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A work of environmental art by Mary Miss has evaded demolition — for now.

Eleanor Flomenhaft, who frequently showed Ms. Lehr’s work at her Manhattan gallery, said that Ms. Lehr took her environmental art seriously, consulting with a biochemist and a marine biologist on some works, and that her enthusiasm was infectious.

Just outside town, you’ll find Tom’s Wall, an astonishing piece of environmental art.

“Lucy’s show was the gateway to visibility, the start of a career for me,” said Mary Miss, a pioneer in environmental art, who used corrugated paper to make an imposing construction of concentric circles that filled an entire room at the Aldrich.

When environmental art exhibitions occur at institutions with funding that undercuts their professed ideals, those exhibitions become a smoke screen for the ethical dissonance of the art world.