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

A good student and a profoundly intuitive practitioner, Asawa obsessively explored the paths of seeing through nature, craft, history, material matters (such as paper folding), and drawing styles, including the Greek meander (that is, the classical winding geometric pattern that can continue indefinitely), and performance and dance. As a result, she left behind a highly styled and tightly controlled body of work that soundly situates itself between compulsively wrought craft and delicately conceived fine art.

Ancient Greek mathematicians, such as Euclid, thought of area as something geometric, not algebraic, a perspective that has inspired research programs across centuries.

This is a story about geometry, algebra and many different dimensions, best read with construction paper, scissors and tape on hand.

While scissors congruence accurately captures the modern algebraic notion of 2D area, things get more complicated in higher dimensions. Maxine Calle, CC BY-NDIn math class, you probably learned how to compute the area of lots of different shapes by memorizing algebraic formulas. Remember “base x height” for rectangles and “½ base x height” for triangles? Or “𝜋 x radius²” for circles? But if you were in math class in ancient Greece, you might have learned something very different. Ancient Greek m