Art
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CRIME SCENES British photographer Tom Hunter stages and photographs elaborate tableaux based on crime reports from his local newspaper, the Hackney Gazette.The works on view in the exhibit “Living in Hell and Other Stories,” which opened Thursday, recall the paintings of Gauguin, Le Nain Brothers, and other artists. Mr. Hunter discusses his work at the gallery this weekend (Friday, 6:30 p.m.). Exhibit: Through Saturday, March 25, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Yancey Richardson Gallery, 535 W. 22nd St., between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, 646-230-9610, free.
BOTANICAL BEAUTY Garden photographs by Herbert Hoover are on display at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Mr. Hoover, who is based in New York, creates images of classical botanical subjects by using historical alternative photographic processes. His pictures are shot with macro-lensed cameras and lensless pinhole cameras, then printed using a variety of historical processes. Through Sunday, April 2, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Steinhardt Conservatory Gallery, 900 Washington Ave., near Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, 718-623-7200, $5 general, $3 seniors and students (Tuesdays: free for all; Fridays: free for seniors, members, and children under 16).
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