Asian Art Museum

Asian Art Museum is the usual name for a number of museums, including:

  • The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
  • The Asiatic Museum in Saint Petersburg
  • The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, located on the National Mall in Washington DC

Famous quotes containing the words asian, art and/or museum:

    “We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    “If we can learn ... to look at the ways in which various groups appropriate and use the mass-produced art of our culture ... we may well begin to understand that although the ideological power of contemporary cultural forms is enormous, indeed sometimes even frightening, that power is not yet all-pervasive, totally vigilant, or complete.”
    —Janice A. Radway (b. 1949)

    “Always clung to by barnacles.”
    —Hawaiian saying no. 2661, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)