A remarkable retrospective shows how Asawa’s art practice emerged from the broken rhythms of daily life, overlapping with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Students put the finishing touches on their Collaborative Class Monument on July 31, 2025. Photo by Jessica Blough. As far as artist Ruth Asawa’s daughter Aiko Cuneo knows, her mother didn’t know ...

The Museum of Modern Art announces a retrospective exhibition, Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective, from October 19, 2025 - February 7, 2026. Featuring some 300 artworks, Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective charts ...

Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) has long been admired for her abstract looped-and-tied-wire sculptures—three-dimensional single- and multi-lobed transparent-mesh structures that playfully flit among art, ...

The compliment "out of this world" has now taken on new meaning when it comes to the beloved Modernist sculptor Ruth Asawa. A crater on Mercury was named after the late artist last month, making her ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Artist Ruth Asawa’s most recognizable works are probably her delicate hanging wire sculptures. But Asawa, who served on numerous art commissions and boards and was involved in arts ...

The late Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa is best known for abstract wire sculptures inspired by curvaceous natural forms. But she also regularly drew the floral bouquets that family members, ...

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 ...