{"id":251677,"date":"2026-01-25T23:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T23:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/251677\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T23:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T23:16:09","slug":"wonder-and-awe-the-art-of-ruth-asawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/251677\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Wonder and awe&#8221;: The art of Ruth Asawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                Artist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) made a name for herself as a sculptor in the San Francisco Bay Area, creating works using a wide range of media, employing a resourcefulness that stemmed from her early years on a farm in Southern California \u2013 and in a detention camp for Japanese Americans during World War II. She&#8217;s now the subject of a retrospective on view at New York&#8217;s Museum of Modern Art. Faith Salie reports.\n                      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) made a name for herself as a sculptor in the San Francisco Bay Area,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-251677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}