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Filipino Community Voices: Bay Area

Members of the Bay Area Filipino community discuss the importance of collecting Philippine art at the Asian Art Museum. View the museum’s new acquisitions of Philippine art in the exhibition, Philippine Art: Collecting Art, Collecting Memories, on view at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco from July 14, 2017 to March 11, 2018.

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