A photograph of the artist Ruth Asawa and four of her six children, taken at her home by Imogen Cunningham in 1957, shows a scene of working life. In the foreground are Asawa’s hanging multilobed ...
Ruth Asawa rarely missed a chance to loop others into her work. At Black Mountain College, she would wake before dawn to rouse Josef Albers, the Bauhaus color theorist, so that they could watch the ...
The international show is curated by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and New York's Museum of Modern Art. Ruth Asawa and her granddaughter Emma Lanier with Japanese American Internment Memorial ...
As far as artist Ruth Asawa’s daughter Aiko Cuneo knows, her mother didn’t know conceptual artist and sculptor David Ireland, even though they overlapped in San Francisco for several decades. Asawa, ...
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has received a $1.5 million grant from Google.org — the largest corporate grant in the institution’s history for a single exhibition — in support of “Ruth Asawa: ...
Ruth Asawa (second from left) with visitors to her exhibition Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective View, San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMOMA), 1973. Photo by Laurence Cuneo Even without the excellent ...
Detail of work by Ruth Asawa in Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective (all photos Lisa Yin Zhang/Hyperallergic) I’ve been thinking about Ruth Asawa’s shadows. They’re surprising, not shaped how you might expect ...
In 1973, during the opening of her first San Francisco Museum of Modern Art retrospective, Ruth Asawa held what she called a "dough-in," a communal experience that was part baking, part art, and part ...
The delicate, woven wire sculptures of Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) are having a major moment at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, where the late Bay Area artist’s first posthumous ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist Ruth Asawa's San Francisco Fountain, in the city's Union Square, is an endless treasure trove of Bay Area knowledge. "Some ...
Ruth Asawa with son Paul next to an artwork in their Saturn Street home on November 22, 1960 (artwork © 2025 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc. / Artist Rights Society, NY ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A photograph of the artist Ruth Asawa and four of her six children, taken at her home by Imogen Cunningham in 1957, shows a scene ...