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Author J. G. Ballard photographed in Shepperton, England, in September 1984. Bryn Colton/Getty ImagesIn February, the Met revealed Ballard’s “The Garden of Time” as the theme for tonight’s red carpet.In the “Garden of Time,” Count Axel and his wife live in a grand villa with a sprawling walled estate. A crystalline meadow of glass-like “time flowers” spring out across the plot, while over the horizon, a whip-yielding angry mob inches closer and closer. Everyday Axel picks the head of a time flower, winding back the hours and reversing the mob’s advancement, until all the…