Donor-Advised Funds Support KQED by using your donor-advised fund to make a charitable gift. Is there any artist as locally beloved as Ruth Asawa? For all of Wayne Thiebaud’s vertiginous streets and ...

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 ...

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s vast new exhibit, “Ruth Asawa: Retrospective” certainly inspires superlatives. More than 300 objects, spanning more than five decades, fill a dozen ...

How’s this for an artist’s CV? Spent childhood working on family farm. Spent time in prison camp. Attended avant-garde art school. Learned to make wire baskets, incorporating looped wire ...

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 ...

Photo courtesy of Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc. A retrospective must encapsulate the full scope of an artist’s achievements in one space—an exhaustive checklist is not enough. So what happens when ...

The first major posthumous survey of the Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) opens this month at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art before travelling to the Museum of Modern Art in ...