Natural History

From Carlos Fonseca comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic epic of art, politics, and hidden realities.

Just before the dawn of the new millennium, a curator at a New Jersey museum of natural history receives an unusual invitation from a celebrated fashion designer. She shares the curator's fascination with the hidden forms of the animal kingdom-with camouflage and subterfuge-and she proposes that they collaborate on an exhibition, the form of which itself remains largely obscure, even as they ente...