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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