The Asian Art Museum, Already Huge, Is About to Get Even Huger

San Francisco Magazine Ian A. Stewart Courtesy Asian Art Museum Almost doubling its exhibition space, thanks in part to a $25 million gift from Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang. Kulapat Yantrasast talks about the expansion and renovation of the Asian Art Museum as acupuncture, rather than plastic surgery. “It’s about analyzing the body and prescribing an intervention from the inside out,” Yantrasast, the project’s principal architect, says: A transformation beginning from within. That said,...