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The Summit brought together museum and cultural leaders from both countries to foster connections, reaffirm their commitment to working together long-term, explore opportunities for cultural [...]

Christy MacLear is the executive director of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Her career has been defined by the intersection of business strategy with culture in the areas of architecture, [...]

Mimi Haas is president of the Mimi and Peter Haas Fund, a position she has held since August 1981. In this role, Haas has been deeply committed to ensuring that low-income children and their [...]

James Cuno has been president and chief executive officer of the J. Paul Getty Trust since 2011. He has served as president and director of the Art Institute of Chicago (2004–2011); director and [...]

Wu Weishan is the director of the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) and a renowned sculptor. He currently serves as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political [...]

Wang Wei is the founder and director of the Long Museum in Shanghai. After opening the Long Museum in Pudong in 2013 and upon the invitation from the Xuhui district government, Wang and her [...]

Wang Huangsheng is Director of the Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Dr. Wang obtained his masters from the Nanjing Art Institute (Art History) in 1990 and his doctorate in 2006. [...]

Sun Xiaoyun is the director of Jiangsu Art Museum. She is also the chair of Jiangsu Calligraphers Association and Nanjing Calligrapher’s Association. She is a nationally recognized artist, a [...]

Si Shunwei has been the deputy director of Zhejiang Art Museum since 2009. He oversees the museum’s research and education programs, and has curated many exhibitions. He is a nationally [...]

Luo Ning is the director of Shaanxi Province Art Museum. He is a painter and art critic, and is currently a member of China Artists Association, Chinese Association of Art Museums Specialist [...]

Lu Xun is the cofounder and director of the Sifang Art Museum and its surrounding architectural park in Nanjing. He is a contemporary art collector and sits on the board of the acquisition [...]

Li Lei is the deputy director of China Art Museum, Shanghai, and a member of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. Previously he was the [...]

Hang Jian is the director of Art Museums of China Academy of Art as well as a professor and thesis advisor for PhD students at the Academy. He has dedicated his career to the research of Chinese [...]

Fu Zhongwang is the director of Hubei Museum of Art in Wuhan. He is also the deputy director of the Chinese Association of Art Museums Specialist Committee, China Sculpture Institute, and [...]

Connie Wolf became the John and Jill Freidenrich Director of the Cantor Arts Center on January 1, 2012.  After graduating from Stanford, where her degree was in East Asian studies, she worked at [...]

Michael E. Shapiro became the Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr. director of the High Museum of Art in 2000 and joined the High’s leadership in 1995. He has overseen the reinstallation of the [...]

Dr. William M. Griswold became the tenth director of the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2014, following seven years as director of The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Griswold served as [...]

Samuel Kung is Chairman and Director of the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art. Born in Shanghai and raised in Hong Kong, Kung has been engaged in the gem industry for over 40 years, and is [...]

The first Chinese American director at a major U.S. art museum, Dr. Jay Xu is Director of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (AAMSF). Prior to his appointment at AAMSF in 2008, he was Chairman [...]

Winnie Yeung is Head of Heritage at The Jockey Club CPS Limited. The company was set up by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust with a mandate to conserve the Central Police Station Compound [...]

Arts&MuseumSummit_1 Recognizing Exponential Growth of Museums in Asia,Talks Focus on New Museum Models Contact: Elaine Merguerian 212.327.9313; [email protected] Hong Kong (November 21, [...]

Arts&MuseumSummit_1 Recognizing Exponential Growth of Museums in Asia,Talks Focus on New Museum Models Contact: Elaine Merguerian 212.327.9313; [email protected] Hong Kong (November 21, [...]

The Arts & Museum Summit brings together museum and arts leaders from across Asia, the United States, and Europe, to explore challenges, share new models, and develop deeper connections [...]

Dan L. Monroe, the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Director and CEO, has led the Peabody Essex Museum through a remarkable set of transformations since assuming leadership in 1993. Dan has [...]

Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker is director of the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Washington, and former director of the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich, Germany, and the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada. She [...]

Neal Benezra has been Director of SFMOMA since 2002. Benezra had previously served as Deputy Director and Frances and Thomas Dittmer Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of [...]

Hiroshi Sugimoto is a contemporary artist. Born in Tokyo, he moved to the United States in 1970 to study photography. A multidisciplinary artist working in photography, sculpture, installation, [...]

Adam Lerner is the director and chief animator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA Denver). In 2004, he founded the Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar, or the Lab, to explore the [...]

Melissa Chiu is director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. Previously she was director of Asia Society Museum in New York and senior vice president for global arts [...]

On the occasion of the launch of the Asia Society Museum publication Making a Museum in the 21st Century, join Richard Armstrong, director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation; [...]