SFGate

Asian museum given 1,000 works / Gifts include Southeast Asian art, bamboo baskets from Cotsen collection

The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco has been given nearly 1,000 objects by two donors, retired Los Angeles businessman Lloyd E. Cotsen and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The Asian, which ...
Artnet

To Diversify Its Asian Art Collection, the Met Will Sell 300 Chinese Artworks at Sotheby’s for as Much as $4 Million

Next month, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will partner with Sotheby’s to deaccession more than 300 pieces of Chinese art from the museum’s collection. The artworks, ranging from rare jade artifacts ...
The Boston Globe

Asian Art at the Museum of Fine Arts

One of the great stories in the history of the arts in Boston — right up there with the writings of the Transcendentalists or the surging ambition of the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Serge ...
SFGate

A home of its own / Asian Art Museum opens its doors this week

On Thursday the 36-year-old Asian Art Museum of San Francisco will complete an institutional rite of passage: opening its own building to the public. The building -- the old Main Library in Civic ...
Barron's

Christie’s Offers Alsdorfs’ Wide-Ranging Asian Art Collection

Christie’s is offering the expansive Asian art collection of Chicago collectors and philanthropists James and Marilynn Alsdorf in a series of live and online sales in September. The auctions follow a ...
Los Angeles Times

UC Irvine library highlights materials from I-Ching to Astro Boy in its East Asian Collection

UC Irvine’s East Asian Collection celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2020 and has extended its exhibition programming honoring the anniversary through November 2021. A preview inside the largest ...