Ruth, the bold middle child, was sure, at 10 years old, that she wanted to be an artist. She took the wires for bunching vegetables and twisted them into jewelry, she won art contests at school, she ...

Engineers will begin reinstalling Santa Rosa’s cherished fountain, designed by the late acclaimed San Francisco sculptor — Ruth Asawa — likely, in the spring. The fountain, originally installed in ...

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 Detroit patron and philanthropist is parting with major works by Joan Mitchell, Kenneth Noland, George Rickey and Harry Bertoia to fund Lumana, an arts hub opening in Little Village in 2027.

Consider it a lesson in patience. It has now been nearly four decades since artist Ruth Asawa paid her first visit to Santa Rosa’s Old Courthouse Square to observe that things had gone very wrong, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

“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 ...