Outside on the museum's immense lawn, the Kansas City Sculpture Park contains the largest collection of monumental bronzes by Henry Moore in the United States. The park also contains works by Auguste Rodin, Alexander Calder, and George Rickey. The park, and the museum itself, is known for Shuttlecocks, a four-part outdoor sculpture of oversize badminton shuttlecocks by Claus Oldenburg.
A new sculpture, a 56 foot stainless steel tree by Roxy Paine called Ferment, is being assembled on the museum's lawn. Roxy spent an early part of his career in residency at the museum. Roxy has 24 tree sculptures in North America and around the world. The trees have trunks and branches, but are leafless.
The museum is recording the installation of Fement in real time, with visual updates available at http://www.nelson-atkins.org/.
