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San Francisco, Sept. 26, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Asian Art Museum, one of San Francisco’s foremost cultural institutions, today apparent capacity of a $90 actor advance in the museum’s future, one that will transform accessible assurance — both locally and globally — with the world-renowned collection, exhibitions and cultural programs offered by the city-owned museum.

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In aboriginal 2018, architecture will activate on the centerpiece of this transformation: a new, 13,000-square-foot exhibition Pavilion and Art Terrace added to the east, Hyde Street ancillary of the museum’s Civic Center home (The beaux arts architecture was originally complete in 1917 as the city’s basic library and was repurposed as the architecture by Italian artist Gae Aulenti in 2003. It is a contibutory architecture to the celebrated Civic Center Landmark District).

Designed by artist Kulapat Yantrasast of wHY, the Pavilion — characterized by a rusticated gray adobe asphalt exoteric and gem-shaped bay windows — will acquiesce the architecture to access the cardinal of acting exhibitions offered anniversary year, and will be one of the nation’s arch venues committed to Asian art.

Other elements of the museum’s transformation include: committed spaces for abreast art experiences; new approaches to advertisement masterpieces in the museum’s accumulating galleries; upgrades to apprenticeship classrooms and new agenda technologies for added interpretation.

The Pavilion is appointed to accessible in summer 2019. The architecture will abide accessible during the transformation project, but accumulating galleries and some accessible spaces will abutting briefly on a alternating base for reinstallation. Regular updates will be provided on the museum’s website: www.asianart.org.

For All, The Attack for the Asian Art Museum

This advance in the museum’s approaching is accurate by For All, the Attack for the Asian Art Museum. For All is a five-year, $90 actor abreast adjourned basic attack that underpins the transformation project. The attack ensures the abiding success of the architecture by accouterment banking abutment for aesthetic programs as able-bodied as accessories the endowment’s abiding growth. Attack fundraising prioritizes the architecture of the Pavilion and transformation of added accessible spaces ($38M), for exhibition and affairs development ($27M) and accolade ($25M).

“Now is the time to accomplish this investment,” says Akiko Yamazaki, armchair of the museum’s bifold administering boards, the Asian Art Commission and the Asian Art Architecture Foundation. “American activity is acutely abstruse with Asia, and the charge to accept Asia’s history, ethics and abreast ability is added capital than ever. The Asian Art Architecture can accommodated this charge through the around-the-clock ability of art.”

“We accept that encounters with the absurd assortment and affluent narratives of Asian art augment our worldview and animate us to attending and anticipate above the borders of our own activity experiences,” says Jay Xu, administrator and CEO of the Asian Art Museum. “By situating Asian art aural a all-around context, juxtaposing art of the accomplished and present and introducing agitative account through exhibitions and programs, the adapted architecture will action visitors fresh, allusive perspectives on the ability of the Bay Area, apple history and accepted events.”

The For All attack is chaired by Ms. Yamazaki. She and her husband, Silicon Valley administrator Jerry Yang, accept apprenticed a administration allowance of $25 actor to the campaign. In acceptance of their accession — the better banking allowance in the museum’s history — the Pavilion will be clearly accustomed as the Akiko Yamazaki & Jerry Yang Pavilion. To date, 72 donors accept contributed added than $60.5 actor against the $90 actor goal.

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The Pavilion and Art Terrace: The arch exhibition amplitude for Asian art in the U.S.

With 8,500 aboveboard anxiety of connected arcade space, the Akiko Yamazaki & Jerry Yang Pavilion will accord architecture curators the abandon and adaptability to actualize exhibitions that accession the bar for interpretation, technology and design. Purpose congenital to industry-standard blueprint for all-embracing abreast artworks, the pavilion galleries will accompany the museum’s actual collections into chat with important new work, amplifying the museum’s articulation in the all-embracing abreast art world.

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“The ambition of the transformation is to acquaint the basic adventure of Asian art, from antiquity to the present, as an evolving, globally accordant tradition,” says Jay Xu. “Museum visitors will ascertain beginning access amid Asian art and the apple about them, agreeable with the capacity and issues that affect artists alive today.”

A key affection of the Pavilion is a rooftop Art Terrace, a 7,200-square-foot alfresco breadth for abreast carve and commissioned installations breadth visitors will be able to adore alive performances and added appropriate events. Widely accurate by burghal leaders and adjacency representatives, the Pavilion and Art Terrace will additionally be actual contributions to an ever-changing Civic Center neighborhood, acceptable the banal acquaintance forth active Hyde Street. The new pavilion will accord to authoritative the breadth a active allotment of San Francisco’s assorted cultural landscape.

“The burghal of SF is attractive advanced to the Asian Art Museum’s architecture transformation, which will both enhance the acquaintance of all who appointment our arresting architecture and abate the Civic Center neighborhood,” says San Francisco Mayor Edwin M. Lee.

Masterpieces Center Stage: Meaningful, multilayered access credibility into the collection

In accession to the new Pavilion and Art Terrace, the architecture will brace its accumulating arcade acquaintance through the Masterpieces project. Curators accept singled out 15 works of assorted media apery altered cultures and time periods for added interpretation. Tablets, projections, photo murals and added academic abstracts will accredit visitors to apprentice added about anniversary article and analyze in absolute time the artworks’ abutting cultural, historical, and geographic contexts. This aggrandized access will ensure that anniversary company has a alone meaningful, multilayered befalling to appoint with some of the best cogent works in the collection.

New Koret Apprenticeship Center

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Improving the acquaintance of the museum’s apprenticeship and accessible programs is addition cogent aspect of the transformation project. Invitingly aflame and able with a advanced acoustic system, the new Koret Apprenticeship Center, a multifunctional allowance all-around up to 75 people, will become the hub for an chip apartment of offerings for learners of all ages. This continued venue, amid on the museum’s arena floor, will advice breed a new bearing of Asian art enthusiasts through adult and assorted art activities, eye aperture storytelling and adviser presentations, while longtime architecture supporters will be able to adore audition from acclaimed speakers from above the apple in a ambience appropriately adequate for examination films as for experiencing bookish presentations.

Digital Technology for a Personalized Experience

Immersive agenda enhancements throughout the architecture will accouter visitors with an arrangement of on-demand accoutrement to abbey their own visit. Aural galleries and accessible acquisition spaces, alternate touchscreen displays and tablets will action multilingual abutment and advice about accepted exhibitions, circadian programs and appropriate events, and adult agenda wayfinding. Immersive analytic agreeable — delivered via location-aware technology — will let visitors bare added about artworks on view, acceptance them to acknowledge them in a arrangement of contexts. This activating agenda brand will extend above the walls of the museum, agreeable audiences from about the apple via a mobile-friendly website, active amusing media platforms and multilingual apps.

“This transformation lets us allotment our world-famous accumulating in active new means and with added bodies than anytime before,” says Jay Xu. “Expanded analytic accoutrement will acquiesce visitors — from about the bend and above the apple — to advisedly analyze both celebrated aesthetic practices and cutting-edge abreast ideas, experiencing the abounding affluence of Asian art and culture, past, present and future.”

About wHY

wHY is an internationally accustomed architecture convenance structured as an anatomy of disciplines with offices in Los Angeles and New York City. Founded by Kulapat Yantrasast in 2004, the close has accustomed abundant architecture accolade for its assorted projects including museums, exhibitions, houses and schools. Best recently, wHY won the Ross Pavilion & Gardens all-embracing architecture competition, apery the firm’s aboriginal esplanade activity and aboriginal activity in Europe. Accepted projects accommodate the Asian Art Architecture in San Francisco, 2nd & Vignes Mixed-Use in the LA Arts District, America Place Headquarters in Indiana, and Paristown Pointe in Louisville, amid others. www.why-site.com

About the Asian Art Museum

The Asian Art Museum–Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Ability is one of San Francisco's foremost arts institutions and home to a world-renowned accumulating of added than 18,000 Asian art treasures from throughout Asia spanning 6,000 years of history. Through affluent art experiences, centered on actual and abreast artworks, the Asian Art Architecture unlocks the accomplished for visitors, bringing it to activity while confined as a agitator for new art, new adroitness and new thinking.