Museum Curators Head to New York for Asia Week New York

Over 100 Asian art curators from the nation’s major American museums will make their annual pilgrimage to Asia Week New York, for an unprecedented 9-day round of 47  international gallery shows, 19 auction sales and numerous museum exhibitions and special events.

“We are delighted to welcome such a distinguished group of Asian art curators whose enthusiasm and scholarship underscores the importance of Asia Week New York asan important destination for museums,” says Carol Conover, chairman of Asia Week New York.

According to Ms. Conover, the museum curators attending from all parts of the country and represent: The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, The Phoenix Art Museum, Rubin Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, China Institute, Asia Society, Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture, The Smithsonian Institution, The Peabody Essex Museum, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Portland Museum, The Morgan Library, The American Museum of Natural History, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Baltimore Museum, The Mingei International Museum, The Kruizenga Art Museum, The Crow Collection, The Newark Museum, The Samuel P. Harn Museum—University of Florida, Japan Society, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Worcester Art Museum, The Burke Foundation, The Cleveland Museum, The Spencer Museum—University of Kansas, The Detroit Institute of Art, The Smart Museum—University of Chicago, The University of Michigan Museum of Art,  The Kimball Art Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Berkeley Art Museum, The Cincinnati Art Museum. And from Europe comes The British Museum and The Musée Cernuschi in Paris.