filed a lawsuit in federal court to prevent the demolition of her outdoor installation at the Des Moines Art Center (DMAC), which the museum commissioned, but now claims is unsalvageable after years of decay.
The Des Moines Art Center in Iowa plans to dismantle a 1994 installation by artist Mary Miss.