Ruth Asawa Arrives in New York with a Monumental Retrospective

One of the most iconic figures of the mid-20th century, trailblazing Japanese-American artist Ruth Asawa led a prolific life of art-making, advocacy, and civic engagement. Over a decade after her passing, the last year has ushered in a momentous wave of exhibitions...

Kaari Upson’s Haunted Dollhouse

HUMLEBAEK, Denmark — Who owns a memory? What is a memory? And do your memories always belong to you? These questions hover in the air of Dollhouse, a retrospective of American artist Kaari Upson at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark, the first of its kind following...

Armed with Scraps, Lydia Ricci Builds a World of Messy Miniatures

For Lydia Ricci, a broken pencil, outdated forms, long-ago paid bills, and tattered bits of fabric are prime materials for her elaborate, small-scale worlds. The artist credits her parents’ obsession with collecting as the beginning of what’s grown into a...

A Tandem Dance of the Seen and Imagined

French poet Comte de Lautréamont’s famous description, “beautiful as a chance encounter on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella,” came to mind when I encountered the exhibition Abigail Dudley and Elise Siegel: Painting and Sculpture, at Steven Harvey...

Ant Hamlyn’s Vibrant, Smushed Still Lifes Preserve the Impermanent

Known for his squishy flowers and foliage made of polyurethane-coated fabrics, often encased-slash-smushed behind panels of clear acrylic, Ant Hamlyn has a sense of humor when it comes to art history. Nodding to genres in Western art like vanitas still-life paintings,...