In the Media
June 16, 2010 | NBC Bay Area, “Towering Buddha Now Off Limits"
June 13, 2010 | ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Radio National, “Shanghai Visual Culture”
June 13, 2010 | San Francisco Chronicle, "Big ideas behind a very big sculpture in S.F."
June 9, 2010 | Art Radar Asia, "Visual culture of Shanghai on show at San Francisco Asian Art Museum"
June 3, 2010 | Orange County Register, " 'Shanghai' shimmers at Asian Art Museum"
June 2, 2010 | SF Fine Arts Examiner, “Shanghai exhibit at the Asian Art Museum”
May 23, 2010 | Los Angeles Times, "Asian Art Museum's 'Shanghai' a taste of exhibits to come"
May 22, 2010 | Los Angeles Times Arts Culture Monster, "A museum director's trajectory from Shanghai to San Francisco"
May 18, 2010 | Wall Street Journal, "Celebrating Shanghai"
May 15, 2010 | About.com, “Three Heads Six Arms at San Francisco Civic Center: World premiere of Zhang Huan's sculpture”
May 14, 2010 | Los Angeles Times, “Chinese artist Zhang Huan's 'Three Heads, Six Arms' a monumental shift”
May 12, 2010 | Art Blog UK, "A Conversation with Contemporary Chinese Artist Zhang Huan”
May 12, 2010 | SF Examiner, “Three Heads Six Arms’ add up to one big spectacle”
May 11, 2010 | Bloomberg, "Shanghai Siren, Wayne Thiebaud, ink Masters Hit San Francisco"
April 19, 2010 | Boingboing.net, "The Asian Art Museum does Shanghai: Opium hulks, Communist propaganda, and neon brush strokes"
April 19, 2010 | SF Public Press, "Coco Zhao’s Shanghai-flavored jazz"
April 15, 2010 | San Francisco Chronicle, "Museum's Xu aiming to redefine Asian art label"
April 9, 2010 | Disquiet.com, “Neon Night in Shanghai, with Qin Accompaniment”
April 8, 2010 | New York Social Diary, "Asian Art Museum Honors Chinese Artists"
March 31, 2010 | New America Media, “Modern Art Flourishes in Shanghai"
March 23, 2010 | ABC7 KGO-TV, "Unique exhibit filled with Chinese history"
March 20, 2010 | Spencer Alley, "Shanghai Garden"
March 18, 2010 | Huffington Post, "Going to Philadelphia... With Shanghai on My Mind"
March 17, 2010 | Shanghai Daily, "Sister City relations sustained for 30 years"
March 14, 2010 | New York Times, Museums Special Section, "Inspiration, on Display"
(scroll down to "West" portion, at bottom)
March 12, 2010 | San Mateo Daily Journal, "Museum gotta see 'um"
March 12, 2010 | Civic Center, “Pearls Under Shanghai"
March 9, 2010 | Bay Area Events Examiner, "Asian Art Museum of San Francisco draws big crowd with Shanghai exhibition"
March 2010 | M (TheNewYorkArtWorld.com), "Review: Shanghai - Asian Art Museum, San Francisco"
Feb. 27, 2010 | San Jose Mercury News*, "In multimedia exhibition, Asian Art Museum captures Shanghai's vibrancy, present and past"
* also published in Oakland Tribune and Contra Costa Times
Feb. 25, 2010 | Bay Area Reporter, "Not quite Shanghai'ed"
Feb. 24, 2010 | Contra Costa Times, "New Exhibit Captures Wonders and Turbulence of Shanghai"
Feb. 22, 2010 | KQED Arts, "Shanghai at the Asian Art Museum"
Feb. 21, 2010 | Sacramento Bee, " 'Shanghai' opens at S.F. Asian Art Museum"
Feb. 19, 2010 | KQED TV, "This Week in Northern California: Shanghai Exhibition"
Feb. 18, 2010 | KQED Radio, "Forum with Michael Krasny: Art of Shanghai"
Feb. 17, 2010 | SF Museum Examiner, “Shanghai - Art of the City at the Asian Art Museum-Beauty, Decadence and Human Misery"
Feb. 15, 2010 | KGO-TV, “Asian Art Museum Focuses Attention on Shanghai”
Feb. 15, 2010 | Chez Namastenancy, “Shanghai - Art of the City at the Asian”
Feb. 14, 2010 | San Francisco Chronicle, “Shanghai Gala A Sister-City Act”
Feb. 12, 2010 | San Francisco Citizen, "It’s Shanghai! New Show at the Asian Art Museum Opens Today and Runs to September 5"
Feb. 12, 2010 | San Francisco Chronicle, "Art Review: 'Shanghai' Too Little on Too Much"
Feb. 12, 2010 | BeyondChron, "Shanghai As You Have Never Seen It Before"
Feb. 12, 2010 | San Francisco Chronicle/SF Gate, "Stars Shine at the Shanghai Opening-Night Gala"
Feb. 12, 2010 | Bay Area ArtQuake, "Shanghai at the Asian Art Museum"
Feb. 11, 2010 | Jing Daily, "Art Exhibition Celebrating 'Shanghai' Hits San Francisco Ahead Of World Expo"
Feb. 11, 2010 | San Francisco Examiner, "Story of Shanghai is Rich, Dazzling"
Feb. 10, 2010 | SF Cultural Events Examiner, “'Shanghai' opens at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco"
Feb. 10, 2010 | Art and Entertain Me, "Shanghai as a Piece of Art"
Feb. 7, 2010 | San Francisco Chronicle:
"Shanghai Draws Out City History"
"Bay Area Shares Shanghai Expo Spotlight"
Feb. 6, 2010 | New York Times, "Two Cities, One Lasting Cultural Exchange"
Feb. 5, 2010 | San Francisco Chronicle/SF Gate, "Rawwr: Enter the Year of the Tiger"
Feb. 3, 2010 | San Francisco Chronicle/SF Gate, "Hot Tickets & Exhibitions!"
February 2010 | Nob Hill Gazette, "Asian Art Museum’s Shanghai Gala, February 10"
Jan-Feb 2010 | Orientations, “An Interview with Jay Xu”
Jan. 27, 2010 | Suite101.com, "A Year of Shanghai Celebration by the Bay"
Jan. 19, 2010 | SF Museum Examiner, "Shanghai by the Bay: A Year-long Celebration"
Jan. 19, 2010 | San Francisco Citizen, "Yearlong Shanghai Celebration Starts Today: San Francisco Goes All Out for Our Sister City"
Jan. 19, 2010 | New York Social Diary, "San Francisco Asian Art Museum Honors Sister City Shanghai" (scroll down to images of Shanghai catalogue, Mayor Gavin Newsom & museum director Jay Xu)
December 2009 | Bright City Light, "San Francisco's Upcoming Shanghai Year"
July 15, 2009 | SF Weekly, "Talking China"
