Asian Art Museum
Located in the heart of San Francisco, the museum is home to one of the world’s finest collections of Asian art, boasting more than 18,000 awe-inspiring artworks ranging from ancient jades and ceramics to contemporary video installations. Dynamic special exhibitions, cultural celebrations and public programs for all ages provide rich art experiences that unlock the past and spark questions about the future. VISION Where experiences of Asian and Asian American art and cultures inspire and connect us all. MISSION The Asian Art Museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes Asian and Asian American art and cultures for local and global audiences. We provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen understanding and empathy among people of all backgrounds.www.asianart.org
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Sep 24, 2026
Jitish KallatGUEST
And coming back to A119, it's a long circuitous set of works that actually lead me into it.
Jitish KallatGUEST
And I don't know if I should go back to the entire recital of the, you know, the genealogy of this work, but, you know, a short genealogy would be, you know, a few months ago, in fact, a work I made in 2018 to 2020 called Covering Letter Terra Nullius was recently part of a solo project at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, where images that left planet Earth on the golden records on the Voyager 1 and 2 space mission was essentially at the heart of the work.
Jitish KallatGUEST
And it's essentially through the images within the Voyager, images put together by Frank Drake and Carl Sagan that led me to the Family of Man, you know, alongside-
Tyler GreenHOST
The exhibition at MoMA, the Edward Steichen curated exhibition at MoMA.
Ewan MagieHOST
So all you that are interested in some prose-based supplement to our class on poetry can find yourself as a copy of Dharma Bums in the coming weeks and months and enjoy that fictional portrait of Gary Snyder.
Ewan MagieHOST
And he went to the Asian Art Museum when it was called that in Volunteer Park in Seattle, and he saw all these scroll paintings.
Ewan MagieHOST
Young Gary Snyder did.
Ewan MagieHOST
So by the time he was 20 years old and sitting on top of Sourdough Mountain in the North Cascades, he was already well-versed in the images of Chinese scroll painting.
Samuel BercholzGUEST
It's just a representative.
Samuel BercholzGUEST
It's not idol worship, you know? I remember being with the, uh, 16th Karmapa when we were in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, and we went to the Asian Art Museum at that...
Samuel BercholzGUEST
Was in, uh, Golden Gate Park at that time.
Samuel BercholzGUEST
And we walked into the museum, and you take a left turn, Avery Brundage collection.
Bob JohnsonGUEST
Well, yeah, too late this year, but they want to get involved next year.
Bob JohnsonGUEST
And they're also talking about hooking me up with the Asian Art Museum and Yerba Buena and, you know, SFMOMA, you know, down on market.
Bob JohnsonGUEST
And so who knows, you know, take over the city, you know.
Bob JohnsonGUEST
I always thought it'd be cool to have like some type of an exhibit of art or props or something at the Asian Art Museum.
Bob JohnsonGUEST
Leading up to the show.
Bob JohnsonGUEST
Yeah.
Sarah HotchkissGUEST
Yeah, one of the first pieces that came out of Shaping Legacy was by Kaleb Duarte.
Sarah HotchkissGUEST
It's called Embassy of the Refugee, and he responded to the site of the Pioneer Monument, which is in Civic Center Plaza between the Asian Art Museum and the library.
Sarah HotchkissGUEST
This has been a very controversial monument in the past.
Sarah HotchkissGUEST
There used to be a figure of a Native American who was lying kind of prone underneath a Spanish missionary.