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Carl Andre is credited with changing the history of sculpture.

Now nearly 80, Andre scrounged industrial materials — timber, bricks, squares and ingots of metal — and arranged them in groups on the floor. No pedestals, no joints and no altering the surfaces.

In 1970, the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan gave the young artist a retrospective. The minimalist sculptor's career was going well.

Then, 15 years later, he was accused of murdering his wife.

The case received much attention. Andre was acquitted, but his work subsequently found more acceptance abroad than at home.

Now, the Dia Art Foundation in Beacon, N.Y., has launched a major retrospective of Andre's work, his first major show in the United States in more than 30 years.

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For our latest installment of the occasional feature, Weekend Reads, novelist Alexander Chee tells NPR's Rachel Martin about Maggie Shipstead's book, Astonish Me.

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California-based troubadour Tom Freund sings of skate-boarding kids, impending doom and Happy Days lunch boxes on his new album, Two Moons. NPR's Lynn Neary talks to him about the record.