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: ...

But the site's designer, well-known New York landscape artist Mary Miss, sued to stop the removal, saying that under her original contract the installation could not be dismantled without her consent.

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. By Julia Halperin A ...