Asian Art Museum Archives - Page 3 of 5

Housing

Why turn affordable SROs into tourist hotel rooms?

Tim Redmond - May 4, 2020

While the supervisors and the mayor are engaged in a critical, and bitter, debate about moving homeless people into hotels, the Planning Department is...

Culture

‘Hip-hop to Hamilton’ urges youth to pursue arts careers, despite COVID

Emily Wilson - April 22, 2020

Lily Ling, the music director and conductor for the tour of Hamilton, says we need the arts now more than ever. She saw that working...

The joy of big bamboo—and lots of it

Emily Wilson - August 5, 2019

ART LOOKS Tanabe Chikuunsai IV has been surrounded by bamboo since he was born. A fourth generation Japanese bamboo artist, he studied at sculpture at...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A wave of women behind the camera

Dennis Harvey - July 10, 2019

SCREEN GRABS Though some aspects of filmmaking have been edging slowly towards gender equity for a while, there’s no question that the #MeToo movement...

Movies

Hello Kitty to ‘Happy Cleaners’: Asian American film shines at CAAMFest

Dennis Harvey - May 1, 2019

From SF’s own Chinatown to the crisscrossing currents of transnational adoption, this year’s CAAMFest—formerly known as the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival—covers the...

Surprising looks and gorgeous silks in ‘Kimono Refashioned’

Emily Wilson - April 25, 2019

ART LOOKS There are many reasons kimonos can fascinate—the fabric, the embroidery, botanical motifs like bamboo or plum blossoms, or the loose construction and simple...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast/Party Radar: Giant jingle balls!

Marke B. - December 20, 2018

ARTS FORECAST/PARTY RADAR The menorah may be stashed away til next year, but our stocking runneth over with tinsel-strewn happiness and awesome events through next...

Best of the Bay

Best of the Bay 2018: Arts & Entertainment Winners

Staff - October 30, 2018

48 Hills is proud to host the 43rd SF Bay Guardian Best of the Bay Readers' Poll. For other categories including Food & Drink, Shopping,...

Touching down on ‘Planet Celadon’

Emily Wilson - September 1, 2018

ART LOOKS The video and dance performance coming to the Asian Art Museum, Planet Celadon: Our Receiver Is Operating, features scuba gestures, air traffic signals,...

Lit

A showcase of ‘young blood’ Asian American writers

Emily Wilson - August 28, 2018

The Pilipinx American Library, a non-circulating library in the reading room at the Asian Art Museum, has bean bag chairs, a table with books...

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