The pruned seventeenth-century playground of Louis XIV's Versailles, the "theater garden," was a backdrop for fantasy and diversion, a central forum for public art. In this sense it was the historical precedent for nineteenth-century exposition parks and modern high-tech dreamworlds such as Coney Island and Disneyland The Theatergarden Bestiarium documents an extraordinary theater garden created in 1989 by thirteen international artists at the Institute...