This month, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) received the largest corporate donation it’s ever gotten for a single exhibition.
SFMOMA announced on March 5 that it would host the first major posthumous retrospective of works by artist, activist, and educator Ruth Asawa, who died in 2013, backed by $1.5 million in funding from Google’s philanthropy offshoot, Google.org. The exhibition will open on April 5 with 300 works spanning Asawa’s six-decade career, curated by SFMOMA Chief Curator Janet Bishop and New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Assistant Curator Cara Manes.
“Not only was Asawa an exceptionally talented artist — among the most distinguished sculptors of the 20th century and a major contributor in so many other mediums — but she lived her values in everything she did, modeling the importance of the arts and opening up creative opportunities for others at every turn,” Bishop said in an October press release.
