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Cabinet: a wondrous group show at Espacio Gallery curated by Jenny Timmer
By James Brewer
An upturned apple tree gave a new twist in a London art exhibition to the concept of “cabinet of curiosities,” which began as a 16th century fancy of aristocrats and merchants. Such cabinet collections, large and small, originated during the Italian Renaissance as a means of housing esoteric objects from foreign lands. From the 18th century the collections were of more mundane objects and of...