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Commissioned by American arts patron Scott Mueller, Rowdy Meadow is an innovative sculpture park in Hunting Valley, east of Cleveland, Ohio the very landscape that surrounds Mueller s visionary Czech Cubism-inspired house. Set in a 150-acre property of former apple orchards, steep woodlands, meadows, and ravines, Rowdy Meadow is an exemplary sculpture park, born from Mueller s love of art and nature. The extensive network of trails through forest and meadows unveils an extraordinary assortment of contemporary sculpture currently more than sixty outdoor works by forty-five artists made possible by Mueller s prominent collection, Reed Hilderbrand s landscape architecture, and site-specific commissions. The park boasts a variety of works from major artists such as Elmgreen & Dragset, Andy Goldsworthy, Michael Heizer, Anish Kapoor, Sol LeWitt, Richard Serra, James Turrell, and Ai Weiwei, as well as an underground bunker for an installation by Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe. This publication, the first on the sculpture park, captures the stunning and extensive sculpture-focused collection that makes up Rowdy Meadow, and how the art communicates with and enhances the natural land.

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Reto Thuring is Head of Culture at the Foundation fur Art, Culture, and History in Winterthur, Switzerland. From 2018 until 2023 he was the Beal Family Chair, Department of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Prior, he was Chair of Modern, Contemporary, Decorative Art and Performing Arts, Music, and Film at the Cleveland Museum of Art. William M. Griswold is the director and Sarah S. and Alexander M. Cutler Chair of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Emily Liebert is the Lauren Rich Fine Curator of Contemporary Art of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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