A retrospective of the California artist’s work emphasizes her sense that art should not be frozen in time in a gallery but belongs in the world, at home and in public. Even the simplest doorway can ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ruth Asawa stands in front of her San Francisco Fountain near Union Square on Jan. 23, 1973. (Art Frisch/S.F. Chronicle) A new ...

For those who visited the Ruth Asawa retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and left awestruck, wishing they could partake in the artist’s work more frequently, I have good news. On ...

Asawa believed that her efforts at home and in the neighborhood were as important as the pieces by her displayed in highfalutin museums. “My need to be an artist does not exceed my desire to be a ...

Amy Hau discusses some books by Marilyn Chase, Karin Higa, and Edmund de Waal that have guided her work as a curator.

On a sunny day south of the Chase Center, three colorful landscape paintings on the sprawling second floor of Minnesota Street Project welcome visitors to “Dialogues 2026,” a collaboration with the ...

Duffy, the Welsh singer-songwriter who had a massive hit with “Mercy” in 2008 and then retreated from the limelight, is set to tell her story in a new Disney+ documentary. The announcement was made at ...

When BTS debuted in 2013, no one expected much from the scrappy septet. They were a young group from a then-no-name music company that had yet to produce a superstar. If the hip-hop-heavy group was ...

Chili’s is living up to its spicy reputation by throwing scorching-hot shade at another casual dining chain. On March 20, Chili’s responded to an X post claiming that Ruth’s Chris Steak House had a ...

The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist seeks the middle ground on a polarizing technology—and ends up letting tech execs like Sam Altman off the hook. It’s not easy to get an interview with Sam ...