Art

Ruth loved Diebenkorn’s Ocean Park series, many 60’s LA California artists, like Wallace Berman, George Herms, and Dennis Hopper, along with modern artists like Edward Hopper, John Singer-Sargent, Nikki de Saint Phalle, Wassily Kandinsky, David Hockney, Lucian Freud, the Russian Constructivists like Malevich and Alexander Rodchenko, Cycladic sculpture, Henry Moore, and Alberto Giacometti. And many of the impressionists like Matisse and Picasso.

Music

Leonard Cohen, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Chet Baker, YoYo Ma, Bob Dylan, Ella Fitzgerald, Maria Callas, Jessye Norman, Renee Fleming, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Satie, Leonard Bernstein, Andre Previn, Zubin Mehta and Yiddish music she grew up listening to in the Bronx.

Writers

Dostoevsky, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joan Didion, David Remnick, Isaak Babel, and Amos Oz to name but a FEW. She dedicated her Yiddishkeit annual program, “Philosophers, Fiddlers and Fools” to André Schwarz-Bart, who wrote the incredible novel, The Last of the Just.

Media

The New York Times, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, NPR, Fareed Zakaria, Lawrence O’Donnell and CNN.

Architects

Frank Gehry, Frank Lloyd Wright, Saha Hadid, Mies van de Rohe, Louis Kahn, and Daniel Libeskind

Furniture Designers

Eames and Herman Miller

Flowers

She loved all flowers.

Travel

Paris, Japan, Copenhagen, Vietnam, India, and Australia

Museums

Getty Museum (LA), Getty Villa (Pacific Palisades), LACMA (LA), The Philips Collection (DC), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), The Whitney (NYC), Neue Galerie (NY), Miho Museum (Kona, Japan), The Tate Modern (London)

But most of all she loved living in Ocean Park, California. The Fraser Ave house was her favorite.