Anna Altman: An-My Lê Photographs the Coast Guard: The New Yorker Last month, the artist An-My Lê installed fifty-two photographs in the Coast Guard's brand-new headquarters, in Washington, D.C. For federal construction projects, the General Services Administration allots half a per cent of the budget to art, so, three years ago, the G.S.A."s Art in Architecture Program awarded two million dollars in commissions to three artists. One was Lê, who won a MacArthur fellowship in 2012. She has since travelled widely to take photographs of the Coast Guard's activities - search and rescue, counter-piracy, fishery patrol. . . .