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“So I say freeze the museum’s front rooms as a time capsule and open up the laboratories and storerooms to reveal art and science as the dynamic processes that they are.” [Mark Dion 199…

Natural substances mix with human intervention in Mark Dion’s exhibition at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery.

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Since the mid 1980s, Mark Dion has created sculptures and installations that serve as critiques of institutional power structures, questioning notion (...)

Image above: ©Mark Dion, The Library for the Birds of New York (detail), 2016, steel, wood, books and birds, 138 x 240 inches; 350.5 x 609.6 cm / Courtesy of the artist and TanyaBonakdarGallery, New York, Photo: Genevieve Hanson Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

Artists on Artists: Nell McClister, former BOMB Magazine Senior Editor, reviews Mark Dion’s 12-year restrospective which was held in 2003 at the Aldrich…

Mark Dion - Exhibition at In Situ, Paris, 2010

What does a polar bear on the heater and a crocodile on the ceiling? For a cup of tea in artist Mark Dion’s cabinet of wonders in New York.