Ruth Asawa: Permanent Installation

de Young Museum, Education Tower 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, United States

In 2005, in celebration of the opening of the redesigned de Young Museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, Ruth Asawa donated 15 sculptures to the Fine Arts Museums for a permanent installation. This grouping was personally selected by Asawa as being excellent examples of many of her sculptural forms. In keeping with Asawa's belief that art should […]

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The Whitney’s Collection

Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY, United States

The more than two hundred works on display on the seventh and sixth floors represent a selection of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s collection. Organized in a rough chronological sequence beginning on the seventh floor, the presentation is divided into eleven thematic “chapters.” Each chapter takes its name not from a movement or style […]

Architecture of Life

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, United States

Architecture of Life, the inaugural exhibition in BAMPFA's landmark new building, explores the ways that architecture—as concept, metaphor, and practice—illuminates various aspects of life experience: the nature of the self and psyche, the fundamental structures of reality, and the power of the imagination to reshape our world. Occupying every gallery in the new building, designed […]

Leap Before You Look at the Hammer Museum

Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, United States

Despite its brief existence, BMC became a seminal meeting place for many of the artists, musicians, poets, and thinkers who would become the principal practitioners in their fields.

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Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 – 2016

Hauser Wirth & Schimmel 901 East Third Street, Los Angeles

Los Angeles… On March 13, 2016, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel opened its doors to present ‘Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 – 2016’, the inaugural exhibition at its new complex in the heart of the downtown Los Angeles Arts District. Through nearly 100 works made by 34 artists over the past seventy years, this […]

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Open Ended: Painting and Sculpture Since 1900

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

This presentation of masterworks and experimental pieces from SFMOMA’s collection of painting and sculpture explores themes that have shaped the history of modern art from the early twentieth century to our own time. Organized as a series of chapters, the exhibition focuses on revolutionary ideas, geographical centers, individual artists, and relationships between artists. Together, the […]

The Campaign for Art: Modern and Contemporary

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

This exhibition — one of several highlighting contributions from the museum’s Campaign for Art — introduces the range and quality of these newly committed and gifted works in a multidisciplinary selection that strengthens and deepens SFMOMA’s collection. Asawa's Untitled (S.046a-d) is a rare instance where she created four separate works that are intended to be exhibited together.

Leap Before You Look at the Wexner

Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University 1871 North High Street, Columbus, OH

Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933 – 1957 focuses on how, despite its brief existence, BMC became a seminal meeting place for many of the artists, musicians, poets, and thinkers who would become the principal practitioners in their fields of the postwar period. Figures such as Anni and Josef Albers, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Robert […]

Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction

MoMA 11 West 53 Street, Manhattan, New York, NY, United States

Making Space shines a spotlight on the stunning achievements of women artists between the end of World War II (1945) and the start of the Feminist movement (around 1968). In the postwar era, societal shifts made it possible for larger numbers of women to work professionally as artists, yet their work was often dismissed in […]