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Bernice Bing’s Search for a Unified Self

by John Yau November 10, 2022November 14, 2022

Bing’s search was not about style, being fashionable, or fitting in. It was about trying to acknowledge the multiple worlds one inhabits.

Posted inNews

Touring San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum in Sign Language

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson October 4, 2022October 5, 2022

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.

Posted inArt

A Rare Look at a Korean Portraiture Tradition

Avatar photo by Tim Brinkhof November 1, 2021November 1, 2021

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.

Posted inFilm

“Looking for Hope and Clinging to Hope”: Short Films for Our Times

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson February 22, 2021March 29, 2021

The Asian Art Museum shares with Hyperallergic some of the short films featured in its forthcoming exhibition “After Hope: Videos of Resistance.”

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SF’s Asian Art Museum to Remove Bust of Racist and Anti-Semitic Founding Donor

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson July 17, 2020November 5, 2020

“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.

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At This Museum, Education Staff Prove More Vital Than Ever During Pandemic

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson May 12, 2020

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.

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Seattle Museum Falls Short of “Reimagining” Asian Art as It Promised

Avatar photo by Thea Quiray Tagle February 12, 2020February 11, 2020

Hopefully this renovation is not the endpoint of this institution’s reimagining of what an Asian art museum should be.

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Isamu Noguchi’s Creative Friendship With Saburo Hasegawa

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson November 6, 2019November 5, 2019

By all accounts the two had an intense friendship, and together they created a new modern aesthetic.

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Refashioning the Kimono, from Fine Art to Pop Culture

by Dany Chan February 6, 2019

Kimono Refashioned asks what it is about the kimono that has captivated designers worldwide, for well over a century.

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Seeing the Lives of Immigrants in Objects and Images of Home

by Daniela Blei April 5, 2018April 5, 2018

Testimony, an exhibition about the lives of Bay Area immigrants, chooses to focus less on trauma and displacement than on the everyday meanings of home.

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From a Jade Suit to Bronze Dildos, Ancient Tomb Luxuries of the Han Dynasty Elite

by Claire Voon March 28, 2017April 6, 2017

Even in death the Han Chinese thought that life continued in its own way so they buried the deceased with luxurious objects that continue to impress.

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After the Election, US Museums Affirm Their Roles as Safe, Open Spaces

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 18, 2016

The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tenement Museum, and Japanese American National Museum are among those speaking out.

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