Washington, DC—The National Gallery of Art announces Little Beasts: Art, Wonder, and the Natural World, an exhibition exploring the rich exchange between artists and naturalists at the dawn of European natural history. Thanks to an unprecedented collaboration with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), the National Gallery will display nearly 75 prints, drawings, and paintings alongside some 60 objects from NMNH, marking the first time their collections of art and specimens have been displayed together.

For over four decades, Chakaia Booker has cut, coiled, and contorted tires, transforming industrial waste into abstract sculpture. Gravitating towards found, weathered fragments that convey the histories of their use, she incorporates the visual interest found in their tones, textures, and irregularities, like stains, cracks, and fading of the rubber, into her art.