In the spiritual world, oaks are symbols of wisdom and strength. It was the sacred tree of Zeus. The Pechanga people of the Western United States have a 1,000 great oak on their reservation, a tree ...

A docent in the Yale Center for British Art tapped Lee Pelton on the shoulder and handed him a box of tissues. The president of The Boston Foundation had been moved to tears observing an exhibit ...

Gnarled, heavy branches snake into a bleached-out sky in Steve McQueen’s “Lynching Tree,” a large lightbox-mounted photograph whose title leaves little to the imagination. Whatever it might, you can ...

British artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen forced us to look at the atrocities of slavery in his 2013 film, “12 Years a Slave.” An offshoot of that undertaking is “Lynching Tree,” a photograph of a ...

The creative process begins as soon as Freeman Vines touches the wood. "Nobody believes me. The wood actually lives. Each wood has an inner spirit, and if you listen you will find some magnificent ...