ASIAN ART MUSEUM OF SAN FRANCISCO Golden Gate Park San Francisco, California 94118 tel: (415) 379-8801 (exhibitions), 379-8880 (membership), 379-8879 (public programs) e-mail: asianart@well.com internet: www.asianart.org
		•Alienation and Assimilation: Contemporary Images and Installations from the Republic of Korea February 9 - April 30, 2000
			One of the first large-scale combined exhibitions of photography and multimedia art from Korea to be mounted anywhere in the world, the exhibit reflects dramatic changes that have occurred in Korea in recent years.
		•Bamboo Masterworks: Japanese Baskets from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection March 1 - May 7, 2000
			Japanese bamboo baskets embody a sensitivity to sculptural form, texture, and pattern unlike that found in any other artistic medium. This exhibition of more than 100 works offers a rare opportunity to view the extraordinary beauty, intricate craftsmanship, and historic and cultural importance of this unique art form.
		•The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology: Celebrated Discoveries from the People's Republic of China June 17 - September 11, 2000
			For details, see: MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON
		• Jade: Stone of Immortality Opened January 13, 1999
			Jade has been in continuous use in China for nearly 7000 years. It is difficult to find a material in the West that has a similar cultural significance. Like gold, jade was admired and coveted for its pure physical beauty. However, its importance to the Chinese went far beyond such mundane uses. It is above all the most treasured and admired material in Chinese culture, appears in every major Chinese philosophy, and is used to describe the qualities of the ideal person. This exhibition will explore the technical aspects of jade production and the Chinese love for the material from the Neolithic period to the 20th century through approximately 500 jades selected from the more than 1500 pieces in the Avery Brundage collection.
		• A Discerning Eye: An American Collection of Korean Art February 9 - April 30, 2000
		• The Southeast Asian Galleries Continuing indefinitely
			Paintings, sculpture, textiles, and dozens of other artworks are featured in the Asian's refurbished Southeast Asian galleries, made possible by generous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Paul L. and Phyllis Wattis Foundation. The reopened galleries feature new acquisitions--including Indonesian and Cambodian bronzes--as well as old favorites from both mainland and island Southeast Asia.
		• Chinese Bronze and Buddhist Arts from the Permanent Collection Continuing indefinitely
			This exhibition showcases over 100 of the museum's most exceptional bronzes and sculpture dating from the early Bronze Age to the 1700s. The exhibition will allow visitors their first opportunity to view the museum's newly acquired money tree, a rare, intricately designed bronze funerary object dated 25 - 220. Other notable examples in bronze include a rhinoceros-shaped vessel from the late Shang dynasty (approximately early 1000s B.C.E.) and a square vessel with a long inscription dating it to the first years of the Western Zhou dynasty (approximately mid-1000s B.C.E.). Not to be missed among the sculpture is the earliest known dated Chinese Buddhist sculpture, a gilt bronze Buddha dated 338.
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