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  • South Indian Dance with Bharatanatyam Dancer Pallavi Sriram

    is program is co-presented with Pallavita ( http://pallavita.org/ )

    Published 2 weeks ago

    By AsianArtMuseum

  • A Lunar New Year Story: Nian, The Beast

    Asian Art Museum Storyteller, Leta Bushyhead, tells a Lunar New Year story about Nian, the beast, with artworks in the museum's collection.

    Published 3 weeks ago

    By AsianArtMuseum

  • Jyotsna_Singh_interview.mov

    Bay Area jewelry designer Jyotsna "Joey" Singh is the granddaughter of Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala. His extraordinary Cartier necklace is one of the stand-out pieces in our exhibition, Maharaja: The Splendor of India's Royal Courts. Here, Joey talks about her special relationship with jewelry and the experience of seeing her grandfather's necklace for the first time.

    Published 3 weeks ago

    By AsianArtMuseum

  • Mochitsuki! Mochi Pounding Ceremony with Kagami Kai (Excerpts)

    Celebrate the Japanese New Year with Kagami Kai. Join this San Francisco institution as they present the colorful and exciting New Year tradition of mochi (delectably sweet rice cakes) pounding. For more information on Kagami Kai visit: http://www.kagamikai.org/

    Published 2 weeks ago

    By AsianArtMuseum

  • "Indian Avatars by Sanjay Patel" Docent Walkthrough

    Qamar Adamjee, Assistant Curator of South Asian Art, gives Asian Art Museum docents a walkthrough of the exhibition, "Deities, Demons, and Dues with 'Staches: Indian Avatars by Sanjay Patel" (on view at the Asian Art Museum from November 11, 2011 - April 12, 2012). For more information: http://www.asianart.org/maharaja/avatars.htm

    Published 4 weeks ago

    By AsianArtMuseum

  • Confessions of a Cultural Interloper - Julie Romain

    On December 10, 2011, ten Bay Area taste-makers give five-minute presentations about the impact of Indian culture and art on their creative work. From Bollywood to yoga, street food to poetry and art, South Asia has inspired creativity across the world. Speakers include: Pixar animator Sanjay Patel, poet and psychiatrist Ravi Chandra, artist Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, LACMA curator Julie Romain, artist Ranu Mukherjee, musician Cory Combs, India West editor Lisa Tsering, contemporary art collector Dipti Mathur, yoga instructor Monica Desai Henderson, and music and dance professor Nalini Ghuman.

    Published 1 month ago

    By AsianArtMuseum

  • Baat Cheet with Ravi Chandra

    On December 10, 2011, ten Bay Area taste-makers give five-minute presentations about the impact of Indian culture and art on their creative work. From Bollywood to yoga, street food to poetry and art, South Asia has inspired creativity across the world. Speakers include: Pixar animator Sanjay Patel, poet and psychiatrist Ravi Chandra, artist Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, LACMA curator Julie Romain, artist Ranu Mukherjee, musician Cory Combs, India West editor Lisa Tsering, contemporary art collector Dipti Mathur, yoga instructor Monica Desai Henderson, and music and dance professor Nalini Ghuman.

    Published 1 month ago

    By AsianArtMuseum

  • Tastes Like Curry - Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik

    Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and writer based in the Bay Area, born and raised in Los Angeles. She's thankful that she has family in India, Columbia, and Japan because it gives her a good excuse to travel, cook, and eat herself silly.

    On December 10, 2011, ten Bay Area taste-makers give five-minute presentations about the impact of Indian culture and art on their creative work. From Bollywood to yoga, street food to poetry and art, South Asia has inspired creativity across the world. Speakers include: Pixar animator Sanjay Patel, poet and psychiatrist Ravi Chandra, artist Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, LACMA curator Julie Romain, artist Ranu Mukherjee, musician Cory Combs, India West editor Lisa Tsering, contemporary art collector Dipti Mathur, yoga instructor Monica Desai Henderson, and music and dance professor Nalini Ghuman.

    Published 1 month ago

    By AsianArtMuseum

  • Ashes to Ashes

    Asian Art Museum Storyteller, Jeff Byers, tells a story about the Hindu gods Shiva and Parvati in front of related artworks in the Asian Art Museum's collection.

    Published 1 month ago

    By AsianArtMuseum

  • Installing Japanese Temple Bell @ Asian Art Museum

    Preparators at the Asian Art Museum install a 2100-pound bronze bell for the Bell Ringing Ceremony on December 31.

    In this annual tradition at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, visitors, led by a Buddhist priest, mark New Year by ringing a 2100-lb., sixteenth-century Japanese bronze bell originally from a temple in Tajima Province in Japan. Now part of the museum's collection, the bell will be struck 108 times with a large custom-hewn log. According to custom in several Buddhist cultures, this symbolically welcomes the New Year and curbs the 108 mortal desires (bonno) which, according to Buddhist belief, torment humankind.

    It is hoped that with each reverberation the bad experiences, wrong deeds, and ill luck of the past year will be wiped away. Thus, tolling heralds the start of a joyous, fresh New Year.

    Published 1 month ago

    By AsianArtMuseum

  • Silver Howdah Installation

    The preparations team at the Asian Art Museum installs a silver howdah for the Maharaja: The Splendors of India's Royal Courts exhibition. You can see more about the conservation and preparation of the howdah on the Asian Art Museum site: http://www.asianart.org/conservation.htm

    Published 1 month ago

    By AsianArtMuseum

  • Baat Cheet with Monica Desai-Henderson

    On December 10, 2011, ten Bay Area taste-makers give five-minute presentations about the impact of Indian culture and art on their creative work. From Bollywood to yoga, street food to poetry and art, South Asia has inspired creativity across the world. Speakers include: Pixar animator Sanjay Patel, poet and psychiatrist Ravi Chandra, artist Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, LACMA curator Julie Romain, artist Ranu Mukherjee, musician Cory Combs, India West editor Lisa Tsering, contemporary art collector Dipti Mathur, yoga instructor Monica Desai Henderson, and music and dance professor Nalini Ghuman.

    Published 1 month ago

    By AsianArtMuseum

  • Indian Music and Dance with the Milipitas Indian Community Center

    Teachers from the Milpitas Indian Community Center introduce India's cultural festivals, dance traditions, and art activities. Learn to dance bhangra like a Bollywood star, make a traditional drum, or create your own colorful floor art. Themes change every month. This program is offered in partnership with the India Community Center.

    Published 1 month ago

    By AsianArtMuseum

  • India in the English Musical Imagination - Nalini Ghuman

    On December 10, 2011, ten Bay Area taste-makers give five-minute presentations about the impact of Indian culture and art on their creative work. From Bollywood to yoga, street food to poetry and art, South Asia has inspired creativity across the world. Speakers include: Pixar animator Sanjay Patel, poet and psychiatrist Ravi Chandra, artist Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, LACMA curator Julie Romain, artist Ranu Mukherjee, musician Cory Combs, India West editor Lisa Tsering, contemporary art collector Dipti Mathur, yoga instructor Monica Desai Henderson, and music and dance professor Nalini Ghuman.

    Published 1 month ago

    By AsianArtMuseum

  • Baat Cheet with Ranu Mukherjee

    On December 10, 2011, ten Bay Area taste-makers give five-minute presentations about the impact of Indian culture and art on their creative work. From Bollywood to yoga, street food to poetry and art, South Asia has inspired creativity across the world. Speakers include: Pixar animator Sanjay Patel, poet and psychiatrist Ravi Chandra, artist Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, LACMA curator Julie Romain, artist Ranu Mukherjee, musician Cory Combs, India West editor Lisa Tsering, contemporary art collector Dipti Mathur, yoga instructor Monica Desai Henderson, and music and dance professor Nalini Ghuman.

    Published 1 month ago

    By AsianArtMuseum

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