This publication is the exhibition catalog to The Crude and the Rare. The Crude and the Rare, a group exhibition at The Cooper Union, was curated by Saskia Bos and Steven Lam. The exhibition explores the intersection of materiality and resource extraction in contemporary art. Artists include Marina Abramovic, Terry Adkins & Blanche Bruce, Bik Van der Pol, Ursula Biemann, Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, Mark Dion, Jimmie Durham, Grady Gerbracht, Alfredo Jaar, Sara Jordeno, Robert Kinmont, Jeff Lovett, Lize Mogel, Margaret Morton, Matt Mullican, Sophie Ristelhueber, Austin Shull, Lawrence Weiner, and Gilberto Zorio. And the catalog features an interview between Alfredo Jaar and Eva Diaz.