A collection of calligraphy art work on display at the Asian Art Museum exhibit Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy in San Francisco, Calif. on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012.

Soyoung Lee has big plans for San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum, as large as the sheer physical size and cultural footprint of the continent it’s showcasing and the City it resides in. That’s because ...

100 years ago, the National Museum of Asian Art opened and was the first Asian art museum in the U.S. Today, it is a shining example of how art connects our cultures and communities.

Opened in 1923 as America’s first national art museum and the first Asian art museum in the United States, NMAA stewards one of the world’s most important collections of Asian art, spanning antiquity ...

The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, are located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Committed to preserving, exhibiting and ...

Valets wait outside the Asian Art Museum for guests before a gala dinner party for the new exhibit, "Gorgeous," at the Asian Art museum, in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, June 18, 2014 ...

I n the Jade Room at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, curator of Chinese art Foong Ping challenged me to find the most contemporary object in the room. It was no easy task. A long display case was ...

Back in 2013, the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco invited me to contribute to a show about yoga co-organized by the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.The exhibition, Yoga: The Art of ...

For Asian American and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month, 7News is bringing you stories every week highlighting, celebrating, and bringing attention to i ...

A 16th century bronze bell rang 108 times on Sunday during a celebration of the Japanese New Year at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum. The sounding of the 2,100-pound bell, from a temple in ...