Last year, the Thai government sent a letter to the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco requesting the return of four ancient bronze statues depicting Buddhist spiritual figures — buddhas and ...

A new director and CEO has taken the helm at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Soyoung Lee, a specialist in Korean ceramics, was named to the position in January. The formal title is the ...

San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum is suing Why Architects and Swinerton Builders over a $38m museum addition designed by the firm and built by the construction company. The museum announced the ...

The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco bills itself as one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of Asian and Asian American art, boasting more than 20,000 works from 48 countries.

"I have long admired the Asian Art Museum," said Lee. "What a singular honor to be leading this premier institution, and in the beautiful city of San Francisco, with its significant connections to ...

Don’t think K-pop, K-dramas or K-anything is for you? Curators of a just-opened exhibit at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum aim to prove otherwise. The institution late last month unveiled ...

An exhibition at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum points to a burgeoning trend: museums are engaging the public more openly around efforts to... A museum's confession: Why we have looted objects ...

An Esteemed Arts Executive and Trailblazing Asian Art Scholar, Lee will Serve as the Institution's Next Barbara Bass Bakar Director and CEO SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board ...