Ruth Asawa (second from left) with visitors to her exhibition Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective View, San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMOMA), 1973. Photo by Laurence Cuneo Even without the excellent ...

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 ...

Renowned Bay Area artist’s career retrospective at SFMOMA includes more than 300 items covering a dozen galleries.

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 ...

In 1973, during the opening of her first San Francisco Museum of Modern Art retrospective, Ruth Asawa held what she called a ...

Retrospective” that overwhelmed me as an admirer of the San Francisco artist. Turning the corner in the fourth-floor galleries, I entered a space designed to evoke the living room of Asawa’s Noe ...

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's ongoing Free First Thursdays program (the first Thursday of each month) creates a great opportunity to check out one of largest exhibits the museum has ever ...

the center of her pioneering sculpture practice. A major retrospective at SFMOMA explores Asawa’s ‘continuous form within form’, her tactile and social approach to artmaking and her deep ties to her ...

facilitated by Bay Area artists from the Ruth’s Table community who share Asawa’s belief in the power of art making to build connection. All ages welcome! This event will also feature the museum’s ...

Retrospective” goes next level when it does more than introduce visitors to Asawa and her artwork by inviting them into Asawa’s home.