Ruth Asawa’s Astonishing Universe Began at Her Door

Ruth Asawa’s Astonishing Universe Began at Her Door

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 likely have persuaded you to lie down on the kitchen table or living room floor and let her cover your face in plaster. Ethereal …

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Raised in a Civil War, He Makes Games to Bring People Together

Raised in a Civil War, He Makes Games to Bring People Together

Within a modern but nondescript building a few hundred feet from Stockholm’s pretty Riddarfjarden Bay, a frosted glass wall in Josef Fares’s office displays etched characters from It Takes Two, his video game studio’s “Toy Story”-esque cooperative adventure about an adult couple’s broken relationship. Near his desk, in a lighted …

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