Renowned scholars discuss the impact of personalities and patronage on the arts of Asia.

In this video, Buddhist monk artists, Seol-min (formerly known as Jae-u) and Myung Chun discuss Korean Buddhist art and paint the Guardian King of the West, which is now in the Asian Art Museum's collection. This video also includes footage from a symbolic "eye-opening" ceremony, which took place at the museum on December 20, 2003.

Sun Joo Kim, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean history in the department of East Asian languages and civilizations and Director of Korea Institute, Harvard University, gives a talk on the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910) in conjunction with the exhibition, In Grand Style: Celebrations in Korean Art During the Joseon Dynasty at the Asian Art Museum. 

Make a monkey puppet in celebration of the Year of the Monkey in the Chinese zodiac.

View talks by renowned scholars from the symposium which coincide dwith the opening of the exhibition, Poetry in Clay: Korean Buncheong Ceramics from Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art on view at the Asian Art Museum (September 16, 2011–January 8, 2012). 

Portrait of Seosan Daesa, Hyujeong, approx. 1593–1650. Korea. Joseon dynasty (1392–1910). Ink and colors on silk.  Museum purchase, City Arts trust Fund, 1992.345.

Shamanism is a belief system wherein a person (shaman) acts as an intermediary between humans and spirits. Inspired by Phantoms of Asia, this MATCHA event looks at how the living interact with the spirit world. Our special guest is Dohee Lee, currently an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts. She will reveal excerpts from her work-in-progress, Mago, which layers installation, music, dance, animation, and ritual with Korean traditional art forms and shamanism. 

Korean-born New York based artist Sun K. Kwak makes the invisible visible using a surprisingly simple medium: black masking tape. Through a process infused with an element of performance, Kwak channels surrounding energy to manifest a movement of lines, liberating the space and transforming it into a new pictorial reality. Find out more.

Watch artist Jung Ran Bae create sculptures for her exhibition, Teater-Totter: Human Betweens, in the Korea galleries at the Asian Art Museum from late August 2014 through April 2015.

The first section of lectures in this series will cover the history of Korean culture and art chronologically, ending with an analysis of Korea’s exciting contemporary art scene. The last four lectures will examine early Japanese culture and art (with the remaining history of Japanese art to be covered in the Spring 2014 semester).

Chin-Sung Chang, Associate Professor in the department of archaeology and art history at Seoul National University, gives a talk on the splendors of the royal family in late Joseon dynasty court paintings in conjunction with the In Grand Style: Celebrations in Korea Art During the Joseon Dynasty exhibition at the Asian Art Museum.

A time-lapse video of artist Sun K. Kwak creating "Untying Space_Asian Art Museum, SF." Experience this work in person at the Asian Art Museum during the "Phantoms of Asia" exhibition (on view from May 18-September 2, 2012).