Ruth Asawa is the latest beneficiary of an increasingly retrospective art world that in recent years has frequently applied the benefit of hindsight to promote overlooked artists from the past worthy ...

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 ...

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 ...

Asawa and her granddaughter Emma Lanier in front of the "Japanese American Internment Memorial" (1990–94), commissioned by the City of San José (© 2025 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc. / Artists Rights Society ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ruth Asawa stands in front of her San Francisco Fountain near Union Square on Jan. 23, 1973. (Art Frisch/S.F. Chronicle) A new ...

In the heart of Silicon Valley’s creative melting pot stands a monument to a time when its diverse citizens weren’t celebrated, but encircled with barbed wire. San Jose’s Japanese-American Internment ...

Undulating in form and almost dreamy in effect, the famous lantern-like sculptures of Ruth Asawa have been recognizable for decades. But Asawa’s life is as rich in detail and twisting in path as any ...

Earlier this month, I stood in front of the redwood doors of Ruth Asawa’s house and realized I loved her — as much as I could love someone I’d never met. The doors led nowhere, standing off their ...

Detail of the rock garden in Ruth Asawa's 'Garden of Remembrance' at UCSF. All photos by Andrew Alden. Stone is more than the peculiar specialty of geologists. All of us have dealt with stone since ...

Liza Kirwin explores an early and important exhibition of Ruth Asawa’s sculptures, held at Ankrum Gallery in 1962. Liza Kirwin Ruth Asawa, Untitled (S.557, Wall-Mounted Tied Wire, Closed Center Twelve ...