Met Museum Celebrates Slew of Sumptuous Gifts to 100-Year-Old Asian Art Dept
Marking the 100th anniversary of its Asian Art department, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced two sumptuous donations of Japanese, Korean, Southeast Asian and Chinese material, blockbuster financial donations totaling more than $30 million and a capital campaign that will seek to raise a total of $70 million specifically for the department's staffing, exhibitions and acquisitions.
The gifts, all from donors who've been supporting the museum for over a quarter-century, illustrated the particularly close and long relationships the Fifth Avenue institution tends to have with its supporters.
