Big Bang Gala Sep 21, 2009
Fulton St. Plaza (between the Asian Art Museum and Main Library), S.F. (415) 592-2768. Biketoberfest Marin 2009. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Lady Dai tomb among richest finds in China history Sep 19, 2009
"The Han Dynasty is the foundation of Chinese culture," Susan Tai, Curator of Asian Art for the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, said. "We are looking at a tomb in Southern China from a very important cultural region that contributed some of the greatest literature and mythology and art to China.". (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Q&A: Rick Alford, Defensive Edge Martial Arts Academy Sep 19, 2009
I chose to train in the Southeast Asian art of Kali/Escrima at the Martial Arts Research Institute. I also became certified in the Israeli commando training in Haganah F.I.G.H.T. The acronym stands for Fierce Israeli Hand-to-Hand Combat. (Wakefield Daily Item, MA)
Q&A: 'Interest in Indian art is on the rise in Korea' Sep 18, 2009
So there is more interest in Asian art as compared with western art ... What is the status, or position, of contemporary Indian art today in the Asian art market. (India Times, India)
Crocker, Citizen team up on museum package Sep 15, 2009
The Crocker features premier collections of early California frontier and settlement paintings, European master drawings and significant holdings of Asian art and international ceramics. A 125,000-square-foot expansion will triple the size of the museum when it is completed in 2010. (Sacramento Business Journal, CA)
13th Shanghai Art Fair opens at Shanghai Mart Sep 11, 2009
to participate in this rendezvous nicknamed as the vane of Asian art collections. (Xinhua/Zhu Lan). (Xinhuanet, China)
10 top campus art collections Sep 4, 2009
The greatest, without question, is Harvard Art Museum in Cambridge - a university collection that is richer and deeper than all but three or four of the country s great public museums; it has, for instance, around 80 works just by Edgar Degas, as well as ancient sculpture from Greece and Rome, European old masters, Asian art, modern German art, and a sizzling selection of Impressionists and Post-Impressionists ... The works range from ancient and Asian art through European old masters to modern... (Boston Globe)
What's on tap for fall visual arts Aug 31, 2009
Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam and Burma, 1775-1950: This extensive show will unveil many highpoints from the 2002 Doris Duke gift that significantly deepened the Asian Art Museum's already outstanding holdings of Southeast Asian art ... Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin St., San Francisco. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Not a rusty issue Aug 30, 2009
Last year, he was invited by the China Cultural Centre to exhibit at the East Asian Art Exhibition marking the Beijing Olympic Games. He submitted two works, Arresting Lunch (acrylic and ink on canvas) and Instigated Rust (acrylic and ink on canvas). (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Academy of Arts, Contemporary Museum may merge operations Aug 29, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009. Posted on: Friday, August 28, 2009. (Honolulu Advertiser)
* ART JOURNAL : The fair must go on Aug 26, 2009
The fair also features a number of lectures by art professionals on topics ranging from the Asian art market to the future of contemporary art and investing in the current economic climate. Seating is limited to the first 100 applicants. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
S.F.'s quirky expenses add to pain of recession Aug 25, 2009
5 million given to the M.H. de Young, Legion of Honor and Asian Art museums is five times what San Jose spends on six cultural facilities. Yet basic city functions such as repaving streets and repairing rundown parks have been put off or paid for by high-interest borrowing. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Christie on a major exploratory research of Bengal School art Aug 19, 2009
Dr Weihe is international director Asian art, senior vice-president and international specialist head, Indian east Asian art at Chirities New York. In the same breath, 00004000 Ms Klein is based in the Christies office in New York as specialist head of sale and assistant vice-president of South Asian Modern mporary art. (India Times)
Japan's former prime minister a master artist Aug 17, 2009
The Asian Art Museum has drawn its current exhibition, "Lords of the Samurai" (through Sept. 20), from the Hosokawa family collection ... A: Originally I had planned only to bring historical works from the collection, but the (Asian Art Museum) director was adamant that the exhibition show the continuity through every generation of the family. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
A new home for the Freight Aug 17, 2009
With the Asian Art Museum's new exhibition "Lords of the Samurai" attracting crowds, Kenneth Baker toured the show with former Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa, whose family figures prominently in the exhibition (Page 17). In movies, Michael Ordoa writes about "Inglourious Basterds," Quentin Tarantino's World War II film with Brad Pitt (Page 20); John Clark speaks with Havana Marking about her documentary "Afghan Star," which follows an "American Idol"-style competition (Page 22); and... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Dallas: Designer purses and $10 enchilada plates Aug 13, 2009
Across the street, the Crow Collection of Asian Art, http://www. crowcollection. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
J-Pop explodes: New People mall opening in S.F. Aug 10, 2009
San Francisco's Asian Art Museum saluted Tezuka Osamu, the creator of Astro Boy, with a show called "The Marvel of Manga" in 2007. Moviemakers are also embracing J-Pop. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Collector, donor, writer, networker - now curator? MFA trustee Fred Sharf does it all. Aug 9, 2009
On a recent weekday, Sharf s skills as a broker were on display as he sat at a table inside the MFA s Asian art department with Morse, the curator. They discussed a collection of Japanese kimonos belonging to a collector Sharf knows. (Boston Globe)
Spanning the ages Aug 8, 2009
With an exhibition of Asian art that stretches from the Bronze Age to the 20th century, you'd think the Cantor Arts Center would use the big gallery ... (Overall, the museum has some 5,000 works of Asian art; many can be seen elsewhere in the building ... Not all of the students were specialists in Asian art, he added. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Samurai hold lessons for modern warfare Aug 5, 2009
That fragile, meticulously constructed pursuit of balance is on display at the "Lords of the Samurai" exhibition at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco ... The Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin St., San Francisco. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Exclusive: Interview With Peggy Cooper Cafritz After A Fire Destroyed Her Home Last Week Aug 4, 2009
Since 1968, Cafritz has been collecting African art and more recently Latin and Asian art. She's hosted countless social and political gatherings. (W-USA News, DC)
MFA display recalls the designs of Greene & Greene Aug 2, 2009
Their style blended influences as varied as Colonial Revival and California Mission architecture, Asian art, and the Arts and Crafts movement s delight in natural materials and the handmade. The brothers faded into obscurity partly because so many copied their distinctly Californian take on the American Arts and Crafts style that their work was lost in a sea of likenesses, and partly because Modernism stormed in with its boxes made of steel and glass, shouting down the warm romanticism of its... (Boston Globe)
Free and cheap in San Francisco Aug 1, 2009
"Lords of the Samurai" at the Asian Art Museum showcases Japanese artifacts (until Sept. 20) ... The Asian Art Museum is free on the first Sunday, and the Exploratorium interactive science museum is free the first Wednesday of every month. (AZCentral -- Travel)
Impressionist masterworks coming to S.F. Aug 1, 2009
The dramatic but raw and somewhat unwieldy converted train station opened in 1986, in a design by architect Gae Aulenti, whose later reclamation projects include the conversion of San Francisco's old Main Library into the Asian Art Museum. "I decided after a few weeks that the museum was not functioning properly," said the sober and willowy Cogeval on a visit to San Francisco this week. (San Francisco Chronicle)
The outside world Jul 24, 2009
Seattle Asian Art Museum: A Black-and-White World: The Art and Lessons of Chinese Rubbings; Transforming Traditions: Japanese and Korean Art Since 1800; Live Long and Prosper: Auspicious Motifs in East Asian Art; all through Feb. 2010 ... Seattle Asian Art Museum: A Black-and-White World: The Art and Lessons of Chinese Rubbings; Transforming Traditions: Japanese and Korean Art Since 1800; Live Long and Prosper: Auspicious Motifs in East Asian Art; all through Feb. 2010. (Juneau Empire)
Now, Gandhi's gift to Irish friend to go under hammer Jul 19, 2009
The 13-inch-high figure, possibly of the Bodhisattva of compassion Avalokitesvara, is estimated to sell for 3,000-5,000 pounds at Bonhams sale of Asian Art ... "Emma Harker who died in 1957 knew Gandhi well, corresponding with him over a number of years, and on one occasion introduced her granddaughter, the owner of this sculpture now, to him," said James Hammond, head of Asian Art at Bonhams. (India Times, India)
Tant: Train is best route to nation's capital Jul 18, 2009
Rested and ready for the July Fourth fun and fireworks, we began our day with a walk to the Smithsonian Castle and its nearby museums devoted to African and Asian art. The red sandstone Smithsonian Castle is the emblem and symbol of the Smithsonian Institution, a sprawling complex of museums of art, science, technology, history and popular culture on or near the National Mall in D.C. Washington itself is a museum where history is a palpable presence in its old streets and buildings. (Athens Banner-Herald)
A decade of Islamic art Jul 12, 2009
In fact, it is described without question as one of the leading art institutions of South-East Asia, according to Amin Jaffer, the international director of Asian art at the venerable Christies auction house, London. Jaffer curated an exhibition at the IAMM in 2007. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Dozens of S.F. arts groups win stimulus grants Jul 12, 2009
Organizations receiving grants of either $25,000 or $50,000 include: Alonzo King's Lines Ballet, American Conservatory Theater Foundation, Architecture for Humanity, Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco, Aunt Lute Foundation, Bay Area Video Coalition, California Lawyers for the Arts, Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco, Circuit Network, Contemporary Jewish Museum, CounterPulse, Cypress Performing Arts Association, Eth-Noh-Tec Creations, Exit Theater, FoolsFURY Theater Company,... (San Francisco Chronicle)
DIY Wallpaper Projects Jul 10, 2009
A length of wallpaper hung scroll-like lends an Asian art inspired touch to a room. Fold the top and bottom edges over wooden rulers or dowel rods. (Suite101.com)
Make the Fourth of July safer for our kids Jul 4, 2009
It's near all sorts of public transportation, and it's not far from the Asian Art Museum in the Joseph L. Alioto Performing Arts Piazza (Civic Center Plaza). It's not unusual for a large museum to be on a large public thoroughfare, as evidenced by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Wilshire Boulevard and the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue in New York City. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Weekend in Minneapolis Jul 3, 2009
Over 100,000 items are on display along with one of the country s top collections of Asian art at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; free daily admission; closed Mondays; artsmia. org. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Attempted suicide prevented by emergency personnel (13) Jul 1, 2009
com wrote on Jun 25, 2009 7:19 AM:" Maybe that attempted suicide was really a reenactment of "seppuku" after the driver had seen the Samurai exhibit at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. The proper course of action would not have been a rescue but a lopping off of the the head in a final display of tradition and a celebration afterwards at the authentic sushi restaurant. ". Submit a Comment. (Sonoma Index-Tribune, CA)
The arts get social Jun 29, 2009
Sure, it's fun to yak about the Asian Art Museum on Yelp and Twitter about titillating subjects like the science behind sex, but for interacting in a deeper - and some might say more old-fashioned - way, there are lots of opportunities across the Bay Area for meeting people face-to-face. Among the major groups working to make the arts fun and accessible are the California Academy of Sciences, the San Francisco Symphony, the de Young Museum, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, to name just a... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Underneath the muck Jun 29, 2009
The seven comprised three Americans, two Malaysian women and two Britons all from diverse backgrounds but with a common interest in conservation, Asian art history and adventure travel. Wayao, with its 14th century homes and wall paintings of the same age, was picked for its cultural and historic significance, says Malaysian-born scientist Yap Hwee Boon, also known as Boon Yap. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Art.view: Old Masters and maestros Jun 21, 2009
Thus there is a drawings week, a sculpture week and an Asian art week. Yet it was not until Johnny van Haeften and Konrad Bernheimer, two jolly and energetic dealers, got together over lunch last December that anyone thought of mounting a similar week in celebration of Old Master paintings. (The Economist)
Coppell resident vying for World Miss International title in July Jun 20, 2009
She was also honored by President George W. Bush with the Presidential Volunteer Service Award for her commitment to the community by volunteering more than 300 hours in 2007 with Big Brothers Big Sisters, Dress for Success, The Crow Collection of Asian Art, the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army, Soup Mobile for the Homeless, the Design Industries Fighting for AIDS, and the American Cancer Society. Giving back to the community is a huge part of my life, she said. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
Recommended summer reads Jun 16, 2009
Director of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. "Showing Up for Life: Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime," by Bill Gates Sr. (2009). (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Indian art works a hit in HK Jun 6, 2009
Dr Weihe is international director of Asian art and specialist head, Indian and Southeast Asian art at Christies. We were encouraged to see active interest, both in the day and evening sale, from an increasing number of non-Indian buyers, signalling the growing appreciation of Indian contemporary art within the larger context of Asian contemporary art, Dr Weihe added. (India Times)
Local girl crowned Miss Texas International Jun 5, 2009
She was previously honored by President George W. Bush with the Presidential Volunteer Service Award for her commitment to the community by volunteering over 300 hours in 2007 with Big Brothers Big Sisters, Dress for Success, The Crow Collection of Asian Art, The American Red Cross, The Salvation Army, Soup Mobile for the Homeless, The Design Industries Fighting for AIDS, and The American Cancer Society. Giving back to the community is a huge part of her life; which is why she lives by the words... (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
Art thief tells a lot, to his own tune Jun 5, 2009
In the 1970s, Connor confides he posed as a psychologist and avid collector of Asian art and antiquities to win the trust of unwitting curators at museums around New England. Once invited in to show off some of his collection, Connor said he would case the museums and often return to rob them. (Boston Globe)
Yuma artist's paintings to benefit cancer center May 31, 2009
Robbins has studied Asian art techniques in her native Japan, where she has traveled three times for study with an art master. Robbins estimates that about 100 paintings will be given to Sunstone. (Yuma Daily Sun, AZ)
San Diego Museum Director To Head Seattle Museum May 28, 2009
The 75-year-old Seattle Art Museum has a permanent collection of 25,000 objects in three locations -- the downtown Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Asian Art Museum and Olympic Sculpture Park. Copyright 2009 by. (KIRO TV, WA)
Art Sale Beats Price Estimate as Hong Kong Collectors Bet Slump Has Ended May 25, 2009
Of the 38 lots offered yesterday at Christies Internationals top selection of Asian art, 34 sold, raising a combined HK$181 ... Pieces by other Asian artists also sold, notably Yoshitomo Naras Over the Topper, an acrylic sculpture showing a life- sized child scaling a 4-meter ladder, which sold for HK$4 ... Yesterdays sale of Southeast Asian art fetched HK$20. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Your Bay Area independent bookstore guide May 24, 2009
Asian Art Museum Store 200 Larkin St. (415) 581-3500. New. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Art.view: Piling in May 24, 2009
It s a clear sign of a deepening market, a sign of confidence that we've observed in our auctions from Sydney to San Francisco, said Colin Sheaf, Bonham's deputy chairman and director of Asian art ... It is similar to one in the Palace Museum in Beijing and another in the Avery Brundage collection in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. (The Economist)
Charleston student is headed to Washington for a spell May 23, 2009
The mix of cultures is evident in the Liu household, where Asian art hangs on the walls. Peter Liu said the family speaks in Mandarin sometimes. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Surfers travel through the sands of time May 22, 2009
Also, the shows have tended to be related to aspects of the museum's holdings: Asian art, say, or, as here, maritime subjects. "SurfLand" is the first show assembled by the museum's first photography curator, Phillip Prodger. (Boston Globe)
Anger fuels school violence May 22, 2009
This year's theme celebrated Asian art and culture. Throughout the day, children created their own works of art: masks, calligraphy, origami, brush painting, Chinese screens and Chinese knotting. (NJ.com -- Times)
Asia exhibit stands out amid change at the Gardner Museum May 16, 2009
Almost a decade after beginning to collect European art in earnest, and in the three years prior to opening her museum, Gardner suddenly embarked upon a frenzy of buying Asian art ... She had many friends with Asian expertise who influenced her in this direction, but the most important figure was Okakura Kakuzo, a former head of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, who had come to Boston to advise the Museum of Fine Arts, where he later became curator of Asian art ... He dressed in Japanese clothing,... (Boston Globe)
Letter: Bok Kai celebration impresses attendee May 9, 2009
This past Saturday (April 18), I had the privilege to attend "An Evening of Asian Art and Culture" presented by our local Sutter Buttes Garden Club. I have lived in the Yuba-Sutter area all my life and have never made the time to see and experience the beauty and reverence of the Bok Kai Temple and its surroundings. (Appeal Democrat, CA)
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)
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)
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)
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)
