To celebrate the arrival of Asia Week New York, which runs through March 24th, The Asian Art Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Asia Week New York co-hosted a gala reception this past Monday night at the Met.
Andrea Bayer, Deputy Director for Collections and Administration, Dessa Goddard, the chairman of Asia Week New York, and Maxwell D. Hearn, the Douglas Dillon Chairman of the Department of Asian Art, welcomed the crowd of over 600 attendees comprising international collectors, curators, gallery owners, and scholars who are in town for whirlwind of exhibitions, auctions, and museum shows.
Galleries from China, England, Germany, Japan, and the U.S. have popped up all over town offering their eye-alluring array of the rarest and finest Asian treasures — from 2000 BC to the present — of porcelain, paintings, ceramics, sculpture, bronzes, prints, and jades from different Asian countries.
Gala guests were also treated to curatorial tours of The Met Museum’s major exhibitions now on view including Michael Lin: Pentachrome; Perfect Imperfection in Ceramic Art; Jegi: Korean Ritual Objects; Celebrating the Year of the Rabbit; Learning to Paint in Pre-Modern China; Embracing Color: Chinese Decorative Arts, 1300-1900; A Passion for Jade: The Bishop Collection; and Ganesha: Lord of New Beginnings.
Among those seen in the crowd were Mike and Vera Hearn, Andrea Bayer, Dessa and Wendell Goddard, Margaret and Jeffrey Tao, Florence Li, Joan Mirviss and Robert Levine, Mary Ann Rogers, Soyoung Lee, Carol Conover, Mary Wallach, John Carpenter, Natalie Ku, Beatrice Chang, Michael and Dana Cohen, Erik Thomsen, Mee-Seen Loong, Edward Wilkinson, Charlie Scheips, Manjari Sihare, Celia Riely, Michael C. Hughes, Henry Howard-Sneyd, Shoko Aono, Terumasa Ikeda, Eric Zetterquist, Nana Onishi, Oliver Forge, Miyako Yoshinaga, Manika Nagare, Natsu Oyobe, Jinyoung Jin, Younghye Huang, Alice Chin, Diana Lee, Margo Thoma, Sanjay Kapoor, Tom Murray, Fu Qiumeng, Fung Ming Chip, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Chang, Freda Murck, Bingyi, Dr. David Sensabaugh, Shawn Ghassemi, Kurt Behrendt, Jeff Watt, Hiroshi Yanagi, John Weber, Lark and Erica Mason, Lark Mason III, Andrea Feick, Doug Frazer, Andrew Chait, Bradley Bailey, Tu Qiang, Hiromi Kinoshita, Michael Cherney, John and Berthe Ford, Norman and Deborah Kurland, Aldo and Firenza Mignucci, Wendy Moonan, Chip and Margaret Ziering, Colin Mackenzie, Amy and Robert Poster, Christina Yu, Nancy Berliner,Kristina Yang, Ed Nagel, John Guy, Joe Earle, Shaofang Wang, Stephanie Stokes, David Frank, Kazukuni Sugiyama, Kevin Kerr, Martha Blackwelder, Peter Yeoh, Erina Yoshida, Rubin Chen, and Marilyn White.
Continuing as Presenting Sponsor for Asia Week New York is the Songtsam Group, the award-winning luxury boutique hotel collection, and Destination Management Company with fifteen properties located in the Chinese provinces of Tibet and Yunnan.
Founded by Baima Duoji, in 2000, the hotel group is the only collection of luxury Tibetan-style retreats found across the Tibetan Plateau that strives to preserve and share the cultures and spirituality of its locale, while offering guests sophisticated elegance, refined design, modern amenities, and unobtrusive service in places of natural beauty and cultural interest.
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