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Artist Andy Goldsworthy creates Prairie Cairn, 2001 at the Conrad Environmental Research Area, Newton, Iowa and discusses the larger project titled “Three Cairns,” of which this piece is a first step. “Three Cairns” is cross-continental...
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Interim Director M. Jessica Rowe leads a look at the 50th anniversary exhibition of the Des Moines Art Center, “Commitment, Community, and Controversy: The Des Moines Art Center Collections,” on view January 24 – May...
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In 2013 Amy N. Worthen, curator of prints and drawings, delivered a lecture on the history of the Des Moines Art Center from 1948 through 2012.
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In 1998, Cal Lewis (Architect/Principal at Herbert Lewis Kruse Blunck) moderated a panel of experts who analyze the three generations of architectural responses that have gone into making the Des Moines Art Center such a...
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During the Art Center’s 50th anniversary, Eliot Nusbaum, Architecture Editor of Traditional Home Magazine, speaks about the unique achievement of twentieth century architecture, a collaboration by three of the most noteworthy architects of modern times,...
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Summary of the creation of the site-specific artwork “Greenwood Pond: Double Site” featuring the artist Mary Miss, among other key stakeholders involved with the project.
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Beloved Des Moines Art Center Director from 1969-1984 Jim Demetrion, is welcomed back the museum to give a public talk about significant artworks that were added to the collection during his tenure on the occasion...
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