More bicycle crashes on Golden Gate Bridge May 4, 2009
Suddenly the party didn't sound like much fun - and it was promptly moved to the nearby Asian Art Museum at Civic Center. EXTRA. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
Appraisers are less magician, more forensic detective May 1, 2009
an appraiser who specializes in Asian art, has a doctorate in Asian and Japanese art and speaks Japanese. Rachael Blackburn Cozad, director of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, is a fine arts appraiser. (Herald Online, SC -- Lifestyles)
Warhol to Galileo to Glyndebourne Apr 19, 2009
"Lords of the Samurai": San Francisco's Asian Art Museum is the sole US venue for this choice gathering of samurai artifacts from Japanese collections. Items on display show the samurai as gentleman as well as warrior. (Boston Globe)
Koret Museum Days 2009: Bay Area Museums Offer Free Mother's Day Admission in Honor of Koret Foundation's 30th Anniversary Apr 15, 2009
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco. Bay Area Discovery Museum, Sausalito. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Father of fiber optics explains how it began Apr 13, 2009
He has also financed the collection of Sikh art at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, and leads international activities on behalf of the Sikh community - his own tradition. E-mail David Perlman at. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
Artfact Live! Monthly Auction Roundup - Important Sale Results from the Artfact Live! Staff Apr 12, 2009
Alderfer Auction isal, "Asian Art Auction" -- March 20, 2009 - Rare Chinese Ivory and Hardwood Table Screen, 18th Century The rare table screen, mounted in a carved hardwood frame and stand and revealing a finely carved and polychromed scene of rice farmers, was claimed for $11,160 (including buyer's premium) by an Artfact Live ... Freeman's, "Asian Art Sale" -- March 16, 2009 - Rare and large Chinese Carved Two-Tone Lacquer Foliate Dish, Yuan/Ming Dynasty From the Yuan/Ming Dynasty, this rare... (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Art.view: Slim spring Apr 12, 2009
Modern and contemporary southeast Asian art, which got off to such a good start with its inaugural sale last year, was down by two-thirds on the 2008 total. The Chinese ceramics sale did even worse, down by nearly 80% on the year. (The Economist)
Congress Requests Tens of Millions Of Dollars For Puget Sound Area Organizations, Projects Apr 10, 2009
$500,000 - for renovations of Seattle Asian Art Museum at Volunteer Park. $1,000,000 - for property acquisition - City of Tacoma- for intermodal transportation center. (KIRO TV, WA)
The gravity of modern-art shift to Pacific Rim Apr 5, 2009
Alexandra Munroe, senior curator of Asian art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and a team of collaborators have set out to revise, or at least complicate, that story with an exhibition titled "The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989" (through April 19) ... Alexandra Munroe, senior curator of Asian art at the Solomon R.. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
A Brief Guide to The Metropolitan M... Apr 4, 2009
Asian Art: The largest of its kind in the Western Hemisphere. Some 60,000 functional, ritual and luxury objects from the 2nd Millennium B.C. to the early 20th Century include paintings, calligraphy, prints, sculpture, bronzes, jades, ceramics, lacquers, metalwork, decorative arts and textiles from China, Japan, Korea, South and Southeast Asia as well as the Himalayan kingdoms. (Suite101.com)
Mother and reluctant teenage daughter fall under the spell of this history-rich New England town Apr 1, 2009
I had been there briefly as a teenager on a school field trip to visit the Peabody Essex Museum to view its impressive East Asian art collection. I didn't remember much about the town, but I was inspired by two relatively new novels. (Herald Online, SC -- Lifestyles)
People: Jennifer Hudson, Zac Efron, Ethan Coen Mar 26, 2009
Vowing to change his life, the Japanese fashion designer Kenzo is auctioning off a treasure trove of Asian art, furniture and antique kimonos that adorn his Paris home. Kenzo, whose full name is Kenzo Takada, has already sold the Japanese-style villa in eastern Paris, complete with paper screens, a swimming pool and a traditional garden featuring an ornamental pond with carp. (International Herald Tribune)
Art defining culture Mar 22, 2009
Jason Steuber, the curator of the Asian arts collection at the Harn, said he believes the appeal of the collection comes from its international aspect ... Officials plan on expanding the Asian art gallery into its own wing in 2010, adding nearly 2,000 square feet and a garden. (Lake City Reporter, FL)
For an artist with autism, precision is everything Mar 22, 2009
Jessica's sister Rachel, who imports Asian art and artifacts for sale online, facilitated an interview with Jessica. (Another sister, Katharine, is a history of science professor at Harvard. (Boston Globe)
A coming of age for Cambodian artists Mar 19, 2009
In December Cambodian artists will be represented for the first time at the sixth Asia Pacific Triennial in Brisbane, Australia, and a few weeks before, the Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial in Japan will again showcase the Southeast Asian nation ... At about the same time Russell Storer, the contemporary Asian art curator at the Queensland Art Gallery, a government museum that organizes the Asia Pacific Triennial, took his own research trip to Cambodia, and came back very excited about the... (International Herald Tribune)
Chinese bronzes, Gandhi's glasses in art tussle Mar 9, 2009
"If governments start to reclaim art. it will be necessary for all the world's museums begin to give back their objects, " said Georges Pochet, an antiquarian in Asian art in the south of France. "It's not possible.". (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
Philanthropy Recession, tax plans worry donors Mar 7, 2009
"I would guess that most of the people who support the museum do so because they have a passion for our mission and not because of the tax breaks," said Tim Hallman, director of marketing and communications at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum. But even if only a minority of donors were deterred by the tax change, it could affect billions of dollars in donations. (Casa Grande Valley Newspapers, AZ)
* [ART JOURNAL] The caged man sings Mar 4, 2009
But Alexandra Munroe, senior curator of Asian art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, had no such compunctions, given what she described as a historical disregard for nonwhite artists in the avant-garde. Why was Tehching left out. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Chinese Art Sales May Drop as Bidder Refuses Bronzes Payment, Dealers Say Mar 3, 2009
Last month, Christies announced that its 2008 Asian art sales increased 15 percent on the year before. Sales in the category were the third-highest for the auction house, after Impressionist and modern, and contemporary art. (Bloomberg -- Asia)
Bold and the beautiful Mar 3, 2009
The answer is simple, says Jackie Menzies, the curator of Asian art at the Art Gallery of NSW: little has survived. Successive invasions - by the Mongols, the Manchus and the Japanese - destroyed much of the finest work produced during Korea's Joseon Dynasty, which stretched from 1392 until 1910. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Lavish Korean screens return to view Mar 2, 2009
Shawn Eichman, Asian art curator at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, looks over opulent, century-old Korean screens that were conserved in South Korea before going on display at the Academy last month. GREGORY YAMAMOTO | The Honolulu Advertiser. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Art review: Bhutan exhibition holds mysteries Feb 28, 2009
Go well rested to "The Dragon's Gift: Sacred Arts of Bhutan" at the Asian Art Museum, or plan to go repeatedly ... Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin St., San Francisco. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Vast In Scope Feb 28, 2009
Go well rested to "The Dragon's Gift: Sacred Arts of Bhutan" at the Asian Art Museum, or plan to go repeatedly ... Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin St., San Francisco ... Art review: Bhutan exhibition holds mysteries Articles Go well rested to "The Dragon's Gift: Sacred Arts of Bhutan" at the Asian Art Museum, or plan to go repeatedly. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Christie's YSL Auction Raises $477 Million; Chinese Bronzes Sell in Paris Feb 26, 2009
The animal heads were included in a session of 64 lots of antiquities and Asian art, archaeology and furniture. The session made 42. (Bloomberg -- Asia)
China fails to halt sale of looted relics at Paris auction Feb 26, 2009
According to Rosemary Scott, an Asian art expert at Christie's, the Chinese built "European palaces" in part of the park that were designed by European Jesuit missionaries employed by the Chinese court; the same missionaries designed the fountain, which consisted of a huge marble shell and the bronze animal heads on clothed human bodies carved in stone. By 1795 the fountains were no longer used. (International Herald Tribune)
Yves Saint Laurent's Chair Sells for Record as Sale Extends Winning Streak Feb 25, 2009
Sculptures and Asian art will be offered today, including two Qing Dynasty bronzes that the Chinese government said should be returned because they were stolen from the imperial palace. A Paris court ruled this week that the sale could proceed. (Bloomberg -- Europe)
Asia Week's Annual New York Arts of Pacific Asia Show To Take Place As Scheduled Feb 20, 2009
New York Arts of Pacific Asia, New Yorks oldest and largest Asian Arts show, will again this year present 75 major U.S. and international galleries and dealers specializing in antique works from all of Asia, the Subcontinent and the Pacific Islands ... Only the International Asian Art Fair, originally to be held at the Park Avenue Armory, has succumbed to economic concerns ... Nine former exhibitors from the International Asian Art Fair will exhibit at New York Arts of Pacific Asia in 2009. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Saving the Benjamins: See Philadelphia on a Budget Feb 17, 2009
The sprawling Philadelphia Museum of Art is home to a permanent collection of more than 300,000 pieces ranging from Asian art to colonial furniture. Admission to the museum is $14, but thanks to its pay-what-you-wish admission price on Sundays, it's easy to get lost among its Impressionist paintings or ogle the wedding dress of Philadelphia's sweetheart, Grace Kelly. (Fox News)
Museums pact Feb 13, 2009
The division of China's imperial collection is one of the great stories of Asian art. The Nationalists evacuated more than 13,000 crates of art from Beijing in early 1933 before the Japanese Army could capture the city. (International Herald Tribune)
HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2008: EMILY JACIR Feb 12, 2009
Russell Ferguson, Chair, Department of Art, UCLA, Los Angeles, California; Maria Lind, Director of the Graduate Program, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Sandhini Poddar, Assistant Curator of Asian Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Nancy Spector, Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; and Marc-Olivier Wahler, Director, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Publication. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Museum names new curator of Asian art Feb 10, 2009
John Johnston is the new Asian art curator at the San Antonio Museum of Art ... The has appointed John Johnston as the Coates-Cowden Curator of Asian Art ... The Asian art collection here enjoys an international reputation for its excellence and depth, Johnston says. (San Antonio Business Journal, TX)
Meditations on Asia in American art Feb 8, 2009
" Now that he's gone - he died in 1997 - five small crystals take his place. Multimedia Photos: East and West meet? Today in Culture The show finds the museum unusually full of sounds, however faint. Bells held in a kind of cage periodically sail down the spiral and ring. Synthesizers drone and vibrate away somewhere, and an amplified buzzing of bees has, when you get close, the roar of fighter planes. Periodically, parcels of books descend by pulley from on high, as part of an elaborate... (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
Fed Calls Emergency Consultants to Triage and Treat AIG, Stricken Markets Feb 7, 2009
Some Sunday nights, there are no calls, he said in the interview at his 21st-floor midtown Manhattan office, decorated with African and Asian art and photos of his wife and four daughters. Other Sunday nights, its brutal. (Bloomberg)
Great Art Speaks to You and This Summer It's Saying, ''Come to San Francisco'' Apr 1, 2008
Power & Glory: Court Arts of Chinas Ming Dynasty, at the Asian Art Museum; June 27-Sept. 21. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Souren Melikian: Art casualties from Tibet to Cambodia find an eager market Mar 29, 2008
If anyone should harbor any doubts on that score, the auctions of "Indian & South-East Asian Art" held on March 19 at Sotheby's and March 21 at Christie's will have dispelled them. The title did not really do justice to the contents of the sales. (International Herald Tribune)
Buyers jump on Indonesia as next Asian art tiger Mar 28, 2008
Ronald Manullang with one of his artworks at his home in Jakarta. (Kemal Jufri/Imaji, for the International Herald Tribune). (International Herald Tribune)
Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print, 17701900 Mar 27, 2008
The exhibition is drawn from the holdings of the Chazen Museum of Arts renowned Van Vleck collection and is augmented by 22 woodblock prints from the Brooklyn Museums Asian art collection ... The Brooklyn Museums presentation has been coordinated and enhanced with the addition of works from Brooklyns collection by Joan Cummins, Lisa and Bernard Selz Curator of Asian Art, Brooklyn Museum ... Additional support is provided by the Alvin Friedman-Kien Exhibition Fund, Scholten Japanese Art and... (AbsoluteArts.com)
Fest Traveler: AFI Dallas Mar 26, 2008
Eighteen square blocks in the budding downtown Arts District are devoted to 13 different multimillion-dollar disciplines, including the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Crow Collection of Asian Art, the Dallas Museum of Art and the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. So when founder Liener Temerlin announced the creation of the AFI Dallas Intl. (Variety)
Art Review | 'Birth of the Cool': Store in a cool, fertile place: 1950s California Mar 22, 2008
Inspired by Asian art and Zen Buddhism, they have a monastic air about them, but they are suave and materially sensuous too. While paintings make the biggest visual impact in the show, the architectural photographs of Julius Shulman convey an expanded sense of the world of California cool. (International Herald Tribune)
Buddha sculpture sells for $14.3 million Mar 19, 2008
Part of the reason that it went through the roof is that its a very, very rare piece and its quite unusual for something of this significance to all of a sudden resurface, said Adriana Proser, curator of traditional Asian art at the Asia Society. The auction house declined to reveal the consignors identity. (MSNBC -- News)
Museums in Portland, Oregon Mar 17, 2008
The extensive collections of Asian art reach from the Neolithic era to the present, and include an impressive collection of Persian narrative painting. The Native American display includes more than 5,000 prehistoric and historic pieces, plus works by modern Native American masters. (Suite101.com)
Wayne Wang honored at Asian film festival Mar 16, 2008
On the theory that you never can party too much, the same people who wandered around the Castro mezzanine with wine and egg roll in hand hit the elegant after-party at the Asian Art Museum. The food spread was Asian-themed, with dim sum on one table and sushi on the next. (San Francisco Chronicle)
* [ ART JOURNAL ] China's Gelatin Generation Mar 5, 2008
The various images, photography, installations and videos - with the usual I-just-graduated themes of education, alienation and rapid modernization - mean that little is on view here that has not been thematically covered in other recent exhibitions of Asian art. But similarity to other exhibits makes Infantization of greater interest: It reveals that young Chinese artists are influenced by and have the same concerns as their South Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese counterparts. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
NSW gallery outranks Guggenheim Feb 29, 2008
Capon was also pleased that its Art Of Islam exhibition was among the top 10 international exhibitions of Asian art. He was also pleased that the gallery, which came 29th in the survey, had done so despite its small budget and physical size. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Rules of the game Feb 28, 2008
Joe Wojcik Dennis Unkovic, a partner with the law firm Meyer, Unkovic Scott LLP, with Asian artifacts in his Downtown office ... His Downtown office is lined with pieces of Asian art and artifacts, bearing out his advice that it's important to get to know Chinese culture. (Pittsburgh Business Times, PA)
SAHPC: The Expert Testimony is In Feb 27, 2008
They have over the years led engineering work for projects as diverse as city hall projects in Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco, the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, and the main library seismic upgrade in San Francisco. In his testimony, Friedman said that the design mandate from UC was to design a "stand-alone" building, "structurally separate and independent from California's Memorial Stadium (CMS)". (GoCyberBears.com)
* National Palace Museum hits the road Feb 27, 2008
1996 to 1997: The US exhibit Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei was held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Asian Art in San Francisco, and National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC ... 2000 to 2001: Artworks were selected for loan to US exhibit Taoism and the Arts of China jointly organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Getting the derailed Back on Track Feb 27, 2008
At the Asian Art Museum on Thursday, a mother and son peered at Zhan Wang's San Francisco "Cityscape," a rectangular construction about 20 feet by 30 feet made of stainless steel cooking implements and serving pieces. The first landmark that viewers spot is the Transamerica Pyramid, then Market Street (a row of chopsticks), then the Golden Gate Bridge (towers of cheese graters). (San Francisco Chronicle)
Thai antiquities in U.S. may be stolen Feb 25, 2008
" Increasingly sensitized to those concerns, many museum curators now say they wouldn't touch the stuff even if offered by their most prestigious donors. "We would turn it down," said Robert Jacobsen, chairman of the Asian art department at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, "and not just because of the investigation in California, but because times have changed. There's a moral basis here. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
* Bhutan unlocks its treasure trove Feb 24, 2008
Returning to San Francisco, he approached Terese Tse Bartholomew, curator of Himalayan art at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, about organizing an exhibition of Bhutanese art ... Finally, in 2003, she took the idea to Little, who was the curator of Asian art at the Art Institute of Chicago and was about to decamp to a new post as director of the Honolulu Academy of Arts. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Cai Guo-Qiang at the Guggenheim: From gunpowder to Esperanto Feb 23, 2008
Organized by Thomas Krens, director of the Guggenheim Foundation, and Alexandra Munroe, the museum's senior curator of Asian art, this exhibition nearly fills the museum and introduces a conceptually inclined impresario best known for works using gunpowder. Regularly hailed as a global artist and chosen to oversee the opening and closing ceremonies at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Cai has parlayed a United Nations' worth of cultural sources and artistic strategies into crowd-pleasing, easily... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Review: Floating world comes into closer focus Feb 20, 2008
An impressive survey of these rarities, "Drama and Desire: Japanese Paintings From the Floating World 1690-1850," opened Friday at the Asian Art Museum ... Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin St., San Francisco. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Superb Sydney| Feb 19, 2008
gov.au) One of Australias foremost cultural institutions, the NSW Gallery is home to significant collections of Australian, European and Asian art and hosts 40 exhibitions annually. Take one of the daily free guided tours of the Gallery Collection. (iAfrica.com)
Thai antiquities await a final resting place Feb 18, 2008
Among the many American museums with Ban Chiang artifacts are the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Freer and Sackler Galleries in Washington; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco ... "I believe that virtually every big American art museum that collects Asian art has some Ban Chiang material," said Forrest McGill, chief curator at the Asian Art Museum. (International Herald Tribune)
Chris Boskin's new mission: to boost public broadcasting Feb 17, 2008
When he threw a birthday party for her at the Asian Art Museum, guests included Dick and Lynne Cheney, Laurene Powell and Steve Jobs and George and Charlotte Shultz, and it made the society pages. By the late '90s, though she stayed on as a consultant to Worth, Boskin was ready for what she calls her "repotting" era. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Shining Stars Feb 15, 2008
Graduate students who won $6,000 were Kuang-Hung Chen of Taiwan, who is studying philosophy; Sammie Choy of Honolulu, theater; Michelle Jones of Palolo, sculpture/glass; Heejin Kang of South Korea, piano performance; Lian Litvin of Israel, fine arts; Gary Liu of Honolulu, Asian art history; Chadwick Pang of Honolulu, ethnomusicology; and Andrea Spolti of Italy, piano performance. Undergraduates who were awarded $3,000: Brooke Jones of Mililani, English; Jennifer Montgomery of Denver,... (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Will National Art Gallery get French flair? Feb 11, 2008
TODAY understands that Paris-based Studio Milou Architecture one of three firms short-listed is edging ahead in the race for the 300-million contract to transform two Singapore monuments City Hall and the former Supreme Court into an iconic home for Southeast Asian art by 2012. According to several sources, the company has been discussing technical and financial details with the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (MICA) for the National Art Gallery, dubbed one of... (Channel NewsAsia, Singapore)
Nervous investors canvass Asian art Feb 3, 2008
From Indian contemporary paintings to Japanese lacquers, Ming vases and ancient gilt Buddhas, Asian art is drawing specialist funds as well as new buyers from China, India, Russia and Dubai ... "I personally think Asian art, especially contemporary art is very much overheated," said Karl Schweizer, an art expert at Swiss bank UBS. "I'm not sure whether all of these artists will pass the test of time," he said. (India Times)
* National Palace Museum finds a new direction Feb 3, 2008
That is establishing the NPM's southern branch, whose mission is to be "a world-class museum of Asian art and culture that will foster a new consciousness of the cultural connections between Taiwan and the rest of Asia and the world beyond.". This is a significant departure from the image of the NPM as the preserver of imperial Chinese heritage. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
More of this story Feb 2, 2008
Blondie-Inspired ExhibitThe traveling One Way or Another: Asian Art Now, organized by the Asia Society, stops at the Japanese American National Museum Feb. 10-May 4. It's named for the Blondie song, and meant to suggest a non-formulaic way of making and seeing art. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
‘Yedoensis' brings spring to NIU Art Museum Feb 1, 2008
A publication documenting the project with essays by art critic Margaret Hawkins and Minneapolis Institute of Arts Curator of Asian Art Matthew Welch is in production. Contemporary Japanese artist Ayomi Yoshida is the fourth generation of the Yoshida family printmaking dynasty. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Annual CityArts Celebration Presented by TXU Energy Returns to the Dallas Arts District on June 13-15 Jan 30, 2008
During the CityArts weekend, the Dallas Museum of Art and the Nasher Sculpture Center will join the neighboring Crow Collection of Asian Art to offer complimentary admission to visitors and locals alike. Festival-goers will be treated to spectacular exhibits and special programming in these world-class museums. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Centre to promote Southeast Asian art to open in Beijing Jan 29, 2008
This centre will promote Singapore and Southeast Asian art to the Chinese as well as the international art community ... Chinese contemporary art may be all the rage now, but collectors like Budiardjo Tek believes that Southeast Asian art also has a lot to offer ... Michael Koh, CEO, National Heritage Board, said: "The intention is to have a facility together with the NCAC and work together to bring Southeast Asian art and Singapore art to the international community. "I say this because many... (Channel NewsAsia, Singapore)
Maia Henderson; sculptor gave Korean collection to museum Jan 28, 2008
"Maia is one of the few women I have known whom I would classify as a real grande dame," said Steven Gaskin of Sherborn, president of the Asian Art Society of New England, using Mrs. Henderson's nickname ... Richard D. Mowry, head of the department of Asian art at Harvard's Arthur M. Sackler Museum, said it comprises nearly 150 objects and spans from the first century AD through the 19th century. (Boston Globe)
A weekend in New York: The Korean experience Jan 25, 2008
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a modest Arts of Korea room, and the Brooklyn Museum's Asian art collection has 400 pieces (23 currently on show), including a rare 12th-century celadon ewer. And the New Museum for Contemporary Art, which just opened in December, also has a few surprising Korean components, including "Black on White, Gray Ascending," by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, a two-artist collective from Seoul. (International Herald Tribune)
