"Stare. It is the only way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long." So noted photographer Walker Evans in a famous call for uncompromising observation. That tireless commitment is what has made Evans the one 20th-century photographer "who remains the most relevant today, and the one with the widest influence," notes International Center of Photography Creative Director David Campany in the forthcoming book "Walker Evans: Now and Then." The landmark book brings together a broad overview of Evans' work, revealing a creator who not only documented the world around him, but also invited viewers to question the nature of photography and the perception of reality itself.

  Continuing: Midsummer at McBride/Dillman Taking its title from the spirit of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, this show brings together artists whose work moves between reality and imagination, intimacy and myth, instability and transformation: thestrange, fertile energy of the season itself: a brief period when the world feels suspended between what is and what might be. Across painting and sculpture, the artists engage states of flux, ambiguity, and...