The St. Louis Art Museum has named Philip Hu as its new Asian art curator, according to an article in the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Hu joined the museum in 2006, and has curated a number of exhibitions and displays, including the current ‘Conflicts of Interest: Art and War in Modern Japan’, which is scheduled to close January 8, 2017.
According to Brent R. Benjamin, the museum’s director, Hu has transformed the way in which Asian art is presented in the galleries of the museum. He has also presided over growth in the Asian collection, including two notable additions. In 2010, Charles and Rosalyn Lowenhaupt donated approximately 1,400 Japanese works to the institution, and in 2014, the estate of Edith J. and C.C. Johnson Spink gave the museum more than 200 Asian artworks.
The founding of the St. Louis Art Museum took place in 1879, at a time when art museums were being established throughout the eastern United States. At first, the exhibits comprised the likes of plaster casts and various examples of “good design” but today the museum boasts a huge collection of artworks from around the world that go back five millennia.
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