I thought I knew Ruth Asawa. I had seen her mesmerizing looped-wire sculptures, sublimely suspended and living dichotomies of heft and fragility, darkness and light. I knew the Cliffs Notes of her ...

Asawa is the latest artist to lend their name to a planetary feature via the IAU naming committee. Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images My readers are coming from an ...

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 ...

The history of American art is getting a rewrite at the David Zwirner gallery on West Twentieth Street, in a transporting show of sculptures by the little-known Ruth Asawa: diaphanous wonders, ...

Artist Ruth Asawa's San Francisco Fountain, in the city's Union Square, is an endless treasure trove of Bay Area knowledge. "Some people refer to it as sort of a Where's Waldo?, because there are so ...

Asawa's parents were truck farmers in Norwalk, California, supplying vegetables to the farmers market in Los Angeles. Her father, Umakichi Asawa, arrived in the United States from Japan at 19; her ...

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

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 ...

“We’ve done many projects together. There’s really no typical work with my mom. Everything is unique.”Paul Lanier Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2005. Ruth Asawa passed away on ...

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 ...