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Capsule Art Reviews: “Bjørn Båsen: Tainted Tales,” “California Cool,” “Heimir Björgúlfsson: The Classical,” “Tony Smith: Drawings”

“Bjørn Båsen: Tainted Tales” Bjørn Båsen’s “Tainted Tales” at Anya Tish Gallery presents surreal paintings of antique china objects so odd and distorted, they look like a 19th-century housewife’s laudanum-fueled daydream. And speaking of laudanum, Lewis Carroll is another influence here. In Taffel I (Wonderland) (2011), blue and white, delftware-like…

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