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:

    “Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.”
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

    “Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “I have no connections here; only gusty collisions,
    rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse.
    ...
    I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn,
    a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement.
    People want to push the buttons and see me glow.”
    —Marge Piercy (b. 1936)