News
SF Museum Workers Push Back Against Proposals to Slash Staff
The Asian Art Museum and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco may turn to layoffs and reduced operating hours in order to meet the city’s budget reduction plan.
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San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum Sues Architect and Contractor of Its New Pavilion
The museum says the $38 million pavilion required costly repairs that delayed its opening.
Art
San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum Lends Its Facade to Iran's Protest Art
The works spanned a variety of media, showcasing the diversity of artmaking and image production that supplements a revolution.
Art
Bernice Bing’s Search for a Unified Self
Bing's search was not about style, being fashionable, or fitting in. It was about trying to acknowledge the multiple worlds one inhabits.
News
Touring San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum in Sign Language
The museum enlisted the help of Linda Bove, the first Deaf actor to be part of Sesame Street’s recurring cast, to help bring artworks from the collection to a Deaf audience.
Art
A Rare Look at a Korean Portraiture Tradition
An exhibition at the Asian Art Museum is only the latest step in a long journey to chart the development of Korean identity through art.
Film
“Looking for Hope and Clinging to Hope”: Short Films for Our Times
The Asian Art Museum shares with Hyperallergic some of the short films featured in its forthcoming exhibition "After Hope: Videos of Resistance."
Art
SF’s Asian Art Museum to Remove Bust of Racist and Anti-Semitic Founding Donor
“His bust does not belong in the entryway,” said the museum’s director in an event that launched a series of public programs around the legacy of Avery Brundage.
Art
At This Museum, Education Staff Prove More Vital Than Ever During Pandemic
While museums across the country have chosen to lay off or furlough educators, at the Asian Art Museum the education department is busily at work.
Art
Seattle Museum Falls Short of “Reimagining” Asian Art as It Promised
Hopefully this renovation is not the endpoint of this institution’s reimagining of what an Asian art museum should be.
Art
Isamu Noguchi’s Creative Friendship With Saburo Hasegawa
By all accounts the two had an intense friendship, and together they created a new modern aesthetic.
Art
Refashioning the Kimono, from Fine Art to Pop Culture
Kimono Refashioned asks what it is about the kimono that has captivated designers worldwide, for well over a century.