Wednesday, September 27, 2017

With Largest Gift In Its History, San Francisco's Asian Art Museum Begins $38M Expansion

"Museum leaders gathered Tuesday morning to release details of the $38 million expansion that will - when finished in summer 2019 - nearly double its total exhibition space. The biggest addition is a new 8,500 square-foot, column-less exhibition pavilion" designed by Kulapat Yantrasast of the firm wHY. The pavilion will be named for museum board chair Akiko Yamazaki and her husband, Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang, who have contributed $25 million for the project.



Article source here:Arts Journal

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