If you passed through the unlocked gate and rambling garden into Ruth Asawa’s Noe Valley home between 1966 and 2000, the 5-foot-tall Japanese American artist would...
In “Familiar Touch,” Kathleen Chalfant plays a woman whose inner life alternately burns bright and suddenly dims. Her character, Ruth, has an inviting smile and natural...
One of the world’s most important museums has selected a new leader. The Museum of Modern Art announced to its staff on Friday morning that its...
“I’m a product of American Apartheid,” the artist Jack Whitten wrote, a blunt fact that led him to project, in his art, a very different reality,...
Son of a Jazz Man Ricardo Merrill Scofidio was born on April 16, 1935, in New York City to Earle and June Scofidio. His father, a...
A subway car encounter between a button-down Black man, Clay, and a provocative white woman, Lula, ends in violence: The enigmatically named “Dutchman,” a half-hour play-cum-exorcism...
To Save and Project, the Museum of Modern Art’s annual film preservation showcase, will close on Thursday night with a screening of Charlie Chaplin’s “Shoulder Arms.”...