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This event is in the past.It took place on February 7, 2026 at The Museum of Modern Art.

Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective 1
Decorative Exhibition
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Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective

Midtown East

Ruth Asawa's wire sculptures hang like delicate lanterns, transforming humble materials into forms that seem to float between abstraction and figuration. This sweeping retrospective brings together roughly 300 works spanning her Black Mountain College roots to her public monuments, revealing an artist who found infinite possibility in repetition and close looking.

Wire sculpture pioneer
Black Mountain legacy
300-work survey
Contemplative forms

Tips

🎨"her painting of the Japanese internment camp her family was sent to in Arkansas was eye-opening"
🪢don't miss the suspended wire sculptures that sparked her fame
⏰plan 90+ minutes, the scale rewards slow looking

The Museum of Modern Art

11 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019, USA

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