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The Ghosts of Our Future Climate at Storm King

Avatar photo by Louis Bury July 29, 2018July 27, 2018

A group exhibition featuring almost 20 artists suggests directions for visual art in response to climate change.

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The Haphazard and Playful Worlds of Mark Dion

by Heather Kapplow December 11, 2017December 11, 2017

In this retrospective there’s no question about Dion’s aesthetic eye and his capacity for the subtle, intuitive kind of taxonomy-making that artists engage in.

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The Colonial Legacy of a Globe-Trotting Team of Artists and Scientists

by Claire Voon July 11, 2017July 11, 2017

An exhibition at The Drawing Center explores the controversial history of a group of researchers that recorded the nature around them.

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Body in Mind: Live Performance in Prototype, Under the Radar, and American Realness

by Paul David Young January 29, 2017January 29, 2017

While this year some pieces isolated participants through technology, others relished their theatricality and fed off the physical presence of live performers.

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An Opera Revisits the Grisly Public Dissections of the 18th Century

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 11, 2017January 11, 2017

An anatomical theater and its dissected murderess are the subjects of a bloody opera on the physical nature of evil.

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Mark Dion Reimagines a Pioneering Botanist’s Lab

Avatar photo by Monica Uszerowicz December 23, 2016

The former winter home of Dr. David Fairchild in Miami now houses a permanent installation that Dion extrapolated from the botanist’s life and work.

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Navigating the Recent Wave of Renegade Seafaring in Art

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 1, 2016July 4, 2016

WATER MILL, NY — On the same day the Apollo 11 Lunar Module touched down on the Moon, an art collective in Japan was rowing on a giant white arrow down the rivers between Kyoto and Osaka.

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Cage aux Folios: Mark Dion Makes a Library for Birds

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 21, 2016March 31, 2016

It takes a few minutes for the avian residents of Mark Dion’s “The Library for the Birds of New York” to settle back into their chirping and fluttering after you’ve entered the giant cage and stepped below the strange white oak laden with books.

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Contemporary Artists Create a New Kind of Order at the Barnes Foundation

by Sarah Archer July 28, 2015July 30, 2015

PHILADELPHIA — It’s an illuminating mental exercise to ponder: what if Dr. Albert C. Barnes, the pharmaceutical tycoon and physician who assembled an unmatched collection of Post-Impressionist and early Modern paintings in Philadelphia, was actually an installation artist before his time?

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Peter Zumthor’s Minimalist Museum for Zinc Mining Takes Shape in Norway

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 17, 2015February 18, 2015

Set to open in the summer of 2016, a sleek museum designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor for a Norwegian zinc mine has been over a decade in the making, although parts of the attraction are already in place.

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A Site-Specific Garden by Mark Dion Faces Relocation

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 4, 2014September 5, 2014

While temporarily saved from destruction, the fate of a site-specific work by Mark Dion in Lancaster, England, is in limbo. “The Tasting Garden,” which was created in 1998 in the Storey Gardens and has had a rough few years of theft and decay, may now be relocated entirely.

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Mark Dion’s Penchant for the Past

by Laura C. Mallonee July 15, 2014July 18, 2014

In Richard Brautigan’s 1968 novel In Watermelon Sugar, a girl named Margaret often wanders off to the Forgotten Works, a forbidden area piled with the detritus of past civilizations. Like Margaret, the artist Mark Dion is drawn to old things.

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