Sketch Aquarium - Interactive Exhibit at the Asian Art Museum

Based in California, The Putney Financial Group carefully integrates all three capital development stages to help clients achieve their financial and wealth goals. Active in its community, The Putney Financial Group supports local organizations such as the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.

In an effort to introduce everyone to Asian culture and art, the Asian Art Museum maintains several exhibits that showcase its collection of over 18,000 Asian artworks. These exhibits include the institution’s two ongoing exhibits, Liu Jianhua: Collected Letters and teamLab: Sketch Aquarium.

An interactive digital experience, Sketch Aquarium was designed by teamLab, an art collective founded in 2001 in Tokyo, Japan. The collective consists of architects, engineers, artists, programmers, and mathematicians who seek to find the connection between the natural world, art, and design. The collective’s other major exhibition, Continuity, is scheduled to open at the museum’s Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang Pavilion in May 2020.

Sketch Aquarium is available at the Shriram Experiential Learning Center. Participants have the opportunity to color their own sea creatures. Using teamLab’s technology, each drawing is animated and projected onto the room’s walls. This creates a collaborative art piece that increases in size over time. The display is also interactive, and lets museum guests touch a virtual bag of food to “feed” the fish in the aquarium and interact with them as they swim.

Asian Art Museum Receives Three Chang Dai-chien Paintings

Created in 1996 with the goal of helping families, institutions, and individuals make their financial dreams a reality, The Putney Financial Group is a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) based in California. Many clients of The Putney Financial Group appreciate art, culture, and history, a predilection that the firm incorporates both in its planning strategies and its own support of organizations like San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum.

Recently, the Asian Art Museum, committed to bringing Asian culture and art to everyone, received three works from Chang Dai-chien, made during his time visiting California in the 1970s. These paintings were gifted to the museum by the family of Yao Ke, the artist’s longtime friend, a well-known writer and scholar.

The paintings Include two framed landscape pieces: “Thatched cottages at cloudy mountains” and “Traveling on remote mountains.” Both were created in 1972. Accompanying them is “Bamboo,” a botanical rendering that Chang also created in the same year. At present, the Asian Art Museum is showing “Traveling on remote mountains” in the exhibit called “Chang Dai-chien: Painting from Heart to Hand.”

With this gift of the three pieces, along with other recent acquisitions of Chang’s work, the Asian Art Museum has the largest collection of Chang Dai-chien pieces outside of Asia. Most of the museum’s collection is on display at the Chang exhibit.

Asian Art Museum Features Exhibition of Sunken Treasures from Vietnam

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Founded in 1996 by Ray Lent, The Putney Financial Group is an investment advisory firm in San Rafael, California. Committed to building lasting relationships with clients, The Putney Financial Group supports the arts and history through organizations such as the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.

Home to an eclectic range of Asian Art, the Asian Art Museum is running an exhibition through March 2020 called “Lost at Sea: Art Recovered from Shipwrecks.” The artifacts on display include 12th-century stone reliefs from Central Vietnam that lay at the bottom of the Arabian Sea for more than 100 years and ceramic dishes and jars that lay for more than 500 years in the hold of a sunken ship near Vietnam.

The pieces were excavated from the ocean floor by marine archaeologists in the 1990s then sold at auction and eventually donated to the museum. Not only beautiful to look at, but the recovered artifacts also offer interesting information about trade customs and colonial enterprises of the time.