Joseph Cornell created evocative shadowbox assemblages that combine found objects and reproductions in mysterious and poetic arrangements. His “Hôtel du Nord (Little Dürer)” is one of a series of small “museum” boxes he made in the late 1940s; he called these “musées des poches,” or pocket museums, in a statement that recalls Duchamp’s portable mini-museum. 🔎 This box features reproductions of works by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, most prominently his "Self-Portrait at Age Thirteen," surrounded by a metal ring with a chain and two portraits of a boar and a griffin adhered to cylindrical blocks. In miniaturizing Dürer’s likeness, Cornell transforms the artist into a kind of collectible foible that he can possess and enshrine, establishing an intensely personal connection between himself and this artistic and intellectual heavyweight. See this pocket museum alongside Duchamp's portable mini-museum in "Modernism in Miniature," on view through Jan. 9.