{"id":18289,"date":"2012-05-18T07:34:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T11:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=18289"},"modified":"2012-05-14T17:36:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T21:36:31","slug":"celebrate-art-museum-day-at-asia-society-with-free-admission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=18289","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Art Museum Day at Asia Society with Free Admission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 18th 2012<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/asiasociety.org\/new-york\/may-18-celebrate-art-museum-day-asia-society-free-admission\" target=\"_blank\">Asia Society Museum<\/a> in New York City will offer free admission to all visitors on Friday, May 18 as part of the Association of Art Museum Directors\u2019 (AAMD) Art Museum Day, which coincides with International Museum Day.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/120511_asia_society_exterior.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[18289]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18290\" title=\"asia society\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/120511_asia_society_exterior.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From 11 a.m. to a special late closing time of 9 p.m., the museum will offer complimentary access to the first major U.S. retrospective of Chinese modern master Wu Guanzhong. Revolutionary Ink: The Paintings of Wu Guanzhong features more than 50 by Wu, famous for his unique large-scale take on traditional Chinese ink painting (click here for a sneak peek). The New York Times calls the exhibition \u2014 which is a collaboration with the Shanghai Art Museum \u2014 &#8220;a new chapter in the China-U.S. art relationship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAAMD believes that art should be accessible and relevant to all, and we are so pleased that Asia Society Museum is joining with us and the global community of museums to celebrate the role museums play in their communities and to encourage visitors to share their museum experiences,\u201d said Chris Anagnos, Executive Director of AAMD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 18th 2012 Asia Society Museum in New York City will offer free admission to all visitors on Friday, May 18 as part of the Association of Art Museum Directors\u2019 (AAMD) Art Museum Day, which coincides with International Museum Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18292,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18289\/revisions\/18292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}