In parts of the world, New York artist Barton Benes’s work is routinely rejected for being outrageously grotesque. Not so in Grand Forks, North Dakota. In 1997, Benes helped the art museum there create a reliquary of objects recovered from a devastating flood. Since then, he and curator Laurel Reuter have developed a working relationship that’s proven surprisingly beneficial to both of them. Produced by Amy Farley with Jonathan Mitchell.
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