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Jun 15, 2020 · The Asian Art Museum plans to remove a bust of Avery Brundage, its founding patron, whose racist and anti-Semitic views were criticized. Jay Xu, its director, called Brundage “a hateful...
The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco strives to be respectful, engaging, inspirational, nimble and accessible. Our History. The Asian Art Museum was founded more than 50 years ago, when collector Avery Brundage donated nearly 8,000 outstanding Asian artworks to the city of San Francisco.
Jul 17, 2020 · Avery Brundage bust (1972), by Jean Sprenger, at the Asian Art Museum (all photos courtesy the Asian Art Museum) SAN FRANCISCO — Avery Brundage, president of the International...
The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco – Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture is a museum in San Francisco, California that specializes in Asian art. It was founded by Olympian Avery Brundage in the 1960s and has more than 18,000 works of art in its permanent collection, some as much as 6,000 years old. [2]
In total, Avery Brundage donated more than 7,700 Asian art objects to the City of San Francisco—all housed at the Asian Art Museum. Today, the museum’s collection stands at more than eighteen thousand objects, making it the largest museum in the United States devoted exclusively to the arts of Asia.
Jun 16, 2020 · San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum will remove a bust of founder Avery Brundage after criticisms of the patron’s racist and anti-Semitic viewpoints resurfaced in the wake of nationwide protests of systemic racism and police brutality.
Jun 17, 2020 · San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum Is Reckoning With Racist Patron Avery Brundage. The museum was founded based on 8,000 objects collected by Avery Brundage, a former president of the...
