A Monumental Cabinet of Curiosities

Go behind the scenes to watch the evolution of artist Mark Dion's installation, "Universal Collection," at Vassar College. Dion is renowned for his “cabinets of curiosities” that incorporate found objects from richly diverse sources. During a semester as an artist-in-residence at Vassar, Dion co-taught a course and worked with students to create such a cabinet with objects curated from various collections at Vassar. The result is the site-specific installation "Universal Collection: A Mark Dion Project."