Quite interesting

[darkval]

Just thought I'd pop in and throw some links at you all.

Visit this one first: Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

And then visit this one: Asians Art Museum, San Francisco

By the way, it is imperative that you visit them in that order for the full effect. Also, the sites may change in the near future. More on this and other stuff later, I'm outtie.

Comments

[wishuponyou]

That's pretty clever!

As an Asian Studies major, I have a few things to say, good and bad...

Good? I enjoyed how they slammed Orientalism. I did a massive research paper on Orientalism, and this would have been a wonderful source. This summed up my thoughts completely: http://www.asiansart.org/about.html

Bad? I think that their purpose is important; failing to mention "ugly" things for the sake of creating an interesting exhibition is definitely not a good choice. However, their delivery is borderline racist; while we certainly shouldn't glorify the samurai, we also shouldn't smear all of Japanese culture.

Thanks for sharing these links!