How These Gardens Do Grow.

This article reports that the sculpture garden has become the sine qua non of American art museums' building programs. Given the gigantic scale of today's sculpture and the durable materials from which it is wrought, placing it outdoors seems a sensible choice. The largest collection of sculptor Henry Moores' monumental bronzes outside of England is in Kansas City, Missouri, at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art's sculpture park. An expanded sculpture garden is part of the $425 million makeover at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the New Orleans Museum of Art's moss-laden sculpture garden boasts works by Jacques Lipchitz and Arnoldo Pomodoro.