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A guide to the artist Ruth Asawa's life and career, from major exhibitions to landmark artworks.

From photographs of friends and collaborators like Merce Cunningham and Brice Marden to works by fellow artists, the house remains very much as it was, a living testament to a figure whose art was commaterial with the physical, cultural, and technological world that surrounded him—his “consciousness immersed,” in the words of critic Leo Steinberg, “in the brain of the city.”

Nevada Union High School’s Don Baggett Theater presents two evenings of live dance performances on Nov. 3 and Nov 4 at 7pm: Fall for Dance

The live performances get underway across the city from the 9th-12th November.

The formally trained performer of Gutter found a freer way to be creative after working with Irish choreographers

Alain Paul's SS24 debut collection, titled "La Première," is inspired by the principles of ballet, which played a key role in his understanding of fashion.

In New York and later in Los Angeles, he challenged notions of what dance is and isn’t with choreography built around stripped-down movement. An obituary by Penelope Green for The New York Times. Rudy Perez, a minimalist choreographer who was a pioneer of postmodern dance, a movement that upended notions of what dance might look…

A different perspective of Southern art is on view at the Georgia Museum of Art.

“We put into a small Port, called the Boohoole, which we afterwards named the Pumpkin-Bay, because of its fertility in bearing of Pumpkins.” —J. Quarles,

Kim Conaty, the Whitney Museum’s curator of prints and drawings, explains what led her to organise a show of Asawa’s drawings rather than the wire sculptures for which she is famed