Peter....i hope you truly know how much your passion and joy is noted by all of us. Thank you for sharing all these extra videos lately. I truly enjoy all that you have to offer to us regularly and especially here lately. Thx you
What a treat for Friday -thanks so much! Passion , knowledge and enthusiasm - all conveyed in a natural manner - keeps me addicted to watching. All the best from U.K
As always - thank you for a fascinating story. And thank you for sharing this rare knowledge and founds. I got to love Chinese porcelain thanks to you Peter! Thanks!
THE AVERY BRUNDAGE COLLECTION IS ONE OF YOUR MOST INTERESTING POSTINGS YET. VERY NICE TO SEE.THERE IS ALSO THE PERCIVAL DAVID MONOCHROME COLLECTION IN LONDON. AN UNASSUMING MUSEUM BUT WITH WONDERFUL MONOCHROME PIECES.
I just wanted to add that I love the stories and path you take us down with such an interesting point of view specific to the museum and of course, Asian art. I dont think im alone when i say i love all these extra videos your creating. The topics and the footage are greet. Please don't stop!!!
As a Chinese whose one branch family escaped invasion of World War II, and another branch family survived cultural revolution, I don't know if American, or this museum itself know how important for these antique to be saved. They are well kept and conserved. So many families' treasure were looted by their own people/government, our four generation home was demolished by that terrible communist government, all my great-grandpa's collection and gold bars were burned and robbed. Do people know how those heritage building and ancient villages are being erased faster than the blink? It is sad that China is all about short-term money and can't keep their own history. They are destroying it. America is not great, but it provided a safe place for these antiques. I hope people recognize this and respect history objectively.
Thank you so much for your wealth of information it is greatly appreciated I'm very new to all of this but from a young of 8 age was a natural at ceramics and learning all the glazes , how to mix them and I was making them for my class and throwing ceramic and shaping was something that was just an extension of myself and I could do effortlessly at the time... in the sixth grade it was my life and was the reason I went to school ... I find myself in an opportune time in my life and these videos are extremely inspiring ... words can hardly do justice to help me describe how grateful I am for them. Learning about the history, shapes ,the backstories... all of this treasure trove of information really brings something rare to my life and fills my soul with magic. Thank you for inspiring me.. your passion, dedication, authenticity and honorability to what you love is such a gift to discover through the internet. I hope you have a wonderful weekend and I look forward to diving deeper and deeper into a newfound world ... An ancient One that has always been there and now has been unearthed and Awakening how much I love all aspects of this art we call ceramics. All the best and keeping awesome and living in your legendary energy 🙏 Clayton Beck
the asian art museum of sf had it's beginnings as a series of two exhibits in 1921-22 of a group called the East-West Art Society. i found an original brochure to their first exhibit in San Francisco. flic.kr/s/aHsjB8he7E
I hope it wasn't the ghosts of dead collectors! (I suspect the people moved during the shot, they used slow shutter speeds for group images in doors back then) Best Peter
Oh, my, Mr. Combs. I love your videos but I'm truly shocked at what you left out of this discussion of Mr. Brundage. He's most famous for being the autocratic, racist, and anti-Semitic leader of the Olympic movement. He kept Jews off the US Olympic team in 1936 and is even more famous for his appalling decision to continue the 1972 Olympics after the murder of 11 Israeli athletes which directly led to his resignation. All of this is well documented. We can applaud his generosity in this one area but also acknowledge how appalling he was as a human being. So bad, in fact, that San Francisco's museum decided to remove his bust and most mentions of him in the Asian Art Museum. I'm not a fan of "re-writing" history but not mentioning all of this is like discussing Lord Elgin and not mentioning the Elgin Marbles. Brundage was an appalling person who amassed an enormous amount of money and art. Yes, he left it to a museum but that doesn't whitewash his racism and anti-Semitism.
