Books
Photographers Document the Mutilation of Redwood Trees by Poachers
For Live Burls: Poaching the Redwoods, photographers Kirk Crippens and Gretchen LeMaistre documented the rampant theft of redwood burls in California.
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Books
Glowing Photographs of East and West Divided by the Iron Curtain
East/West features Harry Gruyaert's photographs of Moscow, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas in the 1980s, each saturated with Kodachrome colors.
Art
A Trio of Political Photographs Rendered in Lint
History is never objective and our relationship to the narrative is often deeply personal.
Art
The Surprising Eloquence of Mass-Produced Materials
Jessica Vaughn's show of restrained conceptual works subtly evokes the experiential dimension of mass-produced objects.
Art
Measuring the Worth of Renaissance Art in Cows
Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art uses the cost of a cow to consider the worth of 16th-century objects.
Art
Toward an Invisible Architecture
A pioneer of electronic sculptural art, Juan Downey made a splash in 1960s and '70s New York when he rigorously critiqued Eurocentric views of Latin American identity.
Music
Genuine Alternatives: The War on Drugs, Fever Ray, Julien Baker, Moses Sumney
Four new albums go from a bland, booming pastiche of rock noises to questioning notions of coupledom and the possibility of love.
Art
The Gritty Poetry of Elizabeth Murray’s Paintings
Murray was having fun while making art, which is practically a sin, even now.
Art
Mark Bradford's Gettysburg Address
Bradford's installation at the Hirshhorn Museum takes as its subject the ways we think, and ultimately don't think, about history.
Art
Architectonic Collage in Two and Three Dimensions
Sharon Lawless’s visual dynamics are so vigorous you can almost hear them rattle, bang, churn and chug.
Art
An Artist’s Light-Filled Tribute to J.M.W. Turner
In Ellen Harvey’s Nostalgia, the spiritual and the secular converge into a beatific, nature-based sublime.
Books
In New Photo Books, a Strong Sense of Place
Three new photography books explore a sweep of places and events from Cuba to the studio floor.