The J. Paul Getty Trust commissioned Robert Irwin’s Central Garden as a work of art, which Irwin himself described as “a sculpture in the form of a garden aspiring to be art.”
Here’s the link about The Garden. This is just a promotional pitch from the Getty’s own website and doesn’t have any of the flavor of the actual drama of the garden’s concept and construction.
The building of the museum and the garden was the longest running soap opera in Hollywood. These men, architect Richard Meier and artist Robert Irwin, in different times, would have killed each other in a duel. Of this there is no one with a shred of doubt.