The Crime of Art presents photographs and reproductions from Kota Ezawa’s exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, and Amherst, in which the artist featured his lightbox renderings of paintings stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
The book also draws connections from that project to other works by Ezawa that contemplate crime. Among them are his animated films The Simpson Verdict (2002) and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (2005), as well as his ongoing drawing series The History of Photography Remix, which includes hand-drawn recreations of historic crime scene photography.
While focusing on a single subject, The Crime of Art brings attention to some of Ezawa’s key projects from the last fifteen years, and coincides with a solo exhibition of his work at SITE Santa Fe in 2017. —the publisher
