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STATEMENT FROM THE
MUSEUM REGARDING THE FEDERAL INVESTIGATION

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Pacific Asia Museum
Announces Exhibition -
Chinaman’s Chance: Views of the Chinese American Experience
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Pacific Asia Museum
Introduced a New Mural
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Pacific Asia Museum
Announces Exhibition:
Lotus Moon:
The Art of Otagaki Rengetsu

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Pacific Asia Museum Announces Exhibition Rainbow Colors: The Woodblock Prints of Paul Jacoulet
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Pacific Asia Museum
Appoints Kendall Brown, Ph.D. Curator of Exhibitions,
Programs and Collections
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Pacific Asia Museum Awarded Major Kresge Foundation
$300,000 Grant
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Pacific Asia Museum Announces Exhibition Rank and Style: Power Dressing in Imperial China
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Pacific Asia Museum Presents Special Events in Celebration of Rank and Style: Power Dressing in Imperial China
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  Development News
 PAM Welcomes Bruce A. Blomstrom
 New Online Exhibit! Rank and Style
 Campaign for the Future
 Donor Profile: Sally Daily
 Associates Trip to Santa Barbara
Free Admission to CAMLA
 Member Appreciation Days
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 Join an Arts Council
 About Art Donations (Word doc:29k)
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NEW Online Exhibition
Rank and Style
Now you can explore how the Chinese elite in the Ming and Qing dynasties expressed status through insignia of rank and the robes and accessories that went with them. Rank and Style: Power Dressing in Imperial China is the museum’s latest online exhibit. Based on the exhibit of the same name and produced by the award-winning team that created Visions of Enlightenment, this interactive module provides teaching ideas and resources for educators.
 
  Collection Spotlight

Gathering of Foxes at Oji
Detail, Gathering of Foxes at Oji, Utagawa Hiroshige

In Japanese folklore foxes often appear as divine beings with supernatural powers, closely associated with the Shino rice deity Inari. In Hiroshige’s Gathering of Foxes at Inari (shown in the Gallery of Japanese Art from August 8), foxes congregate on New Year’s Eve under a tree near Oji, Tokyo’s main Inari shrine. The flame-shaped bodies glow against the dark background, creating a great spooky effect. Click here to learn more.
 

 
 
  Current Exhibitions
 

May 1 - August 24, 2008
Pacifika: Young Perspectives on Pacific Island Art
necklace
Necklace (lei niho palaoa),
Hawaii, 19th century

The first in a series of experimental, community-driven exhibits; Pacifika: Young Perspectives on Pacific Island Art explores the arts, cultures, and traditions of the people of the Pacific Islands now living in Southern California. Issues regarding migration, ceremonial tattooing, costumes and adornments will be explored through interpretive materials created by students of Carson High School’s Pacific Islanders Club and UCLA’s Pacific Islands Student Association (PISA).

February 8 - May 11, 2008
Lotus Moon:
The Art of Otagaki Rengetsu

Sake Jar
Sake Jar.
Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875) was a Buddhist nun, a woman of great beauty and one of Japan’s most celebrated artists. Admired primarily for her exquisite calligraphy, Rengetsu was also a poet and ceramic artist, often inscribing her poems in her own calligraphy onto ceramic vessels, a unique blending of art forms for any artist in Japanese history.

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March 6 - July 27, 2008
Chinaman’s Chance: Views of the Chinese American Experience
Names of the Unremembered: Transcontinental

Names of the Unremembered: Transcontinental, Zhi Lin, video: Daniel Boord and Luis Valdovino
Three contemporary artists will examine the diverse Chinese American experience from the days of the Transcontinental Railroad’s construction to today.
 

  Upcoming Exhibitions
 

June 6, 2008 - January 6, 2009
Mingei East and West Sake Bottle
Sake bottle (tokurri), motif by Shoji Hamada, Japan, early 20th century
Mingei literally means “folk art” in Japanese. Literary scholar and critic Yanagi Soetsu (1889–1961) coined the word in the 1920s to refer to and champion the kind of anonymous, handcrafted objects that had begun to disappear as Japan entered the age of mass production and western-oriented modernization. Yanagi and his followers revitalized the tradition
of handicraft by re-evaluating the beauty of utilitarian objects and spurring a new artistic movement dedicated to maintaining what they defined as essential Japanese values.

Did you know?
Schools visit Pacific Asia Museum for free!

Available Wednesdays through Fridays, students get a docent tour of the museum plus a hands-on art workshop. Bus funding is even available for Title One schools, while funds last.

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