Oct 18, 2025
This month, urban centers around the world are hosting a massive public art project helmed by Nōvo Collective. uncommissioned has tapped 54 artists for a global initiative that sees the city as a playground, inviting participants “to slip playful, overlooked, or...
Oct 18, 2025
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...
Oct 17, 2025
An autodidact and polymath, Robert Smithson cemented himself as one of the pre-eminent land artists in his short lifetime. Along with his fellow artist and wife Nancy Holt, Smithson pioneered a new way of working that explored connections to the landscape and place...
Oct 14, 2025
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...
Oct 13, 2025
For Lydia Ricci, a broken pencil, outdated forms, long-ago paid bills, and tattered bits of fabric are prime materials for her elaborate, small-scale worlds.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...
Oct 10, 2025
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...
Oct 10, 2025
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,...
Oct 9, 2025
With a penchant for kaleidoscopic colors and whimsy, Yen Yen Chou renders a dainty, dreamlike environment in which pastel hues and subtle gradients rule. The artist, who lives between Taipei and Brooklyn, is drawn to dualities, particularly the relationships that...
Oct 9, 2025
In Paolo Puck’s imaginary realm of Fliffmellington, surreal characters come to life through elaborate costumes. Often weathered and tumbled-looking, a series of handbags, purses, and helmets glimpse a wonderfully weird world. “I’m in the long process of...
Oct 3, 2025
Alexander Calder’s most widely recognized creation is perhaps the mobile. The lauded artist was a titan of Modernism whose desire to “draw” three-dimensional objects spirited the invention of what went on to become both an art historical achievement and a...
Oct 2, 2025
Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, Berlin-based artist Chiharu Shiota presents a poignant suite of large-scale works in Two Home Countries at Japan Society Gallery. That artist is known for her immersive string installations, inviting us...
Oct 2, 2025
“History is written by the victors,” or so goes the quote often misattributed to Winston Churchill. In other words, those who wield the most power or resources are typically the ones whose stories are represented in textbooks, passed down through...