Sam Durant’s controversial Scaffold to be dismantled and burned

After a mediation held at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis on Wednesday, an agreement has been reached that will see Sam Durants Scaffold sculpture dismantled and burned, in a ceremony overseen by Dakota elders. The work, which references US state-sanctioned hangings, raised an outcry among Native American groups when it was installed in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden because of its recreation of a historic gallows used in 1862 to hang 38 Dakota men executed by the US Army in Mankato, Min