The American artist Mark Dion has developed a unique strain of ecological art, playing the role
of amateur naturalist with sculptural installations that riff on architectural “follies,” popularized
in eighteenth-century Britain, whose sole purpose is to tease the imagination. The reed-clad
“Hunting Blind (The Dandy Rococo)” overlooks a pond at Storm King, in Cornwall, New York,
where a selection of Dion’s follies grace the five-hundred-acre outdoor museum through Nov. 11.
PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID HILLIARD
GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
AUGUST 14 – 20, 2019
