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, ...

Extreme temperatures and solar radiation make life on Mercury virtually impossible, but there sure are a lot of creatives who are thriving there—in the form of craters, that is. Ever since NASA’s ...

In “Cardinal Canvas,” Adam Golomb spotlights art on and around the University, exploring and reviewing artwork that students may otherwise miss. Editor’s Note: This article is a review and contains ...

In 1946, frustrated by the racism she experienced as she sought to become a teacher, artist Ruth Asawa enrolled at Black Mountain College, a cauldron of creativity that attracted some of the most ...

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 ...

As the artist’s posthumous retrospective opens at SFMOMA, a reporter visits her family home and studio in Noe Valley, the center of her pioneering sculpture practice. Ruth Asawa in the living room of ...

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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: Retrospective (installation view, SFMOMA);' artwork: © 2025 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc., courtesy David Zwirner; backdrop photograph: © 2025 Rondal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A few traces of her time with Cunningham, pioneer of a meticulously abstracted form of dance, remain in the first room of the ...