Chief Curator's Talk (Virtual)

Dr. Robert Mintz is the Chief Curator at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. In his position, Mintz oversees the museum’s curatorial research and guides the growth, preservation, and presentation of the museum’s art collections. Mintz has written widely on the arts of Japan and East Asia and has curated exhibitions of traditional and contemporary art by artists from across Asia and its diasporic communities. His current exhibition New Japanese Clay exploring 21st century Japanese ceramic art is currently on view through February 2026.

Dr. Natasha Reichle is a curator of Southeast Asian Art at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Her most recent exhibitions have examined provenance and the circulation of works of art. These include Moving Objects: Learning from Local and Global Communities, Lost at Sea: Art Recovered from Shipwrecks, and Philippine Art: Collecting Art, Collecting Memories. Her exhibition, Weaving Stories, looked at the role textiles play in the formation of status and identity. Other exhibitions include the first major U.S. exhibition on the arts of Bali, Bali: Art, Ritual, Performance. She is the author of Violence and Serenity: Late Buddhist Sculpture from Indonesia (University of Hawai’i Press). She holds a B.A. in literature from Yale University and an M.A. and PhD. in the History of Art.