{"id":5140,"date":"2016-03-26T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=5140"},"modified":"2025-02-11T15:36:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T20:36:39","slug":"mark-dion-at-tanya-bonakdar-gallery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/26\/mark-dion-at-tanya-bonakdar-gallery-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Dion Installation at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Dion\u2019s latest show is for the birds, which is to say that the centerpiece, a huge cage housing a selection of books related to birds and their predators along with several zebra finch and canaries, is intended as a gift to our feathered friends. The birds seem to be more concerned about nest building and communicating with each other than in reading, leaving the literature to humans and reinforcing Dion\u2019s point that it\u2019s always about us. (At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tanyabonakdargallery.com\/exhibitions\/mark-dion-the-library-for-the-birds-of-new-york-and-other-marvels\" target=\"_blank\">Tanya Bonakdar Gallery<\/a> through April 16<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5141\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5141\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/26\/mark-dion-at-tanya-bonakdar-gallery-2\/mark_dion\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5141\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5141\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mark_dion-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Dion, The Library for the Birds of New York, steel, wood, books and birds, 138 x 240 inches, 2016.\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mark_dion-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mark_dion-1200x1084.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Dion, The Library for the Birds of New York, steel, wood, books and birds, 138 x 240 inches, 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Dion\u2019s latest show is for the birds, which is to say that the centerpiece, a huge cage housing a selection of books related to birds and their predators along with several zebra finch and canaries, is intended as a gift to our feathered friends. The birds seem to be more concerned about nest building &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/26\/mark-dion-at-tanya-bonakdar-gallery-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mark Dion Installation at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[8,147,18,2619,2591,117,571,9,2519,13,432,38,5720,937,1339,12,1159,16],"class_list":["post-5140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-art","tag-art-tour","tag-artist","tag-birds","tag-books","tag-chelsea","tag-chelsea-tour","tag-contemporary","tag-environment","tag-gallery","tag-gallery-tour","tag-installation","tag-library-for-the-birds-of-new-york","tag-mark-dion","tag-nature","tag-new-york","tag-tanya-bonakdar","tag-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-1kU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11615,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5140\/revisions\/11615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}