Artist Mark Dion is featured as part of the New York Times’ “Show Us Your Wall” series, taking the newspaper on a tour of his Upper Manhattan home and studio, which is filled with antiques, oddities and ephemera the artist has collected over the years, and which makes up a portion of his practice.  “Every weekend, I’m at the flea market,” he says. “Pretty much every day, I stop into thrift shops and antique stores and Goodwills. It’s a long battle to acquire the materials that have the right kind of patina.”
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